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Another week is in the books and it’s time for another edition of the Monday Morning Quarterback, where we give you 4 talking points regarding the previous weekend’s football action.
1.) Bret Favre – Over the course of the past two weeks, Minnesota Vikings’ 39-year old quarterback Bret Favre has shown he still has the ability to play professional football on an elite level. Last week, Favre engineered a last minute, come from behind touchdown drive. Tonight, Favre faced his former team, the Green Bay Packers, for the first time and threw three touchdown passes. If you haven’t followed the story from the beginning, Favre had a ton of success in a long career with the Packers, but prior to last season, the Packers decided Favre, at the age of 37, was too old for their system, so they cut ties. You have to think that Favre had just a little motivation to come out and show his former team exactly what they were missing.
2.) Manning Brothers – Four weeks into the NFL season and five undefeated teams remain, but the Indianapolis Colts and the New York Giants seem to be a step ahead of the rest of the league. While question marks surround the other three undefeated teams, the Giants and Colts seem to be pretty solid, in spite of some key injuries. The teams share more than just records; they also share a bloodline, quarterbacked by the Manning brothers (Eli with the Giants and Peyton with the Colts). Even more intriguing is the prospect of the two teams facing each other in the Super Bowl, which at this point is a very real possibility.
3.) Alabama – While the NFL has two teams separating from the pack, a triumvirate of teams head up the college football world. The national media outlets have covered the exploits of Texas and Florida extensively, mainly because of their Heisman candidate quarterbacks. Lost in the shuffle have been the Alabama Crimson Tide, currently ranked #3 in the nation. All three teams have looked really impressive in all of their games this season, but it appears that the Crimson Tide, led by junior linebacker Rolando McClain, are a bit better defensively and as the old adage goes, “offense wins games; defense wins championships.”
4.) NFL Overtime Policy – The NFL has a vastly different way of dealing with tie ball games at the end of regulation than college or high school football. Currently, the NFL has a “sudden death” policy, where the first team that scores wins. Critics claim that this policy is unfair to the team on defense first. Additionally, if no team scores at the end of the 15 minute overtime period, the game ends in a tie. Many would like to see the NFL adopt an overtime policy similar to the NCAA. In the NCAA, each teams gets the ball at the opponents 25 yard line. The game ends when one team outscores the other in an overtime period–each team has the opportunity to score and there is no possibility for the game to end in a tie.