On occasion, I will come home from work to find my wife
peering into our open fridge, straightening up and declaring, “Its mish mosh
for dinner honey.” Which means dinner will consist of a healthy spread of left
overs and whatever is still in the fridge and while these may not be foods that
are generally served together in the traditional sense.
With so many post-season events going on consider this a
heaping helping of mish mosh, so grab a fork, snap open a beverage and enjoy
the delicious bits of football mish mash your BQB has for you.
Main Course: NFC Championship Game:
I hope you’re hungry for this one.
It’s been a week since the Rams managed to edge out the
Saints to become the 2019 NFC champs, but the excitement surrounding a
controversial no-call of blatant defensive pass interference has not simmered
down but has amplified over these last seven days. With 1 minute and 45 seconds
to go, Saints QB Drew Brees threw a touchdown to a wide open receiver. The
score would have won the Saints the NFC title, but a Rams’ defender committed
blatant pass interference and no flag was in sight. The pass was knocked from
the receiver’s hands and because of the tied score, the game would go into
overtime where the Rams went on to win it on a 57 yard field goal.
In just 7 days, two lawsuits have been filed against Roger
Goodell and the NFL. A petition has been circulating that reportedly has over
750,000 signatures to have the outcome of the Saints-Rams game changed or have
the game replayed entirely. The NFL has come out in a statement saying that the
NFC title game will not be delayed for multiple reasons, but the most valid
reason being that it would be a costly delay of the Super Bowl.
Let me say that I actually agree with the NFL on this
decision. I think that were Goodell to overturn the call or the NFL to allow the
game to be replayed, I believe he would be setting a precedent that he could
never come back from. The flood gates would be open and Chiefs’ fans would demand
a replay of their own title game and so many other fans of other games in the future.
While I do think it was a blatant missed call that should have never occurred,
I do believe that Goodell should do nothing.
He can't just overturn the outcome of the game because,
regardless of the call, they did lose the game, and they had a chance to win it
in overtime. However, if something had to be done, I think the fairest way to
do that would be to call for a replay of the entire game with the new rules in
place, bill it as "the NFC rematch" air it on the NFL network and get
75 million in ratings.
But the game did go into an overtime period, in which the
Saints had the ball at the top of the overtime period (which is more then we
can say for the Chiefs) and still didn't manage to win the game.
They had a chance to right the wrong and couldn't get it
done.
The Possible Second Helping: The Possible Saints/Chiefs Game
I heard a very interesting notion, that while Super Bowl 53
is being played, either the Chiefs travel to New Orleans, or the Saints to Kansas
City, and we will have our own “Super Bowl” and probably get more viewers than
the real Super Bowl.
Side Dish – Transfer Portal
While the transfer portal sounds like a way that head
coaches can contact college football players from other dimensions, it has
actually made what I believe to be a vast improvement upon the college football
landscape. This is probably over simplifying it, but the rule basically states
as long as you have played no more than 4 games, or you are a grad student, you
are free to transfer to a different college. Since the rule was announced,
there has been a flurry of players entering the transfer portal, most notably
Alabama QB Jalen Herts to Oklahoma and Georgia QB Justin Fields to Ohio State.
This rule allows for players of their caliber, who just might have been out
played, to go to another school in need of a QB and giving them option of
playing football instead of riding the bench for possibly the remainder of
their college football career. So, if you have ever wondered what the Oklahoma
Sooners would look like with an Alabama QB, or The Ohio State with the Georgia
QB, the transfer portal has given you the chance to find out. Who knows,
perhaps Oklahoma will face Alabama again in the playoffs, with the Alabama
product taking the snaps for OU against his former team and coach.
Dinner Role: The Latest Dual Athlete
I have been closely following the path of former Oklahoma QB
and this year’s Heisman winner Kyler Murray and where his future path might
lead him. For months now, we were all under the impression that he would play
QB at Oklahoma for one season, then, after having been selected by the Oakland
A’s in the MLB draft, he would head out to Oakland to play pro baseball. So you
can imagine my surprise when Murray declared for the NFL draft. The A’s are
still adamant that he will report to Spring Training, but soon he will have to
make a choice between the two sports, for there has been dual athletes in the
past (Bo Jackson being my personal favorite) but it is important to note that
none of those athletes were quarterbacks.
Dessert: The Pro Bowl
While in the past I may have referred to the Pro Bowl as a
“glorified pillow fight”, I do think it deserves mentioning. The offensive MVP
award was given to none other than Kansas City Chiefs’ QB Patrick Mahomes.
Mahomes led a scoring drive to start the game and then another scoring drive
two series later (that touchdown run in by Chiefs’ fullback Anthony “The
Sausage” Sherman). Mahomes took the AFC to a 14-0 lead over the NFC and the Pro
Bowl wrapped up with the AFC trampling the NFC 26-7, but frankly, the game was
not as close as the final score made it look.
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