Vegas Oddsmakers Say Alabama Would Be 24 Point Underdogs Against The Jacksonville Jaguars
So for some stupid reason this debate has been all the rage today. Mostly perpetuated by Skip Bayless and the other idiots on ESPN First Take. Skip said that Jacksonville would win, but it would be a close game, 24-14. The rest of the panel seemed to agree it would be a massacre of epic proportions. One dude who was a complete no name I’ve never heard of said Bama wouldn’t get a first down.
These sort of debates happen all the time. Could Kentucky beat the Bobcats? Could a UConn women’s championship team beat the worst men’s team in the nation? All these stupid hypothetical which pretty much would all indefinitely result in the professional team/men’s team winning. Out of all of them, football is agreed upon as the absolute biggest discrepancy. I think most people were outraged that it was only a 24 point spread.
But I’ll tell you what – the slop that the New York Jets have been trotting out there at some point this season is an interesting, interesting scenario. I mean I know Vegas oddsmakers know more about this shit than anyone on earth but when you watch the Jets week in and week out, some serious doubts can creep into your head. There are times when it looks like Mark Sanchez, his slopfest receiving core and his putrid backfield wouldn’t be able to move the ball against anyone. You could create a hybrid of these scenarios – would the Jets be able to beat a hybrid team of Kentucky’s mens hoops on defense and the Uconn women’s hoops team on offense? – and I still don’t think I could say definitely yes. Thats how bad they look sometimes. Obviously its men against boys but I don’t know if I’d take the Jets to cover with like a 35 point spread. I really don’t.
heres the main point that most people don’t get for some reason. A college offense will not score against an NFL defense. Honestly i’d be amazed if they could even get over midfield.
these arguments are retarded.
for the first time in my life i agreed with Bayless on how Garnett acted about Wade.
It felt so wrong and dirty
Is he saying the 49ers would be 40 point favorites? Or the NFL’s best team?
totally agree.. no way alabama even gets it across halfcourt against the jacksonville team, let alone a really good team.
yea but you understand 90% of that def will be in the pros and play like the pros. Yea bama wouldnt prb score but jag wouldnt put up a crap load of points either
i think any college team could score on the saints secondary
There’s probably only 25-30 former Alabama players in the NFL currently, which stretches over X amount of years. So no, 90% won’t definitely be in the pros, let alone play like pros.
No College football can beat an NFL team… Take for example Alabama, maybe 10 of those guys get drafted and are NFL caliber players… while every players on the shitty Chiefs is NFL ready.
No women’s team in basketball could ever beat a NBA team. Never.
This is the silliest crap in the world going around today. Jags -24 would be the easiest money in the history of betting. Put a real handicapper on this game and we’re talking Jags laying 50 or 60 points, maybe more. And to answer your thought, KFC, I would take the Jets -75 against the Crimson Tide. Just think about the trenches. That’s all you have to consider.
Didnt some Jr College team beat the Orioles this year in spring training? Granted maybe Weiters and Jones and shit werent playing the whole game…but it can be done. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/baltimore-orioles-drop-exhibition-game-community-college-164735728.html
@sirsmoke That’s a totally different deal in baseball. When you’re talking football, think about what the trenches would look like. Bama on offense would have a jailbreak past their O-line on every play. They’d never even get a pass off, legitimately. Then think when Bama is on defense. They’re going to get shoved back 5 yards off the line of scrimmage and then MJD is rolling through into their secondary. Any NFL team could beat Alabama by at least 50 points, and that’s if they were taking it easy on them.
I agree with tr1dent’s comment that you cannot compare professional/amateur baseball with professional/amateur football. Alabama may have a 8-10 NFL quality players on the roster, but NFL teams all have 53. A game against any NFL team would be a blowout. Also, in the game you mentioned (Orioles vs. a community college team), the Orioles provided the CC team with Orioles pitchers and an Orioles catcher; it’s not as if the two teams just went at each other for nine innings and the Orioles legitimately lost.
a college football team probably couldnt beat any NFL team in any sport.
College bball vs. worst pro team is more interesting, because some tiny market teams are so bad that they talk about contraction, and sometimes a college team has 5+ players that get drafted even tho there are only TWO rounds.
Also, there are WAY less players on the court, they play both ways, and there is less of a team aspect to basketball. So its conceivable that last years Kentucky team could’ve had kidd-gilchrist go into a coma and shoot like 70-80% while Anthony Davis is already considered a good big man.
Its still a probability thing. Like for college football vs. NFL team, the NFL never loses, but for basketball depending on the individual matchups i could see the college team stealing 5 out of 100, or even 10.
Remember that the dream team actually lost a scrimmage against a college all star team that didn’t even have the best college player on the team at the time (because he was on the dream team)
the only time college kids legitimately beat professionals was U.S. vs. Soviet Union 1980 Lake Placid…that’s why it’s easily the biggest upset/miracle in sports