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2009 December 5
What do you think will happen in the Florida-Alabama SEC Title game?
MFG pick: Bama by three
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[1]
FL 24,
AL 20….
[2]
FL 34
AL 14
[3]
Sorry, MFG, I had to update your post!
[4]
LOL, INC!
I have no dog in this fight
I’m grateful to Saban for bringing a title to LSU, but I’m annoyed that we gave him everything he wanted and he left us anyway
I like Tim Tebow and am pleased to see such a fine Christian young man influencing so many and doing such good, but the over the top praise for him has gotten old
But that’s not his fault I suppose
[5]
I guess I need an actual score, huh?
Alabama 27
Florida 24
in a thrilla…
[6]
Gators had better be hot today, and they better get big and nasty on the O line. Tide’s defense is stingy.
That is the key to the game, IMO, Gators front 5….
[7]
Alabama probably promised the sun, moon and stars to get someone they thought would bring back the Bear Bryant era.
[8]
I agree, RWY.
[9]
A team will win.
Don’t follow football but I randomly picked Alabama.
[10]
Florida 35
Alabama 32
in double overtime!
Cheers!
[11]
Florida 27
Alabama 24
While I think he is a great coach, I am not a fan of Sabin. He left too many teams holding the bag: Michigan State, LSU, Dolphins
[12]
Gator D needs to tighten up
[13]
10-0
Yikes…
[14]
I, uh, think I may wanna change my prediction. Damn, I sound like a Democrat!
[15]
OK
9-0
[16]
Hard to beat Saban two years in a row in a big game
[17]
This is not looking real good…
[18]
Like two mules fighting over a turnip.
May the best mule win.
[19]
When did Florida start wearing the dorky white helmets? The all-white look is boring.
[20]
They are nike-provided experimental uniforms…I don’t like them either, but they are supposed to be lighter, and better ventilated, with moisture-wicking fabric that keeps sweat off your skin.
Shirts like that have been popular in cycling for over a decade…
[21]
Defense failing
Geez…
[22]
They don’t seem to be doing much good.
[23]
Argggggggghhhh
[24]
Good grief
Going to fall 20 points behind…???
[25]
33-13
Yuck
[26]
TT better find his inner Drew Brees very soon…
[27]
ok, officially: WOW!
Alabama could beat your Saints tonight, MFG. (ok…maybe a bit of hyperbole…but DAMN!)
[28]
“inner Drew Brees”??
Uh, he needs to find his inner Leonidas!!
[29]
Saban is a hell of a coach; I know it rankled him to lose to FL last year and I figured he’d really be ready today
Hell of a coach, maybe the best college coach in the country…
[30]
Well, when you’re down twenty in the fourth quarter we call that “Drew Brees time” down here
[31]
OK
19 points down
Not impossible
TT just needs to get going
[32]
Think I’ll switch to the Bruins – Maple Leafs game on Hockey Night in Canada.
[33]
Score quickly here, get a 2 pt conversion, trailing by eleven…
[34]
Interception
That probably does it
Sorry, all you Gator guys and gals…
[35]
Uhh, I know I am late by I pick ‘bama to win in a walk.
I have some options on some great wind farms that I can sell you pretty cheap!
agjr
[36]
FL totally beaten on the line of scrimmage….on offense and defense
[37]
Total defeat
Big surprise
[38]
Alabama looks unstoppable tonight…National Champs??
[39]
The keys to the game were obvious, had nothing to do with Tebow, or any single player.
FL front five were destroyed by AL’s Defensive line, and on defense, FL was shoved all over the field.
They could have played 24 quarters and it would only have gotten worse.
[40]
This game reminded me of Miami Dolphins against the Ravens last year in the opening round of the playoffs.
Totally outclassed at the line of scrimmage, a literal mismatch on both sides of the ball.
[41]
Tebow was under pressure constantly, and the Gators NEVER put McElroy under any serious pressure the entire game.
What fun it must be for a quarterback to have the whole game to just stand back there and eat cheetos and throw the ball whenever he gets around to it.
[42]
444 yards of total offense and counting…
[43]
Eat cheetos
LOL!
[44]
‘bama better hope Texas wins tonight, otherwise they get TCU. Uh oh.
[45]
26-13 in first downs
10 of 14 in third down conversions
Brutal…
[46]
Well, just got beat decisively
It’s the 1 point losses that haunt you…
[47]
Where’s the Kingsford? Time to burn the blue and orange pom-pom’s. Got to watch the last half. I hang my head in shame. It was like the Fla defense was on Quaaludes or something.
[48]
INC, there’s next year right?
[49]
Come on, don’t rag on her.
[50]
Well, FL champs in 2006 and 2008 and noone can ever take that away
[51]
Just like LSU in 2003 and 2007
When you lose a big one, think of the championships won in the past
[52]
Just like the Saints, I think of…
[53]
Well, wait…
[54]
Eat cheetos
LOL!
Well, look at McElroy’s hands, covered in orange powder. Had some on the ball too. They should have put an easy chair out there and snapped the ball to him while he was clicking channels.
It never fails to amaze me how you can pay a coach a million dollars or 5 million, and he can have a staff of 100 experts, and not one of them has a clue about pressuring a quarterback.
Job one on defense: Get the qb. Nothing else matters.
Job one on offense: protect the qb, nothing else matters.
90% of the time, you do this, you win.
Urban Meyer goes into halftime and what does he tell is D Coordinator ? Why dont we have 4 sacks? If we don’t have 4 sacks by halftime, find another job.
[55]
Yup
[56]
The gators have a long history of losing big games by trying to play fancy-ball while the opposing defense is stomping their qb to death.
Look at UF Nebraska in 1995: Poor Weurfful was in intensive care by the second quarter, and the Nebraska players were all 27 years old and bigger than the Dallas cowboys.
So Spurrier leaves him under center, and he can’t even complete his drop back before 3 of the 8 Nebraska passrushers flatten his facemask into the turf again. They were sacking him 2 and 3 times in a row.
And of course, like a psychotic, Spurrier blamed Wuerffel for the loss.
Wasn’t quite that bad today, but I always view the gators from the prism of that 1995 game.
Athletically gifted, but unable to understand the fundamentals of football.
[57]
Sorry, INC
[58]
Maybe it’s not that bad, the gators just assume that if they run plays, good things will happen.
I can’t count the times I saw 5 Gators hit the AL tailback and somehow none of them could hold on.
[59]
Dolphins have played the same way for 20 years. Rush 3 in the fourth quarter, so the defense stays out there all…. game……long…….
All these coaches come and go, all these million dollar contracts, and apparently, nobody understands that if you leave your defense out there for 40 minutes, you have no chance of winning a game.
[60]
You have to play aggressively
Jim Mora Sr used to do that with the Saints in the 90’s
Get a 14 point lead in the 4th quarter, rush three and end up losing
Play aggressively, play to win, play with the strategy that got you the lead
When were the Dolphins perfect? Was in ‘72? It’s been a long time for Miami hasn’t it?
Good grief I’m getting old, I remember that season well…
[61]
RWY,
Not ragging, commiserating. I too am a Gator alum.
[62]
Perfection
[63]
Football is block and tackle. You can’t play the air game effectively if you can’t do 3rd and short conversions. Otherwise the defense just lays back deep and shuts the air game down.
[64]
My read on the game was that bama’s qb had waaay too much time to pass, and that the tailback had huge 10 foot wide holes to run thru.
8 in the box, rush 5 every time, until the completions stop. Fl was beaten at the line of scrimmage, on both sides of the ball.
Oh well, just a game.
[65]
Third down conversion ratio is the key to football
Colts consistently over 50% which is excellent, this is one of the main reasons they have done so well over so many years
Bama 70%+ on third down tonight
[66]
MFG,
The Dolphins in those years were not a team, but a machine. I lost count of the number of times that it was 3rd down and the call was give it to Csonka. The other team saw the play time after time and still could not stop them.
[67]
Yes, it’s just a game
[68]
Sometimes I even believe that…
[69]
They were a wonderful running team: Kiick, Csonka, mercury Morris and Griese at QB and a whole bunch of guys you never heard of on defense
17-0
Astounding
[70]
If you have time to throw the ball, you will always find someone open. it wears the defense out chasing all over the field play after play after play.
Then in the fourth, when you need crushing strength to stop the runs and get the ball back, it’s gone.
[71]
The problem with being undefeated is everyone is sky high when they play you, the Rams went after the Saints this year like it was their damn Super Bowl
[72]
I think the Saints will finish 16-0
[73]
Beyond that…
[74]
Dolphins suck. I hate it, but they suck, plain and simple.
[75]
????????????????
[76]
WEll, if they finish 16-0, good for them, because I think they are the only team to ever go 0-16? Like back in the 80s?
Go Saints. Go brees, you deserve it, brother.
[77]
Dolphins have talent, I always liked Ricky Williams, I’m glad to see he’s turned his life around, I think they need to ditch this Wildcat POS
[78]
If the Dolphins beat the Pats they’re right back in it, aren’t they…???
[79]
Nope, the Saints had a 1-15 season, but only the Lions have gone 0-16 since the season was 16 games.
[80]
We’re scared to hope
Washington, Atlanta, Dallas, Tampa Bay, Carolina left
Sweeping Atlanta is always so tough, I thought that would be the team to beat us, but they have been annihilated by injuries
We’ll see
[81]
Miami was 1-15 I think, 2 years ago… what a disgrace.
[82]
I remember well the 1-15 season
One win, by one point, went into NY 0-14 and beat the Jets
What a season…
[83]
If Obama played football: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoB0i6XGRcA
Dithering
[84]
Likely New Orleans vs Minnesota for NFC title
Hopefully that game will be in the Superdome
Don’t think this Saints team can be beaten in the Superdome
[85]
I have a feeling some dark horse will come out of the AFC
San Diego maybe…???
[86]
SD doen’t have a running game. Florida just showed us what happens to teams without a running game.
[87]
I think both the Pats (terrible secondary) and the Colts (one dimensional) will fail in the AFC playoffs allowing a dark horse to get through
Dolphins…???
[88]
Yahoo -
You don’t know the definition of an NFL team sucking.
[89]
lol. True.
[90]
No way the fins go to the bowl. No. WAY.
[91]
MFG, with all the talent in the AFC, the fins have lost 6. Even if they win their last 5, 10-6 may not be good enough.
Fins were 11-5 last year and needed every one of those wins, the Pats were 11-5 and out of the playoffs.
Used to be 10-6 was enough to get in, even if it wasn’t great. Not anymore.
[92]
Try this on for size:
- 1 playoff win since 1958 (in 1991)
- .277 winniong percentage for the past 10 years
- NO playoff appearances in the last 10 years – not no wins, no appearances
- Only team ever to go 0-16
- Retirees were in first or second grade the last time the Lions were NFL Champs (1958)
[93]
yes, the lions have a rock solid commitment to losing.
[94]
Detroit sports suck:
- Tigers drop elimination game to Twins and miss playoffs
- Lions are the Lions
- Pistons are 7-12 (not that anyone cares; in Michigan we realize the NBA is WWE with a basketball)
- Red Wings are 13-10. This hurts because we do like our hockey. At the rate they are going, the Wings may not make the playoffs
- Lesbos have nothing to watch as the WNBA Shock is moving to Tulsa
[95]
heh, lesbos….
[96]
Texas looking precarious at the 4 minute mark.
[97]
Dr. Dog’s comment at #48 is what Gator fans said to each other for too many years–back before they ever won a SEC Championship.
[98]
INC, they were beaten badly up front, offense and defense, sorry to say.
[99]
Texas wins. Colt McCoy shows he is no brain trust.
[100]
HOOK EM HORNS
[101]
RWY, yeah.
I felt bad for Tim Tebow. It was a tough way to leave the SEC as a senior.
[102]
Well, the Tide wanted it and they got it. Good for them!! (this coming from a big ol’ Georgia fan). I have a lot of respect for Tebow – good guy, nice character, upstanding testimony.
It’s the rest of the test I’m not so crazy about. But then again, the only thing a gator is useful for is either in stew or as a pair of boots.
It would have been nice to have Texas lose though . . . I’m not sure if I can stomach all of their arrogant fans out here again right during New Years. I’m sure the people in Texas are nice, but when they were out here a few years ago, I wasn’t too impressed with their lack of etiquette. Maybe it’s because I spent some time at ‘SC, who knows.
[103]
rest of the test = rest of the TEAM
[104]
Tebow tanks, McCoy very lucky to win an ugly game. In a perfect world – would open a big hole for Stanford’s Toby Gehart to run through, but don’t hold breath for West Coast star.
[105]
OMG I picked a winner for once.