State of the Season: A Picture in Time

That Redzone defense you folks have looked very impressive Saturday.

I think Enrique Davis is going to be somebody you’ll rely on soon as well. He had some good runs.

Jevan Snead will improve, as he has in the past. UAB will be a good wound-licking game for him.

Good luck the rest of the season.

Outside of UAB and Northern Arizona, I can’t guarantee a single win for this season. Our offense is fucking pathetic. That Bama game looked like an Orgeron/Schaeffer ordeal. Absolutely terrible.

My niece (the one who lives in Oxford) says some drunk allegedly slugged Jevan in the mouth this week at a bar? Anybody know if that actually happened and when “the rest of the story” is on this potential tall tale?

My brother (who knows a person with connections to the team) said Jevan’s having “girlfriend problems.” After I wiped the laghter-drool off my shirt and chin, I suggested that an SEC caliber QB might ought not get so strung out over a girl…especially when his potential draft position is in serious tailspin.

Apparently Coach Nutt has had quite enough of the “Monday Morning Coaches” as he referred to them at the mic this weekend. That’s why you don’t see me offeriing my unqualified or solicited opinions as to how we right this ship. But why didn’t we see a fresh face at least for a sewries to settle the young casanova down? It certainly couldn’t have been any worse…or could it?

Just wondering? Lob away. I’d like to know what others think…

…in that I wasn’t criticizing anybody for making their own ideas known about what should or should not have been done from the coach’s box during the game. Nope. Not that at all.

Just wanted to make that clear.

You certainly are right. He CAN deal with it. I bet he’s thinking, “Well, the honeymoon’s over. I guess these folks wanted the success thing to continue after last year. How come that didn’t buy me any time?”

Oh, I’ll wait before I criticize the guy. I am the LEAST qualified to Monday Morning Quarterback ANY team. What I keep asking myself is, "How can a guy so ON from October ‘08 through January, ’09 be so frickin’ OFF this season? Yes, we have won more than we’ve lost…so far…but my Lord! What has yet to come is at least as daunting as the schedule we had last year and we came out alright then.

I guess what I’m stressing over is that we have seen how GOOD & BAD our QB can be (reference to last season) and we were all hoping he’d be past that “bad” part forever.

I can’t say how I’d act in his skin. I don’t know what’s going on inside his head. I just hope he recovers quickly, because the NCAA and the SEC are not stopping the Ferris Wheel so he can get off and settle his stomach. The season goes on, regardless.

But I’ll say it again. Bench Snead for the UAB game. Let Stanley have the first half and Tapp the second half. Whoever does best, give him the whole next game, Arkansas. If Snead plays the Arkansas game, it’s another loss. Shit, we rotate every other position so might as well start doing it at QB. Stanley and Tapp can’t do any worse, that’s for damn sure. Tapp is a Senior, Stanley is a Freshman. I’d go with Tapp first and give him the opportunity in his last season to enjoy the game.

Snead looked terrified from the first snap. I know our OL isn’t what it was last year, but Snead never gave them a chance Saturday. I went into the season seeing Snead as the biggest advantage we had in the SEC, and he’s turned out to be the biggest liability.

Our defense is playing like a National Championship squad. Any team in the country would kill for our defense. They held Bama to FGs inside the 15 yd line 5 times, and 3-4 of those drives started inside the 30 (the blocked punt, the “interception” (that was a terrible call by the refs btw, not that it mattered) and the near pick six." there may have been another, but I don’t care enough to check.

That’s really the most frustrating thing in it all, and I fear the Defense will eventually just say, “fuck it.” What’s the point of busting your ass with your back against the wall all day just to have your Offense go out and throw 3 balls in the dirt, then punt?

As long as the defense doesn’t quit, they will give us a chance to let the offense lose each of our remaining games. Let’s just hope that Snead and Co’s balls drop really quick or the 7 wins it’s gonna take to get us Bowl Eligible (remember only 1 D-II win counts) won’t happen.

Houston Nutt is a quarterback killer, guys he screwed up all the quarterbacks we had at UA under him and he’s doing the same for you guys. Don’t you love the 4th and 10 playcalling. run, run, run.

He just doesn’t know how to maintain the one he has, ever. The most successful QB that was connected to HDN is Tarvaris Jackson. I think that the comparison of Nutt-era Casey Dick vs. BP-era Casey Dick is telling enough. Now, arky-chief, it’s time to let the Reb fans stew; they don’t want to talk about it. Arkansas fans got by for 10 years by burying our heads. Although, for what it’s worth, I think quite a few Arkansas fans were sad to see the Rebs get dominated so badly. We wanted to beat you on ESPN, not the the SEC Network.

I"m not trying to dis Ole Miss 2day, im just trying to tell you guys that with HDN at the helm you will never develop a great quarterback, He doesn’t know how to call the plays to match a quarterbacks skill. Remember the we had Mustain the #2 qb in the 07 class, did he let Malazan design and offense to match his skill? Hell no. He loves 3 yards and a cloud of dust. His play calling will never match Sneads ability.

No, i think that Mustain was a system qb that Nutt recruited (Malahzan also) then didn’t let his offensive cord. call the plays that fitted his style. The man cannot let that part go since he was a offensive cord. before at Boise State. And that leads to sorry playcalling thus killing good qbs. The only one that he quote developed in 10 years here was Matt Jones and he was a freak of nature who could improvise but couldn’t throw straight. You guys are gonna see my friend.

Example:
Blabbering an idiotic statement like Mustain sucks, only because of the 3rd string situation he finds himself in at USC, is absolutely the dumbest comment i’ve heard yet.
USC’s talent at the QB position is far more talented than any, that’s ANY of the other div. 1 teams in the country.
Florida, nor Texas, OU, Alabama or LSU or any of the like for that matter can say their’s is equel.
I thought even Ghost knew football better than this, but evidently not. In his lame attempt to protect his head coach from such outlandish gossip that suggest he just might be a nightmare in waiting for young undeveloped QBs, he ignores the fact that as we speak, there’s a guy named Sam Cassell starting for the Kansas City Cheifs.
If I remember correctly, Sam watched from the sideline a good portion of his college career, holding a clipboard for Carroll, watching as a couple of guys named Lienert and Booty soaked up all the glory.
Not too shabby for a 3rd string guy.
Ghost, If there’s some undeniable difference between Cassell and Mustain the rest of us aren’t aware of, please let us know. I know i’d sure like to know, because you can bet your ass if Mr. Snead were at USC instead of Mustain, you’d see the exact same 3rd string suckage, so to speak, you claim to see from Mustain.. And please, don’t be so naive as to believe otherwise. You’ve got Rebel fans calling for Snead’s head this very moment, begging for the replacement of him with Tapp or Stanley? Please.

Here’s the deal. Your comments are unrealistic, to say the least, because the point to the whole conversation began with someone stating that Nutt had an uncanny ability to kill, destroy, underdevelope, ruin a good QB or whatever. That statement holds true regardless of the situation with Mustain.
Do you really want us to buy into this “Nutt has very little to do with developing the QB, Coach Austin is the guy, I know because I watch practice thing”? Really?
I suppose in your little world, the development of a QB has absolutely nothing to do with the playcalling, even though it only dictates the very exact game situations the QB experiences.
Who knew?

Let me ask 2 simple questions one last time.
(1) What are the obvious differences in talent between Sam Cassell and Mitch Mustain that would suggest Mustain sucks as a QB?
(2) What is your own personal assesment of how playcalling affects the exact situations of a QB’s experiences within a ballgame?
Simple enough? Whoops, that was 3.

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