Bestbuck36 said:

I like the cut of your jib!

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What's a jib?

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Now a 4star, massive bump!

Miller is now the country's No. 220 overall prospect, the No. 22 wide receiver and the No. 8 prospect in Ohio. Previously, Miller was the country's No. 97 wide receiver and the No. 21 prospect in Ohio

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Burke died for LJs sins.

Onebuckfan said:

We didn’t have a plan for Simmons getting hurt?

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lol what the hell plan does anyone have for their best lineman tearing his ACL.

the only thing that makes sense is that the line is taking their calls from LJ directly. The infamous clip of the deep TD from last week should be all the evidence anyone needs. Five guys start at the line and drop back into coverage. Only one of those guys does what he is supposed to do, which is engage his blocker before dropping into coverage. It’s not a coincidence that the one man who did his job is the one man not under the thumb of LJ (Ransom).

There’s four possibilities here and two of them are on LJ.

1. Knowles did this by design. Unlikely because why would only Ransom engage.
2. The DL are all just really dumb. Unlikely because they all did the exact same thing.
3. Johnson is a bad teacher who hasn’t properly instructed them to engage first. Doubtful as this is very basic stuff.
4. Johnson is giving them their direct orders and made a stupid call. Most likely option here IMO.

Knowles is getting shredded for this call but it’s actually a good call. If the DL does its job, then the OL is occupied by the four DL and ransom off snap. The remaining blocker picks up either Styles or Downs and the other is free to pressure Gabriel. Because they’re dropping back after engaging, the idea is that you have a tiny QB either blindly throwing to a crosser where the retreating guys can undercut the pass, Gabriel has to rush to the outside receiver before they’re actually open, he scrambles, in which case you have basically the five retreating guys in a line across the field or he takes the sack/throws it away.

Because the DL immediately dropped, both blitzers get swallowed up immediately, Gabriel has all day and Burke is basically having to cover one of the fastest receivers in the country for 7-8 seconds.

You also have the 3rd & 6 play near the end where Knowles makes the exact right call, sending Downs up the right side A gap to push the runner wide, where the LBs and Ransom are waiting to make a tackle behind the line to gain. Everyone did their job except JT, who immediately shoots the A gap, removing Downs from the play and allowing the guys JT should be engaging to move toward the boundary and pick up the guys who did the proper thing but are now outnumbered, giving up the first down.

My guess is that Knowles is making a call over the headset to Simon, who is giving that call to the back 7 while LJ signals in his call to the front four based on whatever Knowles is trying to do. I’d imagine a lot of the LB confusion pre snap is related to them expecting one thing from the DL based on Knowles’ call and LJ calling in something different.

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So the gators are going to have a short arm inspection?

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Big fan of Tony Bennett and UVA basketball, and the way those teams played the game, particularly on D. Am sad.

I had a look at Oregon's remaining schedule today and yikes, I thought OSU's schedule was soft (not accounting for Indiana's surprising rise to prominence). They will definitely be in the B1G championship game. Pretty sure yall have known that for a while; I'm just expressing B1G's football scheduling philosophy for this season is utterly bewildering to me. Make sure you get that exciting PSU vs. Minny contest on the schedule, B1G. Wouldn't want to make Oregon travel to crappy valley in mid-November.

Thump said:

Beirut Browns.

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Piccadilly Circus Clowns

LordJeffBuck said:

How about a BOGO - London can have the Browns and the Guardians.

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Nah. The Tribe deserves the loyalty they receive (which isn't much). They are competitive most years, have been pretty regular participants in the postseason, have won some series, and even a couple of pennants. All in a sport where the spread of wealth is horribly tilted to the major markets and there's no salary cap. They've actually provided some joy (and, yes, heartache) to their fans. Being a clowns fan is a joyless, miserable experience.

Thank you!!

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That was pretty good too