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Mississippi State’s running game: The Bulldogs, third in the SEC in rushing offense, went old school on the Gators last Saturday night in the Swamp. They ran the ball over and over again and made the Gators like it.


How did we ever do this without Dixon?
 
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Mississippi State’s running game: The Bulldogs, third in the SEC in rushing offense, went old school on the Gators last Saturday night in the Swamp. They ran the ball over and over again and made the Gators like it.


How did we ever do this without Dixon?
 
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We still have a very good running game without Dixon. Yes, "on paper", we don't miss him.

However, personally I still think we are missing him in a lot of the intangibles. We still don't have a vocal leader who brings excitement to the huddle & the sidelines. Ballard is quickly becoming the guy to carry the offense on his back, but we were missing that in the early part of the year.

I will go out on a limb and say that if we had Dixon, we would be 6-1 and might have even beat UF by more than 3. Yes, I know Ballard had more yds against UF than Dixon, but these are two different UF teams.
 
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17ing let it go. Enough. We get it, we can still run the ball. That doesn't change the fact that we would still be better with Dixon on the roster.

It is pretty simple.
Would we be a better team with Dixon on the roster? Yes.
Therefore, we miss Dixon - at least to some degree.
Does that mean we will be bad? No.
Does that mean we won't be able to run the ball? No.
Is Ballard awesome? Yes.
Does it give you a chance to continue to be a huge douche? Absolutely.

I have had enough of the 49ers 3rd string comments too. 1) he is not 3rd string. Even "The League" was smart enough to highlight this point for you in the last episode; 2) he is backing up maybe the best RB in the NFL right now, and without doubt one of the top 3.
 
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So yes, I think we miss Dixon. He's playing in the NFL, of course we miss him to some extent.
 
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just admit it we don't miss dixon

well hell yes dixon is better than the 4 rb on our team, nobody has said that...
/just grin and BEAR it
 
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make Coach 34 pay $1 for every douchey post he makes and then $5 for everytime he repeats his douchey points. We'd have a few million in no time.
 
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....having a guy thump his chest at the other team during pre-game
....having a guy give 'em the "come bring it" sign
....having a guy flat about abuse people that try tackling him in the open field
....having a guy tee off for 252 yards
....having a guy blowing kisses at the other team from the sideline
....a mouth full of teeth talking about pushing it, and fun fun fun mayne

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AzzurriDawg4

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I wonder where all that extra running room went?

I guarantee you one thing, Joker Phillips is glad Dixon is playing for the 49ers right now.
 
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in a lot of ways.......One way we miss him that I don't see a lot written about is the fact that he was such a great receiver outta the backfield.......We don't have anyone close to him in that regard..........

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"and we'd be leading the SEC in rushing instead of 3rd"


We are only 4 yards a game behind the Bears, and they have entered the tough part of their schedule which will have their total fall. We will surpass them Saturday for 2nd...and even with 2009 Dixon, we wouldnt be #1- Auburn averages 284 yards a game on the ground.

As we have obviously seen, we needed to run Ballard more against Auburn and we would have won that game. Throwing 33 passes against Auburn lost that game- not having Dixon in the backfield.

a good quote from March kinda sums this all up-

"The problem, I think, is that you have couched this prediction behind the phrase "we won't miss Dixon." That not only hits people sentimentally, it is also impossible to quantify. If Conner, Elliott, and Ballard combine for 3,000 yards rushing next season, you would say, "See, we didn't miss Dixon", whereas <span style="text-decoration:underline">the Dixon fans would argue that with him in the mix they could have rushed for 3,500</span> so he was missed."- Dawgzilla

If you let go of the sentimental aspect, it's easy to see he has been replaced more than adequately by Ralph and Ballard

Say what you want about Fla- coming into the game they were only giving up 118 yards/game rushing...Bama only rushed for 170 against them. And they spent the entire 2nd half running the ball to ice the game away. We lined up and ran it right at them play after play. We couldnt do that last year with Dixon.

Georgia is 4th in the SEC in rush defense- 103/game- how did we fare against them?

The argument was would we be able to get that production this season like he did last year- and the answer is a clear yes. Let go of the sentimentality and admit that Ballard is doing the job.
 
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Hell maybe all those turn overs would not have happen at LSU if Dixon was there and we would have scored points with Dixon running.
 
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With a more experienced veteran O-line. I'm a huge supporter of Ballard and yes he is the man, but to deny Dixon is the better running back is just senseless, arrogant, and asinine.

Anthony Dixon - 6'0" 235
Vick Ballard - 5' 10ish 180ish..

Different running backs, both with amazing intangibles/potential.

Tell me you would take Ballard any day over Dixon and we all know you're just a fat 17'n liar
 
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on their defense now? Is that what you are saying?


Not to mention Ballard has yet to fumble a game away as Dixon did vs Ga Tech last season
 
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you know damn well they still have draft picks playing on that defense

I know that we went into their stadium this year, as opposed to having the home field advantage last year, and pushed around the country's 16th ranked defense- acting like they aren't very good this year doesn't hold water
 
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aspendawg said:
With a more experienced veteran O-line. I'm a huge supporter of Ballard and yes he is the man, but to deny Dixon is the better running back is just senseless, arrogant, and asinine.

Anthony Dixon - 6'0" 235
Vick Ballard - 5' 10ish 180ish..

Different running backs, both with amazing intangibles/potential.

Tell me you would take Ballard any day over Dixon and we all know you're just a fat 17'n liar
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I said repeatedly that we wouldnt miss Dixon because of the RB's we had, Relf playing full-time, our veteran OL, and our WR's being better. I was told I was wrong. So don't bring the OL into it, they apparently didnt matter this summer.
 
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The Bulldogs were an excellent running team a year ago. They’re equally good again this year, even without Anthony Dixon.
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From the "Mullen has Bulldogs on a fast track" link in the blog at the top.
 
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I said repeatedly that we wouldnt miss Dixon because of the RB's we had, Relf playing full-time, our veteran OL, and our WR's being better. I was told I was wrong. So don't bring the OL into it, they apparently didnt matter this summer.
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Well hold on a second... Granted we aren't missing a beat (which is the most important thing), it's hard for me to subscribe to the idea of not missing talent. It's easier to believe that we would be better if we had him as well to go along in the backfield with our other running backs. I'm with you to an extent that we're good without him, but I can't say that we don't miss him. The most important aspect is that we're not hurting without him though.
 
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I agreed when we said our offense wouldn't just as productive or better. However, to think we don't miss AD is dubm. Who would you rather have, AD or VB? I'd take AD every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
 
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miss daisy]I could get three yards behind that guy and I'm fat and slow
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Anyone seen a better blocker than our #35? I haven't!! Heard from one of our players Sunday he cracked his helmet and bent his face-mask in the 4th quarter of the Florida game.
 
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In SEC PLAY ONLY this year, Ballard is averaging 4.14 yards per carry, and our top 3 backs collectively are averaging 3.93 yards per carry. Dixon averaged 5.32 yards per carry in SEC games last year, and that's playing 75 plus percent of the time without a QB who was not a threat to run, which pretty much makes this offense's running game and the zone read go. Our backs now have the luxury of having not only an OL that returned everyone, but a QB who is a threat to keep the ball.

Also, our offense in SEC games only last year averaged 22.5 points per game and 343 yards per game, compared to this year, where we're averaging 13.75 points per game and 268 yards per game. (I get that we've played 4 of the 5 best defenses already, but cherry picking is c34's specialty)

So in SEC play we're averaging nearly 100 yards and 9 points less per game... seems obvious to me that our defense is the reason for where we are right now, and the reason that we even have the opportunity to run the ball late in the game with a lead.
 
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aspendawg said:
Anthony Dixon - 6'0" 235
Vick Ballard - 5' 10ish 180ish..
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Try:
Anthony Dixon - 6'0" 235
Vick Ballard - 5-10 215ish

You think Ballard is running through arm tackles because he is 180? Hey you were only about 20-25 pounds off though. Pretty close.
 
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Ballard is doing a great job at letting his blocks develop and finding the holes. Anthony had to do everything himself because teams didn't have to respect the pass with Tyson in the backfield and there weren't many holes to run through.
 
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against Auburn and Ellis Yeaux, and run the dog **** out of Ballard, we would probably be 6-1 and possibly be 7-0. I was saying it after Memphis game, that Ballard was our man and Elliott needed to hold the water bottles. </p>

But to say he's better than AD, at this point, is a little over the top. Ballard is good and improving, but he's no AD. However, we are Ralphing our opponents as well. We don't have Mini Lee running the show and that has added some rushing yards. </p>
 
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Love me some Vick but please AD was and is hoss!! This is much better balanced offensive football team with some damn good blocking.
 
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