- Jun 5, 2014
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Anyone else laugh out loud at this awesome line?
Bait, you’ll feel better in the morning.
Game Thread ***OFFICIAL GAME THREAD: UF vs UT***
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Bait, you’ll feel better in the morning.
- Jun 12, 2014
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Its on him and he’s gonna get it fixed .
Or maybe he will make Anthony and the guys peanut butter and jelly sandwiches .
Then we can sit on a circle and sing Kumbuyah and everything will be perfect.
- Jun 12, 2014
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One of my favorite dynamics to watch unfold every year in college football for every team is the complete stripping of reality away from fans on gameday. We spend all offseason looking at what we have left over from last year, who's coming in, what we expect to be fixed and what we expect to keep sucking hind tit, etc. We use this info to make some fairly accurate predictions about how the season is going to shape up, where we're going to struggle, where we're going to see some improvement, etc. Then, once the ball is snapped, all that is out the window
The defense was going to suck this year. Ain't no getting around it. And, as predicted, it does in fact suck for the exact reasons we knew it was going to suck. The question going forward is whether the process will yield results when we get better players and they get used to the system. That's all that should be evaluated at this point.
The biggest queestion for the offense was whether AR was going to snap out of his funk and play like the guy we've been expecting. I think he had a hell of a game today. He'll still be here next year IMO. Seeing him learn from game to game is pretty cool to watch.
As for Napier, it sure looks to me like the last thing he is afraid to do is make a gutsy call. You can break down the math of some of his decisions and convince me that the stats say the smart play is to do something different, but its almost like he's trying to instill a hyper-aggressive attitude into his players. I think I like it, we'l see how it pans out.
Meanwhile, I'm watching what seems to be a record amount of upsets and implosions across the cfb landscape every week. Sure don't seem to be a lot of games on anybody's schedule that can just get penciled in as an automatic win these days.
Cheers
The defense was going to suck this year. Ain't no getting around it. And, as predicted, it does in fact suck for the exact reasons we knew it was going to suck. The question going forward is whether the process will yield results when we get better players and they get used to the system. That's all that should be evaluated at this point.
The biggest queestion for the offense was whether AR was going to snap out of his funk and play like the guy we've been expecting. I think he had a hell of a game today. He'll still be here next year IMO. Seeing him learn from game to game is pretty cool to watch.
As for Napier, it sure looks to me like the last thing he is afraid to do is make a gutsy call. You can break down the math of some of his decisions and convince me that the stats say the smart play is to do something different, but its almost like he's trying to instill a hyper-aggressive attitude into his players. I think I like it, we'l see how it pans out.
Meanwhile, I'm watching what seems to be a record amount of upsets and implosions across the cfb landscape every week. Sure don't seem to be a lot of games on anybody's schedule that can just get penciled in as an automatic win these days.
Cheers
- Aug 25, 2014
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That’s a stupid time to call the 2-pt conversion if that’s what he was thinking. Save it for the second TD then.
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- Aug 25, 2014
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Agreed. If the assumption is that Napier was either going to win or lose in regulation, then the correct sequence is kick the PAT to make it 38-28, then go for 2 on the next TD we score.
Going for 2 there was stupid. Napier’s mismanagement cost us this game, IMO.
- Dec 6, 2017
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Hindsight bias on not kicking the field goal. You want him not to have gone for it on 4th the times they didn’t make it. Without going for it the other times, this game isn’t close. You want to pick and choose after the fact? Fine. It’s a vain exercise that proves nothing.
As for the kicker’s range, he couldn’t have known it was out of his range because he already made one from that distance.
I disagreed with the timeout at the time. Billy took full responsibility for that after the game. We learn from our mistakes. Otherwise he did a great job today IMO.
As for the kicker’s range, he couldn’t have known it was out of his range because he already made one from that distance.
I disagreed with the timeout at the time. Billy took full responsibility for that after the game. We learn from our mistakes. Otherwise he did a great job today IMO.
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I am tired of watching clowns making us look like idiots on gameday. How many blown coverages? How many points left on the field?
AR can move the ball against a prevent version of the worst SEC defense we are going to face this year. woohooo pbbbbbt **** these coaches these kids god I miss enjoying watching this team play football.
AR can move the ball against a prevent version of the worst SEC defense we are going to face this year. woohooo pbbbbbt **** these coaches these kids god I miss enjoying watching this team play football.
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- Aug 17, 2018
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Agree 100%, with the caveat that going for 2 early has always irked me. Here it cost us overtime and who knows what else. I’m sure the game theory percentages are with Napier but I’ve seen this outcome too often.One of my favorite dynamics to watch unfold every year in college football for every team is the complete stripping of reality away from fans on gameday. We spend all offseason looking at what we have left over from last year, who's coming in, what we expect to be fixed and what we expect to keep sucking hind tit, etc. We use this info to make some fairly accurate predictions about how the season is going to shape up, where we're going to struggle, where we're going to see some improvement, etc. Then, once the ball is snapped, all that is out the window
The defense was going to suck this year. Ain't no getting around it. And, as predicted, it does in fact suck for the exact reasons we knew it was going to suck. The question going forward is whether the process will yield results when we get better players and they get used to the system. That's all that should be evaluated at this point.
The biggest queestion for the offense was whether AR was going to snap out of his funk and play like the guy we've been expecting. I think he had a hell of a game today. He'll still be here next year IMO. Seeing him learn from game to game is pretty cool to watch.
As for Napier, it sure looks to me like the last thing he is afraid to do is make a gutsy call. You can break down the math of some of his decisions and convince me that the stats say the smart play is to do something different, but its almost like he's trying to instill a hyper-aggressive attitude into his players. I think I like it, we'l see how it pans out.
Meanwhile, I'm watching what seems to be a record amount of upsets and implosions across the cfb landscape every week. Sure don't seem to be a lot of games on anybody's schedule that can just get penciled in as an automatic win these days.
Cheers
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453 yards 2 TDs in the air and 62 yards 2 TDs on the ground. The late INT was meaningless. Tebow would be proud of those numbers.
Yes he had a costly fumble. $hit happens brother
- Jun 14, 2014
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Spot on and many if not all our fans would have taken 2-2 at this point if offered prior to the season would have taken it.One of my favorite dynamics to watch unfold every year in college football for every team is the complete stripping of reality away from fans on gameday. We spend all offseason looking at what we have left over from last year, who's coming in, what we expect to be fixed and what we expect to keep sucking hind tit, etc. We use this info to make some fairly accurate predictions about how the season is going to shape up, where we're going to struggle, where we're going to see some improvement, etc. Then, once the ball is snapped, all that is out the window
The defense was going to suck this year. Ain't no getting around it. And, as predicted, it does in fact suck for the exact reasons we knew it was going to suck. The question going forward is whether the process will yield results when we get better players and they get used to the system. That's all that should be evaluated at this point.
The biggest queestion for the offense was whether AR was going to snap out of his funk and play like the guy we've been expecting. I think he had a hell of a game today. He'll still be here next year IMO. Seeing him learn from game to game is pretty cool to watch.
As for Napier, it sure looks to me like the last thing he is afraid to do is make a gutsy call. You can break down the math of some of his decisions and convince me that the stats say the smart play is to do something different, but its almost like he's trying to instill a hyper-aggressive attitude into his players. I think I like it, we'l see how it pans out.
Meanwhile, I'm watching what seems to be a record amount of upsets and implosions across the cfb landscape every week. Sure don't seem to be a lot of games on anybody's schedule that can just get penciled in as an automatic win these days.
Cheers
And you're right about the upsets. "Little Middle" Tennessee spanked scUM. It is a weird year thus far.
- Aug 31, 2014
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All the numnuts on here, me included, that said go with the statistics, well here it is.
- Aug 31, 2014
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No, a defense that couldn't force a single punt cost us the game. You could argue that's on Napier as HC, but I'll take his aggressive play calling any day.
- Jun 9, 2014
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De la Torre doesn't know the difference between a FG and a PAT. Regardless, I disagree with Napier's decision. It comes down to weighing risk-reward. The reward was minimal enough that it didn't justify the risk.
- Aug 31, 2014
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And if he settled for 3 and punted on the other 4th downs and we get blown out, you'd be criticizing Napier for that as well.
He's seen the same defense that we have; he knows the wholes in personnel better than we. So his game plan was to be as aggressive on offense as possible. It's obvious that was his game plan. Me personally, I'm glad he went into Knoxville with some plan to win instead of just survive.
- Jan 3, 2018
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They NEVER punted....the entire game!!!! Going for it was the only way to keep them from scoring AGAIN. Billy new it and that's why he is the coach and you're here arm chair QBing. What? You think those 4x we got the 1st down and continued the drive we should have punted? Thats at a minimum 12 pts the other way and in all probably 28. Now do the math. Not too mention the times we actually scored on those 4th down conversions. And we did attempt a FG...he missed. The 2 pt conversion attempts I think were too much. Kick the PAT
- Jun 11, 2014
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The 2 pt conversion to make it 9 pts down was specifically to end the game in regulation.
We weren't going to stop them in an OT shootout, so being 10 pts down only gets you to OT.
Had we gotten the first (and we've been pretty good at 2 pt conversions haven't we?) Then the end of the game being just like it was would have meant a FG would win the game after that onside kick.
