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Monday Morning QB: Which Nation is the most absurd this week?; HS stat stuff, playoffs sermon; Loughdmouthings galore: stats, QB shoving, tackling, Falcons,and Jerry’s happy-for-us birthday

Central Georgia Sports ReportComment
Monday Morning QB: Which Nation is the most absurd this week?; HS stat stuff, playoffs sermon; Loughdmouthings galore: stats, QB shoving, tackling, Falcons,and Jerry’s happy-for-us birthday

          The noise pollution and web whining from the “professionals” – broadcast and online “media” – is matched, sadly, on game day/night and always on Monday.

          We need a med for sports “fans” and “media” that counters this addiction to overreacting and underthinking. It’s a fandemic (yet another similar demic to deal with). One can be passionate and lucid.

          Our winners – well, losers – this week of the afflicted with brains getting less than necessary oxygen are those in Buckeye Nation.

          They fit in the SEC and its neighbors. It just means more, because folks grasp less (won’t even get into general priorities).

          Fire Ryan Day, they bellow.

Say you’re a lobotomy candidate with asking for a drill and sleeping gas.

          Day is 61 and bleepin’ 9.

          “That’s not enough.”

          Well, you could probably get Kirk Ferentz at a discount, or draw Mark Dantonio out of retirement. Doug Pederson is soon available.

          Day is 41 and effin’ 4 in Big Ten play.

          “That’s not enough.”

          OK, he’s 1-3 against Michigan, which leads the series by 10 games, and thus led the series before Day showed up.

          Those who enjoy being taken seriously as stable folks know, as much as they hate losing to Michigan, that losing to Michigan is not a fireable offense with that record, and with Michigan being Michigan.

          The winningest program in college football, in terms of wins, having played the fourth-most games in history (behind Penn, Rutgers, and Navy and just ahead of Lehigh).

          “But who has the best winning percentage in …”

          Yeah, yeah, Ohio State in five more games edges Alabama 73.5 percent to 73.4 percent, Michigan third at 73.3 percent.

          Ohio State lost to another national championship favorite, on the road, three hours away, by one. The quarterback, like every quarterback in America, was overly competitive in the middle of ferocious battle, and slide a second too late.

          Sorry, I ain’t piling on that kid like millions who have never, ever even been in a situation to comprehend that pressure, and the intellectual and cowardly crap that came afterward.

          Take away his scholarship, fire the coach.

          Every player on the planet who runs and sees room sees room and wants more yardage until it hits them to go against everything they’ve been taught since age 7, and go down untouched.

          Happens all the time, people whine about a player doing what he’s taught while they sit at the picnic table and wait until a teevee person points something out before they start bellyaching.

          I hope Ohio State wins the national championship and makes its particular collection of miserable, knowledge-free, paranoid, immature, absurd human beings known as a cowardly at-the-keyboard fan base even more miserable.

          And then I’d love him to resign 10 days before the winter signing day. That would be glorious. The fumes from heads exploding – nope, wasn’t going to say brains, because, well, you know – would show up on National Weather Service radar.

          Granted, one can say the same thing about any and every team and coach, because all fan bases are the same.

          All of them.

The same.

Some people like to brag that their base is worse – they’ll use “tougher” and claim standards as a reason to be absurd – than others, which is a sign of shaky right there.

          “Woo hooooo, we’re more delusional than you are!”

          There so much competition for “the dumbest thing that a person allowed to vote, drive, and reproduce can say” statement, and that’s high on the list. (A zap to the privates of every broadcastcomtwit who ever says “If the season ended today.”).

          Ohio State’s problem is compounded by the fact that its most hated rival – with among the squirreliest coaches in power 4/5 in the last 30 years – won last year’s national championship. And there’s only a little solace in that it’s marred by SignStealingGate.

          Apologies for the R word coming – go get some Tylenol – but the reality is that Ohio State is still making the playoffs. Period.

          Day does not lose to subpar teams. Shoot, Day doesn’t even lose to good teams. Those nine losses: No. 3, 9, 3, 3, 1, 12, 6, 1, 3.

          He’s 5-0 against Penn State, the third best Big Ten program, which is eighth all-time in wins and eighth in Division I winning percentage.

          Come on, man.

          Geez, Ohio State doesn’t even have a Mike DuBose or Curley Hallman or Ron Zook or Geoff Collins to make fun of.

          It’s mid-October. Yes, yes, sorry, there is loads of football left. Shoot, look at the loads of football we’ve already had, and we’re only halfway there.

          The 12-team playoff will have eight “powers”. Ohio State will be one. The Buckeyes have a top-5 opponent left, and No. 16 and 24.

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          They don’t lose those kinds of games. Penn State does find ways to lose to those teams.

          To worry about the playoff and want change because you lost by one to the team ranked right below you and on the road is silly.

          But there’s a whole lotta silly out there.

 

This week’s playoff sermon

          The only teams you can safely bet on being in the playoff: Texas, Oregon, Ohio State, and Penn State.

          Georgia (Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee) and Alabama (Tennessee, Missouri, LSU, Oklahoma, Auburn) have very losable games left.

          The SEC may play its way out of a spot or two, because nine dang teams are playoff candidates. Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Missouri, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, and Texas A&M.

          To look ahead more than a week when there are about 15 games after this week in the SEC that matter is waste of time and oxygen.

          And brain waves. Sooooo, find a station and have at it. 

CENTRAL GEORGIA’S BEST HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COVERAGE

Last week
* Roundup: Dublin holds off Northeast, Tattnall handles Stratford; ACE outlasts East Laurens, routs for Baldwin, West Laurens, Lamar County, Taylor County, Westfield; who had big nights?
* Scouting Reports: This week’s GHSA and GIAA games
* Maxwell Predictions
* Central Georgia state composite rankings
* Central Georgia rankings
* Monday Morning Quarterback: A Saturday like most others (really); the new Falcons? They still need O; Loughdmouthings galore (the wit, the wisdom, the sarcasm …)
* Macon Touchdown Club players of the week

Two weeks ago
* Roundup, coming Saturday morning: Benedictine tops Warner Robins, Mary Persons wins, Upson-Lee & Dodge County hold on, Tattnall survives, Brentwood tops champs
*Thursday’s roundup
* Scouting Reports: This week’s GHSA and GIAA games, coming Friday morning
* Maxwell Predictions
* Who’s going to win this week’s games
* Central Georgia state composite rankings
* Central Georgia rankings
* Monday Morning Quarterback: Missing the point - and tackles - on UGA-Bama; Falcons getting there, but about the O …; Loughdmouthings galore (the wit, the wisdom, the sarcasm …)
* Macon Touchdown Club players of the week

Three weeks ago
* Saturday roundup
* Saturday scouting reports
* Friday roundup
* Scouting Reports: This week’s GHSA and GIAA games
* Maxwell Predictions
* Who’s going to win this week’s games
* Central Georgia state composite rankings
* Central Georgia rankings
* Monday Morning Quarterback: Two good weeks of football for Atlanta? Loughdmoutings galore (the wit, the wisdom, the sarcasm)
* Macon Touchdown Club players of the week

Stat stuff

          The race is on for the Bibb County rushing title, which may also be the Central Georgia rushing title.

          As per MaxPreps – which is based on what teams and coaches input, so ask your coach why they don’t input stats on the kids – on Monday: Westside’s Kadiphius Iverson is first – fourth in the state – with 1,244 yards, followed by No. 6 Judson Walls of Central Fellowship with 1,194 yards.

Nick Woodford of Northeast would be up there somewhere, but Northeast hasn’t updated stats in weeks.

          There’s a race in passing yards, to, with No. 2 Antwann Hill Jr. of Houston County with 2,198 yards, just ahead of Jones County’s 1,925. Westfield’s Brayden Gay is 17th with 1,549, and Wilkinson County’s Quenterriorn Standford 50th with 1,242.

          And there’s a race in receiving yards.

          Jones County’s Jaivon Solomon is third statewide with 949 yards, ahead of No. 5 Isaiah Mitchell of Houston County with 888, No. 15 M.J. Mathis of Houston County with 682.

          Good thing we don’t have to worry about any coaches leaving kids in way too long, much longer than they should be in there, just to pad stats, right?
          *Pause*
          Right?

Loughdmouthings

          Seriously, tackling is so bad, it’s embarrassing to watch any more. Embarrassing and aggravating.

          Proper tackling, I’m going to say now, is worth two touchdowns a game in some form or fashion. What’s considered a great run or pass play is as often as not any more the result of feeble tackling and inexplicable coverage duties. …

          Every week, Atlanta looks a little bit better, not just in some areas, but overall.

          Sure, Carolina isn’t good at all, but Atlanta is still a transitioning program that has to learn to take care of business, and win by 18 games it should win by 18.

          Six Falcons caught passes, Tyler Allgeier had 105 yards, and the defensive effort – which still seems more inconsistent than it should be – was spread out.

          Plus, Younghoe Koo had a pressure-free Sunday, which is the goal.

          The Falcons and Bucs are fixing to have quite the division race. ..

          Ya know, it’s not really a good look about sanity when you’ve lost your mind so much during a football game that you shove a guy from the other team and don’t remember it and aren’t sure why at that particular moment you were losing your mind.

          You’re not playing. You’ve got a dozen assistants, dozens and dozens of “quality control consultants” and advisors and consultants and veteran grad assistants.

          If you shove anybody and don’t remember it? Hmm. …

          No, folks, you’re right, there’s absolutely no reason stats can be updated in MaxPreps before the start of the week.

          “And why don’t all coaches put the stats in so kids can get some recognition?”

          You don’t wanna go there. Your neck will hurt from shaking your head. …

          Finally, the moniker fit. Dallas got boatraced at home on Sunday, 47-9 by Detroit. The bungler of the Cowboys organization, Jerry Jones, turned 82 on gameday.

          And America celebrated the festivities in the Big D, which on this day meant Big Defeat. We all made a wish that came true.