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Nipped up to the lookout just before the woods got really dark after work. Haven’t been riding as much with the weather and the shorter days and it shows - I really felt it.
One of the questions I tossed to you fine folks before the season started was what you would consider a successful season; some of you tossed out a number of wins, others just wanted to see improvement to know we had reached rock bottom and were on the way up instead of continuing the way down...
Saying fans as a whole are a fickle bunch isn't too much of a shock. But it is amazing how much of a different view of this team I have after one game. I hope they can keep it up, if for no other reason that to lessen exposing my own character flaws!
Dominant D-line play.
After a shaky start, great secondary play (the Darius Rush boundary corner blitz in the fourth quarter was just a thing of beauty)
Solid, solid LB play (shout out to Damani Staley for a helluva senior season)
How many out-and-out drops by receivers? Maybe 1? they knew...
If we can't improve our play, especially on offense, not only will our ineptitude override the "chance to play early" selling point for recruits, but we will begin to lose our best players to the portal. Should those two things occur, we will not be improving at the foundational level of the...
Lame Kitten pelted with golf balls and more after Ole Miss win in Knoxville:
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32415556/tennessee-fans-pelt-field-hit-lane-kiffin-chaotic-ending-ole-miss-win
Folks, the big boards are awash in toxicity right now - people are ready to run Shane and especially Satt out of town on a rail. Should we manage to win on Saturday (I think we do, comfortably), we will be underdogs - sometimes BIG underdogs - in the remining games of the season, and could...
So that was a woodshedding. Not a ton of good to take away, but there are a few nuggets:
Good News: We cut down on penalties, and had half as many as the week before (5).
Bad News: We still had twice as many as our competition.
Good News: As a group, Kevin, Juju and MarShawn averaged more...
Sometimes you're going to have games you just want to move past, forget, and delete from your collective conciousness. This was one of those. Let's hope they can learn what lessons they can learn, take away from it what they can, and go and get ready for Vandy.
The entire offseason we opined and hypothesized about this staff's potential ability to get *more* from the players - to coach them up and have them play to their potential, not degrade as we saw in the previous staff. I think we are on the right track - we have players who have been waiting to...
We have good coaches. So why can't our players play cleaner?
Troy: 2 penalties for 16 yards
USC: 10 penalties for 93 yards
IIRC, this now brings the season total to 39 penalties for USC vs 21 for the opposition. Almost 2/1.
That was the headline in one paper this morning after my beloved Philadelphia Eagles got thrashed by the Cowboys last night - but it is the perfect one-sentence summary of our season so far. We have GOT to stop killing ourselves with penalties: through 4 games, we have 29 penalties; our...