re: Need a Good Break Down on App State, haven't seen one yet,

Would you then argue we will be vanilla gearing up for Notre Dame and App State will come out with everything they got, so it will be closer then expected at first? Also, 1 big mistake can be a 14 point swing (App State was 6th in the country in INTs last year), so that means a 10 point win was 1 play away from being a 24 point win....so many variables outside just pure talent alone.

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Would you then argue we will be vanilla

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I don't entirely agree with wd as you'll see in the thread, but I would say playing vanilla is best left to teams that have already proven they've got more flavors than just vanilla that "work" on the field. Notre Dame would be a nice win to get to be sure, but if we lose that game, it does very little to impact our goals if we take care of business elsewhere. If I'm Smart, I care about making sure that the kinks are worked out early and often, so that by Miss St, you've got everything working as it should.

The other thing is something that's said often by coaches, which is this: in your pure week to week planning, there is only so much you can do to account for things that you see in the other team in the week(s) leading up to the game. You have all of spring and fall to put together your base of your team and prepare for week 1. Once week 2 comes around, the "big improvements" rarely come from how you game plan for opponent #2, and more so from cleaning up mistakes in that larger install from week 1. If we throw early and often against App State, if nothing else, it should force ND to respect the passing game and potentially open it up for earlier running yards in that matchup... if it doesn't, then you've just had a week's tune up for getting the passing game working... something we didn't see much of last year.

They did do well in INTs last season, but keep in mind that a) they lost Mondo Williams (more than 20% of their INT totals and just under 20% of their passes defended); b) Clifton Duck was their other primary Corner who performed well as a freshman last year but was the #2 guy... now he'll be the #1 corner taking on better receivers with an inexperienced guy on the other side at best... Gibbs who was out due to academics last year (had a *great* 2015) tranferred out.

Also, keep in mind that the production came with the majority of their games happening in the Sun Belt conference. I'm decidedly somewhere in the middle here. I think they have a good enough team to get the team focused, but I do think we should have a pretty decided edge.

As I said before, 30+ is probably a bit much to say anything less is failure, but high teens or more differential and meeting the eye test probably is sufficient for me to see it as a successful start to the season.

Can you point to one post of yours where you talked football

Jesus. You are more stupid than i thought you were...i always do. Maybe, you should see someone about that. Awww you are upset. People like my vote. Its okay. Everyone likes me including your aunt.

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You really showed your intelligence here

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You've been showing your "intelligence" all over the SECRant. It's fricking embarrassing.

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But i dont talk about football..what a moron

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Awww you must have been someone..i owned on there.

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I've never engaged with you, just watched from afar, cringing.

So you are a stalker??....well you must be proud. To follow another man around.

LINK / and another one.

Finally a grownup response. We shall see. Thats really why i think we will have our way..because of recruiting and that Kirby knows...he cant screw up this game. It will be interesting. Much respect Peter

I noticed you didnt look at the other links. And obviously that is about football. But granted you rather throw hissy tantrums..i understand. Its your nature. Good luck.