I can't shake the feeling that yesterday's game should
not have even been close. Pitt is not a good team... I think we might've
personally contributed to all of their points (eg, blocked punts,
drive-sustaining penalties).
And so, tired of my own drivel and in a still
semi-catatonic state, I'm going to change things up for this week's epistle.
It's time for...
Word Association!
It's fun! And Easy!
Play it with friends and family!
Your grocery store check out clerk!
1. Michael Floyd =>. The Mandingo.
2. Jimmy Clausen =>
Impatient. (Or is it just the plays?)
3. Mo Crum => A cipher.
4. McCarthy & Harrison => Not-So-Average White
Band. (Despite the latter's dumbass, possibly game changing penalty).
5. Pitt's 0 => Washington-esque 'cept w/ LeSean McCoy.
6. Offensive play calling => Inexplicable.
Unfathomable.
7. Dave Wannstedt => Hapless (I don't care if they
won, he still seems to always look... befuddled).
8. Defensive line play => The Key to the Universe. (Contrast
Pitt v ND and Texas Tech v Texas).
Strength up the middle and outside of strong safety play,
we don't have it. .
9. Brandon Walker => Absolutely Not the Goat. (You all
had to know we shot our karmic wad when he made the 46 yd'er.)
10. Purdue => A shout out to daughter Ryan's school
for putting the final bowl-eligible nail in Meechagan's coffin. Even in
profound disappointment I can find joy in that school's misfortune.
Schadenfreude! 3-9 is looking very
doable for them (and 2-10 isn't out of the question).
A few, final comments:
1. I'm an unabashed Pat Haden fan. I think he's
articulate, insightful, balanced and humorous. Tom Hammonds serves his
functional purpose as well - except when they put the camera on him. Is anyone
else unnerved about his eye make up? Maybe its the distractingly long lashes
but I see Tom and I see Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - an off hrs. cross
dresser...
2. I think its
safe to say that the vast majority of the time these days, our players no
longer act like freshmen and sophomores - and its interesting to me that the
media doesn't even make a big deal about it (OK, maybe Floyd but only because
every week he gets more freakish).
But my point is this: I have a nagging feeling that our
stumbles still have more to do w. COACHING than talent / experience. As
evidence: we seem to continually play down to our competition... our offensive
game planning seems to continually fly in the face of what we do best... we
have no killer instinct (although the final 2 minutes of the 1st Half held
promise).
I'm not saying 'fire Charlie' ('though maybe re-think the
Haywood play calling decision). Maybe its just that his destiny is to be the
Mike Brey of football... a program that goes 10-2, 9-3 and the occasional
11-1... solidly Top 20... and a unit that stays out of big trouble - that the
Administration can be proud of.
3. The Druids used to believe that God was a Being that
could be negotiated with... hence the notion of ritual sacrifices and such...
and despite St Patrick bringing Catholicism to those folk, with a revised
'God's Will Be Done' viewpoint, to this day each of us still participate in the
innocuous "Pls. God, if You do ____, I'll never do _____ again".
So in this spirit of trying to find a silver lining to an
otherwise gut wrenching loss, I'll put this out there: "If we only get to
win one of the two, please God, let it be against Boston College..."
Over and out, boys. Until next week.
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