Quick Shots from Around the League
After a three-and-a-half month hiatus, I'm hungry for some damn football, and after watching my one-win Jets enter the race for Darren McFadden, I think it's time for me to think about other matters.
1. Adrian Peterson's dominance of the league yesterday, today, and every day for the next umpteen years.
Just how good is Adrian Peterson? Well, in only eleven games this season, he's the #2 rusher (1200 yards) in the NFL by a difference of 17 yards... did I mention that he's played in 2 less games and has 108 less carries than the #1 rusher, Willie Parker (1217 yards)? Oh, and don't forget he also has 10 touchdowns, which is 8 more than the Parker. In league totals, he's the #3 TD leader with 10, behind only LaDainian Tomlison with 12 TD in 13 games, and Joseph Addai with 11 TD in 12 games.
Now, that's only his statistics. If we delve a bit deeper into the subject, we will see, simply by glimpsing at game tape, that he is the most talented RB in the NFL. It needs no further words. Delving even deeper into the subject, we look at the talent surrounding Peterson on the Vikings. Not only does he have arguably the best offensive line in the NFL that has an average age of 28.2, with the oldest member being C Matt Birk at 31 (yes, 28.2! which means it will be together for a very long time), but he also has a young and physically gifted QB playing right in front of him, not to mention young potential-filled WRs that can stretch the field.
When you're the most talented runner in the NFL, you play behind the best offensive line in the NFL, and your entire supporting cast, including that OL, is young, then you've got a helluva bright future. Peterson has been, by far, the best RB in the league this season and he will only continue to dominate in the future.
2. Attention: NFL Teams... COLLEGE IS FOR PLAYERS, NOT COACHES!
If college coaches were meant to coach in the NFL, there would be an Annual Coaches Selection Meeting, as well as the already-established Annual Players Selection Meeting. Simply put, college coaches are not meant to coach at the professional level and NFL teams need to realize this fast, before it becomes an epidemic. There is currently only one head coach in the NFL that has gone directly from coaching in college to head coach in the NFL, and that's Lane Kiffin, whom is 4-9 with the Oakland Raiders in a bad AFC West. Guys like Kiffin, Nick Saban, and Bobby Petrino are proving that college and the NFL are too different, not only for players, but for coaches as well. Are there a bunch of NFL-grown coaches who suck as well? Of course, but the only thing they're proving is that some guys are just incompetent. The college-grown ones, on the other hand, are a whole category in that group of incompetence.
3. Reggie who? Casserly's all giggidy.
Mario Williams is sure looking like a stud now, isn't he? After a slow start to his rookie season followed by a nice second-half, Williams has played quite well this season. With 9.5 sacks added to his resume, all while attracting extra attention and lining up next to another great pass-rusher in Amobi Okoye (5.5 sacks), also all while lining up in front of a terrible secondary that doesn't exactly give him a lot of time to get to the QB, Williams is proving to be the superior player of the two from the top in 2006: him and Reggie Bush, who has, in simple terms, sucked.
1. Adrian Peterson's dominance of the league yesterday, today, and every day for the next umpteen years.
Just how good is Adrian Peterson? Well, in only eleven games this season, he's the #2 rusher (1200 yards) in the NFL by a difference of 17 yards... did I mention that he's played in 2 less games and has 108 less carries than the #1 rusher, Willie Parker (1217 yards)? Oh, and don't forget he also has 10 touchdowns, which is 8 more than the Parker. In league totals, he's the #3 TD leader with 10, behind only LaDainian Tomlison with 12 TD in 13 games, and Joseph Addai with 11 TD in 12 games.
Now, that's only his statistics. If we delve a bit deeper into the subject, we will see, simply by glimpsing at game tape, that he is the most talented RB in the NFL. It needs no further words. Delving even deeper into the subject, we look at the talent surrounding Peterson on the Vikings. Not only does he have arguably the best offensive line in the NFL that has an average age of 28.2, with the oldest member being C Matt Birk at 31 (yes, 28.2! which means it will be together for a very long time), but he also has a young and physically gifted QB playing right in front of him, not to mention young potential-filled WRs that can stretch the field.
When you're the most talented runner in the NFL, you play behind the best offensive line in the NFL, and your entire supporting cast, including that OL, is young, then you've got a helluva bright future. Peterson has been, by far, the best RB in the league this season and he will only continue to dominate in the future.
2. Attention: NFL Teams... COLLEGE IS FOR PLAYERS, NOT COACHES!
If college coaches were meant to coach in the NFL, there would be an Annual Coaches Selection Meeting, as well as the already-established Annual Players Selection Meeting. Simply put, college coaches are not meant to coach at the professional level and NFL teams need to realize this fast, before it becomes an epidemic. There is currently only one head coach in the NFL that has gone directly from coaching in college to head coach in the NFL, and that's Lane Kiffin, whom is 4-9 with the Oakland Raiders in a bad AFC West. Guys like Kiffin, Nick Saban, and Bobby Petrino are proving that college and the NFL are too different, not only for players, but for coaches as well. Are there a bunch of NFL-grown coaches who suck as well? Of course, but the only thing they're proving is that some guys are just incompetent. The college-grown ones, on the other hand, are a whole category in that group of incompetence.
3. Reggie who? Casserly's all giggidy.
Mario Williams is sure looking like a stud now, isn't he? After a slow start to his rookie season followed by a nice second-half, Williams has played quite well this season. With 9.5 sacks added to his resume, all while attracting extra attention and lining up next to another great pass-rusher in Amobi Okoye (5.5 sacks), also all while lining up in front of a terrible secondary that doesn't exactly give him a lot of time to get to the QB, Williams is proving to be the superior player of the two from the top in 2006: him and Reggie Bush, who has, in simple terms, sucked.
posted by Jonathan Sharon at Thursday, December 13, 2007
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