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Post by pippsheadache on Oct 15, 2023 13:32:30 GMT -5
Number 8 Oregon, Number 10 USC and Number 14 Louisville all fall from the ranks of the unbeaten. USC was very sloppy with five turnovers in getting pasted by Notre Dame just a week after the Fighting Irish lost to Louisville, which itself played awfully in losing to Pitt. Oregon missed a field goal at the end to lose a hard-fought match against Number 9 Washington. If memory serves, those teams are moving to the Big Ten, which of course makes total sense. The Big Three of the Big Ten, Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State, continued to roll against lesser opposition. I have no idea how good they really are until they start playing each other, which starts next week with Penn State - Ohio State. The road to the championship always goes through the SEC until proven otherwise. Although even there none of those teams look invulnerable. This could be one of the more intriguing BCS competitions. Georgia remains the team to beat in the SEC, but they are not the juggernaut of the last two years; however, there is still enough talent to win it a third year in a row. No team has used the NIL to a greater degree than Georgia, who already had no trouble recruiting historically. Alabama is always tough, but not the dynasty they were. If LSU can continue to cobble together a defense, they could make some noise but already have two losses. I saw some of the Georgia-Vandy game, and this Georgia squad is not at the level of the past two. You guys have only one conference loss and play the Dawgs in a few weeks -- it doesn't seem impossible that you could knock them off. For that matter, same goes for the Gators with Alabama in the SEC West. Bama struggled with a mediocre Arkansas team. But no question, until someone actually knocks off UGA, they have to be the favorite. |
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Post by rizzuto on Oct 15, 2023 14:09:43 GMT -5
Georgia remains the team to beat in the SEC, but they are not the juggernaut of the last two years; however, there is still enough talent to win it a third year in a row. No team has used the NIL to a greater degree than Georgia, who already had no trouble recruiting historically. Alabama is always tough, but not the dynasty they were. If LSU can continue to cobble together a defense, they could make some noise but already have two losses. I saw some of the Georgia-Vandy game, and this Georgia squad is not at the level of the past two. You guys have only one conference loss and play the Dawgs in a few weeks -- it doesn't seem impossible that you could knock them off. For that matter, same goes for the Gators with Alabama in the SEC West. Bama struggled with a mediocre Arkansas team. But no question, until someone actually knocks off UGA, they have to be the favorite. For some odd reason, LSU did not have a defensive line coach until the last two games. Jimmy Lindsey, the regular defensive line coach, has been out all season with a health issue. Finally, after the loss to Ole Miss and over 700 yards of offense and 50 points allowed, they hired the octogenarian Pete Jenkins. No surprise, the Tigers have looked much better defensively since then. How does a multi-million dollar program just go without a position coach for five games? Coach Kelly has an all-American defensive demon in Harold Perkins, and it took him until the seventh game to figure out how to use him, after a stellar freshman season last year. Really disappointed in mistakes like the former and lack of imagination in the latter. |
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Post by rizzuto on Oct 21, 2023 18:35:07 GMT -5
LSU plays Army tonight at Death Valley in Baton Rouge. Army won the last meeting at West Point 20-0 in 1931. It took a long time for a home and home rivalry.
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Post by inger on Oct 21, 2023 18:42:50 GMT -5
LSU plays Army tonight at Death Valley in Baton Rouge. Army won the last meeting at West Point 20-0 in 1931. It took a long time for a home and home rivalry. Nothing to do with the game, but my late brother in law had once gifted us with a bag of rocks and gems he had collected as an amateur geologist (rock hound). He had two pieces of colemite in there, marked “Death Valley”. One is a combo of colemite and borax. I revently went through the box anc placed some of the nicer specimens in the house and some of them outside in his honor. It made more sense than having a box of rocks in an outbuilding. I even used what I would call his “crumbles” outside. Little tiny flakes that he treasured and I have no clue what they are… |
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Post by rizzuto on Oct 29, 2023 15:21:44 GMT -5
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Post by inger on Oct 29, 2023 16:38:55 GMT -5
So glad I don’t care anymore. 🤓… I had no idea this was week 9 or any of that… couldn’t name a Colts player if I was offered $1M to do so… |
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Post by pippsheadache on Oct 29, 2023 18:51:32 GMT -5
I watch very little NFL these days, but I came across the Jets-Giants game in the second half and it was mesmerizingly awful and like the proverbial highway pileup I had to look. I'm sure it was quite painful for Kaybli. It's been a long time since I've seen a game like that -- a non-passing QB for the Giants, missing chip-shot FGs, pea-brain penalties, 59 minutes of horror from Zack Wilson before he found his stride. Condolences Kaybli (and that's from a Browns fan who knows a lot about bad football.) |
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Post by kaybli on Oct 29, 2023 19:25:58 GMT -5
I watch very little NFL these days, but I came across the Jets-Giants game in the second half and it was mesmerizingly awful and like the proverbial highway pileup I had to look. I'm sure it was quite painful for Kaybli. It's been a long time since I've seen a game like that -- a non-passing QB for the Giants, missing chip-shot FGs, pea-brain penalties, 59 minutes of horror from Zack Wilson before he found his stride. Condolences Kaybli (and that's from a Browns fan who knows a lot about bad football.) Thanks pipps.
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Post by rizzuto on Oct 29, 2023 19:37:32 GMT -5
I watch very little NFL these days, but I came across the Jets-Giants game in the second half and it was mesmerizingly awful and like the proverbial highway pileup I had to look. I'm sure it was quite painful for Kaybli. It's been a long time since I've seen a game like that -- a non-passing QB for the Giants, missing chip-shot FGs, pea-brain penalties, 59 minutes of horror from Zack Wilson before he found his stride. Condolences Kaybli (and that's from a Browns fan who knows a lot about bad football.) Thanks pipps.
-9 yards passing for the Giants. Wow. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Oct 29, 2023 20:02:09 GMT -5
On the college front -- how about those Kansas Jayhawks knocking Oklahoma from the ranks of the unbeaten -- Kansas had lost to them 18 consecutive times, with the last victory coming in 1997. From 2010 through 2020, Kansas won a total of 21 games.
So many great games in the soon to be deceased Pac-12. USC with a basketball-style 50-49 victory over Cal. Arizona took out those eleventh-ranked Oregon State Beavers. Chip Kelly's UCLA Bruins wearing 60s-style throwback uniforms knocked off Coach Prime's Colorado Buffalos, and number five Washington won a highly-entertaining 42-33 game at Stanford. A shame those schools won't be playing each other again anytime soon.
Georgia prevailed in the World's Largest Cocktail Party against Desousa's Florida Gators. I'll bet the Gator side had better cocktails, though. For the fiftieth consecutive week, it's either Georgia or Alabama ranked number one. Noetsi's Florida State Seminoles took out Renfield's Demon Deacons of Wake Forest. But my money's on Renfield over Noetsi in the punt, pass and kick competition.
I actually watched a bit of the Rice-Tulane game. It turned out to be a really good one, with the Green Wave holding on for a 30-28 triumph. I have a soft spot for historically-bad FBS programs like these two or Vanderbilt or Northwestern. They tend to be strong academically, if anybody cares about such things. But what surprised me was that the broadcasters noted that other than Georgia and Michigan, no FBS program has more wins in the past two years than Tulane!
Rizz's Bayou Bengals take on Bama next week. Buckle up!
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Post by inger on Nov 1, 2023 13:29:50 GMT -5
Remembering:
Not exactly renowned for his conditioning regimen, placekicker #TomDempsey was famous for his long-distance kicking ability, setting a then-NFL record with a 63-yard field goal with the #NewOrleansSaints in 1970, a record that stood until 2013. Dempsey now has the 3rd-longest in history. And he did it without any toes on his kicking foot. Dempsey was born without toes on his right foot or fingers on his right hand. He said screw it, I'm playing football anyway and had a decade-long career. The rotten part is the NFL then moved the goal posts back and in 1977, just to be jerks, created a rule that essentially banned his custom-made, flat-toed kicking shoe which had already been shown to give him no advantage. We say if a man without toes can kick a ball better than 99.999% of people, you should let him wear any shoe he wants. Dempsey passed away in 2020 but his legend and accomplishment live on…
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Post by pippsheadache on Nov 1, 2023 14:41:33 GMT -5
Remembering: Not exactly renowned for his conditioning regimen, placekicker #TomDempsey was famous for his long-distance kicking ability, setting a then-NFL record with a 63-yard field goal with the #NewOrleansSaints in 1970, a record that stood until 2013. Dempsey now has the 3rd-longest in history. And he did it without any toes on his kicking foot. Dempsey was born without toes on his right foot or fingers on his right hand. He said screw it, I'm playing football anyway and had a decade-long career. The rotten part is the NFL then moved the goal posts back and in 1977, just to be jerks, created a rule that essentially banned his custom-made, flat-toed kicking shoe which had already been shown to give him no advantage. We say if a man without toes can kick a ball better than 99.999% of people, you should let him wear any shoe he wants. Dempsey passed away in 2020 but his legend and accomplishment live on… If I recall that field goal won the game for the Saints over the Lions. It shattered the old record of Bert Rechichar of the Colts of 56 yards which had stood since sometime in the 50s. It was one of those factoids that often showed up on football cards. At that time even 56 yards seemed super-human. Anything over 40 was an adventure. The Gogolak brothers introduced the soccer-style kicks which were much tougher to block and aided distance kicking. For awhile it seemed as if every team had a European kicker -- the Gogolaks from Hungary, Chester Marcol from Poland, Jan Stenerud from Norway, Garo Yepremian from Cyprus, John Smith from the UK, etc. I remember when Norm Van Brocklin was coaching the Vikings, who had old school straight-ahead placekicker Fred Cox. He was asked what he thought was the best way to defend against the new-fangled soccer-style kicks and his response was "tighten the immigration laws." Hah, that would quickly get you fired today. Do you guys recall that it was Fred Cox who invented the Nerf Football? |
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Post by inger on Nov 1, 2023 18:06:18 GMT -5
Remembering: Not exactly renowned for his conditioning regimen, placekicker #TomDempsey was famous for his long-distance kicking ability, setting a then-NFL record with a 63-yard field goal with the #NewOrleansSaints in 1970, a record that stood until 2013. Dempsey now has the 3rd-longest in history. And he did it without any toes on his kicking foot. Dempsey was born without toes on his right foot or fingers on his right hand. He said screw it, I'm playing football anyway and had a decade-long career. The rotten part is the NFL then moved the goal posts back and in 1977, just to be jerks, created a rule that essentially banned his custom-made, flat-toed kicking shoe which had already been shown to give him no advantage. We say if a man without toes can kick a ball better than 99.999% of people, you should let him wear any shoe he wants. Dempsey passed away in 2020 but his legend and accomplishment live on… If I recall that field goal won the game for the Saints over the Lions. It shattered the old record of Bert Rechichar of the Colts of 56 yards which had stood since sometime in the 50s. It was one of those factoids that often showed up on football cards. At that time even 56 yards seemed super-human. Anything over 40 was an adventure. The Gogolak brothers introduced the soccer-style kicks which were much tougher to block and aided distance kicking. For awhile it seemed as if every team had a European kicker -- the Gogolaks from Hungary, Chester Marcol from Poland, Jan Stenerud from Norway, Garo Yepremian from Cyprus, John Smith from the UK, etc. I remember when Norm Van Brocklin was coaching the Vikings, who had old school straight-ahead placekicker Fred Cox. He was asked what he thought was the best way to defend against the new-fangled soccer-style kicks and his response was "tighten the immigration laws." Hah, that would quickly get you fired today. Do you guys recall that it was Fred Cox who invented the Nerf Football? I recall Alex Karras cracking Johnny Carson up talking about the Lion’s laughing and almost unable to stand up when Sempsey was sent out to kick that field goal. They didn’t think it was possible. Dempsey got the last laugh. I either never knew or forgot about Cox as the I center of the nerf football. They were tons of fun when there wasn’t enough room for a real football game… |
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Post by Renfield on Nov 2, 2023 15:59:59 GMT -5
I watched that game. Carr tore up the soft Colts zone (as he always does). Colts are down their 3 top boundary corners, but doubt it would matter with the crappy zone scheme they run. Been a Colts fan since the mid-60's. Actually going to the game against the Panthers in Charlotte this weekend. Was looking forward to seeing the #1 and #4 picks in the draft play, but will only get to see one as the Colts qb pick, Richardson, is out for the season. Charlotte has been terrible this year and the Colts go back a b d forth from mediocre to bad. |
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Post by rizzuto on Nov 2, 2023 18:52:38 GMT -5
I watched that game. Carr tore up the soft Colts zone (as he always does). Colts are down their 3 top boundary corners, but doubt it would matter with the crappy zone scheme they run. Been a Colts fan since the mid-60's. Actually going to the game against the Panthers in Charlotte this weekend. Was looking forward to seeing the #1 and #4 picks in the draft play, but will only get to see one as the Colts qb pick, Richardson, is out for the season. Charlotte has been terrible this year and the Colts go back a b d forth from mediocre to bad. I didn't start watching until the third quarter. Carr is not what Saints' fans thought he would be - a parsimonious man's Drew Brees. Unfortunately, the team is so poorly coached, it may be difficult to tell what kind of quarterback Carr actually is, as he has more weapons offensively than Brees did in his final few years. The offensive line is not the bunker it should be with some high priced veterans looking brittle and shadows of themselves. Fans are hopeful that Dennis Allen and his reluctant offensive coordinator Pete Carmichael are on the way out after this season. |
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