Porch Pickin: Saturday Night Slap Down by the 'Cocks
12 years ago
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Dawgs Get Cow-Poked Right in the Eye
Fumbles, ill-timed penalties, blown kickoff coverage, no sacks... 2008 called and it wants its season back. I'll write more to follow-up tomorrow or Monday. For now, I wish to congratulate OSU and wish them well for the rest of their season. We have been treated extremely well out here in Stillwater and I would like to personally thank all of these good people for their hospitality. I really am pulling for them to win the Big 12 this year.
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Ugh. Just ugh. I totally bought in and leapt on the bandwagon about a month ago, but am starting to think i was a little naive.
Nothing, not even 3 decades of no win seasons, will ever change my love for the Dawgs or my alma mater, but i'm sad to say i'm a little more realistic rather than optimistic today.
So glad y'all had a great trip & a fun game.Praying we right the ship against SCUm this Saturday!
GO DAWGS!!!
Dammit. Meant to say "fun TIME" not "fun game." That was definitely not a fun game :(
Hamp,
Some observations re Saturday's disappointing loss:
Bobo went to sleep after the first drive - which was the most frustrating aspect of the game; we have to find some receivers who will catch - too many drops; Cox has to limit the mistakes and turnovers; the offensive line didn't blow them off the ball like I thought they would; Samuel has to get tough enough to fight through that first contact - he went down too many times after a 3 yard gain when he could have gotten 6 or 7 yards; we are inexplicably weak up front on defense; we don't blitz effectively if at all which we need to do because our ends cannot pressure the quarterback; Rennie Curran, our best defender, is 5'8" tall which means quarterbacks can see over him when he blitzes up the middle; our coaches don't seem to adjust well on the fly; we still don't have a kicker who can put it in the endzone; special teams coverage is still lacking. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
Positives: Butler's kid can punt it a mile which we may need this year. The defense - even without getting any pressure on the QB - only really had one lapse which was the long tochdown pass. They were tough against the run. Ehhh, I can't think of anything else positive to say.
What we can take away from the game: Okie State is a pretty good football team and was ranked higher than us so it wasn't a shocker. It is still disappointing to lose the first game. We won't see anyone with that much talent until LSU. We should know more about this team this Saturday night. The greatest amount of improvement in a football team comes between weeks 1 and 2. If we are flat Saturday night, it may be a long year. It's always ugly against the Gamecocks so they are going to have to dig down deep, play gritty on both sides of the ball, and win an ugly one on Saturday. If we come out swinging, we may salvage an 8 or 9 win season. If not, yikes.
Question: Was Ealy a bust at tailback? I haven't heard anything about him since fall practice began. Where is he on the depth chart?
Thanks for blogging. Glad it was a good trip.
Greg Pope
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