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JBJ

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  1. You mean Banana Pop. Bomb Pops are red, white, and blue.
  2. Things to talk about at the watercooler: Follow ups from last week: Colorado may actually be good. Tech and Baylor lost again, but played tough games against Oregon and Utah, who should both be good this year. Throw these two teams in the "need more information" pile. Illinois is probably actually bad. They lost to Kansas, who isn't terrible this year, but it was a convincing win. Iowa won El Assico 20-13. Still doesn't look like their year. Nebraska lost to Colorado, and Minnesota has a not very impressive 25-6 over Eastern Michigan. It's now a trend: the west division of the B1G is terrible. Oklahoma came back down to earth a bit against a team with somewhat of a pulse, 28-11 over SMU. Washington had a serviceable win over Tulsa. Call me a believer now for their top 10 spot. I'm putting UCF back on ignore after a plodding win over Boise State. They may be better than expected, but not attention-worthy. Week 2 Games and Thoughts: Texas rolls Tide Enough has been said, so quick question to ponder. Did any position group for Bama look better than any position group for Texas? Tennessee over Austin Peay 30-13 I can't tell you where Austin Peay even is, but I assume that being 0-1 in FCS is a bad thing. Wazzou over Wisconsin, 31-22 When trying to figure out which conferences actually play better ball in 2 months, this battle of lowbies was both surprising and convincing. There really weren't many other surprising upsets or wins this week. Pretty much everyone else in the state of Texas lost, but the only unexpected one was Rice over UH. Other Trends: USC's three games have an average score of 59 - 17. USC is back? Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State are on autopilot. I'm not sure if that's a compliment or not right now. The rest of their league is going to be terrible. Throw Georgia in this camp as well, they won't play a ranked game until November, if those teams are even still ranked.
  3. Seems like if Milroe took a single step forward, they didn't score it a sack.
  4. I was close enough on the Bama score and yards. Thought we would struggle more on offense with the running game slowed down. Ewers was fire.
  5. Bama lurkers from this board:
  6. They doubled Worthy the entire 2nd half.
  7. Johntay Cook right here:
  8. LFG!!!!! Everyone gettin laid tonight.
  9. Is the correct takeaway right now that TxSt >>> Florida?
  10. My honest take: they aren't used to the Texas heat - especially this time of year. The current temperature in Austin is higher than our high today, and the kids wore jackets this morning to go to school. It's like a weird pride thing to pretend that the weather in the south is eternal dry-season west Africa. We didn't even have a single 100 degree day this year. The coaches and players aren't used to that level of heat and think there's something wrong when it takes more than a minute to cool off.
  11. I'm so tired this morning. Need coffee first. TEXAS!!!
  12. I guess I'm crossing off taking the kids to a UGA game, then. GTech tickets are probably cheaper anyway.
  13. Trying to model themselves like a cable news network, with 75% of programming being topical debate shows with the most controversial takes, I think really hurt them. If they want to touch on the topics of the day, they should stop having a 10-minute argument about who defensive MVP is and start putting together 10-minute highlight reel of the best defensive clips and games. On a positive note: I'm not one for sports documentaries, but it seems that's the best original content they do.
  14. Texas 24 Alabama 27 380 yards
  15. There can be a variety of tags attached to a split zone run that make things uncertain. I can't really think of one that doesn't leave some combination of these assignment groupings, however. I think the most likely scenario is Banks misheard the point call. And that Mitchell was expecting help from Helm, but that the LB is in that ambiguous zone where Helm is considered covered without actually having the LB on the line (i.e. he can't punch the DE outside without risking the LB blowing up the play.)
  16. I've watched this a thousand times and can't say anything with certainty. One would think Banks should combo to Mike, Helm would zone inside to the backer over him, and AD would take his man wherever he wants to go.
  17. JBJ

    Week 1 Recap

    We can go ahead and add a couple of the later games. FSU rolled over LSU. LSU was a slight favorite going in, but I think the word toss-up applies when it's this early in the season. FWIW, I picked FSU to win. FSU looked good as expected, but LSU would have struggled against a lot of teams the way they were playing. It was very sloppy. They couldn't field a punt, for starters. Duke stonewalling Clemson certainly changes expectations for both teams. I have some split thoughts on the game: First, Klubnik was not good. He was careless with the ball and it could have gotten uglier than the two turnovers he did have. Clemson's only TD came off a dropped punt around the 20. Clemson allowed some big runs where they couldn't beat blocks or had fundamental assignment breakdowns. Despite this, Clemson had more yards, more first downs, were better on third down, and had fewer penalties. Statistically, the game was close but in Clemson's favor. Clemson couldn't score because turned they ball over near the goaline twice. Even considering that, I don't think Clemson's expectation gping in was only to play Duke close. Was it a disaster game? Yes. Should there be lowered expectations now? Yes. Is Clemson actually 3 scores worse than Duke? Probably not.
  18. But that would be Roughing. Different penalty altogether.
  19. Announcer is dumb. A LATE hit can only be deadball.
  20. The PRESS CONFERENCE was moved to noon.
  21. It was moved to noon.
  22. With 4 receivers on the field side (RB being the 4th), Gbenda would be responsible for #4 (the RB) or the first crosser. He should take about 2 delay steps toward the RB release while checking the receivers that side for anyone crossing. This is too aggressive on the snap and bad eyes on his part. He's got 4 other defenders to help if the QB goes quick to a flare, there's no urgency to get there. It should look more like shuffle, shuffle...rollover back to his own side matching the crosser.
  23. Hard to tell who all the bigs are, but Kris Ross provides the pressure. Looks like Hill and Ford will be the OLBs in Stack. That's a scary duo to bookend pressure.
  24. It must be a guide error. "Local Programming" apparently means football.
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