<p>Even Sundays NFL programs are talking about this game and Saban. </p>
<p>Time for Saban to bolt College football and come back to NFL. I am sure many teams would love to have him. Like Da Bears or Redskin or Falcons.</p>
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<p>Well, check how many games show poor kickers. Look at Stanford loss at USC. And the saga with Hedary on the other side. </p>
<p>Next to Saban, Mack Brown is a masterful recruiter. Yet he had to poach the kicker from PSU. All in all, the combination of accuracy and distance is not that easy to find.</p>
<p>I got the Youtube video in post #561 from the official Auburn Athletics website. CC moderators may delete video if they wish. I didn’t notice stuff at finish before…I didn’t put it there!</p>
<p>It appears that if there was a playoff system for the national championship this year that Alabama and Auburn could play for the national championship.</p>
<p>Who’d’ve thought Jacksonville-Cleveland would be such an exciting game?</p>
<p>Thought for sure Minnesota would blow that game after getting that first FG taken off because of a penalty and missing the re-kick… I can’t complain because it let AD get over 200 yards, which scores me a 5 point fantasy bonus!</p>
<p>Note to the Patriots: please learn to score in the first half and not wait until the last minute to win the game. My blood pressure thanks you.</p>
<p>Viking almost pull the same kick return which Auburn did. Bears lost and Coach was damn wrong on play calls to let Gould kick the FG when have more downs to move the ball down the field plus in OT choose to take the ball instead of giving to Vikings. </p>
<p>Football is getting Crazier this year</p>
<p>Yes we like to see Auburn and Alabama in BCS championship game.</p>
<p>Good that it will not happen short of the typical shenanigans of the utterly biased voters. Auburn extremely lucky win against Bama is nice but it’s schedule cannot offset the record of no-loss teams. </p>
<p>It time to stop the SEC being a mulligan conference where the teams are slotted too highly in preseason and allowed a one loss against an over-ranked opponent. </p>
<p>Of course, the bias and SE cronyism of voters is not about to stop anytime soon.</p>
<p>They’re not only loud, they’re bouncy.
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<p>I think the Seahawks have earned or are about to earn home field advantage during the playoffs. Having home field fans will mean a lot more to the Seahawks than most other teams because of the damage the fans can do to visiting teams.</p>
<p>Is it time to start thinking of Russell Wilson in the top echelon of NFL quarterbacks? Up there with Rodgers, Brady, PManning, Brees?</p>
<p>I’m completely sold on Wilson. I guess the one “knock” is that he has such a good team around him that you don’t know what he’d be having to prop up a pending disaster the way Rodgers and Brady are. But that’s not much of a knock. And he has plenty of in-the-fire moments in only two years.</p>
<p>So it looks like my options for Thursday night TV are:</p>
<p>The Jacksonville (3-9) - Houston (2-10) battle for Worst Team in the AFC; or
The Sound of Music, starring Carrie Underwood.</p>
<p>I think the Sound of Music is looking pretty good at this point… :D</p>
<p>Pittsburg’s Mike Tomlin was fined $100,000 for stepping in the field when the opposing team player was running the ball down his sideline. I am glad he was fined so much. What a jerk.</p>
<p>Florida prosecutors say they will announce Thursday whether Florida’s quarterback will be prosecuted for rape. Winston is already the ACC player of the year. If he can’t play, Florida State will be hurting big time.</p>
<p>I don’t think Tomlin deliberately interfered, although he did deserve to be fined.</p>
<p>Did he get a penalty called against him? I don’t remember; it probably should have been an unsportsmanlike conduct.</p>
<p>And the ref responsible for keeping that area clear is going to take a hit in his grades this week, because he was in that area all game long.</p>
<p>Of course Tomlin said it was not intentional but if you look at the video it shows him moving towards the field for no reason at all. The runner has already started and Tomlin is looking at the big screen above and then he moved towards the field even though he could have stayed in his existing position and still seen the big screen and not been in anyone else’s way. </p>
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<p>I don’t care what Tomlin’s intent was. The real problem is the officials didn’t award a TD. They had the power to do so and that was the obvious call. The officials blew what should have been an easy call. </p>
<p>But this year I have to say the officiating has been worse. It’s like the more they try to clarify the rules, the worse the officials have become at applying the rules. A simple example is that in the past illegal contact and interference were called relatively consistently through the year and then with a slightly different standard in the playoffs. Now it varies tremendously game to game and sometimes half to half. Don’t understand the lack of consistency.</p>
<p>And things like not stopping play when the down markers say 1st but it’s 3rd down and the chains have been moved. That is a junior high school level error.</p>
<p>Same with the Jones return. He was running clear down the field and the coach got in the way. It should have been an easy call: touchdown! Then no one would care about Tomlin’s motives because the punishment would have been rendered in the game properly.</p>
<p>^^^^Do the referees in that instance even have the authority to call a touchdown? Even a blatant pass interference doesn’t result in automatic touchdown. I thought I read that the appropriate penalty under the rules is unsportmanslike conduct.</p>
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<p>Hawks fans are getting a little crazy.</p>
<p>The Barry Ackerley for our time 
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<p>There are, apparently, three cases where you can award a TD. One is interference by a non-player. Regular interference is, of course, an on field issue. Tomlin’s act was an off field issue that affected the game.</p>
<p>Jameis Innocence
[Jameis</a> Winston not charged after sexual assault investigation - ESPN](<a href=“http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/10082441/jameis-winston-not-charged-sexual-assault-investigation]Jameis”>Jameis Winston not charged after sexual assault investigation - ESPN)</p>