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| The State of The SEC After One Week | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 31 2014, 09:01 AM (61 Views) | |
| *TennesseeTuxedo | Aug 31 2014, 09:01 AM Post #1 |
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After some limited observation on my part and comments from various places, I would surmise that the SEC is a league with a lot of young players and wide open for the taking. Some can say that it is a down year. Maybe. That happens when your league loses so many players to the NFL several years in a row. South Carolina is not as good as advertised, nor is Alabama. Alabama is very beatable and I can see them losing 3 games this season. IN fact, the SEC West is a toss up. LSU is very green but very talented. There QB play is their weakness. How can a team with so much talent, rarely have a good QB? In my opinion, Georgia is the best team in the SEC right now and they could be marching down the road towards a National Championship if everything falls into place-meaning that Todd Gurley stays healthy. If so, Gurley wins the Heistman walking away, no matter how many crab legs Jameis Winston doesn't pilfer this season. |
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| Tnphil | Aug 31 2014, 09:54 AM Post #2 |
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From what I've seen so far it' UGA, A&M, Bama.
Edited by Tnphil, Aug 31 2014, 09:54 AM.
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| humbletx | Aug 31 2014, 10:12 AM Post #3 |
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Saban will fix the LB problem. Those HS offenses are gonna be a problem. The Tide lost 2 games last season, saying they'll lose 3 this year Offense Cooper, Yeldon, Henry and a good OL - Sims good arm and legs. They'll wear out SEC defenses.. USC - got their asses tore up by one of those HS offenses. No team in the SEC is gonna stop the Aggies offense. USC is pretty damned talented. UGa no doubts they have the best player in the conference. Yet this isn't the old Junk Yard dawgs from back in the day. and they'll need better QB play. Auburn has two good QB's - AU has a powerful offense. Ole Miss has one hell of a good defense LSU - a perfect example *why* the good ones put talent at the top of the heap thing of gold vs green. The names may change annually - they just keep trotting out the talent. The cream of the SEC remains in the West. Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Ole Miss, Texas A&M. As good as UGa looked in the 2nd half - just didn't see much to support UGa beating 2 of those 5 teams. |
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| *TennesseeTuxedo | Aug 31 2014, 10:43 AM Post #4 |
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The SEC is doing some adjusting in both terms of scheming, but also in recruiting. For the past 7-8 years SEC teams were recruiting to take on Bama-recruit bigger players and developing strength and more size to physically take their brutes on in the trenches. Now teams are starting to recruit faster and quicker players to take on the spread offense. The coordinators will get a better handle on it in a few years, just as they have with every other offense that has ever come along. I do not see any SEC West team able to stop UGA's running game. Not one of them. |
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| humbletx | Aug 31 2014, 12:19 PM Post #5 |
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There isn't a SECE defense that can stop him either - so what is your point? Yes, Gurley is mighty special - UGa, after one game looked okay. SEC champion caliber? Nope. The question can Gorley outscore a SECW team? The next question can the Dawgs defense stop a traditional SEC style offense run by Alabama or LSU? going old school vs either - you lose. Wisconsin and Arkansas - old school offense - and fun to watch. The Badgers had the lead going in at the half - Arkansas looked great, for awhile. LSU out old schooled Wisconsin - Auburn's HUNH blew the Hogs out. There isn't a defense in either the SECE or SECW that can stop or - based on results - slow down the HUNH. As to coordinators, defensive coordinators - excluding Muschamp as he is now a HC - there is one, and only one DC in the SEC these days that schematically coaches his defenses to handle the HUNH. The spread - hell even the NFL uses the spread with its old school offenses. Watching Alabama - with Yeldon (couldn't stop him the last couple seasons) and Henry - putting up a combined 239 - and a new starting QB going 24-33 - they'll be a get better. FWIW - I'll take Henry over Marshall every day - every down. |
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| Tnphil | Aug 31 2014, 01:31 PM Post #6 |
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I've said it for years and Booger on the SEC Network said it yesterday. The problem with defenses that go against spread offenses in practice every day they become soft and are really hurt when those defenses come up against teams that line up and come after your ass. |
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