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CU Medallion [55664]
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APM's take on the upcoming Tiger football season:
Aug 25, 2022, 10:09 AM
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Believe it or not, APM is cautiously optimistic.
That is all.
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Dude that could have been a WHOLE Mackey blog post
Aug 25, 2022, 10:20 AM
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"Folks, how do I feel about this season ? Cautiously optimistic. Tigers could win every game, Tigers could also lose a game or more. Never can tell folks. Lucas Glover and I are still friends."
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Lot o points [155652]
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Followed by 7 paragraph prayer list.***
Aug 25, 2022, 10:26 AM
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Didn't Chris Finnegan make it onto that list ?
Aug 25, 2022, 10:33 AM
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Or was it some other enterprising soul ?
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Chris Finnegan made a funny in the scammer thread
Aug 25, 2022, 10:35 AM
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pinned to the top of the mange.
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Lot o points [155652]
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In fairness,
Aug 25, 2022, 10:26 AM
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We could have Willie Simmons starting at QB this year and the Ford Brothers as our lockdown corners, and I’d be “cautiously optimistic” about this schedule.
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Dang, forgot about
Aug 25, 2022, 10:28 AM
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the Ford brothers, Peter and the other dude's name.
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Andy man, Andy
Aug 25, 2022, 10:32 AM
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If you forget just look up “Ford” in the college football hall of fame.
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I was completely with you, right up to "Ford twins"
Aug 25, 2022, 10:32 AM
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True story:
Be me.
Be in the stands for a Clemson football game.
Close game.
Other team is marching down the field burning a Ford twin left and right.
Some one screams out, "Pull the bad twin out !"
Some one else screams "The other one is WORSE!"
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yet nobody could beat them out for the starting job
Aug 25, 2022, 11:07 AM
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whose fault was that?
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You're telling me that Kenya Crooks and Antwuan Wyatt
Aug 25, 2022, 11:23 AM
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couldn't play DB ? Why couldn't Speedy Watson get a chance ?
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Crosby at WR?***
Aug 25, 2022, 10:43 AM
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Kenya Crooks***
Aug 25, 2022, 11:22 AM
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Oof***
Aug 25, 2022, 11:23 AM
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Well, sure. Willie would be an upgrade.
Aug 25, 2022, 1:01 PM
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But you know that thing where twins instinctively know what the other is thinking, so they can mess well together in a reactive environment for greater effectiveness? Turns out, nope.
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dude's a hometeam homer***
Aug 25, 2022, 10:46 AM
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at this point, every season, every college FB fan is
Aug 25, 2022, 11:05 AM
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cautiously optimistic.
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I don't think I was last year. And definitely was NOT after
Aug 25, 2022, 11:16 AM
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game 1.
Last year I did not second guess I first guessed as Lee Corso used to say.
This season, I think we might be better. Ship appears to be mostly righted. Still think it might be one more year in the wilderness until we return to CFP-level.
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I'm not
Aug 25, 2022, 11:10 AM
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I'm apprehensive AF. I'm cynical until proven wrong.
I have heard some nice things from coaches...."finding areas we stopped throwing to"..."using TEs more"..."trimming the playbook"...offensively those are promising.
But we got who we got slinging the rock. It's on him to prove us doubters wrong based on his body of work last year. I'm hopeful he can find it, and I still believe he's got it....just ain't gonna bet on it.
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oh yeah
Aug 25, 2022, 11:18 AM
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forgot one thing....
Brent Venables isn't here anymore.
So uh....we are fooked.
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Sifting through the PR stories, trying to find the truth.
Aug 25, 2022, 11:20 AM
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My guess is DJT actually is somewhat improved, as is the OL.
We still have questions at WR (biggest concern outside of QB) and CK is NOT TLaw. Don't expect him to come in and just take over the way TLaw did. He's good. He's not G-d.
We will see how offensive play calling goes.
Defense should be fine, assuming Pork Chop is 75% as good as BV was game-to-game.
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I don't know how you can mess up that defense
Aug 25, 2022, 11:27 AM
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DL is a 10
Linebackers are a 8
DBs are a 7
Them young corners, are probably future 10s
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Lot o points [155652]
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whoopsies. I get passionate about both.
Aug 25, 2022, 1:48 PM
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DJU I meant.
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I am more with you. We're all trying to look past the PR and
Aug 25, 2022, 1:11 PM
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coach speak, so who knows, but the one statement that most influences me is when Dabo said about the first scrimmage (paraphrase): "The offense won the day today. The defense has been reading how good they are, and today they saw they have to go do it."
I don't see anything there that says the O is better. DJ is DJ, and 6 totally lost receivers are what they are until they do otherwise. Dabo is right that D is about 'want to', and Venables was all about that. The walking white board boy genius doesn't seem to be that kind of motivator.
I hope I am as wrong about that as I was about last year.
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I go back and forth. I'm actually optimistic about the new
Aug 25, 2022, 12:22 PM
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OC. He has been saying all the right things. However, reading between the lines it sounds like DJ still can't hit the broad side of a barn.
Defense SHOULD be elite but BV is a big loss.
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