Longest TD Passes

Fun fact: former Bengals and Florida wide receiver Chris Collinsworth shares the NCAA record for throwing the longest TD pass in college history, with a 99 yard throw as a Gator freshman. The play was supposed to be a simple down & out pattern, but the senior told the freshman Collinsworth that he was going deep instead. After Collinsworth’s freshman season, Steve Spurrier was hired as the new Florida head coach. Spurrier’s first decision was to move Collinsworth to receiver, where he blossomed into All-SEC and All Pro. I remember back in the day when the Gators played at Grant Field, and Collinsworth was Florida's bell cow. Collinsworth told the story on the latest episode of Peyton’s Places.

Any win by the Falcons is a good win. They went up 21-0 then 24-3. The Rams came back and tied the game, but Atlanta kicked a late 51 yard field goal to win. Still, the Falcons need to fire their head coach and GM. 

Not sure that I would re-sign TE Pitts. He had a “big” year because Drake London and Michael Phenix were hurt. No one else for Kirk Cousins to throw to. If Pitts manages to catch a pass, he falls down when he sees someone is about to hit him. On one play Monday night Pitts didn’t run hard because he didn’t think Cousins was going to throw him the ball. When Kirk’s first two options were covered, he threw to where Pitts was supposed to be, but Pitts had stopped running. Many say Pitts just doesn’t like football, and finally played hard this year just to get a new contract.

One of the dozens of "coaches" on the Falcons sidelines negated a big play by being in the restrictewd area of the sidelines. What do all those guys do, anyway?

This past weekend’s top NFL passing leaders, including ten QB’s who didn’t start the season as his team’s starter. Fourteen of these 16 highest rated QB’s did not throw an interception.

Rating.YD.TD.INT

157.0 256 5 0 Drake Maye NE

142.7 333 2 0 rookie Tyler Slough NO

134.6 288 1 0 backup Malik Willis GB

129.1 305 2 0 Joe Burrow CIN

118.6 303 3 1 Brock Purdy SF

118.0 172 2 0 rookie Quinn Ewers MIA

105.6 107 1 0 Browns castoff Tyler Huntley BALT

100.3 330 2 0 Caleb Williams CHI

099.2 126 1 0 backup Kirk Cousins ATL

097.5 307 2 0 Dak Prescott DAL

093.5 346 2 2 Baker Mayfield TB

092.3 198 0 0 backup Josh Johnson WSH

091.9 207 0 0 rookie Jaxson Dart NYG

091.3 212 2 0 backup Jacoby Brissett ARIZ

088.6 251 2 0 rookie Cam Ward TEN

088.0 262 0 0 Josh Allen BUF

084.9 236 1 1 Justin Herbert LAC

080.1 244 2 2 CJ Stroud HOU

079.0 066 1 0 backup Chris Oladokun KC

077.3 147 1 1 Sam Darnold SEA 

076.9 182 1 1 Bo Nix DEN

075.6 186 1 2 rookie Shedeur Sanders CLE

My adventure project this week is to visit as many Champs Sports locations, in an effort to upgrade my new Braves cap from snapback to fitted. Last night I stopped by North Point Mall. Headed to Sugarloaf Mills at lunch and perimeter Mall on the way home from work. Maybe Cumberland as well, but I don’t think they have what I’m looking for. Friday I’ll try Decatur, Lenox, and Town Center. Maybe Southlake if I’m desperate. We’ll see.

Denison: cultural scholar Ian Tuttle reports that philosopher and cultural theorist Dr. Byung-Chul Han “suggests the possibility of an Other who is something outside ourselves that restores us to ourselves; something that transcends us and yet embraces us.” Dr. Tuttle concludes: “We might consider the possibility that the remedy for our broken world will require a different kind of physician. Han writes “every age has its signature afflictions” and identifies ours as “depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, borderline personality disorder, and burnout syndrome.”