Andy

Or if you feel like he's doing a lot else very well, but struggles with dispensing too many minutes, help him with the aspect you think he needs help with? Is it your opinion that this is the first time this issue has come up between Thibs and management? Because if they've addressed it before (and I'm guessing they have) and he's ignoring them to the degree that they now are basically ordering him how to dispense minutes, then that's well beyond 'helping him'.

I may be a victim of selection bias as an Indiana native, but it seems like no team has won as many games while sucking it up for half the game than the Colts over the last 15 years or so.

Good Lord. If you think he's mismanaging the rotation to the degree that it hurts the team (and I can't imagine they wouldn't have told him so prior to this), fire him. If not, let him [expletive] coach the team.

Matt Ryan without Roddy White and Julio Jones is...not good. He really was horrific today. First 2 INTs were both into triple coverage and his third was a telegraphed out route for a pick-6.

Top 25 games ------------------------ (13) LSU at (1) Alabama (8 pm, CBS) (2) Florida State at Wake Forest (12 pm, ABC/ESPN3) (3) Oregon at (5) Stanford (9 pm Thursday, ESPN) (10) Oklahoma at (6) Baylor (7:30 pm Thursday, Fox Sports 1) (8) Missouri at Kentucky (12 pm, ESPNU) (9) Auburn at Tennessee (12 pm, ESPN) Virginia Tech at (11) Miami (7 pm, ESPN) Kansas at (14) Oklahoma State (4 pm, Fox Sports 1) Mississippi State at (15) Texas A&M (3:30 pm, CBS) (16) Fresno State at Wyoming (10:15 pm, ESPN2) (19) UCLA at Arizona (10 pm, ESPN) (20) Louisville at UConn (8:30 pm Friday, ESPN2) Houston at (21) Central Florida (7 pm, ESPN2) (22) Arizona State at Utah (4 pm, Pac-12 Network) (23) Notre Dame at Pittsburgh (8 pm, ABC) BYU at (24) Wisconsin (3:30 pm, ESPN) Kansas State at (25) Texas Tech (12 pm, ABC/ESPN3) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------- Ohio at Buffalo (8 pm Tuesday, ESPN2) Bowling Green at Miami (OH) (8 pm Tuesday, ESPNU) Central Michigan at Ball State (8 pm Wednesday, ESPN2) Troy at UL Lafayette (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPNU) Air Force at New Mexico (9 pm Friday, ESPNU) Penn State at Minnesota (12 pm, ESPN2) Iowa at Purdue (12 pm, BTN) TCU at Iowa State (12 pm, FSN) Western Kentucky at Army (12 pm, CBS Sports) Vanderbilt at Florida (12 pm, FSN South/ESPN3) SMU at Cincinnati (12 pm, ESPN3) Arkansas at Ole Miss (12:20 pm, SECTV/ESPN3) Virginia at North Carolina (12:30 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) Appalachian State at Georgia (12:30 pm, ESPN3) Western Michigan at Eastern Michigan (1 pm, ESPN3) USC at California (3 pm, FOX) Nebraska at Michigan (3:30 pm, ABC) Illinois at Indiana (3:30 pm, BTN) Syracuse at Maryland (3:30 pm, FSN South/ESPN3) Hawaii at Navy (3:30 pm, CBS Sports) Boston College at New Mexico State (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Tulsa at East Carolina (3:45 pm, FSN) NC State at Duke (4 pm, ESPNU) UT Martin at Memphis (4:30 pm, ESPN3) Texas at West Virginia (7 pm, FOX) Southern Miss at Louisiana Tech (7 pm, CBS Sports) Arkansas State at UL Monroe (7 pm, ESPN3) Utah State at UNLV (8 pm, ESPNU) Colorado at Washington (8 pm, Pac-12 Network) San Diego State at San Jose State (10:30 pm, CBS Sports)

I like this thing Carolina does where they destroy the other team. They should keep doing that.

This. Spared us a (more) miserable off-season.

Last night was the first. Not just first game, first minutes. They'll figure things out.

Tolbert is a potentially useful TD vulture because Carolina probably gives him the ball on 80 percent of plays inside the 5. I had Daniel Thomas last week and was pleased with him.

Compared to Kansas and Kentucky? You don't even know, UK. They were going to split the B1G basketball divisions just to keep Purdue and IU women's basketball away from each other.

In his PURE-ELO ratings, he has NIU 51st, which just displays how ridiculous the BCS computers are forced to be by the guys in charge.

How was Ellington available? I've been stashing him on multiple teams for a month. Between him, Peterson, Dez and Stafford, I had a nice day yesterday.

You're only looking at Saturday. Stanford/Oregon and Baylor/Oklahoma are both Thursday night. Good call. That's much better, then.

But, but, blackout uniforms!!!

If you're bummed out about this week's slate, you don't want to see next week's. 10 of the current BCS top 25 are on a bye next week and only 2 play each other (and that game, LSU/Bama, doesn't appear on paper to be a competitive matchup at all right now).

Top 25 games ------------------------ (7) Miami at (3) Florida State (8 pm, ABC) (4) Ohio State at Purdue (12 pm, BTN) (8) Clemson at Virginia (3:30 pm, ESPN) Tennessee at (9) Missouri (7 pm, ESPN) (11) Auburn at Arkansas (6 pm, ESPN2) UTEP at (12) Texas A&M (9 pm, ESPN2) Mississippi State at (14) South Carolina (12:20 pm, SECTV/ESPN3) (18) Oklahoma State at (15) Texas Tech (7 pm, FOX) Nevada at (16) Fresno State (10:30 pm, ESPNU) (17) Northern Illinois at UMass (12 pm, ESPN3) Colorado at (20) UCLA (7:30 pm, Fox Sports 1) (21) Michigan at (22) Michigan State (3:30 pm, ABC) (24) Wisconsin at Iowa (12 pm, ABC/ESPN2) Navy at (25) Notre Dame (3:30 pm, NBC) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------- Cincinnati at Memphis (8 pm Wednesday, ESPN2) South Florida at Houston (7 pm Thursday, ESPN) Rice at North Texas (7:30 pm Thursday, Fox Sports 1) UL Monroe at Troy (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPNU) Arizona State at Washington State (10:30 pm Thursday, ESPN) USC at Oregon State (9 pm Friday, ESPN2) Virginia Tech at Boston College (12 pm, ABC/ESPN2) Illinois at Penn State (12 pm, ESPN) Army at Air Force (12 pm, ESPNU) Southern Miss at Marshall (12 pm, CBS Sports) Temple at Rutgers (12 pm, ESPN3) North Carolina at NC State (12:30 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) Wake Forest at Syracuse (12:30 pm, FSN/ESPN3) Florida vs Georgia – in Jacksonville (3:30 pm, CBS) Minnesota at Indiana (3:30 pm, BTN – Regional) Northwestern at Nebraska (3:30 pm, BTN – Regional) Iowa State at Kansas State (3:30 pm, Fox Sports 1) West Virginia at TCU (3:30 pm, ESPNU) Arizona at California (3:30 pm, Pac-12 Network) Kent State at Akron (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Hawaii at Utah State (4 pm, CBS Sports) New Mexico State at UL Lafayette (5 pm, ESPN3) Pittsburgh at Georgia Tech (7 pm, ESPNU) Eastern Michigan at Toledo (7 pm, ESPN3) Alabama State at Kentucky (7:30 pm, CSN South/ESPN3) Arkansas State at South Alabama (7:30 pm, ESPN3) Boise State at Colorado State (8 pm, CBS Sports)

I'm not a student of the rule book, but it doesn't sound like it does.

This is why I don't watch their playoff (or any) games. Much easier to remain detached when I don't see what new ridiculous way STL finds to be awarded a win as it happens.

I don't envy Mizzou fans. That's a terrible way to go. However, they do still control their own destiny in the SEC and probably don't need more than a loss by Oregon or FSU to get back into the title race.

Florida St leads NC State 28-0. Nine minutes into the game.

Tommy Rees cleared to practice today and expected to start at Air Force. Never thought I'd be so happy to see him behind center.

You're right. I thought I saw 3 years somewhere but that was wrong.

Well, to be fair, they also self-imposed 3 years of bowl bans while waiting for a decision.

That's a pretty wild table there. A whole bunch of teams in uncharted territory. This week will be the first game week which Carolina enters with a .500+ record since 2008, which is incomprehensible to me.

UPDATE: My roster is screwed. Lost Cobb last week for 4-6 weeks, Cutler for 4-6 weeks this wee, Bradford (not great, but better than any waiver wire crap out there) for the season with an ACL, and also lost Reggie Wayne for the season with an ACL last night. So much for my 4-1-1 record and #2 spot in total points. Uh, wow. That's about as bad as it gets. That sucks.