Remember last year's college football season. The wildest in history. We'll I'm not a betting man, okay I take that back maybe I am, but either way, this NFL season is getting very strange.
Dolphins gave it to the Patriots in Foxboro stadium. I mean Tom Brady is gone, but the defense is still in tact and Ricky Williams and Ronnie Brown ran all up in they house and took their respect, manhood, and pride in 33 carries for 211 yards and 4 touchdowns.
The Colts are 1-2. Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison do not look like the same duo.
The Buffalo Bills and Denver Broncos are both 3-0 and John Elway and Jim Kelly are long gone.
The Falcons are 2-1 as are the 49ers. The football gods are having fun with this season as the results are very odd.
The sleeper that no one is talking about is the Baltimore Ravens. The Ravens are 2-0, and should be 3-0 but their game against the Texans last week was canceled because of Hurricane Ike. I'm almost certain that the Ravens would have defeated the Texans.
Joe Flacco is playing well as starter by default with Troy Smith recovering from a tonsil infection and Kyle Boller out for the season. The offense is very Raven-esque if you know what I mean, and the vaunted defense that has been the staple of the organization is back ranking second in the NFL in total defense and third in points allowed.
I highly recommend not betting on any NFL games this year because there are no gimmies. I love crazy seasons like this. Keep it up football gods.
Florida is looking like a well-oiled machine after dismantling Tennessee on the road this week. The Gator defense was outstanding in the red zone. There were some quirks in the offense but if the special teams play continues to be outstanding, led by all-world return man Brandon James, Florida will be a legitimate contender for the National Championship.
Michigan State
Javon Ringer ran wild, running for 201 yards on 39 carries with 2 touchdowns. Through four games Ringer has 699 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns on a nation-high 143 carries. I must say it is refreshing to watch Michigan State and their “Throwback Style “ a true I-formation attack" lead by potential Heisman trophy candidate Ringer. I believe after watching Ringer last year and early this season he is a dark horse for the Heisman if he can stay healthy with the workload he is under carrying the ball 35+ times a game.
FSU
The Seminoles stunk it up in a home loss to the Demon Deacons Saturday night. Florida State used two quarterbacks, none of which specialized in passing to their receivers at all combining for five interceptions. Wake Forest won its second straight game in Tallahassee for the first time ever on earth at any point in time in history including the B.C. years. The Noles have a lot of work to do before facing Colorado next week.
Auburn/LSU
I watched this game from beginning to end and I have to say that DEFENSE in the SEC is the best in the country. I cannot recall a more passionately played game where every inch gained was a blessing and every hit was a homicide. Word to the wise if you see the LSU or Auburn defense in a back alley run and run fast because its real serious in the SEC, unlike the Pac-10. Auburn, I believe will be a real handful when their get their new spread offense going later in the year. LSU is better than advertised with Harvard transfer Andrew Hatch and Jarret Lee running the offense after star QB Ryan Perrilloux was booted off the team this summer. LSU has the upper hand in the SEC West race after beating the Tigers at the Jungle. The winner of this game has won the SEC West 6 out of the last 8 years.
BYU and Penn State
Penn State and BYU continue to blow away the completion and have not received any love from the media. Keep a watch on these two programs, as they seem to be the class of their conferences but have yet to receive any R-E-S-P-E-C-T. BYU beat Wyoming 44-0 at home and now scored 104 pts in the last two games and have given up 0. Penn State pummeled a decent Temple team 45-3 and has a potent offense that may well give them the edge in a Big 10 conference that is stale offensively. If Penn State handles Juice Williams and Illinois in a convincing manner next weekend look out.
Miami, Alabama, and Colorado all impressed this week and seem to be on the verge of regaining the stature these programs enjoyed in years past. Alabama has a very stiff test playing Georgia this Week and Colorado has a game at FSU. These two games will go a long way in testing if they are “posers” or on their way back to the top. Miami has a date with North Carolina next week the Heels are let by former Miami head coach Butch Davis. This is a game that I feel both coaches want very badly because of their relationship with Shannon having been a defensive coordinator for Davis when he was at Miami.
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Here are the Jimmy's for the 3rd week of the Football Season
NFL JIMMY's
Broncos WR Brandon Marshall
Marshall caught a second most single game NFL record, 18 balls for 166yards and a touchdown, while torching the vaunted Charges secondary of Antonio Cromartie, Quentin Jammer, and Antione Cason
Chargers RB Darren Sproles
Sproles blitzed the Broncos for 315 total yards and 2TDs. and provided two of the games more exciting plays with a 103 yard kick return and caught a short pass from Phillip Rivers and took it 66 yards for the score.
Giants DE Justin Tuck
Tuck had 3 tackles and 2 sacks, and also recorded an interception which he returned 41 yards for the td.
Packers CB Charles Woodson
Woodson had 4 passes defenses and 2 interception, one of which he took 41 yards back for the score.
Browns TE Kellen Winslow and Raiders CB Nnamdi Asomugha
They both looked fly as a "mug" as they bucked the NFL uniform policy and rocked the solid Brown socks with the black tape for Winslow and Asomugha donned the black socks with the black tape. They both said screw the ugly NFL white socks.
NCAA JIMMY's
Baylor QB Robert Griffin
Griffin set a Baylor QB rushing record by running for 217 yards on 11 carries and 2 touchdowns. He completed 7 of 15 passes for 129 yard and another touchdown.
Oklahoma QB Sam Bradford
Bradford got busy against the Washington Huskies as he went 18 for 21 with 304 yards and threw for 5 touchdowns and ran for another score. This man, threw more touchdowns than he had incompletions .....wow.
Georgia FS Reshad Jones
Jones had 6 tackles against the Gamecoks, and forced a key fumbled as a Gamecocks running back hurdled for the go ahead score before jones jarred the ball loose for and the Bulldogs recovered the fumble.
I was looking at this week’s college football schedule and realized that there is at least one game every day from Wednesday through Saturday. My first thought was “hell yeah, Wednesday is the new Saturday!” However, after some reflection I came to the conclusion that mid-week game scheduling is student-athlete exploitation at its finest. The landmark case University of Oklahoma, et al vs. NCAA in the fall of 1984 started the “Television Age” in college football. As a disclaimer: I understand that I am only touching the tip of the iceberg regarding student-athlete issues and the NCAA, I am sympathetic to the student athlete cause but for time sake I will only discuss how television can have a negative impact on the student athlete experience at any particular university. What the OU vs. NCAA case meant for the student athlete and football fans alike was that the NCAA could no longer limit the number of appearances an individual school could have on television each year. Furthermore, it led to the present schedule that sports fans are now used to the “Thursday, Friday, and Saturday” games every week. Another side effect most may not realize was a result of this case is conference realignment. Conferences both grew and crumbled because of the lucrative nature of the television contracts in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. This “rat race” for money is what led to the “Super Conferences” we are now used too. The more teams in a conference, the more lucrative the TV contract. This started with Arkansas leaving the SWC for the greener pastures of the SEC. This move was based largely on Arkansas wanting a piece of the “television revenue pie” so to speak. The remaining teams in the SWC either joined the Big 8 to form the Big 12 or were banished to smaller conferences. These moves in the early 1990s led to the current BCS system we have in place at the moment. Now back to the point. Here is a list of mid-week games this week.
Wednesday, September 17: Kansas State at Louisville
Thursday, September 18: No. 21 West Virginia at Colorado
Friday, September 19: Baylor at Connecticut
The focus here is money and not facilitating the best possible experience for the student athletes involved. I am sure that Kansas State practiced all weekend in order to prepare for their game at Louisville today. This takes away from the players’ ability to use their bye weekend off to catch up on their studies. Kansas State probably flew to Louisville Tuesday in order to play Wednesday. Which means that KSU players will miss not one but two days of classes in order to play this game “for the fans.” Lastly, all three of the previously mentioned games start at 8 p.m. Eastern time so that viewers can get home from work and be comfortable when the game comes on. What you don’t realize when you are enjoying the game during the evening is that it will probably take 3-4 hours to play, then the away team has to fly back home arriving around 5-6 the next morning, and therefore keeping the athletes from getting to bed until a late hour. Even if the game is either home or away, the time factor for these games must surely have an impact on the classes the student athlete has the next day. I looked at each of the above teams’ schedule and they will have no less than an 8 day layoff before their next day, giving them more than a standard break after this weeks game But has the NCAA become so shrouded with the revenues made in conjunction with the major television providers that the student athlete is no longer taken into consideration when planning the season? The traditional Saturday game has the least impact on the student athlete trying to earn a degree, a factor that must be kept in mind during the scheduling process. Not to mention that all players involved are amateurs and have numerous responsibilities outside of football and Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday games do not take this into consideration at all. So the next time you enjoy a game you probably did not even know was coming on early in the week, take a second to ponder the “bigger picture”, then sit back and enjoy the game because this trend will only increase in the future.
Does anyone remember the 2005 College Football Season? Do you really? What I am talking about has nothing to do with the championship, Heisman, Outland Trophy, none of that.
I remember the days during the 05 season, when Reggie Bush and Devin Hester were both juniors, Ted Ginn, Jr. was a sophomore and a young DeSean Jackson was a freshman. ESPN's College Gameday Final had me at odds with myself. Do I go out to the party that ends at 2am, or do I stay here and watch College Gameday Final which will not begin until at least midnight and last for an hour. TiVo was a no go back then for me. No dinero homie.
Why did I need to watch it so bad, duh, because some of the best playmakers in College Football History were doing their thing.
I don't think there was a week that Bush, Hester, Ginn, or Jackson didn't score a spectacular touchdown.
I'm saddened today because none of the players today in the game are nearly that dynamic. I mean yes, there is DeMarco Muarry, Noel Devine, Graig Cooper, Pat White, Percy Harvin, Jahvid Best, Preston Parker, Joel McKnight and Moreno at UGA, but lets be real. Are we being thrilled with the plays that Bush, Hester, Jackson and Ginn gave us. Not by a long shot, and that's no disrespect to those holding it down now, its respect to those who killed it in 2005. So lets pay tribute to these boys.
What happens when you take a two young educated African-Americans with street cred who love football more than Republicans love guns and oil or Democrats love nature and health care?
You get Richard aka Riverboat Ricky, a young college graduate from the University of Oklahoma, and currently pursuing his Master's degree at the University of Texas. Yes the black Benedict Arnold of our time.
Richard ran track for 2 years at the University of Oklahoma and walked-on to the University of Oklahoma football team as well for one year.
Richard loves football and all things football. He has two seasons in his life, football season and waiting for football season.
Claude aka Lina is a recent Master's graduate of the University of Oklahoma as well as a former DE at University of Oklahoma.
Claude loves football almost as much as Richard. The jury is still out on who loves it more.
Richard's tamed but smug-witted writing and Claude's tell it like it is with a few ad libs ala Young Jeezy style of writing make for 6magazine™ and 6magazineOnline™.
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