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"7-3 is better than 34-0. That is all that I can come up with that is positive."

i dont know, b/c the russel nc state team was 0-0 with sc, it was a diff team that gave up 34 points.

9/3/2009 10:41:23 PM

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"I know the coaching staff talked about limiting his running this year to keep him healthy, but I don't think you can completely blame them."

but isnt that the whole reason we played glennon tonight so that he could replace an injured russel? does the coaching staff think he is so frail that he is gonna get hurt as a kurt warner lookalike?

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"Part of me thinks Wilson was a little timid. I know -- it's like calling Jesus himself timid around here. But they said in the pregame that he wouldn't even watch the replay of last year's "hit." Part of me think the one holding Wilson back was Wilson."

bullshit.

did you watch nc state football after the usc game last year??

[Edited on September 3, 2009 at 10:44 PM. Reason : sorry for the double, assumed other people would post]

9/3/2009 10:44:16 PM

neither of these 2 teams played particularly well....the long and short of it: Spurrier made TOB his bitch......again

9/3/2009 10:50:47 PM

and it was a touchdown maker that gave up 7

9/3/2009 10:52:39 PM

nobody made anybody anyone's bitch in this game

9/3/2009 10:53:07 PM

Hmm, according to the SC message board this was a helluva win. I doubt they'd accept an explanation that the ridiculous fumble won it for them.

9/3/2009 10:53:08 PM

Yeah ... I didn't say he was completely to blame, just that there were times when he would have taken off north-to-south last year and seemed to hesitate. Maybe it was coaching, maybe it wasn't.

I think we're expecting too much out of one player. His WR couldn't get much separation and couldn't haul in some key passes. I don't have to tell anyone how shitty the oline played. It was like watching Junior, the QB for the Little Giants, out there.

9/3/2009 10:54:08 PM

btw apparently it is legal to twist a players head so that it faces backwards

[Edited on September 3, 2009 at 10:54 PM. Reason : blame blame blame!! (the refs this time, coaches had theirs!) ]

9/3/2009 10:54:12 PM

someone get me a screen cap of the attempted beheading of Rashard Smith by that USC defender

9/3/2009 11:10:12 PM

fuck. a. duck.

9/3/2009 11:10:25 PM

my observations:
-surprisingly, i thought we looked a little underprepared for this game
-defense played well
-wilson was handcuffed by the coaching staff imo
-south carolina's defense shut our offense down, plain and simple
-we fumbled in our own redzone
-^that was the difference in the game
-i can't believe i've been waiting since december to watch this snoozefest of a game

9/3/2009 11:18:06 PM

Yeah that was a terrible no-call but to be fair we DID get the makeup call later in the drive.

9/3/2009 11:18:15 PM

It wasn't really a make-up call. The guy abused Jarvis Williams on what could have been a TD. But it was nice to get A call.

9/3/2009 11:19:20 PM

yea definitely not a make up call, but we were placed in the same situation we would have been in and still didnt produce

9/3/2009 11:20:35 PM

And^^^^ you're right. It came down to line play. Our pass rush was great, and I loved the blitz packages we were running. But somehow, Garcia seemed to have great pocket presence.

I would have never thought that when TB fumbled, that would be the game. But it was

[Edited on September 3, 2009 at 11:22 PM. Reason : ]

9/3/2009 11:21:38 PM

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"-wilson was handcuffed by the coaching staff imo"

i think it was more of a case of the entire offense getting scared/hesitant after the baker fumble and being too conservative to try and make anything happen

either way, it IS a better start than last season...our defense has to have some confidence, and our offense should definitely be able to get their swagger up the next couple weeks against some ass opponents

9/3/2009 11:23:08 PM

not calling the facemask was unbelievable.
south carolina's linebackers are the real deal.
i thought our defense played surprisingly well.
it seemed like wilson was over thinking things.
i thought south carolina did an excellent job covering our receivers.

i'm not really angry, i'm just disappointed. i think we'll be fine this year but feel the oline still has a long way to go. that being said, i give all the credit in the world to south carolina's defense they absolutely shut us down.

9/3/2009 11:24:02 PM

Did they shut us down or was the offense just inept? That's what's so hard to figure out with this game. The biggest thing was trying to turn RW into something he's not, a pure pocket passer.

9/3/2009 11:26:41 PM

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"Yeah that was a terrible no-call but to be fair we DID get the makeup call later in the drive."

definitely wasn't a make up call, you're a terrible football "fan", a makeup call would have been a questionable call that went our way, the PI was textbook

9/3/2009 11:28:09 PM

ref to TOB while explaining the no call after a USC player nearly beheaded Rashard Smith "Coach, I can't call a facemask if he doesn't touch the facemask... that tackle was ALL HELMET!

9/3/2009 11:28:42 PM

No shit. SC's defense was legit. Not just the front seven either -- the secondary made some great plays on the ball. I think we all underestimated how good/fast they'd be on d (at least that's what I'm going to tell myself).

Twista is right though. Regardless of how disappointed we all are, we're still miles ahead of where we were last year. We had no flow on offense, made some horrible mistakes, and still lost by four points to a good SEC team. It sucks, but we'll be alright.

9/3/2009 11:29:11 PM

OK right, whatever. We weren't getting calls all night for the most part and we get one like one play after the facemask. No replay for it either. You can call it what you want but the timing is suspect. I forgot, I'm talking to the master of football here. You miss nothing.

[Edited on September 3, 2009 at 11:29 PM. Reason : ...]

9/3/2009 11:29:29 PM

i'm glad you admit that you know nothing about basic football

i expect the referees to make calls according to the rules, doing their fucking job doesn't makeup for not doing it earlier

9/3/2009 11:31:43 PM

in other news:

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"Wilson set an ACC record with 272 consecutive passes without an interception. Florida State's Drew Weatherford held the record with 270 set in 2007."

(may be old, if so i apologize.)

9/3/2009 11:32:32 PM

Do you think we would've gotten that call without the facemask happening earlier? Considering all the other missed ones? Answer that.

9/3/2009 11:32:56 PM

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"and still lost by four points to a good SEC team."

USC will do very well to go .500 this year.

Their offense was dog shit. They will struggle. NCSU defense was just ok against a Daniel Evans style offense.

We were lucky not to lose by 20

9/3/2009 11:33:52 PM

Honestly, if a guy's head goes flying in a different direction than his body is moving, it's a pretty easy call. So yeah, I'd expect to get that one.

9/3/2009 11:34:31 PM

yes, actually I would expect to get that PI call, it was textbook interference, just like the offensive PI in the first quarter was

9/3/2009 11:35:07 PM

First one was much more obvious -- the TD one you're talking about, right? And also, there's a difference between what you expect to be called and what actually gets called, ya know. A football genius like you would know that.

[Edited on September 3, 2009 at 11:36 PM. Reason : ...]

9/3/2009 11:35:46 PM

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"Their offense was dog shit."

We'll see. Garcia has good timing and good accuracy -- just seems to have "it" as a QB. They've got a rough road in the SEC, but they're not complete dog shit. Their record will probably look like it at the end of the year, though. And Norwood is a monster.

[Edited on September 3, 2009 at 11:38 PM. Reason : ]

9/3/2009 11:36:44 PM

the point is, an obvious PI isn't a "makeup" call

9/3/2009 11:36:59 PM

just got in from that abortion of a game... jesus... worst offensive performance I have seen since UT last year, maybe even worse.

that under bet was EASY fucking money

9/3/2009 11:37:00 PM

It was all the refs' faults

We lost the game because of the no-call on the facemask

9/3/2009 11:37:39 PM

a team that can't score an offensive td is not going to be competitive in the SEC

9/3/2009 11:37:40 PM

They'll come back down to earth after GA. They're going on like this was some major triumph. They just sucked less.

9/3/2009 11:37:45 PM

^^ They did score an offensive TD though.

9/3/2009 11:38:06 PM

This loss hurts...

We didn't even use an offensive playbook until the 4th quarter. Despite all of the little things going against us, we still have a chance to win - but we dropped 2 passes in the endzone

Our D-line better step up and play big all year, b/c I have very little confidence in our LB's and Secondary. USC had a lot of long painful drives, but they kept fucking themselves over, or our D-Lane would make a play or two.

9/3/2009 11:38:34 PM

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"They did score an offensive TD though."

has to be from at least the 30.

otherwise it's a gift. which it was.

9/3/2009 11:38:56 PM

yeah USC is not a good team. Garcia didn't really look that impressive, Norwood was good, but I'm not sure how good he'll be against the SEC

9/3/2009 11:39:13 PM

fuck man,

USC might win 6.

Ill take USC winning less than 7 right now after watching that shit. I would bet 500 on that.

9/3/2009 11:40:23 PM

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"Norwood was good, but I'm not sure how good he'll be against the SEC"

Well, he was all-SEC last year...

9/3/2009 11:40:49 PM

in more other news, saw robert crisp (he's BIG) as i was leaving the stadium tonight.

9/3/2009 11:42:23 PM

South Carolina looked like a shitty team tonight, their one score was basically a gift, but that just means State is that much worse. I think they had under 100 total yards of offense going into the 4th quarter

9/3/2009 11:42:46 PM

Just got back from the game and just a couple notes:

looks like that could easily be the best defense we will play all year.

when they took down Graham with the face mask, alls I'm saying is from my seat right above where that happened that would have been fined in the NFL. Disgusting arm tackle. Couldve broken his neck


I'm converting the Dvr format to AVI and uploading to a torrent. I'll put the link up later if anybody even wants this garbage.


Ugh. What a day.

9/3/2009 11:42:51 PM

point taken, but an all-SEC LB doesn't win games

9/3/2009 11:43:29 PM

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"looks like that could easily be the best defense we will play all year."

lol

9/3/2009 11:43:46 PM

their tight end was one big bitch

9/3/2009 11:44:20 PM

2008 russel wilson is better than 3 points against the best defense in North America.

That wasn't the same team we saw last year. Fucking cocksuckers.

I want my money back - that was embarrassing.

9/3/2009 11:44:49 PM

Student section at halftime


pregame


think I was drunk and trying to use the panorama setting.

[Edited on September 3, 2009 at 11:45 PM. Reason : ]

9/3/2009 11:44:56 PM

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"the point is, an obvious PI isn't a "makeup" call"

Not supposed to be, but works in a pinch when the refs realize they blew a facemask .

9/3/2009 11:45:10 PM