Have made a point of watching him when it's possible, and Jesus.

His run blocking is great, but the pass protection is perfect

10 team standard scoring

I was offered Benjamin and Reed

Rest of team:

Brees
Zeke
Lesean McCoy
Hopkins
Cooks
Pitta
Murray
Arizona
Random kicker

Bench: Rivers, Maclin, Decker, Gore, Barnidge

All I've really been looking for is a TE.

Reasons not to: if Murray stays healthy I think he's a top five guy. His schedule is not scary at all. I don't care about Pitta

On the other hand, Reed fixes my TE issues, Benjamin is a stud, I'm a bit worried about Decker, and I could stash Kenneth Dixon or handcuff Zeke with Alfred Morris

Any thoughts?

It just is. It's the elephant in the room.

Considering our recruiting, there's just no excuse for how awful our defense is. None.

Look at TCU - Ole Miss. Our defense just doesn't do that anymore. We are not capable of dominating a good-ish team. No one's scared of us. And those are middling recruits for TCU, at least compared to ours.

We couldn't design an effective "exotic" blitz to save our fricking lives. They never work. Never.

I don't even want to get into our secondary because that's a post unto itself, but holy fricking shite. Eddie Jackson is just abysmal. Our primary defensive coaches are secondary guys and our secondary is awful.

Our defense is trending downwards. That being said, it was an entertaining season. Blake kind of sucked at times, but is still one of my favorite players. On to the Bama basketball NIT watch!

Am I the only one who thought that while he was bad today, his issues are fixable?

It wasn't like he was beaten physically, he just needs to read the game and learn to turn around

His coverage on the touchdown in the first half really wasn't bad at all.

I feel like we have some of the personnel for it, but it's something you've got to practice and experiment with during friendlies before you put it out there in a meaningful game.

First of all, we've got the wingbacks. Yedlin on the right and Fabs on the left is kind of perfect.

I don't think, like some have said, that Yedlin's future is as more of a winger. But he was kind of born to be a wingback, and with him and Fab getting down the lines we don't really need out and out wingers.

Then at the back we have some options: Besler, Brooks, Cameron, Gonzo, Parkhurst (only 30, could provide depth), younger guys like Okugo, Packwood, etc.

I'm not sure how the rest of the team would fill out. Clearly Bradley somewhere in the middle, Jozy up top.

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Bizarre. I thought Rene was doing a decent job, but Magath does have a pretty big reputation. I know much less about him than our Bundesliga people though.

Well, frick it. Here we go.

On right now, in Argentina. Higuain through on goal but can't score. Argentina really could have two already.

Colombia don't look that great at the moment, but they do have some interesting attacking players. Falcao obviously, Jackson Martinez, James Rodriguez, etc. Not that I've seen a whole lot of the last two, but they're supposed to be big prospects.

selected by the coaches

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Donovan wins coach of the year, Noel freshman of the year

Also:

First Team All-SEC
Trevor Releford, Alabama – G, 6-1, 195, Jr., Kansas City, Mo.
Erik Murphy, Florida – F/C, 6-10, 238, Sr., South Kingstown, R.I.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Georgia – G, 6-5, 205, So., Greenville, Ga.
Nerlens Noel, Kentucky – F, 6-10, 228, Fr., Everett, Mass.
Johnny O’Bryant III, LSU – F, 6-9, 256, So., Cleveland, Miss.
Phil Pressey, Missouri – G, 5-11, 175, Jr., Dallas, Texas
Jordan McRae, Tennessee – G, 6-5, 178, Jr., Midway, Ga.
Elston Turner, Texas A&M – G, 6-5, 209, Sr., Sacramento, Calif.

Second Team All-SEC
Marshawn Powell, Arkansas – F, 6-7, 240, Jr., Newport News, Va.
BJ Young, Arkansas – G, 6-3, 180, So, St. Louis, Mo.
Kenny Boynton, Florida – G, 6-2, 190, Sr., Pompano Beach, Fla.
^Mike Rosario, Florida – G, 6-3, 183, Sr., Jersey City, N.J.
^Patric Young, Florida – C, 6-9, 249, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla.
Marshall Henderson, Ole Miss – G, 6-2, 175, Jr., Hurst, Texas
Murphy Holloway, Ole Miss – F, 6-7, 240, Sr., Irmo, S.C.
Laurence Bowers, Missouri – F, 6-8, 227, Sr., Memphis, Tenn.
Jarnell Stokes, Tennessee – F, 6-8, 270, So., Memphis, Tenn.

I'm not sure we have.

This isn't a rah-rah Anthony Grant thread. I'm not as negative as some but I hate our offense, and would trade him for Gregg Marshall in a second. Forget the Bruce Pearl shite, it isn't happening.

But if you look back at what we were posting on here last year, none of us thought we were going to be that good. You could see it in the Florida game when Jamychal was suspended and Patric Young abused our post guys. It was beyond fricking obvious that our post was going to be a problem this year. And that's on Grant's big man recruiting.

I said constantly on here that he had to make the tournament last year because we weren't going to make it this year. And theoretically we still have a chance of making it this year.

Lacey, Releford, Cooper, Randolph (and you could even argue Gueye here) have progressed this year.

We should have beaten Cincy. I know most of us were watching the SECCG but I was watching that on ESPN 3 at the same time, and we really should have won. Who knows what would have happened if we had won that game?

Again, no rah rah, I'm not a huge fan of Grant at this point. I'm just not sure it's been as disappointing as some have made it out to be. And yes, the SEC sucks but who really thought it was going to be great?

Rambling, too long, didn't read, etc.

that was fricking boring in an awesome way, but at least we have this to look forward to.

I hate watching ESPN unless it's for a game but this should be good.

Hopefully Mark May tweaks him more than usual.