Actually, this is "night before" preview/send off:
Fitting because THIS IS IT--We "run the gauntlet", basically, from here.
I'm no longer able to clearly judge our team OR the opponents ahead. Are we gonna stay so black'n'white in O'n'D from here? Are our opponents as good or bad as their last game(s) would indicate? I just don't know, can't tell for sure--and I've given up listening to what they yammer on radio, etc. It's as bad as the damn election-babble. So many agendas, and none of 'em strike me as either knowledgeable OR honest.
(I'm talking about College football here--but you see the larger problem, right?)
Anyhow, all I can do, all I'm at all equipped for at the moment is just to try and find a sort of "emotional balance" and just be there to watch the next one--like our team (we hope): Play the opponent in front of us, and do it with as little regard for everything before, after, outside of and/or around it and us as possible. Prepare, execute, adapt, WIN--but then (whatever the result) evaluate and move on. Do the same the next week.
We can beat this Razorback team--and NOT because Auburn slaughtered them. If anything, it'll be more IN SPITE OF tjat: they were exhausted going into that one, then were embarrased in it, and have had an extra week to absorb it, distance themselves while letting it motivate themselves, then move on.
No, we can beat them because even on offense, we match up well against them over all. If we get the lead and have it in the 2nd half, our D is very capable of making it stick--Vols game notwithstanding. That was a lesson I do not believe was lost on the staff and every member of our team. I tend to feel we just gotta "survive" the first few minutes of the game, the crowd wild and into it...Of course, a quick score would help. But a general "rope-a-dope" strategy like against UGA will probably occupy a fair portion of mid-game.
I HOPE we come out swinging, DO try to shut up the crowd, put the other squad on their heels early, but the current Gator team has mostly so far won with a "tie-em-up and play field position" approach of late...Just don't know if DelRio had healed enough or our young team has grown up or jelled enough to reliably apply an early knock out.
Might be ugly. From what I've seen so far, that's how we win. And at this point, even as I bitch and bellyache about it in-game, I PROMISE to be satisfied, even happy, long as we somehow find a way to do that.
GO GATORS!!!!!
Fitting because THIS IS IT--We "run the gauntlet", basically, from here.
I'm no longer able to clearly judge our team OR the opponents ahead. Are we gonna stay so black'n'white in O'n'D from here? Are our opponents as good or bad as their last game(s) would indicate? I just don't know, can't tell for sure--and I've given up listening to what they yammer on radio, etc. It's as bad as the damn election-babble. So many agendas, and none of 'em strike me as either knowledgeable OR honest.
(I'm talking about College football here--but you see the larger problem, right?)
Anyhow, all I can do, all I'm at all equipped for at the moment is just to try and find a sort of "emotional balance" and just be there to watch the next one--like our team (we hope): Play the opponent in front of us, and do it with as little regard for everything before, after, outside of and/or around it and us as possible. Prepare, execute, adapt, WIN--but then (whatever the result) evaluate and move on. Do the same the next week.
We can beat this Razorback team--and NOT because Auburn slaughtered them. If anything, it'll be more IN SPITE OF tjat: they were exhausted going into that one, then were embarrased in it, and have had an extra week to absorb it, distance themselves while letting it motivate themselves, then move on.
No, we can beat them because even on offense, we match up well against them over all. If we get the lead and have it in the 2nd half, our D is very capable of making it stick--Vols game notwithstanding. That was a lesson I do not believe was lost on the staff and every member of our team. I tend to feel we just gotta "survive" the first few minutes of the game, the crowd wild and into it...Of course, a quick score would help. But a general "rope-a-dope" strategy like against UGA will probably occupy a fair portion of mid-game.
I HOPE we come out swinging, DO try to shut up the crowd, put the other squad on their heels early, but the current Gator team has mostly so far won with a "tie-em-up and play field position" approach of late...Just don't know if DelRio had healed enough or our young team has grown up or jelled enough to reliably apply an early knock out.
Might be ugly. From what I've seen so far, that's how we win. And at this point, even as I bitch and bellyache about it in-game, I PROMISE to be satisfied, even happy, long as we somehow find a way to do that.
GO GATORS!!!!!
