Week 4 in Review

[Kaos]

The following musings are based on the little bits of various games and recaps I saw from a bar at an elevation of 10k feet. 

1. Alabama: Annual version of "is this the greatest assemblage of talent in the history of college football" debate after choke slamming A&M.  Nothing will please me more than them losing. 

2. Arkansas:  They are not good. They are not as good as a bumbling, stumbling Auburn team made them look. Will they slip up and win an SEC game?  Magic Eight ball says No.

3. Ole Miss: Hey, we got receivers and a quarterback with one of those Tooliamatoonga names.  Will likely battle Arkansas for the bottom of the West barrel. Nobody was excited about a sluggish win over Clark Kent.  After documented brawls in the Grove, a big time donor calling out two black female students who came to the game thinking it was Halloween and dressed as strippers ( http://www.wtva.com/content/news/Students-featured-in-Ole-Miss-donors-po-493920781.html ), and getting that ass beaten by the greatest assemblage of talent in the history of college football, their dinky stadium was barely half full on Saturday.  They will still beat Mississippi State. 

4. Mississippi State:  State Troopers in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi cited several thousand fans for littering as they discarded shreds of their ego out car windows along the interstates.  Getting junk thumped by Kentucky was a good dose of medicine for a program that thinks above its station.  They are what we thought they were.

5. LSU: This is not a good team, despite being ranked fifth.  They are barely functioning cavemen and are going to get demolished by the greatest assemblage of talent in the history of football.  Among others.

6. Vandy:  Still Vandy. Let Notre Dame beat them twice. 

7. Florida: Let's get excited over beating the horse piss out of a MAC team.  Wait, that was Tennessee?  Haha. 

8. Tennessee: Good choice in Jeremy Penis as head coach.  Any questions about the state of that program can be summed up in the Quart'e Sapp saga.  He either did or didn't refuse to go in when asked or not asked and either did or didn't have an altercation with another player on the sidelines during the game. 

9. Georgia: The second greatest assemblage of talent in the history of football.  I'm not buying Kirby Dumb as the second coming of Saban.  Unfortunately, I don't see anybody on that side of the equation who can shut them up.  Their dumbass fans think Missouri is vastly underrated.  Their game against the Cavemen of the Bayou will be interesting.

10. Kentucky: Was impressed with what I saw.  Not ready to buy Wildcat stock, but they are probably the best chance in the East to outlast the second greatest assemblage of talent in the history of college football.

11. Missouri: Nice try, Big 10 team. 

12: South Carolina: The battling Muschamps deflated Vandy's balloon, but they're not all that. 

13: Texas A&M: I hate Jimbo Fisher. I don't care about this team or any of it's male cheerleading fans. I didn't see any of this game at all, but wish it had been a close game in which both teams and all their coaches were suspended for the remainder of the season. 

14. Auburn: I'm not going to hash, rehash and evaluate every position.  Suffice it to say this team is more than adequate on defense and an old, drunken orangutan shoving a football up its ass on offense.  Stidham has not gotten any better (he's regressed, due to the teachings of the QB murderer, Gus I guess).  We're missing a running back Gus can batter into mental and physical ruin.  At this point I expect Ole Miss to be a closer game than it should be, MSU to win, A&M to win, Georgia to win, Alabama to win. Given the fact that we have equal or better talent than most of those teams, I'm going to keep doing other things on Saturday. 

[Saniflush]

After documented brawls in the Grove, a big time donor calling out two black female students who came to the game thinking it was Halloween and dressed as strippers ( https://aaedms.azed.gov/wioa/StudentAttendance.aspx?si=196373&ei=247427&rid=335113 ),

I clicked the link expecting Nubian princesses dressed as strippers....I are sad.

[Kaos]

I clicked the link expecting Nubian princesses dressed as strippers....I are sad.

Original revised.  I are dumb. 

[Saniflush]

Original revised.  I are dumb.

I are still sad after watching it.  Might as well go back to the original link.

[The Six]

Auburn Twitter is blaming Stidham's skiddish rabbit routine on the notion that he doesn't trust the o-line. That might be true but it's not like he didn't know what they were...oh, wait we don't go live in practice ever so he had no idea how awful they were.

The differences between Auburn and LSU on offense are minimal. Both teams just happen upon points rather than creating scoring opportunities.

Glad we don't have to play Kentucky too as this would be another year we get got by a team we have no business losing to.

9-3 is still a chance but 8-4 seems most likely. Hello Outback Bowl which is Australian for "your football team didn't really do anything this year." 

[Godfather]

Auburn Twitter is blaming Stidham's skiddish rabbit routine on the notion that he doesn't trust the o-line. That might be true but it's not like he didn't know what they were...oh, wait we don't go live in practice ever so he had no idea how awful they were.

The differences between Auburn and LSU on offense are minimal. Both teams just happen upon points rather than creating scoring opportunities.

Glad we don't have to play Kentucky too as this would be another year we get got by a team we have no business losing to.

9-3 is still a chance but 8-4 seems most likely. Hello Outback Bowl which is Australian for "your football team didn't really do anything this year."

If we get 8-4 it's only because of our defense.

My musings, the offense is a turd. 

Yes, OLine is bad but Stidham is regressing as Kaos said.  I was totally on the Stidham bandwagon this year, I thought he would make tremendous strides at the position.  He looks the same if not worse than last year.  He had time back there to make quick throws he never saw the guys.

All that being said playcalling is unimaginative and does nothing to help relieve Stidham's woes.

I disagree with Snags, I think our running backs are more than ample but given the OLine and we really never stretched the field AT ALL, Arkansas was just pinning their ears back and loading the box.

6 more years of this, and honestly, all I see is our two biggest rivals just getting better.  We are going to be left in the dust.

[Snaggletiger]

With regard to our running backs, I'd say adequate at best.  Kam is too small and has no break away speed.  He is a nice change up and should have been used more last year to give Carry On a break.  Boobee is a north and south runner who has some power and does some nice things.  You give him a lane and he's hard to bring down. 

That's about it.  Now having said that, they both will go off for 200 against USM.  Look, I'm in agreement with everyone.  It begins and ends with the O-line.  They're garbage right now.  Arkansas was in everyone's grill, 3 yards in the back field from start to finish.  In 2012, Tre Mason was running behind a line that was not only playing like shit, they had also quit before half the season was gone.  He still ran like a man possessed to get every yard he could and broke 1,000. He had real running back talent.

Whitlow looks like he could be something in the future.  I have no doubt he will.  But the guy has never played RB and he's jumped from playing QB at a H.S. with about 250 students, to an SEC West running back.  More power to him.  I hope he goes from 75 yds/game to 175 a game.  Right now, neither looks to be a threat. Maybe we can put in our 5'7" Worm. 

[Godfather]

With regard to our running backs, I'd say adequate at best.  Kam is too small and has no break away speed.  He is a nice change up and should have been used more last year to give Carry On a break.  Boobee is a north and south runner who has some power and does some nice things.  You give him a lane and he's hard to bring down.

That's about it.  Now having said that, they both will go off for 200 against USM.  Look, I'm in agreement with everyone.  It begins and ends with the O-line.  They're garbage right now.  Arkansas was in everyone's grill, 3 yards in the back field from start to finish.  In 2012, Tre Mason was running behind a line that was not only playing like shit, they had also quit before half the season was gone.  He still ran like a man possessed to get every yard he could and broke 1,000. He had real running back talent.

Whitlow looks like he could be something in the future.  I have no doubt he will.  But the guy has never played RB and he's jumped from playing QB at a H.S. with about 250 students, to an SEC West running back.  More power to him.  I hope he goes from 75 yds/game to 175 a game.  Right now, neither looks to be a threat. Maybe we can put in our 5'7" Worm.

Look, just admit you were wrong and we can move on.

[CCTAU]

Look, just admit you were wrong and we can move on.

I know right!

The knock on Boobie is that he liked to cut too much. Now that he's running north and south, we gonna know him for that too! Damn. Give the man a bit of a hole and you might see him get past the first level enough to make a cut. For the first time in a long time, we are getting tackled BEHIND the line! Damn RBs!

[Snaggletiger]

Tre Mason didn't put up with no damn tackling behind the line.  

[CCTAU]

Tre Mason didn't put up with no damn tackling behind the line. 

Yeah, but he only had to make one guy miss, not three!

[Saniflush]

Yeah, but he only had to make one guy miss, not three!

And he touched squirrels inappropriately.

[Godfather]

And he touched squirrels inappropriately.

So you are saying Tre can never become a judge?

[Saniflush]

So you are saying Tre can never become a judge?

It depends on whether or not said squirrels come forward in an appropriate amount of time

[CCTAU]

And he touched squirrels inappropriately.

I thought it was McCaleb that molested the squirrels?

[The Six]

I thought it was McCaleb that molested the squirrels?

No, he molested the sidelines.

[Godfather]

No, he molested the sidelines.

You know if you could keep this intensity level up to like 95% this place would be better for it.

[Snaggletiger]

I'm hearing now that a possum is saying Mason exposed himself at a drunken frat party back in 2011.  Actually, Mason was out by the garbage cans taking a leak while the possum was rummaging.  But, let's not let facts ruin a good smear campaign.

[The Prowler]

So you are saying Tre can never become a judge?

Beastiality is perfectly fine, as long as he has a (R) next to his name, right?

[Snaggletiger]

Hey, at the end of the day, we're still in the top 10 with a chance to improve this weekend before going on the road.