(11-02-2016 05:46 PM)JCGSU Wrote:  

(11-02-2016 12:48 PM)Seminole Indian Wrote:  

(11-02-2016 11:28 AM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  

(11-02-2016 11:18 AM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  

(10-31-2016 07:33 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  Meh. USA Didn't really stop us though. We passed the ball like 4 times in the entire 2nd half. We were up 17 points, knew they couldn't score 17 on our defense, so we just ran the ball the entire 2nd half to keep from turning the ball over and run clock.

In a sense, the same thing is possible here. If we get up a couple scores, we probably let the air out of it. But I'd argue we could have scored a lot more on USA had we not decided to play so conservatively.

I'm not buying this at all. No one sits on a 17 point lead at halftime, especially when your defense had been a sieve all year until that point. USA stormed back to beat Miss State earlier in the year after being down by a similar score, and your coach thought your defense was good enough at the time that it would be no big deal to get out of attack mode? Your run pass ratio was nearly identical in both havles. South simply shut down your offense in the second half. They have a Top 40 defense that's actually pretty good. They were #3 nationally in pass defense when we played them (#8 now). I imagine that's why you didn't throw the ball much.

Georgia State is 13th in pass defense and #8 pass efficiency defense so I imagine throwing the ball will be tough this weekend.

Coach Anderson is a narrative machine. It's a wonder that A-State folks are still buying his spin.

Think you meant false narrative, and for the most part I would say they are not anymore.

I can understand why people here don't really believe that this could possibly be a championship caliber team that will be very hard for any SBC team to beat. I'm really not sure any SBC team has the talent to beat them, unless they beat themselves.

Just hard to take a team that starts 0-4 seriously, as it was last years 1-3 start.

Even harder to except the fact that this team is a lot more talented than last years, despite the fact it is beginning to show on the field.

By showing on the field do you mean beating two horrible and one bad Sun Belt team?

Not sure I totally agree with how you worded your question, but yes.

GaSo and USA are decent G5 teams,and beating GaSo with all the turnovers was impressive IMO, and they were in total control of USA in that game.

ULM had been very competitive against the other SBC teams they played.

I know for a fact A-State is the most talented SBC team, just like last year. I was just trying to point out that because the other SBC teams see 1-3, or 0-4 , they are probably going to find out the hard way that they don't match up with them in the talent department when they play..

Coaching, or more specifically preparation are where they tend to come up short at least early on, because their HC is, for lack of a better term, rather goofy in his approach to coaching. You almost get the impression that he does not like coaching at all.

Because of their talent, if they don't beat themselves, it is very unlikely that any SBC team will beat them.