Is Saturday Here Yet?

Good lord, listening to Bo Bounds & the overreaction by him & others is hilarious. There are concerns but sheesh, let's see how the team responds before saying they are going 6-6 or 7-5. Completely ridiculous to write off a team with this much talent this early.

Additionally, he is now saying that last year's WRs at MSU are better than this year's, which a ridiculously stupid, knee jerk opinion that is based on nothing. Now, I wish someone could find Austin Williams in witness protection after the hype, but Guidry is WAAAYYY better than anyone we had last year, although I'll admit he was pretty crappy the other night.

Either way, the week long melt is the worst part football. In baseball & basketball, you get to play pretty quickly after losing & have a chance to get the bad taste out of your mouth quickly, but in football you have to deal with week long melts & ridiculous overreaction.

Things are never as good as they seem & things are never as bad as they seem.

I gave my opinion that we'll know a lot more about this team & Moorhead by Saturday night.

Time to play again

Week long overreactions happened after blowout wins vs SFA and KSU too. You're right the 6 day wait is rough unless we win 130-0 and have 100% perfect stats. But even then we'd find a way to just yell at each other about something else. Nobody likes waiting 6 more days to watch college football again. Watching the NFL helps on Sunday's. Red Zone is 17ing amazing. Wanna get your mind off your college team shitting the bed watch 7 straight hours of commercial free NFL football.

I honestly think those 'overreacting' are closer to the truth than those saying 'let's just see how they respond'. Sure, how they respond is important, and we can still be a good team...but I think there is too much of a gap between what we showed last week and what we would have to show going forward to not lose 4+ games. It also showed glaring weaknesses in adjustments from the coaching staff, and that's not generally the kind of thing that can immediately improve.

Obviously anything can happen, and it's possible we turn it around and still have a very good season. I just don't see it as being at all likely at this point.

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Originally Posted by smootness

I honestly think those 'overreacting' are closer to the truth than those saying 'let's just see how they respond'. Sure, how they respond is important, and we can still be a good team...but I think there is too much of a gap between what we showed last week and what we would have to show going forward to not lose 4+ games. It also showed glaring weaknesses in adjustments from the coaching staff, and that's not generally the kind of thing that can immediately improve.

Obviously anything can happen, and it's possible we turn it around and still have a very good season. I just don't see it as being at all likely at this point.

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Not saying you're wrong but this is an overreaction. I agree there are concerns, but it's gone past the point of logic at this point with the evidence available.

We played terribly in a driving monsoon. Did you have this same opinion last year after the UGA game, Auburn game, or Arkansas games where he played just as bad in good weather?

Bo is a moron.

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Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg

Not saying you're wrong but this is an overreaction. I agree there are concerns, but it's gone past the point of logic at this point with the evidence available.

We played terribly in a driving monsoon. Did you have this same opinion last year after the UGA game, Auburn game, or Arkansas games where he played just as bad in good weather?

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UGA is UGA. Yes, it looked bad, but they turned out to be amazing. Kentucky is not amazing.
Auburn is Auburn. Yes, it looked bad, but they turned out to be extremely good. Kentucky is not extremely good.
We beat Arkansas. It was an ugly game, but we won it. Saturday was not an ugly game, it was an absolutely reprehensible game.

The bad weather excuse doesn't fly. If anything, it highlights even more the glaring lack of preparation and ability to adjust on the part of the coaching staff. The fact that we threw so much and ran so little with our RBs would have been atrocious in good weather. In bad weather, it's inexcusable.

Kentucky lined up and beat us down. Kentucky. It was way worse than a 'let's sit back and see what happens' kind of game. It was a 'this spells doom' kind of game.

We played awful last Saturday. One of our worst games in years while Kentucky made very few mistakes and still the game of close at the beginning of the 4th.

The people that are predicting 6-6 are expecting us to be that bad almost every week, and I don't expect that to be the case.

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Originally Posted by smootness

UGA is UGA. Yes, it looked bad, but they turned out to be amazing. Kentucky is not amazing.
Auburn is Auburn. Yes, it looked bad, but they turned out to be extremely good. Kentucky is not extremely good.
We beat Arkansas. It was an ugly game, but we won it. Saturday was not an ugly game, it was an absolutely reprehensible game.

The bad weather excuse doesn't fly. If anything, it highlights even more the glaring lack of preparation and ability to adjust on the part of the coaching staff. The fact that we threw so much and ran so little with our RBs would have been atrocious in good weather. In bad weather, it's inexcusable.

Kentucky lined up and beat us down. Kentucky. It was way worse than a 'let's sit back and see what happens' kind of game. It was a 'this spells doom' kind of game.

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Gerrymandering with little evidence.

FWIW, Luginbill thinks we are fine and figure it out.

He went through Moorhead's past.

It's interesting because he watched the film as an objective observer. He thinks MSU will figure it out.

The WR unit doesn't feel a single bit different than last year to me. Other than the fact that my expectations for last years was low compared to this years bunch. Guess my expectations were off.

I've seen multiple times that Guidry is on another level than what we had but I haven't seen it translate to anything on the field that makes him a break out receiver that we've desperately needed. Guess it's a step in the right direction and he could be taking pressure off of other receivers we have.

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Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg

Gerrymandering with little evidence.

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What evidence do you have to the contrary?

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Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg

FWIW, Luginbill thinks we are fine and figure it out.

He went through Moorhead's past.

It's interesting because he watched the film as an objective observer. He thinks MSU will figure it out.

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I think we may be 'fine'; the problem is, that we would have to make massive improvements in a short period of time to not lose a bunch of games with Auburn, LSU, A&M, and Bama all coming up in the next month and a half.

'Fine' leaves us at about 7-5.

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Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg

Gerrymandering with little evidence.

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The evidence I have is the complete 0 we laid on Saturday.

Tell me what you have to show that games means little.

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Originally Posted by Jarius

Bo is a moron.

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Plus he wants to be a big shot so bad he will get on his knees for any ESPN person he meets.

You know how nobody circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills?

Well nobody moves goalposts like Bo Bounds.

Also, we should name the show the Dave Bartoo show because I don't think Bo formulates any opinions on his own. He just regurgitates whatever Bartoo says.

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Originally Posted by msstate7

What evidence do you have to the contrary?

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Very little but there is an appropriate level of responsibily freaking out that we've bypassed.

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Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg

Very little but there is an appropriate level of responsibily freaking out that we've bypassed.

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I'm not freaking out or panicking. I'm just objectively explaining what I saw Saturday. Teams have bad games, yes. That was an atrocious game. We have to turn it around in a big way in a very short period of time. It's possible, but it has to be done, or else we are.

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Originally Posted by smootness

I think we may be 'fine'; the problem is, that we would have to make massive improvements in a short period of time to not lose a bunch of games with Auburn, LSU, A&M, and Bama all coming up in the next month and a half.

'Fine' leaves us at about 7-5.

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Luginbill talked about Penn State getting blown out by Michigan early in Moorhead's first year and then going to the Rose Bowl. Moorhead has made these adjustments before quickly.

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Originally Posted by StateDawg44

The WR unit doesn't feel a single bit different than last year to me. Other than the fact that my expectations for last years was low compared to this years bunch. Guess my expectations were off.

I've seen multiple times that Guidry is on another level than what we had but I haven't seen it translate to anything on the field that makes him a break out receiver that we've desperately needed. Guess it's a step in the right direction and he could be taking pressure off of other receivers we have.

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The talent level is better. I agree they aren't playing much better yet

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Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg

Luginbill talked about Penn State getting blown out by Michigan early in Moorhead's first year and then going to the Rose Bowl. Moorhead has made these adjustments before quickly.

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James franklin helping us out the rest of the year?