Simmons

One of my favorite Simmons columns - rating the NFL QBs and grouping them by war movies.

He gets SF fans right, but I don't get the Doc Rivers reference:

San Fran fans feel confident they can steal a decrepit NFC West, but every time they think about Alex Smith coming through, they feel like Doc Rivers Googling his daughter's boyfriend.

Funniest moment:

Will we ever figure out why Leinart didn't make it? I keep going back to that "Punk'd" episode in 2006 when they pretended to arrest Leinart and his buddy for soliciting a prostitute, then a panicked Leinart convinced his buddy to take the rap for him before a giggling Ashton Kutcher jumped out of a van. That's a leader? Would Brees or Brady have ever done that? We should have written him off then and there.

Ouch.

Re: another USC alum - Mark Sanchez. Does everyone forget this guy threw 12 TDs and 20 INT last year? The Jets threw on the training wheels and basically let him throw slants and swing passes - despite this guy having an absolute gun. No doubt about his arm. You could tell the first time he chucked a pass in college. Now last year he went to the AFC Championship, fair enough. But let's not kid ourselves, the Jets D was pretty awesome and I'm just now understanding (via Hard Knocks and reading) how good Darrelle Revis is and how valuable he was to that team.

I'm looking forward to football in other words.