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wandler20 posted:But not before GT puts 50 on the board. GT is going to gently caress so many teams up this year, FSU probably included. I really wouldn't put much stock in GT's performance in this game. Two years ago, we beat our FCS season opener 70-0 and had a mediocre season. Last year we struggled mightily against our FCS season opener and went on to win the Orange Bowl.
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I'm headed to Tallahassee tonight. Gonna get drunk and watch some punk bands play and then watch FSU underwhelm against Texas State. Wooooooo!
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Sep 4, 2015 16:08
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I know the preseason is almost over because I've somehow convinced myself that Texas is going to win tomorrow night.
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MindlessHavok posted:
goddamn it's just unfair how cute that dog is
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DJExile posted:goddamn it's just unfair how cute that dog is UT did an article on him and took some modelling shots.   http://torchbearer.utk.edu/2015/08/a-vols-best-friend/ Joey Freshwater fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Sep 4, 2015 |
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aaaaaaawwwwwwwwwww  I just wanna give him a bunch of belly rubs and launch a tennis ball as far as I can
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No aftermath thread yet? I'll save my full thoughts for that, but last night we had more than 25% of our sack total for the entire 2014 season. lol/thank god.
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MindlessHavok posted:
I showed him to Daisy and her body is ready 
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Strawberry Panda posted:I'm headed to Tallahassee tonight. Gonna get drunk and watch some punk bands play and then watch FSU underwhelm against Texas State. Wooooooo! Gimme a shout if you want to go fishing 
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MindlessHavok posted:
I need a show of him (her?) hanging out with Dubs. Stat.
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Neodoomium posted:There's no aftermath yet but Jake Rudock is a Bad Quarterback I don't think he's outright bad just kinda average and not very threatening. That was kind of an abnormal performance in terms of the INTs (which were not even all necessarily his fault), but it did show off how his inability to throw deep or even trust his arm can get him into trouble. On the pick 6 they had one short route with another guy going deep and the corner could just sit on the short one and wait because Jake didn't even bother looking deep. He has a tendency to just stare down the short route in those situations, and it leads to bad things. It was basically identical to a pick six against Maryland last year. And when he does go deep he has to put way too much air under the ball and it either fails to hit a guy in stride or sails it on him. There were at least 5 or 6 times where Damond Powell had his guy beat on a go route last year for what should have been an easy TD and Jake's pass either sailed or had so much air under it that Powell had to slow way up and either let the defender make a play on the ball or get an easy tackle after the catch. It was super frustrating. The area where it really got him in trouble at Iowa was actually on short passes where he didn't have the strength to get it out to a guy on a short out on a rope and his throws would constantly drag a guy either back to the ball (so he didn't have the momentum to turn and make a play) or get to him late when he was already basically at the sideline and had no room to turn and get some YAC. In a Greg Davis offense with a shitload of short out routes this was basically death. I will say that I was giggling through a lot of it, not out of any animus towards Jake (who genuinely seems like a nice dude who will hopefully become a great doctor and do good things) but because of MGoBlog freaking out all offseason after the transfer about how stupid Iowa was for pushing Jake out the door and how unfair the criticism Jake got was and how this would be the Beginning of The End for Kirk Ferentz and blah blah blah. His QB preview is hilarious after watching the Utah game. MourningView fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Sep 4, 2015 |
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Thoguh posted:I need a show of him (her?) hanging out with Dubs. Stat. Smokey is all dude. I'd watch Smokey and the Dubs \/ A Good Dog
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Pakled posted:All the best dogs have floppy ears. I used to have a bluetick and she was obessesed with getting her ears scratched. She would just walk up to you, howl, and then put her head in your lap and look at you until you gave her a good ear rub.
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RumbleFish posted:No aftermath thread yet? I'll save my full thoughts for that, but last night we had more than 25% of our sack total for the entire 2014 season. lol/thank god. There are still four more days or games before this week deserves an Aftermath.
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Strobe posted:There are still four more days or games before this week deserves an Aftermath.
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Good piece on GT's Justin Thomas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpqyHBtzen8
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If you want an aftermath thread then make a dang aftermath thread, don't just whine about it not existing or debate Thread Posting Etiquitte
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:We always start the Aftermath soon after the first games end, IIRC. Generally someone pony's up for an aftermath thread sometime during the Saturday after the first or second waves of games. Sometimes it takes until the end of the night (generally when I say "gently caress it" and start the thread myself). Aftermath thread will last sometime through until Saturday. But to rephrase what MorningView said, gently caress this gay earth, you can do whatever you want. As long as it's not bitching about things.
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MindlessHavok posted:UT did an article on him and took some modelling shots. Would play catch and give belly rubs to that dogge.
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MourningView posted:If you want an aftermath thread then make a dang aftermath thread, don't just whine about it not existing or debate Thread Posting Etiquitte I'm not whining about anything. I'm just too lazy to make it myself, so I'm fine with waiting.
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Farking Bastage posted:Minnesota's using memes on their jumbotron with gently caress with opposing kickers Owns
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Farking Bastage posted:Minnesota's using memes on their jumbotron with gently caress with opposing kickers They did that last year as well, right?
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George Rogers finally got a statue, and it's being installed today: The pose they went with is kind of...stiff and unusual for a Heisman Trophy winner, but I'm happy we're honoring him.
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wandler20 posted:But not before GT puts 50 on the board. GT is going to gently caress so many teams up this year, FSU probably included. This year is gonna suck
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DinosaurEggSalad posted:I'm going be contrarian for a second, but i think a lot of analysts saying Michigan showed some bright spots are ignoring how bad Utah was at times last night. Michigan's first TD, and only non-garbage time one, came on a drive extended by the world's dumbest late hit and Utah's tackling was really really poor for most of the game. On the defensive side, Utah seemed disinterested in changing their gameplan after Michigan started loading the box, and Michigan's run D looked a lot less impressive later in the game when they needed stops. The biggest red flag though was the short/intermediate coverage. Wilson picked apart the LBs in coverage on Utah's scoring drives, and if he's capable of that, Cook, Barrett and Hack are going to feast on them. It doesn't matter if how good your defensive front and safeties are if opposing offensives can abuse you down the middle for 7 yards a pass all day. Thoughts: Yes, Michigan is still not a very good team. They won 5 games last year. When people say they look better they mean 'could go to a bowl game' not 'are going to win the Big 10 Using your timeouts with 5 minutes left when you are down 14 points is actually good clock management and something any non idiot (aka Brady Hoke) coach should do. Hackenberg will likely be sacked 20 times by Michigan's D-Line, which played very well. Of course Cook and Ohio State's QBs will eat up Michigan's defense, that would happen if they had a Megazord of coaches comprised of Lombardi, Belichick, and some other old dead guys I'm too lazy to think of. I think we have reached a weird situation where a few people honestly thought Michigan would be really good somehow just because HARBAUGH and are thus disappointed, while people who actually watched Michigan last year are just thinking 'nice, we had 11 men on the field on every play' because that's something that was depressingly uncommon last year. MourningView posted:stuff I'm pretty sure Brian just convinced himself that Rudock might be good because 1. Greg Davis 2. The alternative was a world where Shane Morris might have to play I don't really want to face #2 yet either, so come on Rudock comeback! Next week can't be worse! Marquis de Pyro fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Sep 4, 2015 |
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ZenVulgarity posted:This year is gonna suck B-b-b-but people on TV tell me that Golson is a Heisman contender
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Groucho Marxist posted:B-b-b-but people on TV tell me that Golson is a Heisman contender Thank god Lou Holtz is gone
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Marquis de Pyro posted:Thoughts: Yes, Michigan is still not a very good team. They won 5 games last year. When people say they look better they mean 'could go to a bowl game' not 'are going to win the Big 10 after all the denard for heisman years, i would think most people would withhold judgment on michigan for a while my major thought is wow does the o-line seem bad. i wonder how smith would look if he wasn't contacted 2 yards behind the line every play d line looked hungry
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I guess, but he was hilariously hostile to the notion that Iowa was better off moving on from him and taking a chance on a more talented if also somewhat more risky player. And I'd even agree that there's a chance the Beathard thing blows up, especially because this year's offensive line looks like a disaster waiting to happen. But they pretty much knew what they had in Jake and it was a guy who gives you an absolute ceiling of 8 wins. Kirk Fernetz is an intensely loyal guy who hates any sort of controversy or change. We're talking about a guy who spent a whole season starting Kyle McCann over Future Heisman Runner Up Brad Banks and who once basically threw a winnable game just to give Jake Christensen one more chance over Ricky Stanzi (over the objections of literally his entire offensive coaching staff). He loved Rudock because Jake's an extremely smart guy who worked very very hard in the film room, understood the offense very well, and rarely turned the ball over. That is like the platonic ideal of a Kirk Ferentz quarterback. The only way he could be better is if he was from Muscatine and walked on rather than coming from a powerhouse in Florida. Kirk would routinely bring up Rudock in interviews completely unprompted, which is something he usually reserves for scrappy walk on centers. Basically the entire coaching staff (including his own son) had to talk him into making the change and it took all last season for him to finally commit to it. It wasn't just something they decided on a whim. MourningView fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Sep 4, 2015 |
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Slate Action posted:To the guy in here who thought Tulane might be able to start 2-0 against ACC teams, I'm sorry. At least Georgia Tech's defense is worse than Duke's so you should be able to score more points next week. I thought Tulane's offense and special teams would have taken the leap from bad to average since last year the team started mainly freshmen. It looks like this didn't happen. Their qb and run game took forever to get going and didn't do much. They still have such little confidence in their kicking game that they go for it on 4th downs in situations where normal teams would just kick field goals. Their defense was good until they got tired in the 4th. It's got to be frustrating for defense to be able to stop the other team and then never have your offense score. Duke's QB looked good. Part of the reason I thought they may have a chance vs Duke was injuries + new QB growing pains. Sirk quickly destroyed that idea. I'd have some more confidence vs GA Tech because Tulane's run d might be able to slow them down but after seeing how the offense looked, I think a Tulane win is much less likely. Spacebump fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Sep 4, 2015 |
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The D-line also had the luxury of facing the 79th best rushing attack last year and an O-line that lost it's all conference left tackle and a starting guard after ranking 94th in adjusted sack rate. My general point is less that they won't make a bowl, but rather folks might want to hold off on getting too excited about their D until they at least handle BYU.
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DinosaurEggSalad posted:The D-line also had the luxury of facing the 79th best rushing attack last year and an O-line that lost it's all conference left tackle and a starting guard after ranking 94th in adjusted sack rate. Michigan's run defense was actually good last year, so the fact that they shut down an all pac-12 rb seems relevant to me. I'm not excited about the defense so much as 'they played well on the road vs a top 25 team' that is more than good enough for this team to do well. They're not going to face many more decent teams this year. Unfortunately, the offense played badly enough to lose to anyone.
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