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For as good as our receivers were said to be at the beginning this season, is there any evidence they can catch something besides a run-pass option screen or a ten-yard crossing route? Missed opportunities, missed catches.

Today, November 10, 2012, is a day that will live on in history.

For today - the 10th game of the season - we discovered that handing off to Imani Cross works well near the goal line.

Long live early onset muscle development. Long live the Big Red.

I honestly believe that had we played Ohio State at home we would have beaten them. The difference in venue makes that much difference. But the flip side of that is we got killed at their place and they are still too good at the moment at a neutral site. Their offense would beat our offense.

Well... business as usual. 54 yards in penalties and a fumble.

Did anybody else read this like it was a DirecTv commercial? Very funny post.

That was the intent.

But in all seriousness, our offensive line was offensive to watch, especially in pass protection. The past five years have been the college football equivalent of Groundhog Day.

is that you have a dog house. When you have a dog house, you have to put players in it. When you put players in it, sometimes you put good players in it. When you put good players in the doghouse, they leave. When good players leave, the leave holes at their positions. When there are holes at positions, Taylor martinez fumbles from blindside hits two games in a row.

Tyler Moore.

taylors two picks are really the difference in this game. without them they never get that momentum.

Best block on that play was done by the ref, ha! Let Taylor escape.

Yeah no kidding... that's the only reason he didn't just end up with 6 or 7 yards. That was key.

On another point... why did the UCLA defense look so much faster than us as the game progressed? Was it a conditioning thing?

Also, does anyone know if that's a real song in the video? Kinda catchy. Made me wanna slap some people or key some cars.

For anyone wondering, it's a snippet of "Can't Hold Us" by Macklemore. Pretty good song IMO.

The interview was actually excellent. Short, but he provided insight into his game... something he's rarely done before. His footwork looks better, but his shoulder alignment still bother me, it looks like a bit of a shot-put. In all though... what did they put in Taylor's water bottle this Spring..?

yeah, when stoops has had top their athletes, he has had top their defenses. He never really got the athletes he needed at Arizona. We have them at Nebraska

Austin must've misplaced his floaties...

Mike Stoops. Then replace Corey Raymond with Marvin Sanders

mike stoops would make sense... oh wait their defense was the reason he got fired.

and look at what corey raymond has done with a secondary that featured only two seniors (one being cassidy, arguably the worst player on the field at any given time) this year. They have come a LONG way. Andrew Green? Ciante Evans? Once they bought into his system, they have done well.

Looking back at a video from last year, I happened across a video featuring Martinez' throw to Rex down the sideline against Idaho, and I had to replay it three times to make sure I was seeing it right. After all this talk about him progressing as a quarterback, it certainly looks as if his mechanics have taken a noticeable step back from the sharp, mostly on target balls from the beginning of last year. But here, judge for yourself:

Vs. Oklahoma State last year

Vs. Ohio State this year

I watched the play earlier today and what I saw was Suh being tackled by the o-line then held down by the linemans right arm, at which time Suh tried to get up and became pissed that he couldn't and tried to get the olineman to let go (pushing him the only place he could since he was being hugged) and then tripped over the lineman when he got up, stumbled, and out of frustration stomped on the ground, and it just so happened that the guys arm was between his foot and the turf. Was it necessarily malicious? No. Was it a very poor example of maintaining composure? Absolutely. He's being held and tackled every play and unlike college, he can't get through it and that makes him mad. But he's got to be better at controlling himself because when Suh gets angry, people die.

WE NEED T.O. BACK!! I MEAN AFTER ALL HE CAME IN ON THE COATTAILS OF DEVANEY AND INSTANTLY OUR TEAM WAS GREAT AND WON 3 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS! RIGHT, GUISE?

... I mean that is what happened, right? That's how this "building a program" works? Come in, win a national championship right away or you need to be fired?

He's rebuilding an elite program. They could go 9-4 or 10-3 this year and return nearly 20 starters for next year. But yeah, national championship or bust!!! ASKDJALK

Fantastic read. +1

I've been lurking on this forum for a while. Figured I would create an account to chime in. I think this says a lot about Bo. After Wisconsin, a lot of people (myself included) questioned his choice to continue starting Taylor. He stood by his QB through all of it and now it looks like he knew what he was doing. Sometimes his stubbornness pays off.

I was hoping someone would bring this up

Nice title. Certain to instigate.

Figured it'd be a joust to all the T-mart haters of yesterweek.

remember just a few short weeks ago how there were so many Brion-fever threads? That phase passed faster than the Jonas Brothers.

Since Wisconsin, Taylor has:

-Completed 68% of his passes (64/94)

-Thrown 6 touchdowns

-Thrown only two interceptions

-Has not fumbled (or lost one, anyway)

-Has an average QB rating of 144.28 (one spot behind Arkansas' Tyler Wilson if he kept that for the whole season)

-Has rushed 51 times for 230 yards (4.5 yards/rush) and a touchdown

He's growing up.

...even though his throwing motion has garner national attention.

wait wait wait... Captain WHO?

I was going to agree with this... But then I realized the first line wasnt "..for it on fourth down and less than three yards on their side of the 50."

Trying to be reasonable, we lost for several reasons:

-two costly turnovers deep in NW territory

-three ridiculously bad drops past the first down marker (2 by bell, one by kinnie)

-this was the worst reffed game all year (clangs evans pass interference against the ball in the end zone gives NW a touchdown)

-Bo leaving his nuts on the field in '08 when Jimmy smith took a fake field goal to the house... As in unbelievably conservative since then and certainly left points on the field today

-terrible use of time outs, time management, halftime adjustments.

How much of that is on BO and how much is on the execution of the players? About 50/50. Bo shouldn't go, but we were due for one like this in our rebuilding year. Look at who we have next year, that will be our best chance. And if we return 17 starters on a 12-2, 11-3 team... Look out.

If that was a case of TL,DR for some of you, long story short is that the sky is not falling. Calm down, regroup, finish the season. We'll be fine.

Dear Santa,

 

Blitz please.

 

Signed, Me.

amen to that

i noticed it too, how poorly they played on the road. it will be interesting to see how they play against us especially since it will be only their third road game and they have a combined 38-23 score in favor of the opponent through their first two.

Andrew Green

 

because its black?

 

I hope you're joking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's burnt toast, because he gets burned so often.

yes, yes i was.