Posts Tagged ‘The Heisman Trophy’
P.S.R. Heisman Watch: Week 9
By Paul Myerberg // Oct 26, 2011
It’s not about numbers, as if it was then Colt Brennan would have won the Heisman back in 2007, Case Keenum would have won it in 2009 and Texas Tech’s parade of prolific passers would earn an invite to Manhattan every December. It’s about wins, first and foremost — make that losses, first and foremost, as while wins allow one to tread water a loss can put a quarterback’s Heisman hopes and dreams on permanent vacation. So it will be with Keenum, if and when his Cougars finally lose a game; so it will be with Brandon Weeden, I think; and so it may be with Russell Wilson and Landry Jones, who are still firmly in the Heisman race but now have the ultimate black mark on their resumes. You never forget your first loss, and neither do the Heisman voters. And now, let’s turn the clock way, way back for This Date in Heisman History:
Tags: Andrew Luck, Brandon Weeden, Case Keenum, Keith Price, Kellen Moore, Landry Jones, Robert Griffin III, Russell Wilson, Sammy Watkins, Tajh Boyd, The Heisman Trophy, Trent Richardson, Tyrann Mathieu
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P.S.R. Heisman Watch: Week 8
By Paul Myerberg // Oct 19, 2011
We’re still waiting for that moment, the single play that catapults a player from inside the Heisman conversation to the top of the heap. Name your play: Sam Bradford going high over the pylon against Oklahoma State; Eric Crouch catching a touchdown pass against Oklahoma; Desmond Howard’s touchdown return… the list goes on. We haven’t seen that yet, though it’s coming. I hope so, at least. Is Andrew Luck too mechanical — too Manning-like in his perfection — to give the Heisman voters such a moment? That may be the case, though his body of work should be enough. Could Kellen Moore ever have such a moment against Boise State’s weak remaining schedule? Probably not. Will a 90-yard touchdown pass against Michigan State be the play for Russell Wilson? I wonder. And now, This Date in Heisman History:
Tags: Andrew Luck, Case Keenum, Denard Robinson, Keith Price, Kellen Moore, LaMichael James, Landry Jones, Robert Griffin III, Russell Wilson, Sammy Watkins, The Heisman Trophy, Trent Richardson, Tyrann Mathieu
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P.S.R. Heisman Watch: Week 7
By Paul Myerberg // Oct 12, 2011
What are the odds that this year’s Heisman is won by a non-quarterback? Pretty slim, if you ask me. If it’s not Andrew Luck it’ll be Russell Wilson. If not Wilson it’ll be Landry Jones. If not Jones it’ll be Kellen Moore, if not Moore it’ll be Robert Griffin III and so on down the line. How deep do you need to go to find a non-quarterback? I think at least four quarterbacks – by my count, though the national perception seems to differ – would need to stumble in order for Alabama’s Trent Richardson to come in and swoop away with the Crimson Tide’s second Heisman Trophy since 2009. And Alabama’s second altogether, which is still the most amazing fact associated with the award. And now, a new feature: This Date in Heisman History.
Tags: Andrew Luck, Case Keenum, Denard Robinson, Kellen Moore, LaMichael James, Landry Jones, Marcus Lattimore, Robert Griffin III, Russell Wilson, The Heisman Trophy, Trent Richardson, Tyrann Mathieu
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Back to Cal, With a Slight Script Change
By Paul Myerberg // Oct 6, 2011
Only one team stopped LaMichael James during the 2010 regular season. Arizona State slowed James, limiting him to 94 yards on the ground on 28 carries, but the Sun Devils couldn’t keep James out of the end zone. It wasn’t until seven weeks later that a conference foe got to James: California, with a stout front seven and a dedication to limiting Oregon on the ground, held James to a regular season-low 91 yards without a score. No one was catching Cam Newton, but James’ sloppy performance spelled the end of the then-sophomore’s Heisman hopes. Eleven months later, the script has changed.
Tags: L.S.U., LaMichael James, Oregon, The Heisman Trophy
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P.S.R. Heisman Watch: Week 6
By Paul Myerberg // Oct 4, 2011
Heisman chatter picks up around this point, as pretenders feasting on inferior foes — I don’t need to name names — take a sizable step back against the stiffer competition on the schedule. There are two sides to this coin, however, as October, November and December give players opportunities to shine just as much as they provide slippery slopes upon which to take a slide. Great players move to the forefront against the cream of the crop; I don’t want to keep harping on Cam Newton, but he’s just one in a long line of those eventual winners who went overlooked in September and dominated all comers over the latter portion of the year. So we have that to look forward to, which is nice. What else in the docket? Bye weeks are coming fast, ladies and gentlemen: Luck and James have already taken a breather, and Wilson is next.
Tags: Andrew Luck, Denard Robinson, Justin Blackmon, Kellen Moore, LaMichael James, Landry Jones, Marcus Lattimore, Robert Griffin III, Russell Wilson, The Heisman Trophy, Trent Richardson, Tyrann Mathieu
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The Second Tier of the First Tier
By Paul Myerberg // Sep 28, 2011
They’re like the second tier of the first tier, so they’re still in the first tier but not quite in the first tier of the first tier but rather the second tier of the first tier, which meant they’re still in the first tier but are not quite first tier of the first tier material. You know, the just-missed-the-cut Heisman contenders, those who aren’t quite in the top 10 but aren’t too far from breaking into the first tier. There are quite a few players right in the mix, and it’s only fair, seeing that we’re about to enter the second month of the season, to give them a little publicity.
Tags: The Heisman Trophy
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P.S.R. Heisman Watch: Week 5
By Paul Myerberg // Sep 28, 2011
September’s over, which means it’s about to get serious. Like trip-to-Manhattan serious, as it’s all well and good to tear apart Rice and San Jose State but quite another to excel against Oklahoma or Oregon. Heisman dreams have legs in September, true: you have Cam Newton as an immediate exception, but most winners are in the picture in August and solidify their spot during the season’s opening month. Countless candidates, however, have lit the world afire in September but disappeared once the calendar turned to conference play. Take last year’s examples of Kansas State’s Daniel Thomas and Nebraska’s Taylor Martinez: otherworldly in September, both quickly dropped out of the conversation once the schedule got a little meatier.
Tags: Andrew Luck, Denard Robinson, Geno Smith, Justin Blackmon, Kellen Moore, LaMichael James, Landry Jones, Marcus Lattimore, Robert Griffin III, Ronnie Hillman, Russell Wilson, The Heisman Trophy, Tyrann Mathieu
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P.S.R. Heisman Watch: Week 4
By Paul Myerberg // Sep 21, 2011
We’re nearing the end of non-conference play, so the opportunities for a few non-B.C.S. conference players to make their mark is nearing an end. Minus Kellen Moore, most of the lesser-marquee performers need to do major damage in September: Florida International’s T.Y. Hilton, for example, needed a big-time showing against Louisville — he delivered — as he’ll get lost in the shuffle when his team takes on Western Kentucky on the same weekend that Landry Jones, Ryan Broyles and Oklahoma host Texas A&M. This is the time for non-B.C.S. conference players to burst onto the national scene: Hilton did his part, but there are two more weeks — maybe only one, for some — before the SEC, the Big Ten and the rest of the B.C.S. landscape put a stranglehold on center stage.
Tags: Andrew Luck, Denard Robinson, Geno Smith, Justin Blackmon, Kellen Moore, Landry Jones, Marcus Lattimore, Robert Griffin III, Ronnie Hillman, Russell Wilson, Ryan Broyles, T.Y. Hilton, The Heisman Trophy, Vontaze Burfict
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