LEECHES! SUPERGLUE! OFFENSE GOES MEDIEVAL IN THE SEC

“leeches, superglue and fervent prayer” – yes, but you forgot the bourbon shots to numb the pain.

I don’t think it’s so much our offense to blame, as it is general sloppy play.

It would be a totally different story if we had a kicker that could kick the ball between the uprights instead of to each of side of them and team that didn’t crucify itself with penalties. You could easily attribute 10 points a game to bone head penalties and missed FGs. I can’t believe Brandon James hasn’t quit with all the kick returns he’s had called back.

Still drunk. Going to Krystal.

Someone beat you guys on t-shirt slogans.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/sioncampus/11/13/monday.awards/1.html

heheh dick nut

Well, if there’s anything a girl from Florida knows, it’s cock.

It seems that Phil Steele deserves an apology from all of college football. He was the only one to come close to predicting what a bowling ball of butchers knives Arkansas has become.

And there is no way to stop Darren McFadden. He is the best RB in the country, even better than a healthy Peterson. Add that to dominant 6’5’’ receiver, a solid OL, and a horribly underrated defense and you have a potential ass whoppin’ in the Dome. I think LSU beats them but Florida doesn’t line up well against the Fayetteville Militia.

The new found dominance of the Hawgs only makes the Arkansas-South Carolina game that much more worrysome; what happens when SOS gets a few years of talent in Columbia?

Well …despite the lack of offense, at least its still gospel that you guys in the SEC play the best football around. I mean …any Big East team would be lucky to win a game in the SEC this year (if you listen to the national media).

the girl in the spurrier shirt used to work at The Cheetah in Hallandale Beach…classy.

Do you have a point, Matt?

Don’t forget that Johnson is another QB for Arkansas when making your Dick/Nutt jokes.

snake oil is a popular remedy as well…

Oh. My. God.

We’re running the damned SINGLE WING!!!

I’m a fan of the Notre Dame Box myself. It was actually on TV today, with Spencer Tracy playing a sportswriter in “Woman of the Year” with Katherine Hepburn.

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES, BITCHES!

I’m not really buying this whole “the SEC can’t play offense” idea. Did anyone see Brandon Cox throw 13 TD passes in the first half? Oh, those were Georgia players catching those? Damn that hurt.

“He had 154 yards on the night did Dick”

I’d say that anything but doing dick.

HAHAHA, High School football. I so believe someone is a little worried about getting there gator asses handed to them in Atlanta by the “high school football” playing crew from Fayettville.
You know you think the RB in the shot gun is pretty cool. Their saying “You know we’re running, we know we’re running, everybody playing along at home knows it too, so why even screw with going though the QB.”

Hell yes we’re scared. That’s Darren McFadden. We’d be frightened if you lined him up in a tutu and made him play in wooden shoes.

It was worth sticking around for the end of the video to hear Frank Black’s comments. Those rock n’ rollers sure are versatile. Isn’t Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden a pilot?

So seriously — does this admission that the overwhelming majority of the conference has absolutely ZERO semblence of competence (much less dominance) on one side of the ball put any holes at all into the whole “SEC is tEh SEX r0xxorz” arguement? I mean, when people say the Pac 10 can’t play defense, it’s taken as gospel by the folks below the Mason-Dixon line that any team out west would be helpless against the might of the 9th place team in the SEC. Wouldn’t there be just the teensiest bit of hypocrisy if they didn’t at least cop to “Yeah, so we do kinda suck right now” at a minimum?

The best team in the SEC is LSU. They have the best defense, and oh yeah the offense is pretty good too (400 + yards against Tenn and Bama the last 2 weeks). Now that the Tigers can run the ball …look out. All this Arkansas hype is fun, I can’t wait for the cochon de lait on November 24th. Hear piggy piggy…

Defense wins championships. It’s a tried and true principle that the PAthetiC 10 and Big LEast have to get reacquainted with every bowl season.

LSU is tenth in the nation in scoring offense, trailing PAC-10 leader Califonia by a mere 4 points. Second best in the country in scoring defense and yards allowed per game as well. Cal ranks 47th (ouch) in scoring defense, behind more than half of the SEC. USC, the most well-rounded of the PAC-10 teams (and Mark May’s prefered aphrodisiac) comes in at 18th in scoring offense and and 15th in scoring defense. Make what you want out of the numbers.

As for our fun little freakshow of an offense: We looked damn good between the twenties, espescially since it seems that Urban and Mullen have read up on something called the “Middle of the Field” and a “Vertical Passing Game”. Bubble screens are no way to go through life, just ask [Name Redacted].

Redzone playcalling however, is generally…. shitty.

Based on this season, the only frightening aspect about a mathcup with Arkansas, for a Gator, should be Florida’s lack of offense. It’s obvious running the ball hasn’t worked against the Florida D. It’s much easier to address inside issues than the alternative, so I don’t see Meyer worrying about the Arkansas offense as much as his own.

Arkansas may want to take note of the Spurrier/Cock approach: Throw the ball under the safeties on slants and crossing patterns. As noted around the boards, RFN plays deep and, other than Ryan Smith, the corners can’t hang in man coverage. My guess is Little Mitchie won’t have the ability to make the reads.

Regardless, it will be a beat-the-hell-out-of-eachother-type game. I can’t wait for it.

Bubble Screens aren’t the way to go? They were the bread-n-butter of St. Nick von Saban’s offense.

UF had a badass run defense until Thomas got dismissed and Siler sprained his MCL. Now we are not nearly as strong up the middle and I’m very concerned vs Arkansas running game. I’ve been saying all year that McFadden is the best RB in the country and we’re going to have to completely sell out against the run to stop him.

All the people talking about Arkansas’ brilliant-yet-underrated defence did see the second half against South Carolina, right? You do remember Blake Mitchell carving them up like a Christmas ham, turning a blowout into a very tight game, not so?

Dog that single wing, all y’all want, but it is pretty much unstoppable. It’s the same “read-option” play that may try to use but was unstoppable last year by Vince Young with RB Charles at Texas, only with a different look. Instead of the normal QB shotgun then handoff or fake handoff & run the other way, this uses McFadden at QB and Jones doing the end around, and McFadden makes the same read & decision that Vince Young made at Texas. It is just as unstoppable as the Young/Charles option last season because of the 2 dudes involved (whereas the JoeT/Lumpkin incarnation this season at UGA was utterly inept because of the 2 dudes involved).

Arkansas will win out with it, and with a little help will be playing Ohio State for the MNC with it on Jan 8.

To AUAlum and others who think that Darren McFadden might be the best running back in the country, he got to carry the ball a total of 9 times against the Trojans, ran for a grand total of 47 yards, and had negative receiving yardage. Now if this is your definition of the best, then there is nothing more to say.
Glad to see Mitch Mustain playing so well, however, as we saw in him someone special in the way he engineered that 4th quarter TD after trailing 44-7, even though playing against the SC 3rd -string at that point of the game.
And as to the Pac-10 not playing defense, we also play defense differently out west as the offenses are very different, more open than played in most places, including most of the SEC.
But that Florida exhibition against that other USC was laughable.

If the Hogs can stay awake long enough to win in Starkville, LSU will be an afterthought.

I’ve been rooting for an Auburn rematch more for the fact that we wouldn’t have to face McFadden in the SEC title game. Hopefully Meyer can use a good rotation to fill the Thomas void, and our LB’s can get healthy. I’m not worried about Monk as long as Ryan Smith keeps getting away with that hip-grabbing he’s been doing all season.

Maybe Meyer will line up Harvin at QB and give Nutt a taste of his own medicine. As long as we win I don’t care how ugly it looks. Single wing, spread option, Maryland-I, Wing-T, whatever puts points on the board.

“the other USC”

Yeah, that’s pretty funny. I love it when the Southern Cal people run that. There’s only one problem: the University of South Carolina was around 50 years before California was even a state. Hell, ol’ TJ hadn’t even swindled France out of half the midwest before the first Gamecocks showed up to class.

“See video below for Gus Malzahn’s brilliant/completely stupid goal-line sets with McFadden at qb.” Brilliant and stupid at the same time? Or one and not the other? I’m confused.
Oh, and who is having the better season lined up behind center, McFadden of Tebow, b/c it’s almost the same thing with them at QB. Any good bowl predictions out there? Need to make plans.

Hey, Trojan Rick— that was on one good foot, and playing, by the training staff’s own admission, at slightly below 50% — but was still good for almost 5 a carry against USC.

If you still think Mitch is playing, you’ve obviously not watched the last two games, where he’s had a total of 5 snaps— 4 of them when Dick was shaken up by getting a knee from McFadden on a 1st Quarter handoff.

McFadden’s numbers aren’t in the soft Pac10, either; they’re in the SEC, where we like our linebackers to carry around the teeth of the RBs they’ve killed on necklaces.

Ask Will Herring about D-Mac; he’s more likely to get the McFadden cleat-marks off his ass than Auburn is to sniff the SEC CG.

N-hack,

10 more MNC’s and 6 more Heisman’s explains the “other USC” comment in a de facto sense. If somebody’s great great great grandfather was born John Wayne in 1801, only he would refer to him as the ‘real’ John Wayne.

Will,

Arkansas pointed to the “other USC” game for 12 months. If their team wasn’t ready for the game due to their own missteps, too bad. I’m sure the “other USC” would fare better against Oregon St. if they played again on a neutral field. The Trojans had their shot and they blew it. Too bad.

brilliant because it’s out of the box thinking and it works extremely well. it’s unstoppable thus far.

stupid because it’s a stone-age offensive plan that’s not supposed to be effective.

SeaTrojan,

So your run defense gave up 5 yards per carry to a man who was supposed to be out for the SEASON after having his large toe nearly broken off just a short while before fall practice started, does that make you feel proud? Also, the QB you guys faced is now the fourth string free safety. The starting QB now was out with a back injury for most of the season and his backup played quite well against you guys after the game was well past decided in the fourth quarter. Also our second best RB gave up a LOT of fumbles because we didn’t allow him to take full tackles during practice because of McFadden being out (admittedly a stupid decision in hind site).

So, how would the game have played out if we wouldn’t have given up five turnovers, had a decent QB, and had a Heisman trophy candidate RB at anything near full speed. Oh, and I went to that game…even with so much in your favor, we were still definitely in the game until the second half. I assure you if the game were played again today the result would be quite different. You can argue all you want, but most of the sports media agrees with me.

JDevers,

What makes me “proud” is 70-17 and 50-14. What part of those scores do you not understand?

To play your game of missing players, we had 0% of Reggie Bush, Lendale White, Darnell Bing, Winston Justice and Fred Matua because they left early for the draft. I think most of the sports media agrees with me that we would’ve won 100-14 if they had been available.

Seatrojan, you remain clueless.

“0% of Reggie Bush, Lendale White, Darnell Bing, Winston Justice and Fred Matua”

Guess what? You’ve had 0% of them this year, all year, and will have 0% of them in the future.

McFadden’s been back for a while now, and his performance, availability, and health this year has a direct bearing in the outcomes of games played this year.

Try again, or is that SC degree only good for delivering pizzas to UCLA grads?

Will,

You remain in denial. 50-14 when your guys had circled the game for a year is a pretty big clue. Hey, if Reggie Bush hadn’t lateralled, USC would’ve won the Rose Bowl; but he did. Congratulations to Texas for taking advantage of it. If ‘SC had had their All American safety and the fullback who torched you guys, mayyyyyy-beeee ’SC would’ve beaten Oregon St.
They didn’t; they lost. Hats off to OSU, they earned it. And those were 3 and 2 point losses, not 36 point blowouts at HOME.

Does Arkansas give out degrees for making excuses?
You must’ve graduated first in your class.

Tsk tsk tsk. No one ever denied 50-14— just that it wasn’t reflective of the respective qualities of both teams, or even the closeness of the game.

USC and Arkansas on a neutral field, today— I’d call it a toss up.

Trojanrick, any reference to last year’s coulda, woulda, shoulda nat’l championship game probably qualifies as denial. You lost because no one covered Vince Young all night especially the last drive.
This year, DMac ran on one leg, having practiced all of three days after returning early from a severed toe and still avgd more than 5yds a carry against your ‘strong’ defense. You have no excuse but to win when someone spots you 30 points from 5 turnovers. Our 1st QB at the time didn’t know the no huddle offense and shouldn’t have been in. The freshman QB(now 2nd team) drove the field in 6 plays on your strong 5* second team defense with passes to his Springdale High teammates. BTW, UA is 2-1 against Texas in last 3 games. Two UA wins weren’t close. Third was lost on a fumble inside the UT 15 with a buck thirty to play. Texas was beatable last year, they just happened to play a soft western team.