Friday August 20, 2010

Friday E-Mail Bag

Friday E-Mail Bag
Each Friday I publish your comments and answer your questions. To submit a comment or questions please e-mail me at mickeyplyler@hotmail.com.

Mickey,

Tigerfan

Tigerfan,

Thanks for the prayers for Ryan. He is doing great. He turned 19 this week and starts his senior year next week but girls and Clemson football are on his mind right now.

Parker said this week that he is 99% sure this will be his last season of Clemson football. He cannot play Clemson baseball because of the contract and there is only a slight chance he could play football here again. There is a chance he could enter the NFL draft in April because he would have completed his third year of football this fall. The only way he could play football again here at Clemson in 2011 is through a term waiver. Parker would be eligible to apply for this special waiver and would have a chance to receive it due to the fact that he has done well in school and would be over 60% of the way towards his degree. The waiver is not a sure thing however and at this point I would expect Kyle to treat this season like his senior season.

Mickey,

Red

Red,
I think Dabo named the Red zone after you. Just kidding. The Red Zone and the Green Zone refer to the plays that are run from your own one-yard line out to your own 20-yard line and the plays you run from your opponents 20-yard line on in to the end zone. These are crucial areas. The difference in so many games is the efficiency of getting touchdowns instead of field goals from inside the opponents 20-yard line offensively and the defenses ability to hold the opponent to three instead of seven. Also a key part of the game is whether the defense can hold the offense once they have been pinned inside their own 20-yard line.

Skel is short for skeleton. Instead of the offense and defense going 11 on 11 it is when they go seven on seven. The offense runs plays using the quarterback, center and five skill position players. The personnel can be any combination of the skill players you will see on the field.

In Skel the defense uses a combination of seven defenders made up of linebackers and defensive backs.

Basically skel is a passing drill where the offense runs pass plays against the defense without any linemen involved.

Mickey
Love the show, but find it comical the defending of Clemson's schedule. Granted FL & AL do schedule 3 patsies, but their conference schedule also has perennial 9 win GA and/or LSU, AR, TN (who used to be a 10 win team), and sometimes each other.

Mark

Mark,
You are now changing the argument. I am not arguing that Clemson should not have been better in recent years. I agree with that argument. Also I am not argueing for the ACC. It too needs to improve. But your original argument was the schedule. The fact is that this is one of the toughest schedules in school history. That is fact. You can't argue with facts. You are using opinions which can be argued. But the fact is that rarely has Clemson faced a schedule that has this many returning bowl teams or this many teams ranked in the pre-season top 25. The preseason top is 25 is the only way we can use facts at this point. It may be your opinion that the poll is wrong or an individual team may nit be that good but that is an opinion. The poll is based upon opinions but that is all we have right noiw. Now you have switched your argument to the ACC strength which is a completely different argument and you are basing it on opinions and not facts.

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Prayer List
We have started a prayer list on the blog. Here are the guidelines:
*If you are offended by prayer or prayer lists then I apologize in advance. The blog is free and the prayer list will be on the bottom of the page so you don’t have to read it.
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Those who need our prayers include:
Finn Brookover, RTG-Pawsitive Tiger, Mary-Louise Pawlowski (John's daughter), Jo Ann Bachman, Kenneth Bryant, Pruitt Martin, Got igers and his family, David Rowland, Leonard, Gillespie and his family, Jim S, Christine Hepfer, Daniel Rosborough, Amy Murphey, The Huffman family, Nancy Winkler, John Reeve, Ethel Southard, Vinnie Brock, Kaitlyn L, Susan Miller, Joyce Harley, Steve Proveaux, Jeffrey Greene, the Hutto family, Sherl Drawdy, Caleb Kennedy, Teresa O'Connor, Matt Jacobs,Perrin Seigler, Carole White Begley, Candee Massee, Lindsey Jordan, Sam Catoe, Tyler Felch, Steve Cato, the Nicolopulos family, Cason Palmer, Scott Jackson, "the Jacksonville, FL guys", Kim Sims, the Coyle familty, Ryleigh Tedder, Steve Lee, Richard Crawford, Kelly Trakas, Jimmy Moore, Steve Williams Jr, Steve Williams III, Kim Thomas, Reid Thomas, Sam Thomas, Linda Wiggs, Emily Claire Young, Dr. Wallace Honeycutt, Stacy Fowler, Kitty Bowers.