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Thomas was out of Dodge City, the football equivalent of the baseball shortstop who comes up throwing. He could sling it.

Arggh. Wrong button. Sorry. But I agree with almost all of this; good post.

I'm sure he probably is, but MikeJackets1967 just won the board One Sentence Cliche award: three of 'em! I am breathless. :vomit:

Yet Johnson says he has the knack for seeing the whole field from field level. And it is disingenuous to suggest a coach can't tell if his team is being aggressive. If he needs to go to the tape to see that then it is time to sell use cars. (And before anybody erupts, I am not suggesting he...

If all of this is true -- the D played better after Johnson told his DC to be more aggressive -- then why did Johnson wait until the season started to suggest this is the way he wants to play? Why does he first lose a game? Does he never watch his defense practice? Scrimmage against it? What...

For the most part I guess you're right. But I thought it was very sexy in the 2014 ACC championship game and the Orange Bowl. This one may -- may -- have a chance to be as sexy before all is done.

Know what you mean. I'd never want one of those great stadiums at my college ...

He thought he should play more, and start. When it was obvious that wouldn't happen, he went to where he would not sit on the bench. Most of us would do exactly that if the game itself was anything to us. One has to be on the field to compete.

Yep, not to mention it was a rout and he got the ball just enough to recognize it. And not to mention a big game the first game of the season. A good player who transferred for the right reason.

We needed to pass more.

You might be halfway to a winning season with the right schedule ...

In fairness, right now Orlando/Kissimmee area is getting torrential rainfall and overnight had severe winds. It's not a wreck by any means, but given traffic, road conditions, motel and hotel rooms filled with refugees from down south, people trying to get back south to see what's left of their...

Normally I give sportswriters huge coils of rope. What they do, if done well, is very hard. But in today's "journalism" world I think we see the effect of losing so much in print. ESPN, after what seems like decades of explosive growth and profits is hurting for sure. Not just in numbers, but in...

Stop this. I am the board skeptic.

I don't know if it was the best-ever debut, but Marshall did have two firsts in my mind: his first pass of the day was the worst I have ever seen, and I saw Tevin Washington throw butterflies at Duke early on. Marshall's threw a ball that was perpendicular to the field -- on its nose -- all the...

The best thing and the only good thing to be said for this game is that it is over.

Meaning Howard is big and plodding and musclebound?

I'd pay to see a good one. Somebody even wrote a country song about it.

I'm not ready to quit on FGs yet. As a famous NFL football player once told me after losing the first game, "One game does not a season make." They proceeded to lose another five before he admitted that made a season. It's a long story. Besides, isn't Paul Johnson back to coaching special teams...

You are so right that it can't be wrong. Except since nobody ever did it before, it can't be done. The correct option read is every bit as offensively productive as a pass, particularly in today's spread-and-throw-short game.