Saturday Observations
You see what I told you, no need to be nervous at all Horns fans. That was me that said that, right? Rrrriiiiiiight!!!
- And yet again Colt McCoy continues to amaze and turn heads (I can just copy/paste this into this thing every week now it seems). I'll touch more on this later this week, but I've been a bit surprised to hear all of this "McCoy for Heisman" talk - predominately from the Austin media. My first reaction is no way, not just yet. But, I can't but to let that thought linger a bit longer after last night's game. He is VERY quickly becoming a premier QB in the country and just think, next year there won't be any Troy Smith or Brady Quinn and Colt will STILL have those receivers/RBs at his disposal. If he keeps this up, and folks continue to struggle (see Steve Slaton) he may just find himself in the thick of the discussion before it's all over with.
- Kudos to the Texas defense for coming out and making a statement game. Texas held OSU to 203 total yards last night (123 through the air and 80 on the ground) - that's less than half of what they average. Plus, they only gave up 3 points (you'll remember that the TD was on a return). This was the kind of game they needed against a quick-strike and lethal offensive team. The secondary really came big. And by the way, mark Aaron Ross down as an All American right now - he's been the one consistent piece of a very shaky secondary this year. Did you see his tip-to-himself-interception? If you haven't, go find it on highlights. Unbelieveably athletic play.
- So much for the guys in Vegas screwing the Vols, they clearly knew something no one else did. I'm referring to the line in the LSU/Tenn game. LSU had a worse record, had looked terrible against ranked teams this year, was ranked lower and going into Knoxville - and LSU was favored???? I was baffled at that. But look who's laughing now. What a tremendous game that was - both teams played pretty damn well too (sans for the barage of turnovers throughout the game). That was a HUGE win for Les Miles' bunch and something they can build on. I can't believe Tennessee's defense was abused like they were, especially at the end. And give Russell credit, that kid made some big plays on the last drive. Good win for LSU.
- And finally, Bob Stoops easily has the biggest pair of stones in the country. Let's see, on your own 30 with under 2 minutes to go; offense had been anemic most of the second half; 1 point lead; it's 4th and inches and you're on your own 30 yard line. You don't get it, A&M kicks a field goal to win it. And they get it (twice really). That was an enormous gamble by Stoops and one that showed he had all sorts of faith in his defense. This game did have some crazy stats - both teams rushed for over 200 yards, but both teams also passed for less than 90 yards (OU only had 39 passing yards). This was a great win for the Sooners and a heartbreaker for the Aggies - nice bit of coaching by Fran and company holding OU to a field goal in the second half after starting out down 14-0 in the first quarter.
- I'm officially sold on Texas A&M being a pretty damn good football team. I will be interested to see how they respond next weekend against Nebraska. They were right there in this game and their defense played especially well. Going into next year they will definitely need to develop a passing game though - that's a definite weakness right now. And finally, the one black eye for the Aggs last night was the penalty on that 4th and inches - how in the world do you come out of a timeout on the biggest play of your season so far and have 12 guys on the field? It wasn't even one guy running off before the ball was snapped; they had 12 guys lined up on defense. It didn't matter, but that was just sloppy. Can you imagine of they stopped the runner on the play??? That's what you love about Aggies right there.
- And yet again Colt McCoy continues to amaze and turn heads (I can just copy/paste this into this thing every week now it seems). I'll touch more on this later this week, but I've been a bit surprised to hear all of this "McCoy for Heisman" talk - predominately from the Austin media. My first reaction is no way, not just yet. But, I can't but to let that thought linger a bit longer after last night's game. He is VERY quickly becoming a premier QB in the country and just think, next year there won't be any Troy Smith or Brady Quinn and Colt will STILL have those receivers/RBs at his disposal. If he keeps this up, and folks continue to struggle (see Steve Slaton) he may just find himself in the thick of the discussion before it's all over with.
- Kudos to the Texas defense for coming out and making a statement game. Texas held OSU to 203 total yards last night (123 through the air and 80 on the ground) - that's less than half of what they average. Plus, they only gave up 3 points (you'll remember that the TD was on a return). This was the kind of game they needed against a quick-strike and lethal offensive team. The secondary really came big. And by the way, mark Aaron Ross down as an All American right now - he's been the one consistent piece of a very shaky secondary this year. Did you see his tip-to-himself-interception? If you haven't, go find it on highlights. Unbelieveably athletic play.
- So much for the guys in Vegas screwing the Vols, they clearly knew something no one else did. I'm referring to the line in the LSU/Tenn game. LSU had a worse record, had looked terrible against ranked teams this year, was ranked lower and going into Knoxville - and LSU was favored???? I was baffled at that. But look who's laughing now. What a tremendous game that was - both teams played pretty damn well too (sans for the barage of turnovers throughout the game). That was a HUGE win for Les Miles' bunch and something they can build on. I can't believe Tennessee's defense was abused like they were, especially at the end. And give Russell credit, that kid made some big plays on the last drive. Good win for LSU.
- And finally, Bob Stoops easily has the biggest pair of stones in the country. Let's see, on your own 30 with under 2 minutes to go; offense had been anemic most of the second half; 1 point lead; it's 4th and inches and you're on your own 30 yard line. You don't get it, A&M kicks a field goal to win it. And they get it (twice really). That was an enormous gamble by Stoops and one that showed he had all sorts of faith in his defense. This game did have some crazy stats - both teams rushed for over 200 yards, but both teams also passed for less than 90 yards (OU only had 39 passing yards). This was a great win for the Sooners and a heartbreaker for the Aggies - nice bit of coaching by Fran and company holding OU to a field goal in the second half after starting out down 14-0 in the first quarter.
- I'm officially sold on Texas A&M being a pretty damn good football team. I will be interested to see how they respond next weekend against Nebraska. They were right there in this game and their defense played especially well. Going into next year they will definitely need to develop a passing game though - that's a definite weakness right now. And finally, the one black eye for the Aggs last night was the penalty on that 4th and inches - how in the world do you come out of a timeout on the biggest play of your season so far and have 12 guys on the field? It wasn't even one guy running off before the ball was snapped; they had 12 guys lined up on defense. It didn't matter, but that was just sloppy. Can you imagine of they stopped the runner on the play??? That's what you love about Aggies right there.
posted by The Bearden Wonder at 8:43 AM
1 Comments:
Stoops' calls were incredibly ballsy, while Fran's calls were at the complete other end of the spectrum...gutless. I don't think Fran ever takes that program to where loyal aggies want it to go. I think their record is deceiving because they didn't play anyone decent in nonconference and squeaked by weak Big 12 opponents. I'd love to see A&M go to the Cotton Bowl this year and get throttled by an SEC team like they did by Tennessee a couple years ago. Of course I'm biased. Hook em.
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