Football Friday

Dear James, Daniel and Emily

There's not much football news to report this week. The games are close enough to taste, but not close enough for meaningful news. Just training camp or pre-camp news to digest.

Colorado Buffaloes

Just started Fall practice today. No news, except it looks like the full team will be in practice, including the hotshot incoming receivers that are being counted on to fill the weakest link on the offense. I did read some positive in the web site that our new offensive coordinator is declaring that the offense is going to be more NFL style than the gimmick spread offenses in vogue now, which I think is a good thing. I think the best thing an incoming coach could do now would be to throw all the best athletes on the defense, and on offense go full on power run game. Slow down the games and take advantage of the smaller defenses that have developed to defend the spread.

Ole Miss Rebels

No news, I don't spend as much time on the Ole Miss web site, so probably no news until the games start.

St. Louis Rams

The consensus amongst the reports who have covered the Rams camp is they are on the right track now. They tend to agree that the talent level may not be good enough to have a miracle run a la Miami or Atlanta. But they are on the right track. I still think that if the chips fall right they could make more noise than people expect.

Denver Broncos

I have to admit a creeping sense of unease. Moreno is still not in camp. Starting to sound like McDaniel is in over his head. I am trying to remain positive, but I still feel uneasy, like it might not be the season we hoped.

Overall though, this weekend is the Hall of Fame Game, the first game of the preseason, which means one thing: Baseball season is over... I am only half joking, this road trip has been brutal for the Rockies, and I really don't care about any other teams at this point. So yeah, to some extent what little attention I had on baseball will start to wane considerably now.