Weekend thoughts on football
* I was going to write yet one more rant about how
the latest Gator meltdown should cost Ron Zook his job and I awaken this morning
to find out that the word was out that Zook was going to get fired this
afternoon. So that will save me a few words. I think it was the right move and
for anyone who questions the timing, consider this - what would AD Foley do if
the team did another one of its meaningless late season rallies? I liken the
Zook era's usual pattern of late season irrelevant winning streaks to Oscar De
La Hoya's fighting style, where he would all of a sudden start punching with
fury during the last 15 seconds of a round to put on a good show for the crowd,
thus influencing the judges to score one for him. So, as remote as the
possibility would have been for RZ to run the table and get into yet one more
Outback Bowl, with victories over Uga and the first win over FSU in Tallahassee
since 1986, the possibility was there. And Foley could not take that chance. So
right move, right time. And let the search begin for the next coach, the RIGHT
coach, now instead of in early
January.
* Little 11
haiku:
Penn State's final
score:
25 or 6 to
4
Pete Cetera
groans
* KCBF is feeling the optimism
of a remaining schedule that in theory only has two winning teams (Atlanta and
San Diego), the juvenation of Michael Clayton, and a semblance of a running
game. It's still looking like 7-9 at the most optimistic. HOWEVER - seeing the
way the other teams are doing, 7-9 might win the division. It COULD happen; it
is not out of the realm of possibility that this division could have a team with
a losing record win it. And how bad would it look to have a team locked out of
the wild card with a winning record?
*
U-S-F is D-U-N. Like I told MM at HH last week, you can only be successful for
so long with players from Dixie Hollins. Oh well, should have scheduled UF for
homecoming. Or Maine.
* As long as
we're playing the spelling game, once again the B-C-S is B-S. Get a playoff
instead of trying to permanently legislate a 12th regular season
game.
* My FFL team is looking
fan-fucking-tastic. Got a 41.5 point lead over JP but he has Denver's RB and
Jason Elam playing tonight. Looking like I'm back in second place with a 6-1
record. In case you're wondering this was my lineup this
week:
QB - P.
Manning
RB - Lee
Suggs
RB - Thomas
Jones
WR - Javon
Walker
WR - Darrel
jackson
TE - Jermaine
Wiggins
K - Josh
Brown
D - S.
Foley
DB - P.
Buchannon
DL - D.
Brooks
I have Jamal Lewis riding the
pine in one of the most ludicrous suspensions in the history of the NFL (seeing
as it happened before he was drafted) and Todd Heap waiting to make that TE slot
viable. I may be a contender.
*
Speaking of that position, Fox carried some of the Philly-Cleveland game after
the Bucs win and, in a fit of immaturity similar to Steve voting for the Gaylord
Bowl, when the announcers said Jeff Garcia was hitting the tight ends with
regularity, I lost it.
Posted: Mon - October 25, 2004 at 01:47 PM