I’m a little dumbfounded at Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel’s straight outing his quarterback. What did he think that would accomplish other than start some sort of mini-controversy?
- James Franklin, congratulations for apparently being the only adult in the situation.
- This is a great reminder for all players that your coach — the man who recruited you and likely gave some grandiose spiel about looking after your best interests — has your back.
- Always.
- Nobody ever accused Gary Pinkel of being nice.
- Hypothetically, say the Tigers move through the season and Franklin makes a huge, game-winning, bowl-earning play.
- Will Pinkel then sing a different tune about his quarterback?
- The song is a mostly positive one in Lawrence this week as Kansas is telling anybody who will listen that, despite giving up nearly 500 yards and not being able to score a touchdown, the 20-6 loss to TCU was a sign of better play.
- You can look at the Horned Frogs’ three red zone fumbles two ways: 1) A decent team made awful plays at terrible times that left at least three touchdowns on the field; or 2) KU is becoming an opportunistic bunch, having now forced 12 turnovers in three games.
- Getting pushed into the corner and praying for a turnover seems to stretch that “bend but don’t break” philosophy a bit far.
- Then again, nobody leaves baby in a corner.
- There are no corners in which to hide in Norman, Oklahoma.
- After giving lackluster a bad name against North Texas, a dinged up Kansas State will be front-and-center against a rested OU squad on national television.
- If Landry Jones stays clean, it will be messy for K-State.
- While I think the defensive front might be able to get Jones a few times, the KSU secondary against OU’s receivers is frightening.
- Almost as scary realizing that even through just two games, West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith has nine passing touchdowns — two more TDs than Kansas has a team, two fewer than Iowa State, and four more than the Kansas City Chiefs.
- Wonder what Smith would look like in a Chiefs uniform?
- I wonder why I torture myself with that sort of thought.
- Why would I want to wish that kind of ill will on Smith?
- It would mean playing for an organization where the general manager is more bent on winning psychological battles in his office than football games, and the head coach thinks, gee, it sure would be nice for his 0-2 team to win on Sunday against the New Orleans Saints.
- This will be game number 70 for Crennel’s NFL head coaching career.
- His defense may give up that number of points to the Saints in his honor.
- Through 69 games: Crennel’s career mark: 26-43 (.377).
- I think I hear “Dandy Don” Meredith…
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