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"Jake is our quarterback," Broncos linebacker Al Wilson said. "He led us to the AFC Championship Game last year, and we're going to ride his back. That's the bottom line. We believe in Jake, and we believe he can take us where we want to be. So there is no quarterback controversy." ((( quote from CBS News )))

I know the purpose of preseson, and that is to get the new guys out there to see what they can do. I also know that Jay Cutler is really showing his talent, and that means that even if there is "no quaterback controversy", that Cutler could still be seen more often in games to come. If Jake Plummer stumbles, or if he get hurt in some future game, expect to see Jay Cutler out there. Every time he plays is another opportunity for him to show his exceptional talents, and he is certainly talented.

In fact, I have to tell you that he reminds me of John Elway in many ways.

If Jake Plummer comes out and performs in the regular season, and the Broncos win games, then all is well. But if not, then we will see Cutler on the field. I know it man! Shannahan is about winning, so Jake the Snake must perform, and in all likelyhood he will. Don't get hurt Jake!

Every so often the Wall Street Journal endeavors to shake up the way we think about certain rankings. Yesterday they again took a pseudo-scientific look at college football, this time addressing the eternally perplexing debate of which programs produce the best NFL players. While some still cling to the quaint notion that the NCAA promotes student athletes, most have acquiesced to college football's current status of minor league football, so determining which minor league clubs do the best job of getting their boys ready for the majors holds some importance (for the high school football player looking for the best place to further his career, for the NFL scout looking for the best place to find prospects, etc.)

You can find the details of the analysis below, but I must first mention that I didn't need the WSJ to tell me that Michigan produces better talent than Notre Dame (or Wisconsin). I will say, though, that learning North Carolina does a better job of molding future NFL greats than Notre Dame did bring a smile to my face.

You can read the entire article here.

But most of the good stuff follows:
The Dow Jones College-Football Success Index

Seeking a different way to measure the success of college football programs, we looked at how many of each school's alumni have made it to the NFL and how effective they've been there. After copying down every player who appeared on an NFL game roster in 2005 and sorting them by college, we devised a six-point scale and gave every player a score based on what role they played in each game (a start was worth more than a substitution) and the outcome (a win was worth more than a loss). The totals for all players from each school are tabulated in "Alumni Success Points." To see how the performance of a school's players squared up with the perceptions of NFL scouts, we also ranked schools by how popular their players have been in five recent NFL Drafts -- a statistic we call "Draft Success Points." By dividing a college's Alumni Success Points by its Draft Success Points, we were able to give each school a "Draft Value," which shows whether or not its players have lived up to their draft promise -- in other words, whether a school is overrated or underrated by the NFL. Below, from a field of more than 250 colleges, the Top 30 programs in the Dow Jones College-Football Success Index. (For more details on our methodology, see How We Did It.)

How We Did It: Alumni Success Points were tabulated using records taken from official NFL summaries of every game played during the 2005 regular season. Points were awarded based on the following scale: 6 points for a player designated as a "starter" whose team won the game. 5 points for a starter on a losing team; 4 points for a player designated as a "substitute" on a winning team ( all kickers and punters are listed as substitutes); 3 points for a substitute on a losing team; 2 points for a player who was on a team's active roster but did not play; 1 point for a player who was listed as "inactive." Final scores are sums of all points earned by a school's alumni over the entire season. Draft Success Points is a measure of how players from each college were valued by NFL teams in five drafts from 2001 to 2005. The NFL Draft has 7 rounds. We awarded 7 points for every player taken in the first round, 6 for every player taken in round 2, and so on, all the way to 1 point for a player taken in round 7. The school's final score is a sum of all points earned by its alumni in those drafts. Draft Value was calculated by dividing a school's total Alumni Success Points by its total Draft Success Points. A high score is an indication that a school's players perform better than NFL scouts seem to expect, while a low score indicates that the players have not measured up to these expectations.

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