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Interesting because apparently when Morris left Clemson for SMU he got credit for "the offense". Swinney, who liked and likes Morris a whole lot and would him back in a minute, considered it "my offense". That's what being the head ball coach is.

I think your observation about Marshall learning to play QB explains all our playcalling so far. I really haven't seen the urge to "bust a long one", or at least not any more than usual in a Johnson offense, and it is always looking for the house. The jury is much out on his passing, and the...

In all seriousness and territorial prerogative aside, Thomas is the only Johnson QB I recall (at GT) that gave me a certain heady brashness that he would win the game late. And to me that one attribute defines good-better-best: is he a winner with the game on the line late and the apple is...

Well, if JT was still here, would Johnson be at Nebraska?

Of all the things mice and men ... what might have been. We have missed golden opportunities.

I didn't intend it as a one game or one play observation. This seems to me part and parcel of Johnson's vertical offense, and it goes back 10 seasons here. That could relate to time permitted, but we have left a lot of points off the board.

With the WRs and the Abacks Johnson notes he has four wide receivers on every play, and the result is that remarkable yardage per catch, a function of single coverage. It's Johnson's best recruiting aid: we put you in a position with single coverage to go out and make a play. And so he gets...

Imight stop short of ridiculous but the sentiment is right. Marshall has a long way to go throwing the ball. He has not -- yet -- proved to be the first Johnson QB who could throw the deep ball accurately and missed a big one Saturday. Then the one he got picked off that was overturned -- he...

You know, I think if we are "trending" toward anything, maybe it is better recruiting. Ever imagine Johnson having the depth at QB he seems to have? Or losing two top drawer B backs and coming up with two more on the spot? Or the list of A backs on the roster? I guess Saturday was the first time...

I do not relish hurts to student athletes. But he was talking about UNC.

Surprised you don't like Utah. I thought the beauty there unsurpassed, but that's okay. When all those canyons are opened to drilling and the mountain tops are scraped clear for coal, well, there it goes.

Well, I guess. But there is something almost mystic in being able to drive the interstate along some parts of the old Oregon Trail, to view remnants of gun pits dug to protect the wagon train against Indian attacks, and to actually "touch (wagon) ruts" made by heavily loaded covered wagons...

You're not mistaken. I hope it is just an early-in-the-season thing because it gets frustrating on that couch.

I'll take that chance.

What? Are you serious? Why, right across the street almost is a huge pool of SEC players, replenished weekly, a veritable Hedley Lamar menagerie of rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men.....

That one got right past me.

Yep. He finished off his critique on Pitt whining with that real zinger.

You're looking up the middle, where they were pretty good. Look to the tackle out and watch the arms akimbo as they say.

I am in this contest with Johnson. But seriously, don't mean to be, just disappointed with the mistakes. And give me a break, I didn't even mention the penalties.

I thought tackling was spotty, and several times -- including on that well conceived 80-yard punt return -- tacklers flew to the ball out of control and lost the tackle. Passing was awful. Bbacks ran really well but fumbles are going to kill us. I don't buy the layoff as blame for rust. If that...