Are you really surprised? While NFL scouts may be cool on the prolific Mizzou quarterback, College Football Hall of Famer Doug Flutie knows a playmaker when he sees one.

“I love watching him,” Flutie told “The Sports Edge” on KFNS radio Thursday afternoon. “Chase is a great quarterback. He has unbelievable potential for the next level. People talk about size all the time, but I love watching him play.”

Flutie is especially impressed with Daniel’s progress during the last two years, as he evolved from a scrambling quarterback to a more polished downfield passer.

And, yes, Flutie wishes he got to run a spread offense instead of the “I” at Boston College. (He did get to run a spread-like offense on the big fields of the CFL and obviously excelled at it.)

Here were a few other thoughts:

• On a potential breakthrough team in college football: “Texas Tech. If they play just average defensively, they will win a lot of games.”
• On Patriots coach Bill Belichick: “Bill is different. His intensity, it doesn’t switch off. He’s constantly thinking football. If I was a young kid, I would have been petrified to play for Bill. It was like the Mike Ditka situations.”

ANOTHER OBVIOUS CONCLUSION REACHED

Thanks to Deadspin for noticing this item from the Regina Leader-Post:

Fatheaded hockey players are more aggressive than their slimmer-faced counterparts, a St. Catharines, Ont., study has found.

Results of the study published Wednesday in the prestigious Proceedings of the Royal Society, concluded of the six Canadian-based NHL teams, the faces of the Ottawa Senators are dead giveaways when it comes to predicting how much time players spend in the penalty box.

“We’re not saying that Ottawa is more aggressive than any other team. But each individual player’s face predicts how much time he had in the box,” said Brock University neuroscience researcher Justin Carre.

Carre, who studies fluctuations in hormone levels, wanted to test recent theories that link male facial width-to-height ratio to behavior such as aggression. Changes in male facial shape start at puberty, when boys are exposed to the influences of testosterone, a hormone that also sparks aggressive behavior.

Anybody who followed the career of enforcer Tie “The Albanian Aggressor” Domi knows exactly what we’re talking about here.

Here are cementheads on parade:

Hockey was way more fun in the 1990s.

BOOM GOES HIS CAREER

Internet legend Brian Collins, a graduate of Ball State, has landed at KXXV in Waco. We’re guessing this legendary clip was NOT on his resume disc:

How did this unfortunate broadcast unfold? Here is the explanation.