Been real busy as of late so I haven't been able to blog much, but I wanted to sound off a few things:
- Someone needs to get these SEC refs some new prescription glasses real quick. How the hell did they miss Patrick Peterson's INT in the Bama/LSU game on Sat? Of course LSUFreek, sums it up in his genius fashion.
- Continuing on Peterson, kid is a beast. Been saying he's the best corner in the land since Week 1, but now I'm thinking he's simply one of CFB's best overall.
- Another kid I've been calling out since week 1 as the best RB in the country is Mark Ingram. Kid is such a smart runner and the way he picks his angles, hops, and cuts into holes is just amazing to watch. Not since Knowshon his RS-Freshman year and Adrian Peterson his frosh year have I enjoyed watching a RB just dominate and do his thing.
- Enough with the SEC, what about SC? ASU game was just atrocious and I haven't gone back to watch the game in detail. I'm still a big believer in Matty B. even though he couldn't hit a car driving across the field. His raw ability has never wowed me this season rather it's always been his leadership and poise. Kid just has the "IT" factor that so many "elite" quarterbacks simply lack.
- Message to Michael Morgan: gotta take better angles in the open field. Absolutely frustrating to watch a kid with so much athletic ability take atrocious angles towards the ball carrier. He's getting left grasping for air against players that are far less athletic. Chris Galippo also took really bad angles against ASU as well.
- Allen Bradford needs the majority of the carries until he averages less than 4 yards per carry. In the games where he's had 10+ carries, he's averaged 6.5 YPC. Not to mention he punishes linebackers trying to blitz. AB just plays with so much heart and swagger, the guy needs to get more carries.
- Talk about awful scheduling this year, in the 9 games played so far, we've played 6 on the road and 5 of the 6 road games were in extremely hostile territories: @ Ohio State, @ UW, @ Cal, @ ND, @ Oregon. On the bright side, next year's schedule is looking like a cakewalk with the only tough road games being @ Stanford (which is almost like a home game for SC), @ Oregon State (tough), and @ Arizona.
- Really wish SC would have allowed Nike to create a Pro Combat jersey. I know most SC fans will scream "tradition!" and "we're not Oregon!" but it's one frickin game and those custom gloves are too nasty. SC is going to have to get with the times at some point.
- Finally to conclude, although it was unfortunate to see Christian Ponder go down with a season ending injury, he had some balls to go up shoulder to shoulder with DeAndre McDaniel.
Good to be back in the Coliseum!
