HoustonTigerNKaty

Growing up in the 80s football was trash after Archer’s first year. In high school in the 90s we got Jackson, Shaquille, Singleton, Robert’s and Daddy Dale won a hell of lot more than he lost, while the gridiron has people rearranging the Crazy about Curley bumper stickers to Curley about Crazy.

TL;DR: Growing up Gen X had basketball to cheer for, football was a source of pain

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Raiders: Open media war with Al Davis before firing

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I don’t place a lot of blame on Kiffin for the Raiders. They churned through coaches after Gruden and in his own words he wanted Megatron and got the QB that was the impetus for rookie contracts from that point forward. No one could have been successful with Russell and the headspace he was in after getting drafted.

Outside of USC and Alabama he had to rely on scheme to win. Even the latter his scheme was his bread and butter.

With talent this could be the start of special things.

I firmly believe he was severely limited by injury. The coaching malpractice was having him play against the instate schools in September. MVB was no special generational talent but I doubt he would have lost either game. Giving Nuss some time to rest and recover.

“Gumbo without rice” feels appropriate here.

If he is healthy and goes to A) a solid program (not Raiders, Jets, Atlanta, Cleveland) and find a Farve > Rodgers > Love type of mentorship I think he could be decent / serviceable.

Ole Miss still has to deal with a perception of racism. They can cosplay land sharks and ghey bears all they want, but they are still Colonel Reb and most diehards bemoan they can’t bring their rebel flags into stadium.

Source: local athletes and their coaches who have been pursued by and signed with mid major programs.

Thank you

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have no idea what hell he brought us out of, the late 80's and early 90's were awful

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brought back the magic

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The man deserves a lot of credit but doesn’t get because of his last 2 seasons. As a child of the 80s and in high school in the early 90s LSU was a basketball school. And when he signed Faulk— we got special in a hurry.

This will ruffle the stargazers some but why I think QB1 next few years will have success is the first time in a long time there will be synergy in coaching- something that the carpet bagger regime never had.

Lane and CWjr will lay out how the OL should serve as part of the offense and develop the players as such. They will teach the system. Sloan didn’t know how to do so, and many have said that Denbrock’s departure had as much to do with Brad Davis as anything else.

For the first time since early Miles era the offense will function as a unit. We have seen what a coached, systemic approach to the trench can do in the playoffs- look at what protection did for Miami this week. They made Carson Beck (!) look like a baller. I simply haven’t seen anything that resembles that. 2023 we had enough talent on the line coupled with JD5’s ability to score from any point on the field to cover for a lack of a wholistic approach to offensive scheme.

Will an offense made up of no names win championships? Likely not but show offensive competence - with our defense that will show much more success than the last 2 seasons.