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One game to watch this weekend
- Thread starter Leakfan12
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Oh, I am DEFINITELY with you on this one, man...if MSU appears to at LEAST be hanging with them (even better if they can HANDLE the Buckeyes--who just aren't that good, to my eyes, despite what the ESPN-guys keep generally harping on about "Urban Meyer's part in their resurgence") I'll be watching it closely, along with whichever is the best SEC-game on at that time (of which there are a couple of good ones, both revealing and of some consequence to our own prospects down the road--UT vs. LSU, for example--up for today, but at least one of THOSE isn't until tonight, if I recall), of course.
NaffGutts
Gator Fan
I'm hoping for Ohio St to get curb stomped, I'm putting Urban on upset alert when he goes down with health complications lol
Watching both, as I figured (Ouch! That Patterson kid for the Vols just dropped an EASY long TD pass that would have put them back in it against the 'Dogs--what else is new? Tenn. offense so far only playing down to the level of its defense, which has had the worst opening qrtr or so I have seen by an SEC team in a LONG time...KENTUCKY could have run on 'em for a few scores against that D, playing that bad--trust me!).
Meanwhile, though, if you want to see something interesting, put the two games (UGA/UT and MSU/tOSU) up together on the screen if you can (split screen or PIP-tiles), and what you'll witness is a very nice demo of the very real and distinct difference in the quality-of-play between the two conferences, SEC and Big Ten. The SEC game is CLEARLY faster and BETTER played--to the point where it is almost a whole different game. The Liar is trying to beat these other "Big and Slow Ten" teams by playing what he's trying to pass off as "SEC-style" football in their league, but in truth the "eyes-test" shows that this isn't really the case...the plays called may echo some of that, and they may feature a couple of players faster than the opposition's, but overall it's STILL "Big and Slow": Either one of these SEC teams would leave tracks up and down the Buckeyes' backs.
(Btw, Tenn. has been mounting a fairly amazing comeback while I have been typing out these comments...Down 27-10 with 10 minutes left in the 1st half, they have scored 20 points in less-tan-5 minutes and have taken the lead with 42 seconds left--they are now UP 3 points...with all the bumbling and unimaginative play by that Georgia offense in the 2nd qrtr., it's now the Bulldogs who are in a rush to get a score at the end of the half. No matter what, this Bulldog team is as beatable as ANY of the "tough match-ups" we had looking ahead at the start of the season...UGA kicker makes the 50 yarder with time expiring to tie it--if Tenn. had a kicking game (remember how bad their kicker was in our game? Well, he missed an extra-pt. here as well, along with a 28-yd. FG) they'd at least have ended the half with some kind of lead...Oh well--it's just that it'd be good for us down the way I think if they were to beat Georgia here and give 'em at least one loss in the East, since we could have one as well by the end of our SEC-schedule...At least they're showing up now and putting up a fight against them, while TAMU showed well in beating the Razorbacks today...all in all, our record of "wins-against-toughness-of-opponents-thus-far" look better and better right now: by the end of the season, looking back we may well have played one of the toughest 10 or so schedules in the nation)
Meanwhile, though, if you want to see something interesting, put the two games (UGA/UT and MSU/tOSU) up together on the screen if you can (split screen or PIP-tiles), and what you'll witness is a very nice demo of the very real and distinct difference in the quality-of-play between the two conferences, SEC and Big Ten. The SEC game is CLEARLY faster and BETTER played--to the point where it is almost a whole different game. The Liar is trying to beat these other "Big and Slow Ten" teams by playing what he's trying to pass off as "SEC-style" football in their league, but in truth the "eyes-test" shows that this isn't really the case...the plays called may echo some of that, and they may feature a couple of players faster than the opposition's, but overall it's STILL "Big and Slow": Either one of these SEC teams would leave tracks up and down the Buckeyes' backs.
(Btw, Tenn. has been mounting a fairly amazing comeback while I have been typing out these comments...Down 27-10 with 10 minutes left in the 1st half, they have scored 20 points in less-tan-5 minutes and have taken the lead with 42 seconds left--they are now UP 3 points...with all the bumbling and unimaginative play by that Georgia offense in the 2nd qrtr., it's now the Bulldogs who are in a rush to get a score at the end of the half. No matter what, this Bulldog team is as beatable as ANY of the "tough match-ups" we had looking ahead at the start of the season...UGA kicker makes the 50 yarder with time expiring to tie it--if Tenn. had a kicking game (remember how bad their kicker was in our game? Well, he missed an extra-pt. here as well, along with a 28-yd. FG) they'd at least have ended the half with some kind of lead...Oh well--it's just that it'd be good for us down the way I think if they were to beat Georgia here and give 'em at least one loss in the East, since we could have one as well by the end of our SEC-schedule...At least they're showing up now and putting up a fight against them, while TAMU showed well in beating the Razorbacks today...all in all, our record of "wins-against-toughness-of-opponents-thus-far" look better and better right now: by the end of the season, looking back we may well have played one of the toughest 10 or so schedules in the nation)
Did you see that MSU TD? "Urbans' Pussies" weren't wrapping him up, were going after the two-handed ball-strip instead--more glory, less pain, I guess--Look/sound familiar? ie.=typical Meyer-coached "finesse"/selfishness.
"Wrong guys" scoring to take the lead now in BOTH games...at least neither has looked like "world beaters" today. Good news is that (as I noted before) we can clearly hold our own against these 'Dogs, even give 'em a beat-down on our best day, healthy and playing our game. Nothing we can do about the drooling worship of all-things-Urban-Buckeye on the part of the media, especially those syncophants over at ESPN--ANY win here is likely to be presented as a "stirring, hard-fought victory"...meanwhile, the Vols offense and special teams are back to giving THEIR game away here in the 2nd half...Sigh...Had they been this mistake-prone when we played 'em, we would have beaten 'em by another 3 TDs! Maybe the NEXT set of games will be more satisfying...These are turning out as merely "teasers' games", where you keep thinking it's turning out like you feared, then they TEASE you into thinking they're gonna make a game of it, then they lay down and let themselves be stepped on, walked all over for a while. Man, more than EVER I have come to appreciate what Muschamp has had in mind for our Gators all along, what we have already well-started to become: Give me a tough team that never lays down, never gives up, keeps coming even on "off days" when out-of-sync and struggling to get ANYTHING to work right--THAT team always has a chance, all day long, and that's what Coach Boom & Co. are building here at UF.
One more observation here, now that MSU has lost to The Poison Nuts by one point, to cast a vague shadow over all proceedings today:
In the UT/UGA game, Tyler Bray has had a NUMBER of poor throws today--and has just thrown a TERRIBLE pick in the middle of their drive-to-tie-the-game late, to pretty well seal it for the 'Dogs (though the questionable call by Richt to throw the ball on 3rd down has given UT one more chance to drive the field after all, after this punt--but where they WERE down in Georgia's end of the field, they are now starting back near their own 20). Oops, ANOTHER drop by a Tennessee receiver who was wide open. I mean, this much-hyped Volunteer passing-game has looked mediocre, inconsistent at BEST, today...And here, after driving them down AGAIN deep into Georgia territory, Bray literally fumbles away his chance to bail them out with a late tying-TD after all. Sorry, but even though the whole Vol-defense gets an "F" for this performance, and they showed practically NO kicking game, in the end, more than anyone or anything else, this loss is on Tyler Bray. WAY too many "unforced errors", it wasn't Georgia pressure (there WASN'T that much) but his OWN lack of calm and poise that seemed to drive his constant and regular sudden screw-ups. He was supposed to be one of the top QBs in the Conference at this point, but I'll take our guy, the true sophomore Driskel, still learning and early in his experience and growth at the position right now, over any of the others I've seen so far--and CERTAINLY over Bray.
As for UGA, again: They only BARELY beat a bumbling Tennessee team having an off day (especially the defense, which played a LOT better against us) by 1 score in a high-scoring, back-and-forth game...These Bulldogs don't scare ME at ALL: they can be handled. We play something close to mistake-free against them, and we win, maybe even going away. That's a relatively long way off, though. Let's just go out and play our kind of tough , tie-'em-up-and-beat-'em-late game against LSU next weekend, and take it from there, whatever comes our way.
In the UT/UGA game, Tyler Bray has had a NUMBER of poor throws today--and has just thrown a TERRIBLE pick in the middle of their drive-to-tie-the-game late, to pretty well seal it for the 'Dogs (though the questionable call by Richt to throw the ball on 3rd down has given UT one more chance to drive the field after all, after this punt--but where they WERE down in Georgia's end of the field, they are now starting back near their own 20). Oops, ANOTHER drop by a Tennessee receiver who was wide open. I mean, this much-hyped Volunteer passing-game has looked mediocre, inconsistent at BEST, today...And here, after driving them down AGAIN deep into Georgia territory, Bray literally fumbles away his chance to bail them out with a late tying-TD after all. Sorry, but even though the whole Vol-defense gets an "F" for this performance, and they showed practically NO kicking game, in the end, more than anyone or anything else, this loss is on Tyler Bray. WAY too many "unforced errors", it wasn't Georgia pressure (there WASN'T that much) but his OWN lack of calm and poise that seemed to drive his constant and regular sudden screw-ups. He was supposed to be one of the top QBs in the Conference at this point, but I'll take our guy, the true sophomore Driskel, still learning and early in his experience and growth at the position right now, over any of the others I've seen so far--and CERTAINLY over Bray.
As for UGA, again: They only BARELY beat a bumbling Tennessee team having an off day (especially the defense, which played a LOT better against us) by 1 score in a high-scoring, back-and-forth game...These Bulldogs don't scare ME at ALL: they can be handled. We play something close to mistake-free against them, and we win, maybe even going away. That's a relatively long way off, though. Let's just go out and play our kind of tough , tie-'em-up-and-beat-'em-late game against LSU next weekend, and take it from there, whatever comes our way.
Well, that KIND OF filled my Saturday-afternoon-without-a-Gator-game (I considered us going out and doing something on a Fall Saturday, for a change--Pecan St. Festival here, for eg.--but it has been mostly a thundering downpour all day here in Central Texas, so I just let her sleep--she works late--and both laze here in bed since). There are some good games coming up now and later, but without a Gator-game I am pretty well just about out of particular interest, enough to carry me on through, anyway (even WITH KY making a game of it against USCe)...Guess I'll surrender control of the remote, defer to this stone-fox beside me here (HAD to say that, she's reading over my shoulder--oof!~just got poked in side) as to what we watch/do the rest of the night...I mean, GATOR-football MIGHT displace "all other activities" ("MIGHT"--depends on game, and how it AND that season is going), but I TRY to keep my priorities straight, if you know what I mean...so, ummm, yeah...Gotta go...talk to y'all later, Gators!
NaffGutts
Gator Fan
did anyone watch GameDay and see Urban saying that Braxton Miller is more talented the Tebow? is he on meth? especially after seeing his stats after the game.
Probably, heck I put Percy Harvin ahead of Miller among others. Heck, the only QB I put behind Miller that Meyer coached (and started) is Brantley. Even Cam Newton I put ahead of Miller. Speaking of coaching taking meth, how come Coach Dantiono didn't go for it on his last drive. I would have even if you don't make it, let them scoring a quick TD, stop the two point conversation, and try again. Did Meyer take his balls as well? Also should we bribe the NCAA to have them punish TOSU? That might stop them LOL.
