Re: Blue Dawg's Weekly Sagarin Football Thread 2020
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Originally Posted by
HogDawg
Right now I don't think we have a snow ball's chance in hell of beating UAB. They are far too big and too physical for our little boys. We have a much better chance of beating Marshall than UAB, because Marshall is a much weaker team on the road than when playing at home. Probably two TD's weaker. Even the Marshall fans will tell you that.
Still not sold on UTSA. I watched their game yesterday. True, they played BYU much better than we did. But, they still have QB issues. For the longest time in that game, they couldn't buy a score. But again, UTSA is more physical than our little guys.
Our best chance for a win out of these three is Marshall.
I am looking at this from our POV. Maybe by the UAB game the Dawgs will be at full strength and UAB will come into Ruston with the big head, expecting a rather easy time of it. If we dress the same guys Saturday that played last night...whoa! MU 45 Tech 13. Hopefully we'll have some of our guys back though and it won't get that awful. UTSA is going to kill us. You can write that one off.
So, I think we'll get beat fairly badly by MU, final pounding depending on who we have dressed out. UTSA will punch us in the mouth, something like 31-14, maybe worse. So, UAB sets up as an Upset Alert! They will be coming off back to back home games, beating WKU and then playing the mighty, and maybe still ranked, Ragin Cajuns. UAB will beat ULL and consider that a big W. Then, oh my, they have to bother with going to Ruston to play a team that has been smashed the previous two weeks. The arrogant pricks will blow us off...and the trap is set.
Or...maybe they'll just kill us too. :icon_roll:
Re: Blue Dawg's Weekly Sagarin Football Thread 2020
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Originally Posted by
dawg80
I am looking at this from our POV. Maybe by the UAB game the Dawgs will be at full strength and UAB will come into Ruston with the big head, expecting a rather easy time of it. If we dress the same guys Saturday that played last night...whoa! MU 45 Tech 13. Hopefully we'll have some of our guys back though and it won't get that awful. UTSA is going to kill us. You can write that one off.
So, I think we'll get beat fairly badly by MU, final pounding depending on who we have dressed out. UTSA will punch us in the mouth, something like 31-14, maybe worse. So, UAB sets up as an Upset Alert! They will be coming off back to back home games, beating WKU and then playing the mighty, and maybe still ranked, Ragin Cajuns. UAB will beat ULL and consider that a big W. Then, oh my, they have to bother with going to Ruston to play a team that has been smashed the previous two weeks. The arrogant pricks will blow us off...and the trap is set.
Or...maybe they'll just kill us too. :icon_roll:
Thanks.... for......that.............inspirational note. :angry:
Re: Blue Dawg's Weekly Sagarin Football Thread 2020
The good news: there is only one good team left on our schedule.
The bad news: we are not very good.
Now, we could get better when we get our tackles back, but we’re real bad with the back-ups.
Marshall May be better than BYU. Other than them we COULD win the rest.
Re: Blue Dawg's Weekly Sagarin Football Thread 2020
Marshall and UAB are good and UTSA looked better against BYU than we did by quite a bit. That’s 3 rough games for us.
Re: Blue Dawg's Weekly Sagarin Football Thread 2020
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Originally Posted by
johnnylightnin
The good news: there is only one good team left on our schedule.
The bad news: we are not very good.
Now, we could get better when we get our tackles back, but we’re real bad with the back-ups.
Marshall May be better than BYU. Other than them we COULD win the rest.
Just FYI.....our starting left tackle Willie Allen, opted out of the 2020 season. He's not coming back. At least not this season. So we better learn to play without him.
https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/sp...on/3578345001/
Re: Blue Dawg's Weekly Sagarin Football Thread 2020
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HogDawg
Right, but his replacement was out vs UTEP.
Re: Blue Dawg's Weekly Sagarin Football Thread 2020
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johnnylightnin
Right, but his replacement was out vs UTEP.
So, Donavaughn Campbell didn't play last night either? He was the guy they moved around from RG to replace Willie Allen at LT.
Re: Blue Dawg's Weekly Sagarin Football Thread 2020
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HogDawg
So, Donavaughn Campbell didn't play last night either? He was the guy they moved around from RG to replace Willie Allen at LT.
I don’t recall. I just know the guys slated to start at tackle as of this Thursday were ruled out on Friday morning.
Re: Blue Dawg's Weekly Sagarin Football Thread 2020
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HogDawg
So, Donavaughn Campbell didn't play last night either? He was the guy they moved around from RG to replace Willie Allen at LT.
Campbell and Lewis started at the OT spots against BYU. Neither played last night. With Hankinson also being in and out, we were playing preseason #3s and 4s on the depth chart for stretches last night.
Re: Blue Dawg's Weekly Sagarin Football Thread 2020
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FriscoDawg
Campbell and Lewis started at the OT spots against BYU. Neither played last night. With Hankinson also being in and out, we were playing preseason #3s and 4s on the depth chart for stretches last night.
Thanks for the update, Frisco. So, why did Campbell and Lewis not play last night? Surely the local media is asking Holtz these questions?
Also, why are we so thin in the OL? We seem to have plenty of healthy RB's, WR's, etc.... What's happening with our OL?
Re: Blue Dawg's Weekly Sagarin Football Thread 2020
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HogDawg
Thanks for the update, Frisco. So, why did Campbell and Lewis not play last night? Surely the local media is asking Holtz these questions?
Also, why are we so thin in the OL? We seem to have plenty of healthy RB's, WR's, etc.... What's happening with our OL?
Apparently virus contact tracing if not positive tests. Conference protocols have to be followed under contact tracing. Just be glad we don't have the Big Ten protocols because those are 21 days to sit out.
Re: Blue Dawg's Weekly Sagarin Football Thread 2020
Allen was injured anyway, correct?
Re: Blue Dawg's Weekly Sagarin Football Thread 2020
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PawDawg
Marshal is -13. How embarrassing!
I have some bad news for you.
Marshall is favored by 29.
That's a change of -14 from the previous week's line.
Re: Blue Dawg's Weekly Sagarin Football Thread 2020
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Blue Dawg
I have some bad news for you.
Marshall is favored by 29.
That's a change of -14 from the previous week's line.
That's just embarrassing. To think we would be 29-point dogs to any fellow CUSA team is just pathetic.
Re: Blue Dawg's Weekly Sagarin Football Thread 2020
Not sure where 29 is coming from. ESPN says Marshall -13. If our tackles are out again, that line will move further away from us, but it won’t approach 29.
