Randy Moss: Tell Them How You Really Feel

In what will likely go down as the most entertaining postgame press conference this season, Patriots receiver Randy Moss spoke at length -- for nearly 14 minutes, sometimes philosophically, sometimes contentiously -- about his contract situation and his current frame of mind after the Patriots' 38-24 victory. Here are the opening comments in full from Moss, who did not speak to the media during training camp. This also includes a partial Q&A after he completed his statement; the full Q&A will be posted shortly:

Randy Moss: "We're not going to wait on everybody, but before I get to questions, man, I'd like to say something. You know, I've been here for three years, this is my fourth season. And I understand the business, the nature, and I understand you all have a job to do.

"When it comes to football, I take my job seriously, as I've said time and time again. And I think there's . . . I don't really want to say here in the organization, but I think here in the area, I think here in the New England area a lot of people don't want to see me do good. The reason why, I really don't know, I really don't care. But I just want to let you all know, you are the ones doing all the writing, you have the pad and ink, and I don't have anything. Anything that I may say will get blown out of proportion. I think earlier in the week I got asked a question about me being here and being unhappy. And me being unhappy doesn't have nothing to do with me toning my game down. I'm here, and I understand my role. My role is to take the ball deep and take the top off the defense. And I think earlier in the we

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My 20 Guarantees for the 2010 – 2011 NFL Season

Every year the NFL off season and pre season bring many teams hope. Usually that hope is usually smashed for all but one team at the end of the season. Too many people make guarantees and players eventually buy into those guarantees and start making guarantees themselves. I hear player after player and organization after organization make promises to their teams and fans that they should know have no possibilities of delivering on.

Well today I am going to go ahead and crush the dreams of most of the teams and players in the league. I am about 90% confident in what I am about to say. If you disagree please let it be known. I have big shoulders, I can take it.

The List:

1. The New York Jets will not win the Super Bowl, in fact they will be a wild card team lucky to advance to the second round of the playoffs.
2. The Dallas Cowboys will not be the first team to host a Super Bowl and play in it too. They aren’t as good as they are being advertised.
3. Chris Johnson will not get 2500 yards from scrimmage. In fact he will probably spend at least 3 games out due to injuries suffered from trying to achieve such a feat.
4. Brett Favre will not lead the Minnesota Vikings to the Super Bowl this year. He is over-hyped and last season was a fluke.
5. Lovie Smith will be fired as Chicago Bears head coach before January 10, 2011. Call me crazy but the writing is on the wall.

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Why John Blake Was The First To Fall On The Sword at UNC

Updated on Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 8:32PM by Joe Simmons

Updated on Monday, October 4, 2010 at 3:22PM by Joe Simmons

Not many people were surprised at the announcement of defensive line coach John Blake’s resignation on Sunday afternoon. It capped off a hectic weekend for a North Carolina football program swimming in a two-pronged NCAA investigation.

But a detrimental side effect of that decision lies in the fact that UNC will be without one of the most celebrated defensive line coaches in the nation for the remainder of the 2010 season. Make no mistake about it Blake, also known as Black Santa, for his ability to get the best prospects in the country, is one of the best if not the best defensive line coaches in the country. Take a look at the NFL prospects that have left that defensive line in the last four years and are playing in the NFL.

Butch Davis stated that he would probably make a few moves this week to balance out the coaching staff. There will be added responsibility to the coaches already in place and a few coaches will have to move to positions other than those they have coached in the past. The first move will probably be secondary coach Everett Withers leaving the defensive backs to coach the linebackers corps since he already has experience coaching linebackers when he was at Tulane.

According to Inside Carolina, “Art Kaufman, who has also been a defensive coordinator, will assume the role with the defensive line from the standpoint of being able to run the meetings,” Davis said. Helping Kaufman along the front line will be player development assistant Norris McCleary, a former NFL defensive lineman. “He’s worked in our strength and conditioning program,” Davis said. “He’s been a defensive lineman; he played at East Carolina. He came here as a result of his relationship with Jeff Connors.”

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Tyrod Taylor versus Terrelle Pryor: More Than Just Runners These Kids Can Throw

Last night I recalled a lot about college football and the pressures that come along with being an elite player. There is a lot of pressure on you when you are the man on a team that has high expectations.

There is nothing wrong with being a dual threat quarterback. Some of the best quarterbacks in college football history have been dual threat quarterbacks. But when a quarterback gets this label, they are likely to be put under the microscope and labeled not an NFL prototype, unless of course your name is Steve Young.

Running quarterbacks have been a dime a dozen over the past few seasons in college football. Guys like Tim Tebow last year and Vince Young a few years earlier just found ways to win in college and when it came NFL draft time they were labeled not ready due to the fact that they had the ability to use their legs too.

2010 brings us two of the best dual threat quarterbacks in the country. Tyrod Taylor of Virginia Tech and Terrelle Pryor of Ohio State are both exciting players. Both have the ability to throw and run, but they also have the ability to turn “water into wine”.  I call this the Jesus effect. They can take a play that looks like a 6 yard sack and turn it into a 15 yard gain or in some cases an 80 yard touchdown.

Last night I was asked if I could take one of them who would I take. The answer to the question wasn’t as easy as I thought coming into the season. If you were to have asked me that at the beginning of July I would have said Taylor easily. I felt like Taylor is a more polished passer and more instinctive with the football.

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Jacksonville State Is Proof That The FCS Is Closing The Gap

The underdog is catching up. There's never been a better time to root for the little guy, and at the rate things are going, the word underdog may soon become obsolete.

The small schools down the road from the big dogs haven’t quite caught up to their BCS counterparts yet, but the talent gap has never been closer.

The recent rash of upsets or near upsets began three years ago when Appalachian State stunned the then No. 4-ranked Michigan Wolverines. It was a game that shocked the nation, but little did we know, that would only be the beginning.

Let’s fast forward to 2010. This past weekend Jacksonville State, a Football Championship Subdivision team from the Ohio Valley Conference, trailed 31-10 at halftime but outscored Ole Miss 21-3 in the fourth quarter to force overtime.

On the final crazy play of a crazy game, Jacksonville State running back Calvin Middleton found himself in the middle of a mass of bodies as quarterback Coty Blanchard lofted a shovel pass for a 2-point conversion toward the end zone.

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