hawkeyecub

I kind of love Jim Harbaugh. How nice it must be to have a coach that just wins. No gimmicky system, no need to wait years on end to fit guys into said gimmicky system - just gets guys with talent and wins with them. Pro-style, spread, option, whatever, Stanford can do any of it and do it well. If he coached UM with the kind of players they can get, like Hawkeye said, look out. Yeah I really like him. He's a little too coachy and preachy sometimes but as far as on the field I love their stuff. Straight up for the most part. Part of it is probably that they're really similar to Iowa stylistically but that's the kind of football I'm partial to anyways. He would be badass in the Big Ten. You know he's not gonna be a Stanford lifer, I just wonder if it will be another D-1 job or the NFL. That opportunity will come if he wants it.

I really don't want to ever see what Harbaugh could do at Michigan.

A 21 page college football thread, it's like 2008 again. Except like 13 pages were on that crazy Illinois game. Hopefully that thing is replayed on ESPNU or the BTN in the next couple days, I didn't see any of it until the overtimes. Iowa got that one gift wrapped thank God. The thing was the defense held them down more than I anticipated and the offense moved the ball the way I expected. They just couldn't do anything in the red zone. Lynch or Mark Stoops, who is a bigger nutjob on the sidelines? Was that ISU fake extra point the girliest throw you've ever seen in college football? Not even trying to talk trash, he just threw that ball like a 9 year old girl. He didn't even bring his arm back.

Larry Walker. I narrowly dodged Mark Kotsay.

Way to research why he punched said cab driver. There are absolutely no character concerns with this guy. No doubt. He's about as clean as you can get in terms of character in the first round. He's been a coaches and teammates' favorite since day one. He also emphatically states that Childress will be back next year.

The story was about body language that blames others. That's Philip Rivers. Jay Cutler's body language is just guy who gets bummed out after bad play. I have not gotten the impression that his body language is blaming others. I agree with you, but I think there are plenty of people who disagree. I think there are, and I've never understood it. Before he was on the Bears radar I liked the guy and despised the way Rivers acts on the field. I was the same. When they had their little feud and they played each other in the last game to go to the playoffs I was all for Cutler and the Broncos. I always hated his face though.

Tyrod Taylor just had 10, no exaggeration, 10 seconds sitting in the pocket without having to move and he still threw a pick.

This gets back to the problem I have with the NBA when my team is no good or eliminated early from the playoffs. The really good teams are all so hateable that I can't possibly root for them and the likeable teams that are good are almost never good enough to win a title. The exceptions to this are rare.

He slid a ketchup packet in there before that play. The trainers and medical staff caught on to this phony injury plan and immediately started using towels to provide pressure to his chin. The doctors then agreed it would be a good idea to add extra stitches just for his p.r. I hated Favre as much as anyone and understand how easy it is to get sick of some of his stuff, but come on.

These guys stink.

Par for the course.

Sidney Rice was taken off the PUP list today, practice and has 3 weeks to be activated. He obviously won't play this week but some think he might play against the Bears next week.

That like many of his other injuries he decided to draw maximum attention to himself and overexaggerated everything. If a chin is busted open to the point that you need 8 or 10 stitches, there will be blood. He's been lauding his toughness and willingness to play through pain and come back from injury non stop this season. So he made them put in extra stitches to exaggerate it?

I'm pretty sure you could see it in his chin strap. Other than that he had his hand covering it most of the time and the trainers immediately had it covered with gauze. When you bust open a chin, blood gets everywhere in a hurry. I've done it a few times and never did it require 8 or 10 stitches (I've seen reports of both), just 2 or 3. A hand isn't going to stop it, a detached chin strap isn't going to contain it, and the gauze would be bright red in a hurry. So what are you suggesting? That he and the trainers were faking the injury for some reason but immediately thought to cover the chin and make up a story that his chin was bleeding and required stitches? Then put makeup on him later to look like stitches?

I'm pretty sure you could see it in his chin strap. Other than that he had his hand covering it most of the time and the trainers immediately had it covered with gauze.

Eh, why not? Wall, Kevin Love, Beasley, and Durant were all 1st team in recent years as FROSH. Not like there's a bunch of household names in the NCAA this year. Oh I agree. It's just surprising because it's never happened even with guys like Durant, Oden, Mayo or Wall who seemed to have more hype. But yeah when Singler, Pullen, Fridette and JaJuan Johnson are your others, ick...

But didn't the whole thing start because New England wouldn't sign him to an extension? Yeah. But the Vikings and Moss reached a mutual agreement. They said they were interested in signing him long-term but couldn't do it right away. He said that was cool as long as they didn't franchise him. So they wrote that into his contract and everything was supposed to be good.

I don't know if anyone is going to get anything out of Moss unless he's able to re-sign with the Patriots for a low price next year. The situation in Minnesota was just about ideal in terms of getting max effort out of him. The fans still absolutely loved him and he still has a home there and likes the area and dome. The ownership/management that dealt him 5 years ago was gone. He had a QB he always wanted to play with. He knew he was playing for his next contract. Ownership/management wanted him and worked it into his contract that he wouldn't be franchised but promised they would negotiate a deal after the year. He had Adrian, Harvin and Shiancoe keeping the middle of the field wide open. He still had a couple of former teammates he liked.

Favre isn't hated by the players. I'm sure some of them resent some of his stuff, but he's been popular in the locker room. It sounds like there's a split on Moss. Childress or Moss would be a better question. Their effort this weekend will be telling and I'm sure it's what Zygi is waiting to see.

That was my initial reaction during the game and it seemed to be the only possible explanation. I don't think so though. If you watch the cut ups of only his plays Sunday, he jogged every route. Everyone knows his deal but I don't know if he ran one route at even 85%.

Well I didn't expect to read a breakdown of the upcoming Iowa-Auburn game today.

So all of this happened from Thursday-Sunday: -Refused to speak to the media once again and was supposedly dogging everything in practice. -Yelled at teammates in a meeting and warned them to not speak about him or anything he says to the media. -Berated the caterers for no real reason other than to be a dick. -Took his laziness to another level during the game (re-watched the shortcut on DirecTV last night) and let a possible TD fall without making any effort. -Blamed the coaches and players for not listening to him well enough about what the Patriots were going to do. Only other mention of the team was saying they should have gone for a field goal on 4th and goal from the 1. -Waxed poetic about how great the Patriots were and how he missed them and loved them, only saying "no disrespect to the Vikings but.." -Said he was staying out east until Wednesday morning. Damn. Randy has always been weird and moody but he went from Mr. Positive team guy two weeks ago against the Cowboys to a nutjob looking like he was trying to get cut.

The Eagles have had a lot more talent around Kolb/Vick compared to McNabb in Washington to be fair. Plus the offense is a fair amount different, right? Or has Shanahan adapted it?

The Vikings would have a better record with Jackson so far this year. Not only did the Vikings pay Favre $20 million for nothing, but he can created a firestorm of controversy and will probably wind up getting his coach fired. He is the only reason why his coach got a contract extension in the first place. Yep. And that was so stupid because everyone knew Childress is mediocre. Favre's career was nearly over, so why renew Childress? My only guess is that they wanted Favre for a little longer and they thought that continuity would make him stay. That probably worked, but you are still left with a bad coach. They went from 6 to 8 to 10 wins and a division title in his first three years and even before the Favre move, he was going to have his most talented team ever last year and probably make the playoffs again. I've never been a big Childress fan as an in-game coach but he's done a great job of assembling talent and assembling coaching talent. He hired Tomlin who was a d-backs coach to be his first def. coordinator and a year later he was the Steelers head coach. Then Frazier was another secondary coach and he's had like 6 head coach interviews. He has a huge say in personnel and in the draft and has done a great job there. People have said his teams have been loaded the last few years and use that to say he's not a great coach but he's brought in 15 of the starters. Would be nice to just keep him around in the front office and make Leslie Frazier the head coach.

Moss. That might have been the final strike. Combine it with the stuff he did in the locker room and at practice last week, plus his laziness in the game and the postgame stuff and Childress thought he had to do it. I guess I have to give credit to Childress for having some stones to make the move on his own. When he told the team about the move he said his superiors could fire him over it but he was making the move regardless. It's crazy and might cost him his only shot at a head job, but it takes some balls.