meangreendork

Well, after SMU & Rice and seeing how Portland State is doing, I don't think that game is a locked win. At this point, no game is a locked win and the projected losses are almost guaranteed. I'm telling you - if the team loses to Portland State, I think the coaches and RV need to answer to Smatresk. Pretty sure that getting beat by an FCS team is NOT on his plan.

Didn't Dillman want to play at TE instead of QB? At any rate, I'd consider asking him to switch over right now.

He is right. The school did OK by alerting the police to what was in the eye of the English teacher, "a suspicious device." The PD did the right thing by showing up, pulling Ahmed out of class and asking him about it. To the average person, the clock in the pencil case looked like a bomb out of a movie. But aside from getting him and the clock, the school and PD botched everything after. - the interrogation and how it was done - asking him about his surname - the public arrest - not checking with the Engineering teacher - "I figured this would be the kid" (according to Ahmed) - badgering him about further purposes of the clock (which is pretty much an accusation) - trying to figure out if they were going to charge him with a crime.

I think we all hope we're wrong about McNulty's potential being tapped, or that Smith isn't better, or something - really - anything that means we'll have much improved offensive performance this season.

You're probably right. Be enough to have RV call him and make something happen.

Thanks for reminding me that Mcnulty coughed up 14 points at Tulsa before Osborn went in and put up 14. Hell, if Osborn went in for Mcnulty, that would've been a win. Without the two INTs, it'd be 21-27, and if Osborn had pushed another drive, it'd be 28-27, possibly better. But whatever, we gotta put McNulty in. If it ain't nepotism, it's bad coaching.

Well, if this follows the movie script, Greer and McNulty will need to be knocked off the field in the same game. If I remember that movie right.

13 years ago, getting around Texas State was a cluster. It's worse now. It's not nearly as bad at UNT when compared to other places.

The defense will fight the good fight all game, produce turnovers, and even create scoring opportunities. They may even put 7 on the board. Special teams will be point, too. They'll create a turnover, lock-in the FGs, and put the offense in a good place to score. The offense will stall out like last week and last season. They'll miss opportunities, probably even give the ball away. This means the defense will be put in increasingly short field position while they're also tired. NT - 17 Rice - 30+

After they realized that they'd made mistakes from the second they got involved and realizing that charging Mohamed with making a hoax bomb (that he didn't even intend to make) would be doubling or tripling down on the stupid. On the real, I'd love to see heads roll if the PD decided to actually bring charges on Mohamed. That would be some hilarity right there.

It's a pretty serious foul-up, though not quite as you've got it worded. It boils down to a kid bringing in a clock showing to teachers, someone thinking it might be a bomb. The kid gets arrested and interrogated without notification/presence of his parents, badgered about his last name, and pushed because "he couldn't offer further explanation." He even got threatened with expulsion. Then even after the clock being deemed as just a clock (and according to the kid), the local PD considering charging him with building a hoax bomb, despite him showing it off as a clock, and not claiming it was anything else but a clock. But basically, the school staff and PD involved dun goof'd.

I'm pretty worried about every game on the schedule after the SMU game. I know the defense and special teams units will be on-point every play but I'm really worried that they won't be able to put enough points on the board on their own to win. I'm also worried that the offense won't be able to capitalize on opportunities given by those two units.

Might be better, might be worse. Their offense hung 21 on Baylor, but the defense did get trampled badly. In the same situation, UNT might've held Baylor to a much lower score but may have only scored 7 points with maybe a few from special teams performance. Thing is, it looks like SMU has the edge in either QB recruiting and/or QB utilization.

Probably? But I doubt that's the issue in our situation. :/

Mainly because the defense was on the field for the majority of the game as a result of poor execution/playcalling on the part of the offense. The defense held a team that put 21 early points on Baylor to something like 10 points for the majority of the game. While the defense did miss tackles, I think that the defense did a far better job and is further away from causing the loss than the offense. Same for special teams. Sure, there was a missed field goal, but a missed field goal at 48 yards. Guess why that field goal had to be kicked at 48 yards? The offense left between 21 and 28 points on the turf because they didn't execute. They failed to capitalize on turnovers from the defense and special teams. They failed to execute on field position provided by the defense and special teams.

Smith has had more snaps in his career than McNulty - possibly even at the FBS level. Considering that the playbook apparently made up of gut-runs and 5-yard outs, I can't imagine that Smith can't handle that. Maybe the coaches are stuck on a seniority system? Like they want to Greer and McNulty ahead because they've been here longer even if they're not as qualified?

It makes you wonder how the QBs are evaluated. Is McNulty up because he commits fewer TOs in practice? Is it because he stays in the pocket more? And if so, then it becomes a matter of evaluating prospective QB talent and if the coaches are able to properly use it. I'm guessing it's all of the above.

It's really a matter of coaching decisions. I'm sure McNulty means the best, but he's not cut out for leading an FBS team. Smith on the other hand, shows great potential. So it's really up to the coaches to decide if they want less-than average but consistent results, or potentially great results, but potential inconsistency. I'd take Smith. We know what McNulty can do, and he's done it under center for 3 years. Smith? Even if he does fail, at least we know all options have been tried, short of putting Means on the field. And hell, I'll take that too. The other offensive weapons and a solid line are all there.

I can back that. As a team captain, he's gotta know when he's not the man for the job at hand and be more than ready and willing to hand it over to someone that is. That's leadership - sometimes you gotta know when it's not your time to lead.

Yeah, this hope is dead in the water. He looks like he did when he was backing up Thompson. I feel like the team would've had this as a win but somewhere between McNulty and the coaches, that cost the guys who were actually doing their job a win.

I wanted to think, "hey maybe this will be his year." It's not looking that way. I can't think of how tonight's performance will be called acceptable enough for him to stay at starter. Meanwhile, Williams got benched for making smaller mistakes or fewer mistakes. He looks as bad today as he did last year, which was about the same as how he looked in 2013. I gotta ask, was he any good out of high school? If he starts next week...I dunno, man. This was worse than when we had that horrible set of QBs after Scott Hall and before Dodge. At least then, we knew there weren't better options. But now? One good option already left. One good option is waiting at 3rd on the chart.

Why would SMU ever, ever, ever consider breaking any sort of rule, code, or law? It's just not in that school's DNA.

Injuries like this can really affect a player beyond their playing years, in addition to feeling like a whole offseason of training just got wasted. I hope McCarty recovers well.

6-6. But I could see it 4-8 if the offense doesn't step up. SMU: W Rice: W Iowa: L SoMiss: W PortSt: W WKU: L Marsh: L UTSA: L LaTech: L Tenn: L MTSU: W UTEP: W

I like how UTSA showed at Arizona, I don't like how that might show our team's odds against UTSA. Then again, that could just be a lucky flash for UTSA.