Jay Roosevelt

My top-25: 01. Ohio State 02. Penn State 03. Oregon 04. Georgia 05. LSU 06. Miami 07. Texas 08. Notre Dame 09. South Carolina 10. Florida State 11. Illinois 12. Oklahoma 13. Tennessee 14. Clemson 15. South Florida 16. Iowa State 17. Alabama 18. Auburn 19. Texas A&M 20. Ole Miss 21. Michigan 22. Tulane 23. TCU 24. Navy 25. Arizona State

The league has figured out Mike McDaniel's offense. I doubt he lasts the season.

If he wanted out, fine. But he needed to let us know that in February or March, not halfway through training camp. At that point, if I'm Dan Morgan, my answer is "tough poo" unless the Vikings give us an offer I can't turn down.

Plenty of QBs have had draft capital spent on them and still been bad. Remember Joey Harrington? The Lions drafted 3 WRs back-to-back-to-back in the 1st round trying to make that pick work. I'm not arguing that Bryce hasn't been bad, but to say he's the worst EVER? That covers a LOT of ground.

If I have to watch another game with Xavier Legette as a starting WR... Just an absolutely garbage football player. Pretty much the posterchild for when drafting athletes over football players goes bad.

Get Austin Corbett out of there. If he can't snap the ball OR block, what good is he? It's not like we don't have two other players who have shown they're capable of playing center. Speaking of Brady Christensen, why the hell was he not starting at LT? Nijman should be a last resort, not the first man up.

I honestly don't think so, it's just that the damage he did during the Rhule/Reich years was so bad it's continued to linger. Not to mention he never really made a totally clean break from Scott Fitterer when he hired Dan Morgan. Also, trading up to #1 for a QB that hasn't panned out is going to set your franchise back a few years regardless.

Let's not get too crazy here. There have been some pretty God awful QBs in NFL history that Bryce - even at his worst - is far better than. He at least has managed a handful of wins and some decent performances, like last year against the Chiefs, Eagles and Falcons. Just off the top of my head: JaMarcus Russell, Paxton Lynch, Ryan Leaf, Akili Smith, Johnny Manziel and that's just a handful of 1st rounders off the top of my head that were, at worst, no better than Bryce.

In all honestly, as a Bryce supporter from the start it's pretty clear he's probably not the answer at this point. I wouldn't be shocked if he turned it around this year, but odds are we'll be looking for a new QB come draft season. That said, anyone calling for Bryce to be benched is wrong. We MUST have one of two outcomes to this season for this franchise to move ahead: 1) Bryce turns it around and establishes himself as a franchise QB. 2) Bryce continues to struggle, we lose a bunch of games and end up with a top-5 pick that we can use to draft a QB next year. Anything in between those two outcomes doesn't do us much good.

I mean most of these press conferences by losing coaches sound the same. They made more plays, missed opportunities, gotta get off the field on 3rd down, etc.

Ah, I gotcha.

I think we may be thinking of different things. The play I'm talking about was on Hunter's 1st quarter catch.

In all honesty, I'm not ready to panic after this game. Unlike last year's season opener there were some positives, particularly TMac. 1. The defense is horrible, but we knew that going in. Still, it's time to put the Evero era out of its misery. 2. I still think it was a mistake to trade Adam Thielen; with Coker hurt we now have no reliable WR after TMac. XL couldn't crack the starting lineup in the UFL and Renfrow doesn't look ready to get significant snaps. 3. Austin Corbett was awful, which is weird because I don't recall bad snaps being an issue with him last year. Was it a one-game issue or something bigger? 4. Bryce... well it's not looking good. But when XL is one of your starting WRs and the center is snapping the ball 5 feet to your right every other play that can't help. But this is year 3; no more excuses. A former #1 overall pick has to overcome this stuff. 5. I still can't fathom how we didn't do more to upgrade the linebacker position this offseason. Rozeboom is as bad as I feared and Wallace isn't much better despite being a better athlete.

Did anyone else see the FOX halftime crew making fun of our soft zone coverage on Travis Hunter? Evero needs to go.

Been saying this for a year now. He's awful. Not sure he could be a starter in the UFL. Only saving grace is we found Coker as an UDFA.

Xavier Legette is an awful, awful football player.

What is up with Corbett's snaps?

I can see 9-10 wins if things go well for us. I can also see the whole thing collapsing and we end up with a top-3 pick next year. Gun to my head, I'll predict 7 wins.

I was bored at work today so I typed up my ideas for CFB realignment: D1 college football would be split into 2 tiers of 5 conferences each: Power 5 (P5) and Group of 5 (G5) conferences. To bring the total number of FBS teams to an even 140, the following FCS teams would make the moved up into the G5 tier: North Dakota State, South Dakota State, Montana State and Sacramento State. The P5 tier would consist of 50 teams with 10 teams per conference. Every team would play every other team in it's conference every year. There would be no conference championship games in P5 tier since teams will play each other during the season to provide the head-to-head tie breaker. The G5 tier would consist of 90 teams in 5 conferences of 18 teams split into 2 divisions. Teams would play every team in their division every year along with teams from the other division on a rotating schedule. G5 conference championship games would be held the week following the Army-Navy game between the two division winners from each G5 conference. In the event that Army and Navy are the two division winners in the American conference, the Army-Navy game itself would decide the conference championship. P5 tier would retain the current 12-team playoff structure and seeding rules with the existing Bowl Game rotation remaining in place. G5 tier would use a 16-team playoff with conference champions guaranteed the top-5 seeds + homefield advantage in the 1st round. Seeds 6-16 would be decided by national rankings. Homefield advantage would be decided by seeding in the 2nd round with the G5 National Championship held at a neutral site. There would be a promotion/relegation system in place. Each P5 conference would have a satellite conference in the G5 as follows: - ACC/American - Big 10/MAC - PAC/MWC - SEC/Sun Belt - SWC/C-USA Every 5 years the team in each P5 conference with the worst W-L record over the previous 5 seasons would be relegated to their conference's G5 satellite. Likewise, the team with the best W-L record during the previous 5 seasons will be moved up into the P5. Any other movement of teams between conferences would be subject to approval by the CFB Competition Committee and teams are only permitted to switch conferences once every 10 years. The Walter Camp Award will be awarded to the best player in P5 tier. The Maxwell Award will serve as the G5's equivalent award. The Heisman Trophy will be awarded to the best player in the nation, regardless of conference or tier. POWER 5 CONFERENCES: ACC: Clemson Duke Florida State Miami N.C. State North Carolina Pittsburgh South Carolina Virginia Tech West Virginia BIG 10: Illinois Indiana Iowa Michigan Michigan State Nebraska Notre Dame Ohio State Penn State Wisconsin PAC-10: Boise State BYU California Colorado Oregon Stanford UCLA USC Utah Washington SEC: Alabama Arkansas Auburn Florida Georgia Kentucky LSU Mississippi State Ole Miss Tennessee SWC: Arizona Arizona State Kansas State Missouri Oklahoma Oklahoma State SMU TCU Texas Texas A&M GROUP OF 5 CONFERENCES: AMERICAN: NORTH DIVISION: Army Boston College Connecticut Delaware Maryland Massachusetts Rutgers Syracuse Temple SOUTH DIVISION: Charlotte East Carolina James Madison Liberty Louisville Navy Old Dominion Virginia Wake Forest MAC: EAST DIVISION: Akron Bowling Green Buffalo Cincinnati Eastern Michigan Kent State Marshall Miami of Ohio Ohio WEST DIVISION: Ball State Central Michigan Iowa State Minnesota Northern Illinois Northwestern Purdue Toledo Western Michigan MWC: EAST DIVISION: Air Force Colorado State Montana State North Dakota State South Dakota State Tulsa UNLV Utah State UTEP WEST DIVISION: Fresno State Hawaii Nevada Oregon State Sacramento State San Diego State San Jose State Washington State Wyoming SUN BELT: EAST DIVISION: Appalachian State Coastal Carolina FAU FIU Georgia Southern Georgia Tech Kennesaw State UCF USF WEST DIVISION: Jacksonville State Middle Tennessee State South Alabama Southern Miss Troy Tulane UAB Vanderbilt Western Kentucky C-USA: EAST DIVISION: Arkansas State Houston Louisiana Louisiana Monroe Louisiana Tech Memphis Missouri State Rice Sam Houston State WEST DIVISION: Baylor Kansas New Mexico New Mexico State North Texas Texas State Texas Tech UTEP UTSA

No reason to rush Ickey out there. Start Christensen until Ickey is ready.

That's disgusting.

I'm sure the Princely and Scourton will get plenty of reps from the start, but I do wonder what they're thinking starting Nick Scott at safety. I get that Ransom is a rookie, but he can't possibly be worse than Nick Scott.

Our S&C staff has to be the worst in the NFL. How are ALL our best players always hurt?

I'm legitimately curious what the thought process is starting A'Shawn Robinson over Bobby Brown. Also, did Ian Thomas send all his incriminating photos of the coaching staff to Nick Scott before he left town?

Alabama has no business being ranked. My top-25: 01. Ohio State 02. Penn State 03. Georgia 04. LSU 05. Texas 06. Miami 07. Clemson 08. Oregon 09. Notre Dame 10. Michigan 11. Illinois 12. South Carolina 13. Florida State 14. Arizona State 15. Tennessee 16. Florida 17. Iowa State 18. SMU 19. Texas A&M 20. Ole Miss 21. Oklahoma 22. Tulane 23. TCU 24. USF 25. Navy