Ole Miss Fans...Happy with your Win??

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What are your thoughts about your team?

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We have a good defense. OL still not completely settled. DBs are underrated (Memphis only had 150 passing yards) but LBs missed too many tackles. In the past a game like that would've gone down to the wire. We turned the ball over 3 times and still scored 45.

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Were you happy with Snead's play?

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Meh, his decision making was subpar. He was out of sync but our play calling was very questionable. He forced too many throws ala early last season.

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What are your thoughts about Memphis??

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Memphis is a solid team, they have some talented players and transfers from good programs. Their style of play is hard to defend.

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Billy Mays

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+1. Agree with everything you posted. We had bright spots and we had dark spots. In the past, we would've let it get us down and ended up grinding down to a close loss. This years team expects to win, regardless of how we play for most of the game.


I give Memphis alot of credit for disrupting our game plan and putting our offense off balance for the first half. Their fans however, are garbage and deserve to be driven off a cliff in a city buss lined with switch blade knives and glass bottles full of sulfuric acid.

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It was pretty bad IMO. In fact, I laughed at times while watching the game when I thought about Elisha calling Kent Austin a genius.

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Dude, it's the first game against a team we should beat whether we run 4 plays over and over or the entire play book.


Nutt (and Kent for that matter), aren't idiots. They are going to run as close to vanilla as possible for as long as they can in the early season. At least, that's the smart thing to do.

To put it another way. If SC uses game film from Mem and SELA to prepare for us, they're going to get the shite kicked out of them.

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Snead had a very rocky start. He did last season as well

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Last year ok...This year, that excuse won't fly

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Once again, we won by 31

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I didn't watch the game...but wasn't it like 24-14 with 5 minutes or so left...(That I gathered from scanning posts)

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It was pretty bad IMO. In fact, I laughed at times while watching the game when I thought about Elisha calling Kent Austin a genius.

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You obviously have a lot to learn about Houston Nutt. WHen a play call is good, it was made without his input, when something goes wrong, he did it all by himself.

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So why keep throwing? Vanilla has nothign to do with it.

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2 reasons.

1) You don't give up on your star QB because he's having a rough (flu) day. You instill confidence in him by giving him the ball and telling him that it's his team. By sitting him down, or going straight to the run, you are telling him that he's not good enough to handle it and that we can't win with him under center.

2) By at least putting the ball in the air, you make the secondary have to think about the pass. Just the threat of Jevan throwing was enough to allow our RB's to get to the second level. By folding up the pass game, we'd have given memphis the ability to play 8 in the box. We'd probably still have won, but it would have been even uglier and by only 3.


We did the right thing on Sunday. It wasn't pretty, but it was right. If I'm wrong, and we saw everything we have on Sunday, this year will suck elephant sack.

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So why keep throwing?

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I'm sorry. I took this to mean stop throwing the ball. If we stop throwing the ball..... what else is there to do? Run annnnndddd.... This is, by default, giving up on the passing game and since Snead is the QB, giving up on him for the rest of the game.

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You establish the running game to open up the passing for him when he's struggling.

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Uh, well, you just asked why we kept throwing... um, I'm kind of confused, is there, am I missing something!?!?

And no, you are NOT allowed to comment on my bathroom habits.

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Yeah, like the first part of my post when I said throwing on 1st and 2nd.

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AH, roger. So you think it's a good idea to run on 1st and 2nd every series, to open up the pass on 3rd? Yeeeeeaaaaah, I'm just not sure about that right now. You sure your not a Hawg fan?

I'd prefer that our coach stick with what got us here and continue to trust his all-star QB with what ever strategy works.

For the record, I was talking about entire game strategery and you were talking about series strategery. Either way, my point is that just because JS was having a bad half (really, only a bad 2nd qtr) doesn't mean that you panic and change your gameplan. Nutt/Austin kept putting the ball in Jevans hands and he eventually came around. That's what they SHOULD have done.

My thoughts are that it was the first game of the year. I know thats not really an excuse, but we obviously played poorly. I dont expect us to play like that again this year, but if we do (especially against an SEC team) we'll find ourselves in a tight spot. Snead had a rough start and hopefully he wont play that poorly again. He was forcing to many passes the first 3 quarters. Although we still missed tons of tackles, I think our D will still be good this year. We had bright spots but we also had dark spots. I dont accept having the flu as being an excuse because when youre on the field your expected to perform. Even though it was a kind of tight game until the last 10 minutes or so, I still think we'll have a good season. Hopefully when we open our offense up more we'll get back on track. Props to Memphis though they did a good job of stopping our offense and getting the yards they did on offense. Still I expect us to have a good season (and not just by Ole Miss standards). I still think we'll compete in the West although after watching Bama it'll be tough. Thats just my take on it though, I could be totally wrong though. go SEC!