Six weeks from kickoff...

[Bulldogg31]

I'm not as excited as I should be about the upcoming season. Help me out pack. What's the ceiling this year and what am I fired up about?

 

[ronpolk]

I'm just fired up about football season in general. Life is better when it's football season.

About state, we are likely going to be better than what we all expect. It's hard to imagine us not winning at least 7 games.

 

[1msudawg]

https://youtu.be/f7i0m1fOnOY

 

[shotgunDawg]

I'm not as excited as I should be about the upcoming season. Help me out pack. What's the ceiling this year and what am I fired up about?

I think most people will be more excited after we play our first game than before. We simply have too many new faces to know what we are going to be.

Here is what you can look forward to though:

1. Nick Fitzgerald is a better runner than Dak. He's faster, quicker, & more explosive. He's not as big in the lower half so he won't run as many people over.

2. Peter Sirmon's 3/4 defense. We are loaded at LB & we are finally running a defense that highlights that. The 3/4 allows for more exotic blitzes.

3. Malik Dear is a major wild card to turn into a household name by November. He'll line up everywhere & get touches in numerous ways.

4. The Relf Coast Offense - Due to Fitz's running ability, look for us to go back to Mullen's specialty which will also allow the offensive line to play downhill instead of in pass protection. Our O-line will be better because of this.

5. Simmons & Fletcher Adams - Two uber talented young DL. Simmons has Chris Jones' talent with more now polish & Fletcher Adams is a lot like Isaac Gross. Expect their development to be exciting throughout the year.

I'm sure there will be more as we get going & rumors about practice spread, but there's 5 legitimate things to get excited about. I'm cautiously optimistic about this season. I think much of the dis-respect & rebuilding year attitude comes from the unknown & question marks, but this team has some pieces and parts that could lead to good season. If the offensive line figures things out, we could be pretty good

 

[AlCoDog]

This is the damn truth. I'm pretty sure days have gone from 24 to 72 hours since the Arizona series.

 

[PBRME]

Stop trying to spread your optimism to me. I don't want to be wooly going in this season.

 

[aTotal360]

We're going to be awful. Stay at home. Sell your parking pass while there is still time.

 

[PBRME]

Thank you.

 

[Xenomorph]

Thinking about college football starting back...

 

[121Josey]

Any word if D.Williams is still the starting QB?**

 

[121Josey]

Can't wait to see those white helmets.**

 

[57stratdawg]

I'm right there with you. We really need to beat South Car week 2. It's a really big game, because that puts you 3-1 headed out of bye into Auburn and then BYU.

That Auburn game should be a packed house. Auburn would likely be 3-2 (having played Clemson, TAM, and LSU). A L in Starkville is probably the beginning of the end for Malzahn.

 

[paindonthurt_]

Curious to see how people will react if we win 8 plus games. At least the ones who think we are a 7 wins or less team. If we turn out to be 8 plus, will they ***** and complain abt how we should have won 9, 10 or 11?

 

[Bulldogg31]

Good stuff guys. I think for me this season comes down to the Egg Bowl. Short of winning the SECW and going to Atlanta, we need to win in Oxford. I'm really tired of their ****.

 

[Drebin]

Good stuff guys. I think for me this season comes down to the Egg Bowl. Short of winning the SECW and going to Atlanta, we need to win in Oxford. I'm really tired of their ****.

I think the Egg Bowl tide shifts dramatically this year. They are going to be playing with a cloud over their program all season and they have a really tough schedule out of the gate - all of the ingredients are there for them to have a season similar to our 2001. We'll see, though. I'm obviously biased.

ETA: They have A LOT of talent to replace, too. They are stout at QB and are good in places, but Tunsil, Treadwell, and RK aren't walking through that door.

 

[johnson86-1]

Curious to see how people will react if we win 8 plus games. At least the ones who think we are a 7 wins or less team. If we turn out to be 8 plus, will they ***** and complain abt how we should have won 9, 10 or 11?

If it turns out we have a good OL and good CBs, and we cruise over 6 relatively weak teams (4 OOC, UK, USCe), and then beat say what turn out to be a relatively flawed UM and Auburn team, then **** the bed against what turns out to be an imploding A&M team, then I'll probably ***** about us not beating Bama and LSU.**

 

[the dog is on the loose]

Not too excited about this season but mainly because of Mullen's strong will to play seniors. DW at qb? ehw. Holloway and Shump as featured rb's? uggh. Until Mullen can put the players in that gives us the best chance at winning then yeah I'm going to be negative. We have potential at those positions but the better players need to play.

 

[KurtRambis4]

Sorry if I'm missing

Not too excited about this season but mainly because of Mullen's strong will to play seniors. DW at qb?.

the sarcasm, but are you saying that you believe DW will get a great deal of the snaps this season?

 

[AlCoDog]

Yeah, but they have the but QB in the confer......er, nation.

 

[121Josey]

the sarcasm, but are you saying that you believe DW will get a great deal of the snaps this season?

DW is a senior, you know. Dan's is serious about winning this season only if he plays underclassmen on the OL and DL. Younger is better. Make sense to me.

 

[HD6]

He's a junior as far as eligibility goes.

 

[the dog is on the loose]

He's a junior as far as eligibility goes.

I hope you're kidding. I certainly don't dislike him it's just that we need fitz or tiano to get more playing time to only get better. I definetely believe those two are our path for the now and future.

 

[HD6]

13-Played as true freshman
14-Played as true sophomore
15-Redshirted

He's a junior.

 

[KurtRambis4]

I'm still

confused. Are you suggesting that Mullen is going to be playing Damian for a great deal of snaps this season?

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Was State actually shown twice in that video?

 

[aTotal360]

I wouldn't be shocked at all. I certainly wouldn't be shocked if he took the first snap of the season.

 

[dickiedawg]

I'm as stoked as ever for football season.
No, I don't expect us to contend for the West but I see no reason we can't win at least 8 regular season. We can win 9 without pulling an upset.
We've got a great conference home schedule (though the non conf home slate is pure garbage.
Dammit, I've just plain missed football.

 

[patdog]

Rest easy. Fitzgerald is our QB. Only question is whether the backup is Staley or Tiano.

 

[KurtRambis4]

So you think,

this season, DW is going to get around 35-40% (or more) of the snaps. I disagree completely, barring injuries.

 

[Junction John]

Must've thought one of them was Ole Miss. Actually, the only OM I saw was the helmet bounce bs. Funny. Can't believe the Arky 4th and Atlanta play wasn't shown.

Also interesting to me that there wasn't much video of the national champs. I guess they weren't very exciting, other than winning all those games.

 

[tired]

I'm with you. I just miss football, the fall weather, cookouts, fellowshipping & the depression for most goes away.

 

[Bulldogg31]

Guess I wasn't the only one not excited for this season. It's been a long time since I was at a game with less excitement. Nobody seemed to care until we lost. Sucks.