THE MOST PRESSURE EVER ON A SINGLE QB? WE DISAGREE
by Spencer Hall on Aug 17, 2010 5:29 PM EDT
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Print"He's got more pressure on him than any player in college football history," former Florida quarterback Shane Matthews said.
With all due respect paid to Glorious Gator Nation People's Quarterback Shane Matthews, this may be a touch hyperbolic since no one in their right mind expects John Brantley to be anything like Tebow. We mean this literally. John Brantley eats with his toes, walks on his hands, throws the ball with a complex wriggling of his ears, and still uses dial-up to access the internet. He's completely different in every way right down to the way he cuts his steak. (In zigzags with a ban saw, and no other way or ol' John Brantley's not eating it.)
The most pressure a college quarterback has ever been under is also not a point up for debate.
The most pressure anyone's been under ever at the quarterback position is Arizona State's Rudy Carpenter, who was sacked 54 times in 2007, beaten senseless in every game, and is seen in the above picture being kicked to death by a USC defender. Despite having his head ripped off in the 2007 and dying twice in each game against USC, he was revived, filled with plasma and blood supplements, and sent back out to face another vicious thrashing each week because Dennis Erickson was beaten savagely as a youth by a mean bully named Hootie. It rhymes with Rudy, and that was enough to make Dennis feel way, way better about his past traumas. He's been a lot emotionally healthier ever since, man.
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I do believe that is Clay Matthews, Jr.
Mid-roid rage, looks like.
Horns and Dawgs ate old Rudy up as well.
In the bowl game against Texas, he was getting the shit kicked out of him but still ran his mouth while blood trickled down his chin. What a tool.
not drunk, just overserved
by Gen. Stoopnagle on Aug 17, 2010 5:47 PM EDT reply actions
Maybe those expectations would die down if y'all Florida fans stopped hailing him as the second coming of God every ten seconds
The Brantley Fellatiofest is utterly out-of-control. Sweet, the kid looks good in practice and had decent stats over the small number of passes he threw the last couple years. That’s all. Media-types and many Gator fans predicting his inevitable national championship, 1st Team All-SEC selection, and impending 1st round draft status need to get off their goddamn knees.
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Suppressed
is Old South’s Brantley man-crush.
But srsly, didn’t they recently do that whole UF-QB-second-coming-fellatio thing? Sounds familiar.
by Infield Elephant on Aug 17, 2010 6:42 PM EDT up reply actions
that's strange...
I live in Gainesville, and while there is alot of excitement and buzz in the air over the upcoming season I have yet to see anything of the “Fellatiofest” that you speak of, especially over Brantley. While the kid does get alot of ink in the Gainesville Sun, its probably due to the fact he’s the starting quarterback for the home team.
If anything its been all Bamalatiofest
by Hogtown Beatdown on Aug 17, 2010 6:46 PM EDT up reply actions
Seriously.
It’s been pretty low-key for Brantley around here, too.
by Spencer Hall on Aug 17, 2010 7:30 PM EDT up reply actions
That's surprising
I’ve heard quite a bit of it. And not the soft assertions either. It wasn’t “can Brantley live up to Tebow’s shadow?” It was, “Brantley is the best QB in the SEC right now and might be better than Tebow” stuff.
Then again, OldSouth’s media outlets generally report college football news as “The Cats are readying up for their game against Louisville JOHN WALL JOHN CALIPARI we play football too BRANDON KNIGHT FINAL FOUR”
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They really should take a healtier approach to him
like Texas fans with Gilbert. We (very reasonably) don’t expect his apotheosis until at least his junior year.
The French haven't the nature for war. Their Gallic laziness combines with their Latinate voluptuousness with the result that they would rather eat and make love with their faces than fight.
I'd have gone with 1988 PSU Tony Sacca...
Whose screams of terror still echo through the night when encountering stop signs that he mistakes for Derrick Thomas.
bah... that was only one game
Carpenter lived(??) through that hell every time he stepped on the field.
by CincySooner on Aug 18, 2010 10:10 AM EDT up reply actions
Watching that made me nauseous.
During the play in which Jimmy is sacked by the entire Michigan defensive line, Dan Wenger (#51) literally stands in place as all four defensive linemen go flying past him, and only turns around after Jimmy is already on the ground under a pile of bodies.
It’s really amazing that Clausen didn’t end up with much worse injuries. Fuck you, Charles.
Brian Kelly says no Spicy Sea Nuggets.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Aug 17, 2010 7:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Tenuta eats 3 QBs in 2007
IIRC, Jones transferred between the 1st and 2nd quarters.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
That Tenuta sure is a defensive genius.
You might even say he provides a decided schematic advantage.
Jones was seen slowly loping across the stadium parking lot with a few minutes left in the first quarter. Shortly thereafter he fumbled his transfer paperwork.
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by Ancient Chinese Secret on Aug 17, 2010 11:35 PM EDT up reply actions
TENNOOOTUHHH BLITZ!!!!!!!!!!!
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I would have fired the dumbass who started Jones in that game at halftime
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
The most damning indictment of Weis is...
Tenuta had better athletes at Georgia Tech than at Notre Dame. Tech has 16 former defensive players in the NFL this year, to Notre Dame’s 12. (ND leads 18-14 on offense).
Orson, I gotta go with ya on this one
Of all your off the wall riffs, Rudy Carpenter was probably the one QB I’ve most felt sorry for in the past 25 years.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
Understandable
but I had no dog in that hunt.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Aug 18, 2010 9:40 AM EDT up reply actions
Most pressure? Easy, Cam Newton
I mean, he’s got to follow in the footsteps of Chris Todd.
Yeah, I know. My fingers fell off just typing that.
Isn't the real story from that article
than John Brantley is John Brantley IV.
I vote for “IV” as his nickname. How many “The fourths” are out there?
He as to have a son, name him John Brantley V. There are two reasons: First, Johnny Five is alive. Second, just as people named Magic Johnson have prolific sex and people named Jeff Smoker have problems with drugs, anyone who is “The fifth” must have a drinking problem. It’s natural law.
Sparty on. Gator done.
We had a IV in our fraternity
“Quattro” is a good nickname for IVs, because it’s so much more ridiculous than “Trey” for the IIIs. For some reason it fit him real well in particular.
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Two of my best friends...
are V’s. They have both informed me that they hate the naming convention and will under no circumstance name their progeny VI’s. I think once you get that far you’ve got to keep it going. Getting past III seems to happen more here in the South.
"The intensity of the dump was the problem" - Nick Saban
by Bazarov, the Last Romanov on Aug 18, 2010 12:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Dubious Honor
Wow, the Devils highlighted on these hallowed pages. . .
#repeatinganypressisgoodpresstoselfoverandover
Sir, as one of the remaining Miami RedHawk football fans . . .
. . . I regret to inform you that the most pressure ever on a single QB may well befall Zac Dysert this season.
Emblematic of our overall fall from grace, Miami’s offensive line gave up 58 sacks last season. Dysert was spared from absorbing them all because he didn’t become the starter until about a third of the way into the season. Also, though it may be hard to believe, the total could have been much worse except that the kid is actually a pretty decent runner (over 600 gross yards rushing). I fear for his life.
Giving up exactly 58 sacks
is something Mike Haywood knows about.
Brian Kelly says no Spicy Sea Nuggets.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Aug 18, 2010 8:24 AM EDT up reply actions
+100 Cocktails
To whoever has to follow up a better QB than themselves…
by Riley Cooper's Mane on Aug 17, 2010 8:42 PM EDT reply actions
Oh, did someone bring up Arizona State?
Any excuse to use that picture is a good excuse.
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Not even most pressured UF QB
That would be Danny Wuerffel vs Nebraska.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
I'll go with Drew Brees in this years Super Bowl.
And in college….Garret Gilbert (spelling?) when he had to enter the NC Game after Colt McCoy got hurt.
We're all on the Hindenberg. No reason to fight over a window seat.
Damnit
Didn’t see this when I posted. DAMN YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!!!!
What do we do if somehow Colt McCoy ends up on an NFL team starting against Vince Young?
Dude, you already covered this
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2005/11/21/brodie-croyle-crash-test-dummy/
Following the 2005 Iron Bowl, where Brodie Croyle was sacked 11 times
“Seven different scholarship athletes, fed thousands of quality calories and exercised into chunks of hypertrophied mass in their training, were credited with sacks on Saturday. Their names and weights follow, with multiple sacks indicated by number in parentheses following their weight.
Wayne Dickens: 303 lbs.
Quentin Groves: 243 lbs. (2)
Antarrious Williams: 206 lbs. (2)
Tommy Jackson: 303 lbs.
Marquies Gunn: 238 lbs.
Stanley McClover: 247 lbs. (3)
Travis Williams: 207 lbs.
Total weight: 2690 lbs.
The closest equivalent we could find—and the most appropriate one—for a one-ton animal of equivalent size and attitude to a football player was a black rhino, which averages around 2500 lbs. (A giraffe, while capable of kicking the head off an adult lion and around the same weight, doesn’t seem as good a match as the rhino.) So on Saturday, Brodie Croyle could have taken the punishment by installment of 11 separate sacks, or simply gone out on the African serengeti with an air horn and taken one massive ass-kicking from a rhino. "
I'll bet the rhino smelled better, though.
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That picture was taken at the Coliseum in 2008, so now who’s the smart guy mr. Smart guy?
Sadly I don’t see ASUs 2010 offensive line being any better but hopefully the starting quarterback will know better than to run his mouth when he doesn’t have any protection up front.
Ow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaIM_yGOlYc
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
sorry
Croyle’s gotta take the cake on this one.
by SEC Supremacist on Aug 19, 2010 12:01 PM EDT reply actions
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