Just had a chance last night to re-watch the Rice and Kansas football game (never tell me I’m not dedicated). Several larger issues stuck out to me as I reviewed that pillow fight with KU head coach Charlie Weis’ Tuesday press conference player admonishment fresh in my mind.
- Culture: Since his hire, Weis has preached changing the losing mentality and losing ways that plagued the Jayhawks for the past few seasons. He brought in a load of mercenaries transfers to help drive home the point that the old players weren’t good enough to make that happen.
- Let’s pretend he wasn’t missing receivers throughout the game, Dayne Crist falling down to avoid contact on a poor throw and interception (which set up the Owls’ game-winning drive), and Nebraska transfer defensive end Josh Williams failing to bring down the running back on a missed tackle and first-down conversion during that last Rice possession won’t help change anything.
- Speed: Teddy KGB, I’m telling you Kansas doesn’t has it, especially on defense. Rice is not a good football team, and it put up over 400 yards of offense on KU. KU’s defensive line, which did little to confuse Rice’s offensive linemen, was pushed around. The linebackers were slow to read and react. The secondary played far off the line of scrimmage. Tackling was suspect. And, all of that was before the entire unit collectively wilted at the end.
- All the while, I’m thinking about Weis telling reporters later: “I let [the players] be in the tank Saturday night, because I was in it, too.”
- This is the “new” way of doing things?
- Who is running away from the bright lights faster? Soon-to-be former Texas Tech head coach Billy Gillispie or Notre Dame?
- Gillispie, before he may just send for his things in Lubbock, is racking up medical bills at the Mayo Clinic on the insurance he’s about to lose, while the Fighting Irish are ensuring themselves some level of relevancy by playing five games against the ACC — the fourth-best football conference in recent power rankings.
- But, don’t sweat it Irish. You’re still important… you’re still important… you’re still important…
- The power of social media was again shown through the Travis Wright v. @kcchiefs Twitter scrap on Monday and Tuesday.
- For those of you saying Wright was out of line with his original tweet, my radar must be way out of tune.
- Compared to the daily vitriol I see between some of you on message boards, in comment sections and sometimes in my own email, that post didn’t even register a tiny blip.
- On a related note, I’ve never blocked anyone.
- Blocking the Chiefs pass rush wasn’t difficult for Atlanta with no Tamba Hali in the lineup.
- He’ll get some sacks, but is that really all that Kansas City can muster? The Denver Broncos, by comparison, looked like sack-registering speed demons with Von Miller and company registering an NFL-leading five sacks of Ben Roethlisberger.
- Big Ben holds the ball too long, always has, but still…
- That NFL official holdout doesn’t seem nearly as terrible, for now, after a largely uneventful first weekend.
- The timeout thing in the Seattle/Arizona game was a mess, but one major confusion out of 16 games?
- Sounds like a regular weekend to me.
- It apparently sounds like a regular weekend to the NFL as well, as talks suddenly shifted the earliest scenario for regular refs to return to no earlier than Week 5 or 6.
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