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MrNubbz

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Re: Stream of Conciousness 2019-10-19
« Reply #238 on: October 20, 2019, 06:56:38 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on October 20, 2019, 06:44:01 PM
I agree.  I have preferred it to ESPN also, but it is very clunky and irritating this year.
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Re: Stream of Conciousness 2019-10-19
« Reply #239 on: October 20, 2019, 07:00:39 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on October 20, 2019, 01:01:32 AM
Miami lost to GT....jesus christ.

and to just think the Hurricanes are STILL better than the Dolphins
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Re: Stream of Conciousness 2019-10-19
« Reply #240 on: October 20, 2019, 07:18:07 PM »
Quote from: Hawkinole on October 20, 2019, 01:51:45 AM

https://twitter.com/i/status/1046102870863618049 Jimbo Fisher grabs facemask. Still employed at Texas A & M.

I am sure this happens in practice. Regarding Tennessee, it was an over the top dressing down. I couldn't tell what play was called. The left guard pulls and smacks the defensive end as if he knew just where he was going. The right guard starts to pull left but then runs up the backside of the center. The QB tries going through the hole vacated by the left guard which is filled with Alabama players. It was a screwed up play. I have never seen line play like that with a sneak.

I watched Pruitt's postgame comments on YouTube. He said he called a sneak, and that the QB shouldn't have tried jumping over the top, should have pushed it over the middle. I don't know what that means. He has no clue what he is talking about.  Maybe the right guard is supposed to push the QB forward? I don't know. He hasn't a clue what his offensive line is doing, or what his QB was left with when the left guard vacated the premises.

Fast forward to 1:20 for the doomed play:
http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=27883344
Here's the caption to that ESPN clip: "With Tua Tagovailoa exiting the game due to injury, the No. 1 Alabama offense steps up and continues to dominate as the Tide handily beat Tennessee 35-13 at home."
That seems odd.  First of all, 35-13 does not scream "offensive domination."  If Oklahoma beat Kansas 35-13, everyone would be asking what happened to the offense.  As a matter of fact, OU beat Kansas 45-20 and it was seen as a disappointing offensive performance that put a serious dent in Jalen Hurts' Heisman chances.
Second, Bama's 4th TD came after they were held 3-and-out for their 3rd consecutive possession of the 2nd half, except that one of the Tennessee D-linemen was called for a personal foul because he pushed off the Bama QB in getting up.  That was a ticky-tack call at best.  That let Bama's possession continue, ending in a TD.
Third, Bama's 5th TD was a defensive score, the 100+ yard runback of the Vol QB's fumble into the end zone.
So Bama's supposedly dominant offense scored 21 non-controversial points, plus a penalty-aided touchdown.
I'm not making the case that Tennessee woulda/coulda/shoulda won except for official malfeasance and the fumble into the end zone, and I of course know that Tua left the game injured, which affected what Bama could do on offense, but I am taking exception to ESPN hyping Bama's offensive performance as dominant one.
For most of the better P5 teams, a 35-13 win over a bad team, with one score coming from the defense, would have been a "workmanlike" offensive performance.
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Re: Stream of Conciousness 2019-10-19
« Reply #241 on: October 20, 2019, 07:21:34 PM »
Yeah, I agree, the won fairly handily, but it was not the blow out I expected.  It was not "domination" the way I would consider 48-7 to be.

The Vols competed for much of the game.
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Re: Stream of Conciousness 2019-10-19
« Reply #242 on: October 20, 2019, 07:23:50 PM »
Maybe we need a decoder ring:

More than 40 points - a domination, 48-7

More than 30 points - a convincing win, 40-10

More than 20 points - A solid win, 35-21

More than 10 points - a win, 31-17

Fewer than 10 points - Edged by, 27-20
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Re: Stream of Conciousness 2019-10-19
« Reply #243 on: October 20, 2019, 07:39:31 PM »
Quote from: CatsbyAZ on October 20, 2019, 07:00:39 PM
and to just think the Hurricanes are STILL better than the Dolphins
Lol true. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen an NFL team as bad as the Dolphins.
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Re: Stream of Conciousness 2019-10-19
« Reply #244 on: October 20, 2019, 07:49:59 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on October 20, 2019, 07:23:50 PM
Maybe we need a decoder ring:

More than 40 points - a domination, 48-7

More than 30 points - a convincing win, 40-10

More than 20 points - A solid win, 35-21 14

More than 10 points - a win, 31-17

Fewer than 10 points - Edged by, 27-20
Yes.  Make those rules part of the CFB51 Manual of Style.
Fixed your "solid win."
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Re: Stream of Conciousness 2019-10-19
« Reply #245 on: October 20, 2019, 08:09:50 PM »
Quote from: Mdot21 on October 20, 2019, 07:39:31 PM
Lol true. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen an NFL team as bad as the Dolphins.
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Re: Stream of Conciousness 2019-10-19
« Reply #246 on: October 20, 2019, 08:13:28 PM »
But then how are we to delineate between getting blown out, boat raced, and jail sexed?
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Re: Stream of Conciousness 2019-10-19
« Reply #247 on: October 20, 2019, 08:25:49 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on October 20, 2019, 09:06:09 AM
Anyone else finding that the cfb scores page at cbssports is basically unusable this year?

I generally prefer it to espn, but this year it takes forever to load, plays unsolicited video in the corner, scrolling is clunky, link response time is awful, etc.

I've been using Foxsports
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Re: Stream of Conciousness 2019-10-19
« Reply #248 on: October 20, 2019, 08:27:40 PM »
Quote from: Mdot21 on October 20, 2019, 07:39:31 PM
Lol true. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen an NFL team as bad as the Dolphins.

Cincinnati Bengals?
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Re: Stream of Conciousness 2019-10-19
« Reply #249 on: October 20, 2019, 09:02:08 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on October 20, 2019, 08:13:28 PM
But then how are we to delineate between getting blown out, boat raced, and jail sexed?
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Re: Stream of Conciousness 2019-10-19
« Reply #250 on: October 20, 2019, 11:02:27 PM »
I'm partial to curb-stomped.
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Re: Stream of Conciousness 2019-10-19
« Reply #251 on: October 21, 2019, 08:53:40 AM »
I don't think the actual margin of victory necessarily dictates how dominant Team A was against Team B.  It's totally reasonable to say that Team A dominated Team B 24-10 when they held on to the ball for 38 minutes and their defense came up with more 3-and-outs than they gave up first downs.

And Team A beating Team B 41-10 might not necessarily be the beat-down it appears to be as Team A was only up 1 score at the half, and if it weren't for a couple of bad second-half turnovers and some terrible punting it would have been a lot closer.
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