This time of year it’s so easy to get caught up in the football season and forget what really matters. lost often times are the students who spend endless hours studying, researching, and reading. Why we don’t celebrate those people more is beyond me. It’s part of the culture to raise up athletes to a ridiculous stature and and ignore the amazing contributions that intellectual in nature. It’s too bad. We miss esteeming a lot of kids that way.

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Picks.
Lots of them. Jay Cutler has thrown 17 interceptions half way through the season, 5 against the 49ers on Thursday night alone. Now do yyou really want him back in Denver?
This the cartoon from today’s Chicago Tribune. I’ll give you a link to where they are now on they are their website as soon as I can. It’s on their sports section under the Smack header and in the archives once you’re there. Here’s the url for a Cubs cartoon I did a few weeks back. Please do me a favor and follow these urls. And feel free to leave a comment or two under the cartoon. The more page views there the better. And that goes for comments as well.

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Names

They used to be so simple. Then some clown changed his name to Ocho Cinco and now EVERYONE wants to get cute wiht the name on the jersey. I have one that J.R. can have free of charge. Lame.

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Old Noodle Arm.

Kyle Orton started his preseason with the Broncos prone to turnovers. For the first six games he appeared to be a changed man. But you can’t change a guy whose arm strength best resembles that of a pee-wee quarterback. This is the Kyle Orton that those in Chicago endured. The Josh McDaniel’s offense is designed to the dink and dunk, but you still have to have a quarterback who can threaten with throwing the ball down field. One play sticks with me from the Steelers game. Orton flushed from the pocket rolls right and gives it his all to get the ball to a wide receiver who has just finished a 10 yard out route. The ball finally made it to him on the third hop. That’s not something you can coach. That’s the difference between a good NFL quarterback and a mediocre one.

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Buzzsaw

That’s what the Broncos ran into when they met the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday night. Strange how different the Broncos have looked since the bye week. Just as we thought the Broncos have hit a pretty steep part of their schedule. Before the season began everyone guessed they wouldn’t fare well against these types of smash mouth defenses. But after the 6-0 start I think we all started drinking the Kool-aid. They’ll have a breather against the Redskins (though the way they are playing nothing is a given) and then will face a hungry Chargers team that is starting to smell blood. Orton was awful, the running game was non-existence, the defense struggled and will they please send Mitch Berger back where he came from. Clearly there’s trouble in Paradise.

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