Bigger upset, Utah or FSU?
Wow FSU fans must be feeling pretty bad right now to lose like that. If you haven't seen how they lost do yourself a favor and look it up. Honestly though FSU was asking for this, they have been playing it close.
I'd say Utah is the bigger upset, even if the stats say that USC had every advantage going into the game as a 6.5 point favorite. Stats don't take into account things like chaos at head coach, but sometimes that can be overcome. By the way, the last two USC interim coaches have more wins over top 5 programs than the last 2 regular head coaches. Sounds to me like the AD needs to do his damn job (not better, but period).
The FSU game was an inevitability just waiting to happen. FSU was decimating opponents during their 2013 national title season, but this year and even last year they've been winning very close games against inferior opponents and have no really impressive wins to hold up and prove any kind of domination. On the other side of the field, Georgia Tech has gotten so many bad breaks this season that people may have forgotten that they were an elite team last year and returned many of those starters, but ended up on the wrong side of most of their recent games unlike FSU. GT had a tremendous comeback against Notre Dame that just started too late, lost at Duke which currently has one of the best defenses in the country (at Duke!!!), had UNC buried before the Tarheels mounted a miracle comeback (the biggest in program history), was outmatched by a Clemson squad that is in all likelihood the best team in college football, and lost a close one to nationally ranked Pitt (who plays a very similar game to GT anyway). Sure winning on the blocked punt was exciting and very cool, but GT is a good team and it took a lucky break for them to finally prove it. They could pretty easily win their remaining games but their ACC Championship dreams have long been in tatters.
A good post
I love Gronk, he's the best. He's like a big dumb dog that's just so happy to see you even though you only left the room for a bit.
Reminder that Brady's wife makes more money than him.
It surprises me every time I read this, but Tom Brady keeps restructuring his contract to clear up cap space and lower his yearly salary (while still somehow increasing the amount of money he makes) so I guess it makes sense. NFL contracts are weird, and there are several baseball contracts worth more than any NFL contract (a travesty).
I'm not exactly sure what happened with my fantasy team: I had 3 RBs coming into the season and now my entire bench is just RBs and Josh McCown. I'm starting all 6 of the WRs on my roster and I think all of them are technically the number 1 receivers on their rosters but you wouldn't be able to guess that based on their production. Football is the worst sport ever and my team is just bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad. I didn't even know who Willie Snead was back in week 1 and now he's the Saints best receiver ahead of Brandin Cooks? I don't get it at all.
Cam Newton is playing at an MVP caliber right now. J.Stew had 2 rushing TDs against Seattle last week which were the first offensive TDs of the year for the Panthers that weren't attributed to Cam Newton in some way. He's essentially dragging the entire team behind him, playing incredibly well behind a patchwork O-line that is blocking decently enough, and better than some teams (Seahawks lol, Colts lmao) but Cam is still having to avoid some hits on his feet either scrambling behind the line or gaining yardage. He's making the most out of a receiving corps that would struggle to instill fear in the CFL, much less the NFL, and getting some great performances out of Jerricho Cotchery and Ted Ginn in particular. Funchess hasn't been playing at a great level, but then again neither have any of the other rookie wideouts not named Amari Cooper (and he's sometimes outplayed by the ancient Michael Crabtree). That said, he's catching some essential balls and working with Philly Brown to move the ball and also to draw some coverage off of Greg Olsen. Unlike some TEs that are nothing more than underpaid WRs (Jimmy Graham) Olsen is actually doing a lot of blocking this year in addition to his catching, so he deserves every ounce of praise he's getting this season. Bringing us into the game tonight, the Eagles have an astonishingly bad red zone offense under Bradford and the Panthers D will get another chance to shine. Kuechly is going to be playing unrestricted and Jared Allen will be back at DE with a chance to prove that he's still the player he was in KC and Minnesota. Shaq Thompson is out with an MCL sprain but AJ Klein, who had filled in very well for Kuechly earlier, will be taking his place. Expect Josh Norman to close off half the field for receivers. With all that said, the Panthers are not the most reliable team in prime time so I'm a little worried heading into the game tonight, but if they can get the win tonight (and the stats are on their side) then I'd expect that success to likely carry over to next week's game against the suddenly reeling Colts.
