I have Alabama vs Texas, but let’s look at some facts fo this season. Texas has played a very weak schedule while playing a weak Oklahoma team and an even weaker Oklahoma St. team where both were without their best players due to injury and supsension. Who else is any good that they have played? The argument is real where the BIG 12 is a little above average this season with that one side of the conference being full of average teams at best. I’m not saying that is Texas’ fault but they shouldn’t get a lot of schedule strength support.

Look at TCU. They have played just as tough of a schedule as Texas having beaten BYU, UTAH, CLEMSON with the BYU and Clemson wins on the road. That’s much better than beating a beat up Oklahoma team and an injured and reeling Oklahoma St. team. I’d love to see Texas play TCU and have the real battle for Texas supremacy and I know TCU would to. Maybe next year instead of Louisiana Monroe coming into Austin, we could get the Horned Frogs a game. Won’t happen.

Alabama is going to beat Florida and dethrone the kings when it comes time for the SEC title game. I’m not about to say the SEC is down because that conference is tough. If you put Mississippi they would probably win the ACC and the BIG EAST but out of the SEC they are simply a good team that is going to a bowl game.

Alabama plays Texas for the title. I won’t say who wins just yet.

Why do we have to write the same article every single season? The guy can recruit and has brought in top 10 rated classes for his entire time at the school. The only team he really won with were recruits that came from Tyrone Willingham and here he is again struggling along in a season where his team could easily be under .500. Let Charlie go.

I read that he has a GIANT buyout clause around 18 million dollars and that is a crazy amount of money when you consider that then they have to go out and buy the next best thing they can and bring them to South Bend so that we can go through this next year. Seriously, they are thinking of Bob Stoops, Urban Meyer and others so this isn’t going to be cheap.

We are part of a new generation that doesn’t see Notre Dame as the Yankees of college football. We see Notre Dame as what they are and that is a middle of the road team that has no conference that hasn’t been a threat to the national title for years and years. Maybe 8-4 is the type of program that Notre Dame has become and we should just accept that. Maybe Weis should just stay and coach this team because nobody will do better. They don’t play the impossible schedule anymore and now they are losing to teams like NAVY.

But if it is me and my university I get rid of the guy because college football needs Notre Dame to be good again because we need that program to hate. We want to cheer against them like Duke when it comes to the NCAA tournament. We love to root against the Yankees, the Blue Devils, the Cowboys and Notre Dame is that team in college football. However, it is no fun to cheer against a team that loses as often as it wins.

The talk around the office today is Bill Belichick’s decision to go for it on 4th down on his own 28 yard line with 2 minutes to go and it shouldn’t be at all. The talk should be about anything else but that because Belichick has earned our respect and trust.

I know the move was questionable but think of his thinking. He is thinking that if he gets 2 yards the game is over and his team had no problem the entire game getting two yards. He was thinking that if Manning got the ball with 2 minutes left from wherever that he would lead them down the field for a win anyway. He was also thinking that if he gave them a short field and they scored a touchdown that he would have time to go down and kick a field goal for the win. I didn’t think the Colts would use all 2 minutes to score the touchdown and think how close Addai was to scoring with 1:15 left in the game on that run. If that happens then the Pats win in my opinion and nobody would be saying anything.

Regardless, we are talking about the greatest football coach since Lombardi. The Pro version of Red Auerbach with the Celtics and a man that if he coaches for another 20 years will win multiple super bowls. Let’s leave him alone on this one because he deserves our trust and respect.

All Bears fans hopes were dashed last night when Jay Cutler threw 5 more interceptions during the Bears loss. It was crushing and hurt but I still don’t want Kyle Orton back.

Jay Cutler will be fine in time and we knew this season wasn’t go to be the best. The Bears have no real go to receiver and as a result teams are lining up to stop Matt Forte and he’s having a down year running the ball. As a result Cutler is forced to throw 45 passes a game and with his mentality he is going to throw some picks. I still don’t want Kyle Orton back.

I wouldn’t want Kyle Orton back if the Bears were 0-9 at this point. I wouldn’t want Orton back under hardly any circumstance. Let him win with the Broncos and lead them to the playoffs and all that but keep him from the Bears. In the long run Jay Cutler will get it done in Chicago and be the best qb in the history of the franchise but he needs some weapons first. Kyle Orton is the king of the 10 yard curl route and the pass to the tailback on his 3rd option. He’s the king of the 8 minute scoring drive and all that. He’s the king of boring. He’s the king of not being able to bring a team back from being down. I’m glad he’s gone and if Jay Cutler leads the world in interceptions you can still keep Kyle Orton.

When i was younger I would love to practice getting both feet inbounds while making catches. We used to practice using street curbs and then we’d fall into the grass in front of the sidewalk. It was fun. Soon we started practicing the back of end zones at local high school fields and that was more fun and it was there that we first tried all the stuff that we had seen Lynn Swann do successfully for the few seasons that he actually played in the NFL. Great receiver, not a hall of famer, but that’s another topic altogether.

Here are 2 drills that coaches can use that can help receivers improve in a couple areas:

1. Push Up Drill: Receiver get knocked down all the time at the line of scrimmage or are distracted and have to recover to make a play on the ball. This drill helps with that and here’s how it works. The player lies on the ground with a coach to one side of him. When the whistle blows the coach tries to hold the player down and make it difficult to get up. Once up the player has to go around that coach before he goes upfield to catch the ball. The ball should be thrown at 10-15 yards. Great for teaching the kids to get past an obstacle and still catch the pass.

2. Over the shoulder drill: We did this drill in the back part of the end zone with the idea being that the receiver will learn to catch the ball while looking back toward the field of play. This is done with a qb and receiver at about the 20 yard line depending on player age and arm strength. The receiver should not practice this drill full speed as the point is to focus on the body control. The qb needs to learn to throw this ball to the outside shoulder of the receiver with the receiver focusing on turning the head correctly as well as the shoulders and arms.

Both are effective simple drills that players and coaches can use to get better.

Two excellent qb’s playing for two excellent teams. Both are leading their teams to undefeated seasons so far. Both are on the front page of ESPN as I type this and I’m wondering who I would vote for as NFL MVP because as good as Brett Favre has been these two have been better.

Brees has to get some votes based on the fact that nobody expected the Saints to be this good and also that he is an incredible leader that everyone is supporting. To play the Saints it must feel like you have to score 40 points to beat them and their defense isn’t terrible at all anymore. He started the season throwing 6 td’s and hasn’t stopped since. The Saints even have one of the top rushing attacks in the league with a back that nobody really heard of before in Pierre Thomas. If the Saints win their division and Brees continues to lead them then he’ll be there till the end.

Peyton Manning is the best quarterback I’ve ever seen. I can’t even imagine being able to read a defense like he does and understand what teams are trying to do defensively. He is rarely confused and gets intercepted on physical mistakes instead of mental. He has 1 really solid receiver in Reggie Wayne and a decent running back with Addai but he has had more talented players around him in the past and that’s what makes this season even better. He is a top 3 candidate every year and this year will be no different. The Colts will lose soon, in fact before the Saints, but Manning will still be an MVP candidate and possibly even the winner.

It’s close, but at this stage you have to take Brees.