Cowboys/Bucs

Filed under Cowboys / NFL : Comments (0) : Sep 19th, 2009

Week 1 Thoughts

Did you see Aaron Rodgers’s overthrow of Donald Driver late in the 1st quarter? He rolled right, then set up at the GB 38 and saw pressure coming straight at him, so he didn’t step into the throw at all. And the ball landed at the 2 yard line. He slings it almost all-arm, and it goes 60 yards? Wow! Now that’s an arm.

Speaking of QBs in that game… Did you notice Cutler had at least two INTs dropped and still threw four that the Packers defenders managed to hang onto.

Frightening indicator for the Cheeseheads: How do you win the turnover battle by 4 at home, and barely squeak out a 6-point win with late 4th quarter heroics?

Does either of these teams have a chance in the North against the Adrian Peterson show. AP put up 63.8% of his team’s net offense Sunday against the Browns.

And speaking of the Vikings/Browns, I tuned in to see what Brett Favre and Brady Quinn look like… and I still don’t know. As for Favre, he really didn’t have to throw much because the team had 225 rushing yards. He didn’t give me any reason to believe or disbelieve in his current level of ability. AP looked great though.
As for Quinn… he made one incredible play, rolling to his right in trouble, left his feet and slung the ball all-arm… and threw a perfect strike 30 yards on a rope. I rewound and watched it 4 or 5 times because I couldn’t believe he did it. But he didn’t do much else. He wasn’t throwing downfield except on the sidelines. That’s often a sign of a young QB who isn’t reading things well enough. On the other hand, it could have just been that the defense was taking that away. We’ll have to wait to see what Brady is.
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Filed under Cowboys / NFL : Comments (0) : Sep 17th, 2009

Test Blog

Sportsdate 9 – 13 – 2009

We are having problems on the blog, so I am posting this test blog.

T. Kirk

Filed under The Latest : Comments (0) : Sep 13th, 2009

Friday Night HighLights – 9-11-09

It is time for Friday Night Highlights again! The Pleasant Grove Hawks are opening up the season at home versus the Ashdown Panthers but the big game this Friday night is the age-old battle between the Texas High Tigers and the Arkansas High Razorbacks. We will be here all night bringing you the scores. If you went to a local game or have a score for us, feel free to add a comment below.

Updated Scores:

Texas High Tigers	24
Arkansas High Razorbacks	7
2nd

Ashdown Panthers	49
Pleasant Grove Hawks	42
Final

Gilmer	28
Liberty-Eylau Leopards	17
3rd

Filed under The Latest : Comments (0) : Sep 11th, 2009

Briar Patch Suspensions and Other NFL Ramblings

Football is here. Thank God. It’s been forever. Here are my general NFL thoughts for the week.

First off, Josh Mcdaniels, could you please tell me what you were thinking when you suspended Brandon Marshall through September 5th? I mean… The guy was such a problem that you suspended him from practicing in the summer heat, but didn’t suspend him from any games? Um… NFL players get paid after each game. So you didn’t suspend him from anything pay-related. You suspended from the hard-working part, but you let him come back for the fun part and the paycheck part. Uh… What??

And Mangini was absolutely right to keep his QB decision to himself as long as he could. Why give the Vikings the advantage of knowing which QB to prepare for. Make them waste their practice time preparing and game planning for both.

Nice game at Heinz Field Thursday night. The Titans ran the ball and stopped the run, and they won the turnover battle (though really the turnover battle was even since one of the Steelers’ turnovers was an intercepted Hail Mary at the end of the half), and still lost the game. Two missed FGs (though one of them was blocked) were responsible.

Should be some fun matchups Sunday: I’m really looking forward to the Miami/Atl game. Both teams really seemed to start turning it around last year, and I’d love to see both teams continue that. But it’ll be tough to watch that game with the Jags playing at Indy, and Dallas playing at TB in the same time slot. And who can resist the temptation to watch the 94-year old future hall-of-famer slingin’ it around for the Vikings. And if he plays as well as he did last year, then you have to realize that the Vikes have an outstanding running game, they play very good run-D, and the stop the pass well too. That’s a well-rounded team if Brett Favre is still a real NFL QB.

Then for the late game you’ve got the Skins and G-men. That could be great or terrible depending on what Jim Zorn is doing there. And it might be nice to see if Mike Singletary is strong enough to overcome Niners management and field a real football team against the defending NFC champs in the Dome of the Desert. Honestly, I doubt anybody’s strong enough to win with that organization.

Scott Campisi

Filed under Cowboys / NFL : Comments (0) : Sep 11th, 2009

Friday Night Scoreboard

Filed under The Latest : Comments (0) : Sep 4th, 2009

High School Football is Back!!

Friday night football finally returns to the ark-la-tex tonight and we will once again have all the scores here live. Check back tonight as the action gets rolling, or post a comment and let us know what you saw happen if you go to one of the games.