Well, that was easy

January 9th, 2007 | Posted by PostmanE

Relatively speaking, it’s late in the day (about 3 or so), I’ve been locked down for various unimportant and stupid reasons (including the late hour at which I retired last night), and I haven’t blogged a word about the National Championship Game yet. Since I’m deathly afraid R is going to take away my blogging license, here were a few things I noticed about the Fiesta Bowl, in no particular order:

Florida won. Well, yeah, they did. I mean, that was really something. They had better playcalling, better planning, even better players on both sides of the ball. And once Ginn went out with the injury, it looked like Smith had no answer for the Florida secondary, no one to push the boundaries on where he could deliver the football.

Wait a second - Florida won! Far more surprising than the win itself, I think, is its indefatigable nature. From about the middle of the second quarter onward, everyone at my bar knew the deal. The Florida fans were cheering every first down, and the Ohio State fans were slumped over in their Miller Lites, babbling into their buffalo french fries. There was no doubt in anyone’s mind.

Urban Meyer is a much better football mind than Jim Tressel. Or at least more imaginative. But where part of last night’s win was a function of Florida’s superior athleticism, a major part served the realization that you really, really don’t want to play Urban Meyer if he has a month to sit in a dark room and draw plays.

I worship Tim Tebow. What a monster. I can’t wait to see him loosed against the SEC for 12 full games next year. Ho, boy.

Troy Smith is overrated? One bad game is one bad game, but still … Vince Young made a killing in the draft over his National Championship performance (Wonderlic test scores aside), and Smith is the type of quarterback - i.e., not the “prototype” most scouts look for - that needed more amazing in-game tape to help his draft chances. Now, do you see him getting drafted higher than the end of first round?