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BulldogShannon wrote:

my apologies

No problem my friend, always like to see what you post....realize we are all upset and know you are a true DAWG!!! Love that this forum is classy...thanks, you are an asset.

Thanks for the warm welcome Wartdawg. I literally threw my hands up in the air in disgust when I saw us do that garbage where we line up, throw a hard count, then look to the sideline for the play from the coaches. Maybe I'm wrong, but that just looks amateur to me...

The result certainly looked amateurish.

I'm pretty sure Bobo was looking around one day trying to
figure out how to look "cutting edge"... saw what Peyton
Manning was doing and decided it looked unique.

Wartdawg wrote:

The result certainly looked amateurish.

I'm pretty sure Bobo was looking around one day trying to
figure out how to look "cutting edge"... saw what Peyton
Manning was doing and decided it looked unique.

Buck Belue probably whispered in Bobo's ear to take notes.

The only thing I can figure is this: Bobo moved back up to the box after calling plays from the sidelines the last few years. I imagine they were setting up the Boise D so Bobo could get a look from above and then have the clipboard carriers call in the checked play. That tells me two things:

A) since we did it RIGHT OFF THE BAT, we really didn't have a solid offensive strategy in mind other than "see what Boise does...react."

and

CMR, Bobo, et al don't trust our QB to remember/understand is checkdowns. The ironic part of that, if it's the case, is that Murray probably would've called the game better!

I think it was dapolla that said something about going with, and pretty much staying in, max protect mode. Maybe I'm just over-simplifying things, but I can't, for the life of me, figure out why we came out in a shotgun spread formation??? If I'm a coach looking at a defensive front seven who is maybe a bit quicker than we're used to seeing but also MUCH smaller, I'm thinking let's go two tight end set with QB under center and over 500 pounds of beef between Figgins (or Ogletree) and Samuel and not give them any choice but to let us establish the run. Once we've established a bit of a run game and, more than likely, tired out their defense a little, then we SLOWLY start to open up the play book but NEVER abandon what allowed up to open up the play book in the first place. THE RUN!!! I'm so sick of seeing this:

1st down - incomplete pass
2nd down - two yard draw up the middle
3rd down - incomplete pass


There's a formula in place in the SEC that has won 5 NC's in a row that most of the coaches understand, but for some reason ours don't...make an aggressive, nasty defense the cornerstone of your team (I do think we have the potential to do this...even this year) find a fundamentally solid QB who won't lose the game for you (we have someone even better than this in Murray...I think he has the ability to win a game or two on his own) and then ESTABLISH THE RUN. Even when Urban came to Gainesville and brought the spread with him he was smart enough to realize he HAD to have a running game first...even if it was his QB that was doing most of the running! Same thing with Auburn last year! And South Carolina! I know we have some problems on the O-line, but we have plenty of size/strength, especially when you bring a second fullback or tight end into the mix, to establish SOME kind of a running game.

Anyway, I think I just sprained my ankle stepping down off my soapbox...I'm gonna go ice this and I'll catch ya'll tomorrow.

Mike, just heal in time for SC game

Wlayton, you are right, I am getting madder by the week. I'll tone it up, I just didn't think the h**p word sounded as bad while writing it:)

let's just hope we win saturday. It's gonna get nastier if we don't.

Jeff Danzler made some great points today. (Also, forget who it was, but someone on this site also brought this up last year):

Ever since the Bama game, we have slipped. When Van Gorder was here, we didn't lose to Vandy, KY, UCF, Colorado, etc etc.

CMR should have nipped this in the bud 3 years ago.

So right: deep throw incomplete on 1st down, then the run up the middle on 2nd and 10.

Great, Carlton Thomas is back for saturday. We all know what that means: if you see him in the game on 3rd and 8, we ALL know it's Carlton Thomas (all 180 lbs of him) up the gut.





Everyone on this site knows that if Bobo calls 7 step drops against SC's defense, AM will not last the game. I would decide right now to try and keep this game boring and in the teens and hope the homefield can get us through: Double TE's, One back. Pound it. I don't care if we have some three and outs, I am tired of the 30 second drive.

Put branden Smith on the offense at the same time Malcolm Mitchell and IC are out there, give SC something to think about. If I see T King drop one more pass I will puke.






For those who say coaching isn't the problem, let me ask you this: Why did one of our LBers say after the game that BSU in the spread "surprised" us?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????//


Isn't that like saying "I was surprised to see a fat Santa Claus?"