Monday, September 21, 2009

Gryphons Get Week Off to Heal-Contemplate

The off week for Rocky Mount comes at a strange time. There is still one non-conference game to play before conference play starts. Past years the open date has provided a chance to heal and be ready for conference play.

You know this is also an adjustment year for Rocky Mount. In the past we will say four years all they had to do was show up and be ready to play and they were better than who they played. This year is not that way they are having to work for every thing they get and I don't see any team giving them any pity.

I don't think you can say at this point in the half way point in the football season that the Big East 3-A is a dominant league this year. You asked other than record how can you tell how good the league is ?. If we get four teams in the playoffs, how many survive after the first week. The last three years of the NEW-6 they had at least two teams that made it to the third round. The way it looks now the Big East will be lucky to get even two past the first round.

New stadium, same old Cowboys. They say everything is bigger in Texas and that is true for the Dallas Cowboy football Stadium. Nearly 104,000 fans saw Dallas look like Dallas with a lot of flash and in the end make too many mistakes to beat a good team.

I would have to say that Joe Flacco of the Baltimore Ravens is going to be a super star quarter back in the NFL. He can make throws that most can't. Philip Rivers showed the world yesterday that regardless of how good a defense you have the Chargers are never out of a game. Rivers throws for a career high 456 yards and was harassed all day by the Raven defense.

Just two years ago Tom Brady passed for fifty touchdowns and only seven interceptions. The best passer in the NFL Drew Brees is putting up numbers that if he keeps it up may very well break Brady's record numbers of 2007. He has tossed nine touchdowns and only one pick in two games so far this year.

It is still early but this years Arizona cardinals looks like it going to be the San Francisco Forty Niners. You know this is the NFL and after next week it will be somebody else.