It's been a couple of weeks so I figure it's time to catch up.
As a Husker alum, have to start with the Northwestern game from last week. It's Wednesday but I want to go back to Saturday and probably one of the few times I've ever really felt dirty after a win.
It's not so much that they played terrible - they didn't. Overall, they played a very good game. But it's the same mistakes, being made over and over again that drive me crazy. Those self-inflicted errors are hanging like a demon over this program. The team has lost in the turnover margin in the last few games, and yet they won two of the three.
As far as the rest of the season goes, I know Husker fans want Bo Pelini fired, but the fact of the matter is that is extremely unlikely to happen. Even if they lose to Michigan but win the rest of the games, that is 9-3 with losses to all decent to good teams. If they go 9-3 they will have only lost to UCLA, Ohio State and Michigan, none of whom are slouch teams. There were years in the 1970s where Nebraska had losses to worse teams than the UCLA loss this year. They lost to Iowa State twice in 1976 and 1977.
As far as who is No. 2 behind Alabama, I am voting for Florida. The reason being, because of the schedule. Oregon is a good team but has yet to play the tougher teams on their schedule. Florida has already played at Texas A&M, at Tennessee, at home against LSU and they destroyed South Carolina. I like the Ducks but they have yet to play Stanford, USC or even Oregon State.
Memo to those who were spewing vile accusations at Aaron Rodgers about how he wasn't the same quarterback he was: Don't Poke the Bear.
As a Texans fan I can vouch for this first hand after he shredded the Texans defense a week ago. The Texans rebounded to clobber Baltimore but I still have visions of an angry Aaron Rodgers picking Houston apart. You can only poke a bear with a stick so many times before he snaps and eats you alive.
I thought it was hilarious that players on the New York Giants defense, in the wake of facing Robert Griffin III for the first time, are now calling him Sir Robert Griffin. One, in particular, is Osi Umenyiora. This was the same guy who was calling him Bob Griffin prior to the season.
The Giants pulled out a late victory but RGIII made a lasting impression. Fact is, no one in that division has had to worry about who is playing quarterback in D.C. for 20 years. Can you imagine what's going to happen when they get better playmakers on that offense?
As far as the World Series goes, Pablo Sandoval already has three home runs as I type this. The San Francisco Giants...you can't kill them. The Cincinnati Reds didn't and the St. Louis Cardinals didn't...and as some people I'm close to know, I don't think the Detroit Tigers can kill them either. My prediction, before tonight's game was and still is Giants in six.
Until next time....
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