Hear Ye! Hear Ye!!! Cream Talk by Stallion - Week 5

Stallion4Tiiigaaahhhs · Sep 28, 2008

Hello Six Packers!!! I want to start off by giving the Bulldogs their props for coming out prepared to play the Tigers Saturday night. I was expecting State to show a similar performance against the Tiiiigaaahhhs as they did against Ga. Tech, but that simply was not the case. In fact it was my beloved Tigers that looked like they didn't care, and it could have hurt them. The Stallion took some criticism this past week calling the Starkville Dawgs a team full of quitters (and the performance against the Yellow Jackets supported that); however, that wasn't the case in Baton Rouge. However, what a weekend of football with three of the top five teams losing. Could this be a repeat of 2007? The "cream" took a shock treatment this weekend as two teams appear to be vying for the title in the early part of the race. However, the season is still young. Two things are for certain - Fulmer still looks like a pumpkin and Arkansas is extremely uncompetitive. And how about the Beavers of Oregon State. I know Mark May can't sleep at night since his first love has a blemish now. His first love is not perfect after all. And the Stallion loved it!!! I think this really opens the door for an SEC team to get into the National Championship versus a Big 12 team. And now for the Week 5 rankings -

1) LSU - They are back where they feel most comfortable, atop the Cream Rankings. However, the Tiiigaaahhh's "scrimmage" turned out to be much tougher than the Mad Hatter's team expected. Now they get two weeks to prepare for the Swamp.
 2) Alabama - As the Stallion predicted and took some heat for at the beginning of the year. Saban's boys are for real. Julio Jones is absolutely ridiculously good and that defense is a force. Question now for Alabama is whether they can keep this momentum with such a young team.
3) Florida - Superman Tebow ran into KryptoNutt this weekend. A blocked PAT and a horrendous 4th down call could spell doom to Gator Nation's national championship dream for 2008-09.
4) Georgia - Stafford, Knowshown and the boys never really have stepped up this year and lived up to the hype. Same ole', same ole' for those Gawwgggaaa Dawgs.
5) Auburn - It's very apparent that Tubby is going to win games with his defense because that offense is B A D.
6) Vanderbilt - Did my paper read right this morning? Vandy is 1st in the East. Hell just got about 100 degrees cooler.
7) Ole Miss- Houston Nutt is proving to all qualified coaches around America that you can turn a program around and make progress in the first year. Epic win for the Mad Nutters in the Swamp.
8) Kentucky - It's hard to rank Kentucky this high when they really haven't shown how good or how bad they are at this point. Since they are undefeated up until this point.
9) South Carolina - I have had the Cocks lower in previous weeks, but by default they move ahead of the Vols.
 10) Tennessee- Is it just me, or is Crompton a very bad QB. He is single handedly hurting the Vols right now and it could be the meal ticket to Fulmer's retirement party if he doesn't look for other ways to generate points.
11) Miss. St. - Yes they lost, but the Hogs are clearly worse than MSU. I also believe that State showed some offensive improvement this past weekend and may win another game this year outside of MTSU.
12) Arkansas - I am now playing an Arky alum. "Where's Houston Nutt? Oh that's right, we ran him off to Oxford. Damn, we're stupid. All Nutt did every year was compete for a western division title and slip up and beat a couple of good teams per year. So what if he text messaged his ***** 2 million times per week. He produced W's. Damn we're stupid!" Hot Boudin Award - As much as I hate to do it, I have to give it to the Rebels for doing the unexpected. Huge win for the program and it has definitely opened up the eyes of Mississippi's future opponents in 2008. Honorable mention goes to Alabama and Oregon State for making LSU that much closer to No. 1. However, the season is still young. Cold Couscous Award -Georgia for completely going on national TV and getting taken to the woodshed by Saint Nick. The Bulldogs never live up to expectations and this year is no exception. You thought your schedule was tough before you played Bama. Good luck on the rest of this year with Auburn, LSU, Florida, and even Vandy still to play. And Urban Meyer gets the part of the couscous this week for his awful decision to follow Croom's philosophy on offensive creativity on 4th down. Well done Urban. You just cost your Gators a chance to be No. 1. Love, Stallion

thatsbaseball · Sep 28, 2008

you were right and I was wrong. They`re good right now. Being an MSU fan I`m just programed to wait til next year , Bama ain`t wired that way.

Stallion4Tiiigaaahhhs · Sep 28, 2008

Of my fortunate 5 years of enjoying him as a coach at LSU, I realized that Saban can make some of the best adjustments I have ever seen at halftime and shut down another team. Also he's a discplinarian which is what any rebuilding program needs desperately. He's a true tactician and very detailed which makes him an incredible strategist. He can take average defensive talent and keep his team competitive. Now that he has a National Championship under him and is coaching at a school full of football tradition, he is going to get the best athletes in the country every year. Combined, that will make Bama very good very quickly. His current freshmen are absolutely awesome. They are going to give every top SEC team a ton of trouble including LSU. They could run the table, but I am not convinced that the consistency will be there. I do believe John Parker Heimer Smith Wilson is better than Matthew Stafford, but no one believed me on that earlier this year either. Wilson just had to adjust. It is going to be interesting and can't wait for Saban Bowl in Baton Rouge.

GINASFS · Sep 28, 2008

They haven't been behind yet this year. I want to see how JPW plays when he needs to lead his team back in the 4th qtr.

Stallion4Tiiigaaahhhs · Sep 28, 2008

they will be fine most of the time.

KennyB · Sep 28, 2008

in the conference right now. Your Tiggahs look pretty weak on defense, how many points did they give up to probably the worst offense in the country?

Stallion4Tiiigaaahhhs · Sep 28, 2008

the same thing about the lackluster performance Bama had against Tulane...about the same sort of competitiveness.

MaxwellSmart · Sep 28, 2008

Saban is a hell of a coach but I didn't think he could turn them around as fast as he has. Guess you get what you pay for after all.

Shmuley · Sep 28, 2008

that the remaining Shula recruit influences somehow rise up at a critical point in a tight one, leading to a colossal choke job. The reason this is a temporary hope is because the Shula influence is being killed off much more quickly than I ever imagined. Damn, Saban, you psychotic sonuvabitch! Don't you know that you are doing it in the entirely wrong way?

KennyB · Sep 28, 2008

I watched both Bama and LSU play last night, Bama is the better football team.

Stallion4Tiiigaaahhhs · Sep 28, 2008

That's my point. They are a damn good team...but let's not jump on Bama's bandwagon just yet however.

patdog · Sep 28, 2008

They'd easily moved down the field to score a TD on their previous possession and had gone 40 yards in 4 plays on that possession. Then they make these play calls in succession:

1st & 10 - Home run ball down the middle. Why go for the home run now? Just keep doing what you've been doing. Actually can't fault that call too much because the play was there but Tebow missed the open receiver for the easy TD.

2nd & 10 - Another home run ball. The second deep ball in a row was just a stupid call. Miss it and you're in 3rd and long. Again, why not call one of the 5-15 yard passes that had been working so well.

3rd & 10 - Option right. Again why abandon what had been working for you? And a running play on 3rd and long??? I don't care who you are, picking up 10 yards on a running play isn't a percentage play call.

4th & 2 - Not a bad play call if it had been 4th and a foot, but Meyer should have known when that play was reviewed it would be 4th and 2 and he should have given Tebow a rollout pass/run/pitch option.

Croomp · Sep 28, 2008

Yea Urban Meyer made the worse Crxxm decision. Especially against Ole Miss. We are screwed so badly down the road. I'm just hoping we can beat MTSU and Arkansas. Arkansas is about as bad as it gets

Stallion4Tiiigaaahhhs · Sep 28, 2008

wouldn't you say?

Stallion4Tiiigaaahhhs · Sep 28, 2008

Ole Miss, Vandy and maybe Kentucky (who hasn't really proven anything yet). Chances of you winning all 5 are slim, but you still have a shot.

Stallion4Tiiigaaahhhs · Sep 28, 2008

a la JPW

BillBrasky10 · Sep 28, 2008

Stallion4Tiiigaaahhhs said:
a la JPW

But I think Bama is a force. A force that might come into Baton Rouge and stir things up this year.

Good post and thanks for not leaving us in the gutter again.

Rebheaded Stranger · Sep 28, 2008

When we were blitzing and nobody was playing deep middle. Both were open. Both were overthrown.

As open as the first one was, I'm sure they thought that if we brought a similar blitz and coverage package, why should they not try it again.

As for fourth down, there's absolutely no *##@$@@ way if I'm Meyer that I don't have Tebow "self play action" run two steps toward the line and then toss it over our heads for the first. With as many people selling out on the QB dive, it would have at least garnered a first down, and maybe won the thing out right.

They'd run that same package on the goal line in the second quarter and Ole Miss stuffed it in tight, but Tebow spun outside of the tackle box into the endzone. This time we had a guy line up outside of their TE and he sealed the corner.

Sorry for the length. It's so nice to be able to give a **** about football again.

MSUbravesfan · Sep 28, 2008

automatically jump on LSU's bandwagon? Who, other than AU, has LSU played?

Bama beat GA solidly. They should have the #1 spot in the rankings. The only reason you don't have them up there is because of your underlying LSU bias. Just admit it.

Bama has beaten #9 Clemson(at Clemson) and #3 Georgia(at Georgia).

LSU has beaten #10 Auburn(at Auburn). I don't think that MSU is good enough to be listed as a good win.

Stallion4Tiiigaaahhhs · Sep 29, 2008

LSU didn't play like the cream this weekend, but the State game was a trap game between Auburn and Florida. We did not play well this weekend, but they will be ready for Florida on Oct. 11th. Bama IS a force and I guarantee LSU will be up for the Saban Bowl.

Stallion4Tiiigaaahhhs · Sep 29, 2008

Clemson has proven to be an average team at best. Alabama had a poor game against Tulane and really struggled scoring mainly on special teams.

LSU had a horrible game against State, but have played well in the other three games with the exception of a horrible pass by Lee on that pick 6. So it's a tight race.

Bama is much more inexperienced than LSU except at QB. Right now I feel both teams will not run the table this year. It's the SEC and any weekend can come up and bite you if you aren't ready.

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