How Times Have Changed

Watching the NFL pre game show yesterday there was a segment on  the Carolina Panthers were on their buses going from the hotel to Tampa Stadium  and several players were twitting pictures and recording  messages.  What a different world we live in.

During my youth you were told that once school ended on Friday you needed to get your game face on.  If we were playing and away game and the bus was leaving at say 4:30 you better be on the bus at 4:15 with your mouth shut.  The entire ride the only noise was coaches talking among themselves about preparations for the game.  Afterwards if we lost there had better not be any noise coming home.  If we won you could make all the noise you wanted.  We have so many modern conveniences that make our life better but I don't know if they actually do

Hello NFL meet Todd Gurley.  All preseason the Rams head coach preached that they we going to be sure Todd Gurley was completely healthy before they placed him in a game.  Last week Gurley got his first taste on six carries he ran for 9 yards a very unimpressive 1.5 yards per carry.. Half time on Sunday against maybe the best defense in football Gurley had four carries for two yards.  That's 10 carries for 11 yards on the year.

You know they play 60 minutes in the NFL and the second 30 minutes belonged to Todd Gurley.  He got 15 carries in the second half and ran for 144.  One went for 52 yards which was on the drive in which St Louis won the game.  Two games and one one hundred yard game.

You all know my favorite player in the NFL is Philip Rivers.  Four games into the NFL season the Chargers have already started nine different linemen and yesterday the Chargers had two wide receivers in which the second and third string tight ends had to move to wide receivers for the chargers to finish the game.  All Rivers did is torch Cleveland for 358 yards and three touchdowns

Saturday Carolina won their game at Georgia Tech by coming back from 21 points behind which is their biggest comeback in history..  As Carolina was running out the clock they kept running their quarterback.  They have one of the best running backs in the league and yet they risk their quarterback to injury late in the game.  Sometimes I think coaches do too much coaching and not enough let's just play.

Duke wins a game without scoring a touchdown and Boston College does and loses, go figure.  Duke's  D is good.  Their offense is not.

ECU did a good job of not living off a great win a week ago and turn around and lose the next week.  SMU is pretty good.

Wake proved yesterday they are not going to be a push over to anybody.  FSU is going to have a hard time winning the ACC this year.

NC State found out that beating four patsies was not enough to get them prepared for the rigors of conference play..  Once they got use to the level that any team needs to win in D 1 football they got the game under control but already put themselves in a hole that they never played their way out of.