Cutler Trade, Tide, and Tigers

April has sprung and so has Cutler. The big debate now is who won the trade the Broncos or the Bears. If you ask Mike Dikata they both won, if you ask me they both lost. Don't get me wrong the Bears get a great player, but what they gave up? Are you serious? At the end of the day the Bears gave up way to much for ONE player. Two draft picks and one player isn't bad. But, three draft picks and a player, well I'm wondering if the Bears need any ocean front property in Dallas? If you are the Bears you have to keep either the third round pick or Orton, and by that I mean the third round pick. Or atleast ask for Chris Simms.

The Broncos have been losing this trade since before McDaniels flew into Denver for the first time. Letting Shanahan go was a move of Lions like stupidity. Don't get me wrong something needed to be done, but letting him go was flat out dumb. The defense needed to be fixed and maybe he didn't want to let his DC go, but getting rid of Mike was wrong, maybe taking his GM power away would have been fine. But, you got rid of him and got a kid not even old enough to be President. And this guy ran off your 25 year old franchise quarterback. Ok maybe he is a little diva, you still don't run him off. Especially trying to get a guy who has only started one season since high school.

And since I live in Alabama let us have some college football quick hitters.

The quarterback battle for the Tide will be very undercover with Saban at the head, but I sure would hate to be the winner. New line + one brillant wideout + SEC defensive lines = nightmare. Don't get me wrong the recruiting classes have been stellar for three years now but two stellar years, didn't help anything with that line in the Sugar Bowl without Andre Smith. Tulane without Andre was shameful(special teams scored more touchdowns then the offense).

Auburn's Ben Tate was positive about the running game even with spread. Birmingham Sports talk dj, Jim Dunaway, thought of this as stupid spring talk. And even wrote it off as garbage because they were saying the same thing last spring. Yet, if you look at Malzahan's and Franklin's previous regime's they are rush and pass happy in respective order. Also let us take a look at Malzahan's kids in the pros and Franklin's kids in the pros. Malzahan=Darren McFadden and Felix Jones. Franklin well two washed up quarterbacks of Tim Couch and Jared Lorozen. Don't get me wrong I'm not promising Auburn to set rushing records next year but the proof is in the pudding when it works, the run will be on with Malzahan. Nothing is promised in the SEC ask Auburn and LSU via 2008 combining to lose 12 games!