"Mine is Bigger than yours" seems to be about all one gets in the back and forth with fans from Misery these days.
It boils down for me that to this point, they look like the better passing team and we look like the much better rushing team. If we can just slow their passing game a bit and into a couple of mistakes and our passing clicks well enough to score touchdowns from the redzone that should do it.
What bothers me as much as anything is what was addressed in HPedia yesterday. A story about the players "not getting too high and anxious to repay Missouri" for the last few years including some beatdowns.
Let's face it, we'd all like to give the Tiggers their comeuppence. There is a lot of pressure on the Big Red.
And the biggest monkey we need to shake is that the only teams we have beaten at their house in recent years are Iowa State, K-state and back in 06, a weak ATM in College Station by a point. That along with a team getting too high and too anxious under the lights wanting to show a large hostile crowd and a national TV audience that they are now the dominant team. I'm glad that we played VT close, but that didn't get rid of the monkey. We have to play smart first and with passion second and poise when adversity strikes. None of these players have experience prevailing in a football game against a good team at their house. Besides the x's and o's they as the warden said "have to get your mind right". Block out what you don't need as a distraction and play from whistle to whisle under conrol with maximum effort. GBR
It boils down for me that to this point, they look like the better passing team and we look like the much better rushing team. If we can just slow their passing game a bit and into a couple of mistakes and our passing clicks well enough to score touchdowns from the redzone that should do it.
What bothers me as much as anything is what was addressed in HPedia yesterday. A story about the players "not getting too high and anxious to repay Missouri" for the last few years including some beatdowns.
Let's face it, we'd all like to give the Tiggers their comeuppence. There is a lot of pressure on the Big Red.
And the biggest monkey we need to shake is that the only teams we have beaten at their house in recent years are Iowa State, K-state and back in 06, a weak ATM in College Station by a point. That along with a team getting too high and too anxious under the lights wanting to show a large hostile crowd and a national TV audience that they are now the dominant team. I'm glad that we played VT close, but that didn't get rid of the monkey. We have to play smart first and with passion second and poise when adversity strikes. None of these players have experience prevailing in a football game against a good team at their house. Besides the x's and o's they as the warden said "have to get your mind right". Block out what you don't need as a distraction and play from whistle to whisle under conrol with maximum effort. GBR
