Running bowl thread

His throwing motion (bringing the ball down to his hip level during the throwing motion, primarily) is almost a carbon copy of Byron Leftwich's.

 

I think that NFL evaluators have a much better track record ELIMINATING guys they think won't make it as opposed to knowing who WILL make it.

 

Yep, blowouts happen. Doesn't mean Cinci is a bad team this year, just as it doesn't mean Alabama was a bad team last year. They just had very bad bowl games.

 

Believe that to be largely correct.

 

Well for those who love bowl games - and you really have to love bowl games to watch either of these two stinkers -- the International Bowl and PapaJohns Bowl are on!!!!

How do I choose?

Well, I think I am going to watch the International Bowl because it is an exciting 3-3 thriller between South Florida and one of the directional illinois teams....... :

 

Can we worry just a smidge less about Pat Summerall and his cronies -- and a little more about just how much the football-viewing public should be forced to endure?

Thanks.

 

Summerall just said Snead is from Dallas. He's from Stephenville which is no where near Dallas.

 

OK, lets look at the top 10 or so QBs in the NFL right now. In some order, it includes Peyton, Brady, Brees, Rivers, Rodgers, Favre, Romo, McNabb, Roethlisberger and probably Schaub. Of those 10, only 3 were not first round or high second round picks (Schaub was in the third, Brady in the sixth and Romo as an undrafted free agent). Which indicates to me that if you want a franchise QB, waiting until the 6th round because the draft is a crapshoot is the football equivalent of saying it is unlikely than any woman you go on a date with will be your wife, so why ever go on a date at all?

Look at the Pro Bowl rosters. By in large, they are players taken in the first two rounds of the draft -- every starter on the AFC offensive line is a first round pick. Saying it is a crapshoot is a red herring and an excuse. Can you find good players and occasionally Hall of Fame players outside of the first two rounds? Definitely. But teams with good scouting departments will find great players early on in the draft. Miami's problem with not finding good players in the draft is MIAMI's problem, not a problem with the draft.

 

Is Illinois the only state with all four directions represented in its annals of higher education (NIU, SIU, EIU, WIU)?

 

Except when it's Ohio State (or the Big Ten in general), right? 'Cause in '06 they were virtually everybody's No. 1 after beating Michigan and everybody's "exposed as a fraud" after the Fiesta Bowl ... A week ago almost everybody on here was predicting an Oregon blowout because they were the best team in the second-best conference. Today we learn they're overrated.

 

I made virtually that exact comment sitting here in our living room. Also, one of them called Perrish Cox Perrish Brown. That was weird.