OleMissCub

some guy just basically asked Joe Morgan: "why are you guys a bunch of jerks?"

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PLEASEEEEEEEE, whatever deity truly exists, PLEASE

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Blyleven or Allen

Anyone else see Patrick Willis damn near kill Brad Smith? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8haEXIsEF8 Best part is how he gets up as if to say "I'm OK!!" and then immediately slumps back down. I remember Mel Kiper Jr. joking on draft day that Willis would end several careers before he was done. If he was mean spirited like Rodney Harrison, Willis probably would kill someone on the field.

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I think the fact that baseball has a more well known and storied history than other sports has some part to do with it. Furthermore, baseball is different from the other big sports because of the individual aspect of it i.e. a great majority of a player's individual achievements have little to do with what his team does (the most notable exception being pitching wins).

Texas Tech v. Ole Miss in Cotton, I'd assume.

I'll agree with that.

Well they are obviously good enough to beat Ole Miss by 14-17 points. Doesn't matter that the Rebels were only outscored by 19 points the entire season.

Wow, that play against Jared Allen was dirty as crap.

YES! Vikings keep the dream alive!

I'll post this again and maybe this time you'll get it: Ole Miss Defense 2007: 88th 2008: 16th Oh, and I don't know about the whole "leaving their starters in" thing. Maybe you can enlighten me on that. Perhaps we watched different games. I shouldn't have said left it's starters in and instead said if Missouri hadn't taken it's foot off the pedal when it was up 35-7 early in the third. Again, what does that game have to do with this current team's performance? That was literally 20 games ago and like a year and three months ago. We added a MASSIVELY better game coach and added a person who will likely be the second best QB in the SEC next year. You think that crapass team last year would beat Florida in the Swamp? Or play Alabama within four at BAMA? Or go down to Baton Rouge and rout the Tigers? It's honestly laughable that anyone would even compare the two teams. Anyone who follows the SEC would know this.

I'll post this again and maybe this time you'll get it: Ole Miss Defense 2007: 88th 2008: 16th Oh, and I don't know about the whole "leaving their starters in" thing. Maybe you can enlighten me on that. Perhaps we watched different games.

Falcons got a real gem in Matt Ryan. He's gonna be good.

Ugh, Brian Billick just used the analogy "so fast, like Derek Jeter turning a double play..."

welcome back Reggie Bush.... 43 yard run then a TD reception.

The final margin in last year's game was 13 points. You say this year's Ole Miss team is "much improved" and Missouri is worse than last year, and yet, your final margin in this year's hypothetical game is 14-17. Nutt and Snead, along with close to vast improvements through most of the rest of the team, would be enough to make the game a tossup - not a near blowout for Mizzou. I'm not sure who would win, but it'd be much closer than 14-17. I don't get the 14-17 point differential thing either. The worst Ole Miss got outscored in a game all year was by 7 and that was in a game with South Carolina where the Rebs had 4 turnovers including a fumble on their 6 yard line. What's more indicative of how that game went - the part where Missouri outscored Ole Miss 35-7 in the first 31:12 of the game or the part where Ole Miss outscored Missouri 18-3 after Missouri went ahead 35-7? If you don't think Missouri could have scored 60 in that game if they had wanted to run it up you're crazy. I wouldn't have been surprised if Mizzou had scored 100 in that game. I was there. I've basically been saying that this whole thread. Now....Do you even remotely understand what I'm getting at or what my entire argument is?? The team that got destroyed by Mizzou in 2007 is not even close to being the same team that beat Florida and damn near beat Alabama in 2008. It isn't close in personnel, experience, coaching, etc. Look it: Offense 2007: 91st 2008: 38th Defense 2007: 88th 2008: 16th So WHY are you bringing up last year as indicative of what any score would be? If they played right now, I have no doubt that Mizzou would score a good amount of points in that game, but so would Ole Miss. Our defense is ranked 16th in the nation and Mizzou is ranked 92nd. Ole Miss just put up 45 unanswered points against the 39th defense (MSU) in the country and the week before that put up 31 points against the 37th defense (LSU). They scored 28 points against the 19th defense (Wake) and 31 points against the 7th ranked defense (Florida). Let's look at who Missouri beat up on this year: Illinois (56th defense), Nevada (91st), Buffalo (94th), Nebraska (67th), Colorado (79th), Baylor (87th), Kansas State (118th), Iowa State (112th). Other than Texas (ranked 50th), Mizzou didn't play a single defense rated in the top 50. Ole Miss played four Top 20 defenses and overall played eight Top 50 teams.

The final margin in last year's game was 13 points. You say this year's Ole Miss team is "much improved" and Missouri is worse than last year, and yet, your final margin in this year's hypothetical game is 14-17. Nutt and Snead, along with close to vast improvements through most of the rest of the team, would be enough to make the game a tossup - not a near blowout for Mizzou. I'm not sure who would win, but it'd be much closer than 14-17. I don't get the 14-17 point differential thing either. The worst Ole Miss got outscored in a game all year was by 7 and that was in a game with South Carolina where the Rebs had 4 turnovers including a fumble on their 6 yard line.

I'd also like to add that if this hypothetical game were played right now, one of the guys who would be playing for this years team but not last years is sophomore d-lineman Jerrell Powe. He didn't play until the last few games and only had 7 tackles, but 3.5 were tackles for loss.

Isn't that a contrary statement? You say Ole Miss is much improved this year and then refer to last year to prove a point about a game that would be played today? Ole Miss sucked ASS in 2007 man. They were outscored by opponents last year by 134 points. This year they were outscored by only 19 points. The difference in the 07 and 08 Rebs is night and day and the personnel has either completely changed at major positions (QB, RB, DL) or has vastly matured and is under a hugely superior coaching staff.

That's absurd. Not a big enough difference? I'd say Jevan Snead is a pretty MASSIVE difference just in himself. Our QB last year rated damn near dead last. Snead is ranked 3rd this year in the SEC only behind Tebow and Stafford and was leading the conference in TD passes before tonight. Our rushing offense was 11th in the SEC last year and 3rd this year thanks in large part to two freshman, one with 441 rushing yards (Brandon Bolden with 5.1 ypc) and the other with 222. Offense: 2007: 12th (dead last) in SEC 2008: 4th Defense: 2007: 11th 2008: 4th (led the SEC in sacks)

I'm in agreement with you that the yardage means nothing in the context of that game last year. Ole Miss got destroyed. However, what's your opinion on if a game were played today?

He made three passes in a row on one of the touchdown drives that were quite literally as perfect as you could throw a football. The CBS guys pretty much said the same thing. On all three passes the LSU defenders were right on top of their men. I've never seen anything like that.