Timing Is Everything

Another big week of Big East Football is up and coming on Friday night.  Now with a victory under their belt Nash Central is faced with the daunting task of having to win twice against two teams ahead of them in the standings.  Friday the Bulldogs Host Hunt and in the last week of the season they face Southern Nash. 

I have heard but have not been able to get an answer that there was a fight in the Hunt- Southern game with a couple of players tossed out for both teams.  If so those players will have to sit two weeks.  Don't know whether Nash Central can win either game but if a couple of starters are missing from either Hunt or Southern and Nash Central plays both in the next two weeks then they can't ask for a better gift since they need to win both games this really helps their chances.

If players were tossed then Rocky Mount is the other team that can benefit from Southern being short a player or  two.  Like the Bulldogs Rocky Mount needs one more win to secure for sure a playoff spot but there is still a chance for maybe a four way tie or three way tie for first.  A loss in the next two games would kill any chance they have left of working their way into a tie for first..

Last night I probably have never been down in the dumps about a football game any more than after the Bronco's -Chargers game Monday night.  Philip River and the Charger played about as sorry of a second half as you could ask for.  If there is one thing Philip has never had is foot speed so he needs protection in order to stay in the pocket.  If you recall last year the first 11 games were so so for Philip and then they traded and picked up a left tackle who gave up only one sack the last five games and Philip had the best QB rating in football during those last five games.  

You hear all the time about how professional sports is so mental that you have to have great coaching.  Pro basketball is simple the team with the most good players win and in football the team that protects their qb and sacks the others teams win.

Now that N C State has been chosen as the team to beat in the ACC basketball race it will be interesting to see how they play as the hunted instead of the hunter. The ACC coaches picked the Pack to finish first this season and that is the first time the Pack has been the preseason favorite since 1974.  I am looking for good things but my bottom line is when the year is over I want the Pack to finish the year with only single digit losses. I am tire of these 16-12 and 24-12 seasons.  It's time for a 27-8 type season.  If that happens look out next year.