Dawg Tired: An Insomniac's View Of SEC Football.
by MaconDawg on Nov 3, 2011 3:30 AM EDT
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We have no tailbacks. South Carolina may not lose again in SEC play. Auburn is not a horrible enough football team for me to believe we beat them in a few days. The stock market's moving like the Scream Machine at Six Flags. North Korea has ICBMs that could be aimed at Stripling's Meats right now if those commie bastards are so inclined. Things like this could keep a man up all night sick with worry.
And it's in those quiet moments of late night contemplation that an insomniac Bulldog fan such as myself has to ask himself . . .
Are we absolutely certain that Derek Dooley realizes that he's no longer coaching in the WAC, and that he can therefore win a football game against an SEC team without fearing that they won't ever invite his squad back for another paycheck game?
I mean, has Wes Rucker actually asked him this, point blank, just to be sure? The exodus following the Kiffin error didn't leave the cupboard full, and even that came on the heels of a slow decline in talent in the waning years of the Fulmer Dynasty. But Tennessee now stands 0-5 in the SEC. 0-5. Sure the Vols are a different team without Tyler Bray and Justin Hunter. But you know those message board arguments about which coach is "doing more with less" and which is "doing less with more?" Derek Dooley's currently winning the argument about who's doing less with less.
Unless I'm totally wrong about that, in which case I blame sleep deprivation and the North Koreans. I'll be back in the light of day with Cocktail Thursday. Until then . . .
Go 'Dawgs!!!
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Salt-Lick (in the old Striplings location) has better sausage than Striplings. Try it and see.
by Elihu Smails on Nov 3, 2011 10:49 AM EDT up reply actions
I think North Korea is already doing their insidious work inside our country.
How else do you explain the failure of Jot ’em Down BBQ?
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It's no mas
http://www.dawgsports.com/2011/10/24/2511498/bbq-no-more-jot-em-down
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This saddens me greatly.
I’m going to Athens for next weekend and I had a list of restaurants that I miss so much. I was going to try to cram them all into this one weekend because I don’t get up there as much as I’d like. Jot ’Em Down was on my list.
Harry's Pig Shop
In the Homewood Shopping Center on Jefferson Highway (Prince Ave headed out of town), is a good BBQ joint as well.
by DocSkraynj on Nov 3, 2011 2:40 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Harry's is slightly pretentious BBQ.
It’s not bad, but you’re not going to get the same “home cooking” taste that Jot ‘Em Down had. I also think Harry’s is a bit overpriced for the portion sizes. That being said, their quesadillas are very good (technically appetizers, but they’re big enough to be an entree). Oh, and if you like bread pudding, it’s quite good (just make sure they serve it hot, which they’ve been a little inconsistent about doing lately).
by MidnightFrost1701 on Nov 3, 2011 10:30 PM EDT up reply actions
I can agree with most of that.
It definitely is overpriced. I enjoy the food at Harry’s just as much as I did Jot ’Em Down, though.
Also, if you want a quesadilla, you could walk just down the sidewalk to La Parilla (in the same shopping center). Really good Mexican food.
by DocSkraynj on Nov 4, 2011 2:33 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Derek Dooley’s currently winning the argument about who’s doing less with less.
Only in college football brother.
- Adam Gase (Denver Broncos QB coach)
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by The Quincy Carter of Accountants on Nov 3, 2011 9:00 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Seriously.
Let me start off by saying that I am (to put it lightly) not a Tebow fan, but that attitude is inspired more by the constant media and fan mania surrounding than by anything the fellow has done himself. I confess to a certain childish glee that Stafford’s Lions kicked the ever-loving **** out of the Broncos last weekend (apparently my disdain of Tebow is stronger than my affection for Knowshon and Champ; I did not know this about myself).
But, seriously, how can someone not turn Tebow into a suitable quarterback in the pros? Could Urban Meyer do it if he came out of left field and ended his “retirement” by taking a shot at the NFL?
Tebow the pro - a parable
But, seriously, how can someone not turn Tebow into a suitable quarterback in the pros?
No man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the old bottles will burst the bottles and the bottles will persish. But new wine must be put into new bottles and both are preserved.
It is likewise with spread quarterbacks and NFL offenses.
/Except Cam Newton, the exception to the lesson that no man can serve both the pro offense and Malzahn, for he will love one and hate the other.
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by The Quincy Carter of Accountants on Nov 3, 2011 9:56 AM EDT up reply actions
He rubs me as a Pollack-like attention hound
but it’s not like there’s anything wrong with that. I’m not a fan, but like you, it’s more because of the obsessive nature of the media with him than the man himself.
And no, Tebow will never be an effective NFL QB. He doesn’t have the accuracy, and his throwing motion is too long. That extra split second of his motion gives DBs the extra quarter step they need to turn completions (if he was actually accurate) in to tipped balls, and tipped balls in to picks. See Byron Leftwich, but with less accuracy.
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I almost criticized Mr. Sanchez for that, . . .
. . . but then I paused for a moment, and had to concede that, sadly, he is correct.
David Pollack will always be a damn good ‘Dawg, and I enjoy watching him on television in a “local boy makes good” sort of way, but he never met a rumor he wouldn’t repeat on Twitter, and, as a commentator, he makes us look bad, the way Robert Smith makes the Big Ten look bad.
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You beat me to it. He was hinting at "CMR cant get it done" and has bought hook, line and sinker into ESPN's way.
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"The ball ain't heavy." Herschel Walker
As a player too though...
again, not that there’s anything wrong with it, but the man doesn’t shy away from the spotlight, and seeks it out. I’m not saying it like it’s a good thing, or a bad thing, just that it’s the reality of their personalities.
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I guess it is his job to call attention to himself and engage the the behaviors you
mention since he is in the sports personality segment of sports journalism.
Tebow however has never left the realm of athlete. I never liked how he made himself bigger than the team while at Florida and I am gathering the same has happened at Denver. I never felt like DP while a player at Georgia made himself bigger than the team.
I would disagree with that characterization.
David Pollack called attention to himself by waving his arms to get the crowd to be loud, and by leaving the field jubilantly after a defensive stop, but the first was getting the crowd into the game, and the second was heartfelt celebration; neither struck me as self-aggrandizing, just as childlike enthusiasm.
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I've been wrong before, will be again
just my thoughts on it. What you say can be said about much of Tebow’s actions too though.
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I disagree with your comparison of DP, but you are right that I did not see any difference(s) in Tebow's actions.
However, Cam Newton takes the cake when it comes to athletes who think they are more than their team.
Success is never final. --Winston Churchill
I really don't like the abbreviation DP - can't say why.
Editor
"The ball ain't heavy." Herschel Walker
Do you mean you don't know why, . . .
. . . or you know why and prefer not to say why?
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That's probably fair, . . .
. . . although David Pollack never gave any teary-eyed speeches.
As always, my problems with Tim Tebow had less to do with Tim Tebow than with the sycophantic media adulation of Tim Tebow.
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I'm sure our opposition felt the same about
the sycophantic media adulation of Mr. Unstoppable Motor (let’s forget he ran a quicker shuttle than Darren Sproles, and had the leg strength of a rhino. HIS MOTOR IS THE BEST EVAH!).
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I know some fans of other programs which complained about some of the constant stories about Pollack
Namely his childhood friendship with Greene and the funny-at-the-time-but-now-scary “lol linemen riding scooters at UGA” stories. I guess they thought such stories were heavily featured? I don’t recall since I was at the games and not caring about GameDay or announcers.
The 984 Has Spoken!
I'm sure that's true, Mr. Sanchez, . . .
. . . but the media love for Tim Tebow set a new standard. (Reasonable fans may differ over whether it was a high or a low.) No one ever saw David Pollack get a penalty and said, “That’s probably the first thing David Pollack has done wrong in his entire life.”
There certainly was a difference in degree, one so extreme that I would argue it was a difference in kind. I get your point, though.
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Can't disagree with that
I never heard anyone say Pollack improves lives of anyone he comes in contact with.
/hates Thom Brennamen for crying about Colt Brennan too
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To be fair...
It’s more like an extra second or two than a “split second.”
by DocSkraynj on Nov 3, 2011 2:43 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Just checking in to make sure that
we haven’t lost our entire roster of WR’s, DB’s or any other position other than OC, since I went to bed last night.
Whew, that’s a relief!
by hbtd on Nov 3, 2011 9:45 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
UGA: Losing entire positions one undisclosed team rule at a time
Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases. ~Rick Maksian
by oneloyaldawg on Nov 3, 2011 10:46 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Nicely done, oneloyaldawg!
I’d put that on the site header, but that would be tempting fate.
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