Minnesota Vikings

The team that almost went to the Super Bowl a year ago, is 3-6. Let's repeat that shall we, the team that almost went to the Super Bowl, marching down the field to go to the Super Bowl, hasn't been the same since that interception was thrown by Favre is 3-6 and not going anywhere. That's right, Stick a Fork in the Minnesota Vikings, cause they are Done! The Vikes have had a lot of injuries this year, Griffin is out, Rice has been out all year, Berrian makes makes more money than my family and extended family will make in lifetime in just 6 years. I wish he would have stayed a Bear, because he has been worthless in the last 2 seasons. Then there was Randy Moss that returned to help the Vikes and Childress dumped him in like 4 weeks. He would have helped today, you know why, because the Vikings had a bunch of backup WR's running around with Percy Harvin until he got hurt. THANK YOU BRAD CHILDRESS FOR ALL THE MEMORIES. Not just this season, lets go back before Favre shall we. Your buddy ol' pal T-Jack. Boy he was great draft pick. T-Jack would look awesome one week and look like Rex Grossman the next. Childress hasn't done a thing since he took over the Vikes. Favre did that last season, that wasn't Childress, that was a hall of fame QB leading a team. I think its time for Childress to be let go of his duties. the Vikes have had some injuries, but it shouldn't be this bad. This season hasn't helped the Viking Organization either on trying to get a new stadium, pretty sure a Super Bowl Contending team would have been good idea.
Then there is Favre. The guy can play, he has had some great comebacks and great games with the Vikes. His highest career passing game is with the Vikes, not the Packers. But in the end, Favre will either be in my nightmares throwing TD's in a Packer uniform or turning the ball over in a Vikes uniform. He will always be a Packer, but I will always get the satisfaction of him a year ago lighting the Packers up in a Vikings uniform, gotta love it, I hope I see it again next weekend.

State of Iowa Hawkeye Football on Nov. 14, 2010

So on November 14, 2010 the Iowa Hawkeye Football team is 7-3 with a one loss Ohio State Buckeye team coming to Iowa City this Saturday. The Iowa Hawkeyes came into the 2010 season as a favorite to with the Big Ten title along with Ohio State. This game was glowing on the schedule back in August, but a lot has happened since August to the Black and Gold. Back in August we didn't know how all the running backs were going to get enough touches with Robinson and Wegher returning after stellar performances last year and Jewell Hampton returning as well off of a injury. Wegher decided to do other things, Hampton got hurt versus Arizona and Robinson has been carrying the load all year with some help from Marcus Coker. The Iowa Hawkeyes laid an egg in the first half versus Arizona and almost fought back and won, but came up short. The Hawkeyes then lost to Wisconsin after Wisconsin knocked off then #1 Ohio State, but the Badgers were to tough and down-right physical for Iowa. The offensive line of Wisconsin owned the so called top rated defensive line of the Hawkeyes. Iowa then some how absolutely destroyed Michigan State the next week, but barely survived in Bloomington, Indiana. The Hawkeyes then went on to Northwestern, a team that has beaten Iowa quite a bit of late, and yet the Iowa Hawkeyes continued to struggle against the same spread that Northwestern has been running for the past 10 years.
This Iowa Hawkeye football team has so much talent, and lost some very good football players from last years team that are now playing on Sundays. The defensive line was suppose to be the strength for the Hawkeyes this year lead by Adrian Clayborn. The defensive line has been average at best. Not sure if they read too many preseason magazines about how great they are or what, but I haven't seen all the sacks and pure domination that I witnessed a year ago. I started to believe that it was the linebackers we had a year ago, by them being gone, and was making the defensive line not look as good. But this past saturday, I saw Persa getting 9 seconds at times to make a throw, and of course their was always a wide open WR at the sideline and with a defender 10 yards away. The Iowa defense was known for 6 seconds of hell, right now its 6 seconds of do what ever you want. Its not brain surgery of what Northwestern wants to do, I have been seeing them do the same thing over and over for years, yet Iowa doesn't do anything to fix it. The bend but don't break defense works in most situations, but when you are giving WR's with 10 yard cushions, they are going to catch the ball every time. When WR's are running crossing routes, LB's are not going to be able to run with them, they are LB's, not CB's.
The thing that has disappointed me a lot this year as well, is we have never had the talent we have at the WR position, yet we don't use them enough or have any strategic game plan to expose the opponents secondary. Iowa could have passed all day on Wisconsin secondary, but they didn't. Keenan Davis was a big-time WR recruit out of Cedar Rapids, and is in his second year, and hasn't made the impact that I thought he would have. The last stud WR to come out of Cedar Rapids chose Michigan over Iowa at the time, and now I know why, because he was used and progressed quickly there. What I don't get, is its the same WR coach that Arrington had at Michigan that Davis has at Iowa. The Iowa offense should be more explosive, but maybe we are so conservative, that it is what it is.
I believe for the Iowa Hawkeyes to not have a dissappointing season or underachieving season, they need to beat Ohio State this Saturday in Kinnick. Kinnick stadium was a nightmare for teams back in 2002-2005 runs. Wisconsin came in and won in Kinnick this year, but Iowa has been playing much better at home. Iowa has nothing to lose at this point, the Big Ten title is out of reach this year, might as well mess it up and take the giant of the Big Ten with you. Ohio State is very beatable, and frankly I'm just sick and tired of hearing about how good they are. Its time for this Hawkeye team, to step it up a notch, be the team we all thought they would be, and take THE Ohio State Buckeyes out!