5 Points on My Mind

1. Take the Conference Labels of Bowl Games: I understand the Bowl Committee wants the best Bowl Matchup possible, but I don't their getting them 100%. I also understand that the Bowls are also presented to draw as much money as they can. Here's a question: wouldn't Ron Zook and Illinois vs his former team, The Florida Gators, be a monney draw? I believe it would be. I personally would take time to sit down and watch. I agree with Mark Schlabach of ESPN.com in his matchups. I would love to see #4 Stanford vs #5 Wisconsin. Boise St. Vs Ohio St??? Love it. Let's see how Boise St. stacks up against a powerhouse from the Big Ten. I would differ with Oklahoma. I would rather see them up against ACC Champions Virgina Tech. Please can't we do away with the conference labels? No more BCS bids for certain conferences! I'm not a UConn hater, but do they really deserve a BCS game? I guess we will see. I'm not voicing for a playoff because I am a more traditional kind of guy. All I want is to see better matchups and the matchups everyone else wants to see.

2. Werth but not Crawford???- I got a question for all my readers: How does Jason Werth get 7 years, $126 million and Carl Crawford can't? Let's take at each of their stats the past 4 years:

Crawford
2007- .315 11 HR 80 RBI's .466 SLUG%
2008- .273 8 HR 57 RBI's .400 SLUG%
2009- .305 15 HR 68 RBI's .452 SLUG%
2010- .307 19 HR 90 RBI's .495 SLUG%
Werth
2007- .298 8 HR 49 RBI's .459 SLUG%
2008- .273 24 HR 68 RBI's .498 SLUG%
2009- .268 36 HR 99 RBI's .506 SLUG%
2010- .296 27 HR 85 RBI's .532 SLUG%

Besides from the slugging percentage, the stats are very comparible. Crawford is also 2 years younger then Werth. I asked Marc Topkin who cover the Rays for the St. Petersburg times via twitter, How has Werth signed and not Crawford? He replied "Crawford has # of teams interested so talks needed, Werth got too-good-to-refuse offer"- Marc Topkin. Please MLB clubs, look at what your doing before you do it. With Crawford you get a younger player with stats that are up to par with Werth's. For updates on Crawford'ss or any other Ray's News be sure to check out a very good Columnist- Marc Topkin at http://www.tampabay.com/writers/marc-topkin

3. What are the Refs doing?- It's all good trying to make the league a safer place for players' but if your going to do that please atleast get the calls right. This past Sunday I was flipping back-and-forth between the Jaguars-Titans game on CBS and NFL Redzone on Comcast and I noticed they showed the Detroit Lions being penalized for Suh supposedly using his forarm to nail Bear's Quarterback Jay Cutler. Then they showed a instant replayed that clearly showed Suh NEVER used his forarms, but just shoved Cutler, hands only. That isn't even what had me upset. Later on Sunday night I'm watching one of the best SNF ever between the Ravens and Steelers. Then I see McClain crush Heath Miller with an obvious hit that put Miller out of the game. The league aleady said that there should have been a flag on the play. I realize the no ones perfect and it's hard for the refs to see, let alone, make every single right call, but if your going to make the league more safer for the players you have to think of one word-"Consistency". The main focus should be keeping these players safe while still entertaining the fans. I do want to congradulate the league officials and refs for doing a great job of cracking down on injuries, mainly concussions. Players avg career lengths are shortening due to these nagging injuries. Let's make it where the lengths of careers will get longer.

3.Should the Vikings Start thinking about Next Year?- I can't lie I'm one of those fans who thinks Brett Favre should have called it quit after his years with the Packers. Then he proved me wrong last season with one of the best seasons of his career. Now I am 100% sure that it is time for him to call it a career. I believe that the Viking need to begin thinking about next season. Randy Moss coming back and that was a wash. Now that Sidney Rice is back the Vikings seem to be hitting a stride. They have a great running back in Adrian Peterson. I believe Toby Gerhart is a decent backup to Adrian Peterson. It won't be fixed until Brett calls it quits and they bring in a QB for the future. I hope new Vikings coach Leslie Frazier sees this and looks into the draft to fill this need. Andrew Luck or even Ryan Mallet could be the answer. If there not, It's worth a try ain't it? I don't think Tavaris Jackson is the answer. Don't tank the season either. Play like your going to the playoff to get the chemistry ready for next season. Take the draft pick you are given and work out the QB situation. Don't try and sign or trade for old veterans. Get Mallet or Luck to have a guy to get Percy Harvin and Sidney Rice the ball. Just start where you need to start and work from there.

4. No to 18 Schedule- Let me star off by repeating myself-Players careers are already short, DON'T MAKE THEM SHORTER!!! Why add 2 games to the Season? Players are already getting hurt on the regular, let's not make it more chances for them to get hurt. I like 16 games as is. Us fans do not need a year round schedule like baseball, it's just fine the way it is. The old say,"if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Can we please keep it that way? And for saleries. It's already hard enough for some teams to sign players, now the players are goning to want more money, money, money. Please NFL don't change it.

Now I'm going to babble on some random things:

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