davearm

So you say OU could've had another 6 points except for an intercepted bomb. Well I say Boise could've delivered the knockout blow in the 4th quarter if they hadn't fumbled the ball away in OU territory. This game's turnover story was very much even, despite your illusions to the contrary.

LOL at the "I was gracious" nonsense. That was blatantly insincere BS, and you just admitted as much. OU may have better athletes. I don't think anyone would dispute that. But OU most certainly was not the better team last night. Boise was the better team last night. And you'll continue to be mocked and ridiculed until you suck it up and admit that's 1) true, and 2) no fluke. (And it wouldn't hurt for you to realize that OU benefitted from Boise turnovers just as much, if not moreso, than Boise did from OU turnovers. The whole "Boise won because of OU turnovers" argument is laughable.)

Like HE** you do. You're calling it a fluke. If you were giving them credit, you'd acknowledge that Boise outprepared, outcoached, and outexecuted the Sooners, and that the better team won.

So whose fault is it that OU was unprepared? Or I suppose that was a fluke, too.

Well obviously OU was wrong. It's gotta hurt that your team is losing games it ought to win because of some perceived superiority complex that causes them not to take opponents seriously enough.

Boise will finish on one side or the other of Wisconsin, with 3-5 teams ahead of both, depending on the outcomes of the remaining games.

This is such a lame, pathetic excuse. I watched the coin toss before the game, but I don't seem to recall the referee indicating that Boise was the only team permitted to use creativity and deception on offense. Rather than whine and calling what Boise did a fluke, perhaps you should be asking why your Sooners didn't have some tricks up their sleeves for the biggest game of the year, too.

Your selective memory is truly amazing Without Boise giving the ball away, OK doesn't get within 20 tonight. The punt muff got OK up off the mat, leading to 7 free ones. The fumble along the sidelines got OK off the mat again, as BSU was in position to deliver the dagger. The INT... obviously, another 7 gift-wrapped. Your team lost. Again. You make excuses. Again. You're as predictable as the sun rising in the east.

You truly are the tool against which all other tools are measured.

Badgers score with 0:23 remaining in the first half. On the ensuing kickoff, they sent ALL TEN coverage guys downfield early. They were all offside by 5 or so yards by the time the kicker kicked the ball. It was crazy looking. Touchback => offsides penalty enforced 5 yards => rekick from the 30, with 0:14 remaining. Next kickoff, same thing. All 10 guys leave early. PSU returner gets mauled at like the 10 or 15. PSU penalized for illegal block => offsetting penalties => rekick from the 30 again, with 0:04 remaining. Next kickoff they stay onsides and kick it on the ground, run down and tackle the guy with 0:00 remaining. JoePa was PISSED. That rule's gotta be changed ASAP. Can't blame the Badgers for using it to their advantage though.

Quite frankly, I think the best PBP and color guys are the ones who I couldn't even tell you their names... the b- and c-list guys that get assigned to do the regional games on FOX and CBS. They just call the game and add their insights, without trying to do lame schtick. With the exception of Al Michaels, who IMO is still terrific, basically all of the big-name "personalities" are extremely tiresome: Madden, Theisman, Kornheiser, Maguire, Mike Patrick, etc. etc.

Ahman Green may look phenomenal, but that O-line still looks horrific. The GB offense is not going to be anywhere approaching good this year, regardless of how the RB mix shakes out.

I've got the #5 pick in a 12-team redraft. I know the guy ahead of me likes Portis over Barber, and if he takes Portis (or someone else besides Barber) I'll definitely grab Barber at 5. If he takes Barber, my choice is going to come down to two guys. One is Portis. The other is Rudi Johnson. Johnson has gone for 1450 yards and 12 scores for two straight years, and his situation is unchanged for this year. IMO he's a very safe pick. SJax -- not real confident in knowing how the Rams will be this year, and how they'll use SJax. Jordan -- I'm not touching the Raiders this year. James -- ARZ rushing game has been miserable forever, and their line's unchanged. I'll let someone else roll the dice that Edge is going to change all that singlehandedly. Brown -- Love his situation but he's an unknown right now with so few carries under his belt. Caddy -- Too many rotten games last year for me to consider. Westbrook -- foot problem already By process of elimination it's Rudi, if the Portis situation still looks iffy. I don't think Rudi will finish in the top 5, but IMO he's the best bet of all these guys to finish in the top 10.

Not to hijack, but don't they have ample technology available to allow the ref/replay officials to view multiple camera angles simultaneously? Seems like the way you'd want to set this up is to have ALL available angles synchronized, and allow the officials to view whichever one(s) they want simultaneously, one next to the other. This would certainly address the problem you're presenting... use Angle A to determine the precise moment the elbow went down, and use Angle B to determine where the ball was at that instant. Put this together with super slow mo (or even frame-by-frame) fwd/rew, and you're home free. Seems like it would be cake to set things up this way.

At this point, the only threat to Gado is Gado. If he runs hard, avoids making mistakes, and has some success, he'll hang on to the job regardless of Fisher's status. Like others have said, at this point the Packers have little to lose by giving him a shot. Fisher is a 3rd down back, and if at all possible the Packers would like to limit him to that role. Gado is in the Green/Davenport "feature back" mold.