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Eeyores please leave the forum now.
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The problem I have in the game threads is when you do voice a concern or an opinion, if it does not agree with the majority, you are labeled an eeyore and that ruins the thread for me. It goes both ways when it is not necessarily true. Everything that happens in a game or in life is not all roses. Sometimes those rose thorns poke you hard. Many people in today’s world cannot handle when someone disagrees with them or expresses an opposite opinion. They just do not want to deal with the truth. Rant over - hope everyone has a good day and enjoys the victory.
This can happen sometimes. More often than not its eeyore's but you are right, I've seen people jump on a perfectly good critical observation and mislabel it as being an eeyore.
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I have posted very little since the Auburn loss. I can see we had a problem with our O. For not sticking my head in the sand I was labeled. I still see a problem with the O. Thank God for D.
I post a lot on NS, and even though I disagree with everybody there about a lot, there IS an expected decorum.
It's one thing to say, "Hurts needs to improve X" and another altogether to say "Jalen sucks."
This was one of the few times in my 17 years here that I actually got angry:
It's one thing to say, "Hurts needs to improve X" and another altogether to say "Jalen sucks."
This was one of the few times in my 17 years here that I actually got angry:
Defense won the game for Bama with field position and turnovers. The defense is going to have to win the Georgia game as well, sad to say. The offense displayed no improvement since the Auburn game.
As long as we win, I don’t care who is responsible.
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Yup, unless things have changed, it's still a team sport. Pretty sure the offense gets to claim the trophy alongside the defense...
Clemson gave up 12.8 ppg for the year. We got 24 points. OK, you can say 17 so long as you recall how those points are figured.
Clemson averaged giving up 277 yards per game, and we got 261.
Do we have problems that have to be addressed? Yes. Hurts missed two easy TDs, one on the flea flicker.
(Btw - you should have seen AJ and Kenny Bell joking about that on Twitter and talking about how they used to run it).
But I go back to the words of a wise sage named Derrick Lassic.
Media: "Alabama is a one-dimensional offensive team."
Lassic: "Sometimes one dimension is all you need."
Football games (yet again) are won by:
1) run the ball (we had 141 yards rushing)
2) stop the run (Clemson had 64 yards rushing)
3) winning the turnover battle (we beat them, 2-1)
Georgia???? Well....
1) run the ball (they had 317 yards rushing and for reasons that defy logic, they kept trying to pass)
2) stop the run (they didn't do quite so well at this, but they did hold Oklahoma in regulation to their average)
3) turnovers was 1-1
The entire difference in the winner and loser in that embarrassment to defense was UGA's ability to run. They COULD have rushed for over 500 yards had they simply handed it off every single play.
Defense won the 1992 national title with turnovers and defense, too.....our QB in that game threw as many completions to the opposition as to his own guys.
The trophy still sits in the museum 25 years later.
HUH? Did we watch the same game?
Outstanding performance? No. More than adequate? Yes. They got the job done.
(At this point someone is going to post all the stats from the two games. Not sure even that will convince some of us.)
Just curious. Not in any way trying to pick a fight, but what qualifies a poster to assume the label of an " Eeyore "? Yes, I know who/what Eeyore was in the A. A. Milne novel. Is it any poster who brings to the forum honestly held concerns about some aspect of the team or its performance ? Is it anyone who`s not a dyed in the wool Bama sycophant ? Prior to the game, I expressed some concerns about how our O line might stack up against the Clemson D front. Does that make me an " Eeyore "? I did not and do not post in the game threads because of all the emotions. By the way, IMO, for the most part, the O line held their own and then some. I`m more than a little happy that they proved my concerns unfounded! RTR.
For many people, an "Eeyore" is the person who has the audacity to question any aspect of the team in light of success. A lot of fans are result oriented - as long as a team wins it doesn't matter how they win it. Suffice it to say, Clemson's offense was exposed last night by a dominant defense and many folks seem to think we'll be just as dominant next week also. I'm not sold one way or another on that fact, but I know that UGA has a much different offensive skill set than Clemson and we will probably be without a major player for us last night (Jennings). We won't be able to win the game by just causing grief for their QB. In other areas of the game, if it comes down to us having to win it/avoid losing it by making a FG or having the offense win, I'm not very confident there.
Agreed and it can be easily asserted that the reason Jennings was on the field and got hurt is because our offense sputtered all night long. We had GREAT field position in the first half and we scored 10 points. We easily left another 10 laying on the floor for a failure to make some easy fgs or passes.
Asking it another way, how would we feel without the 14 points Clemson practically gave us if the score of the game had ended 10-6 with Clemson almost scoring near the end of the game???
I'm super glad we won, but there are lingering concerns!
I'm not sure that any offense in college football would look a lot better than Bama's did against Clemson's defense. But man that defense was a thing of beauty!!! It was a most beautiful game to me!!! 
Nah, a lot of us expressed concerns leading up to this game - it's less about what you say and more about how you say it. And how often you feel the need to repeat it. We have posters that attack Hurts if he makes one mistake, or call out coaches when they don't like a play (or even plays), regardless as to what the scoreboard is showing or what the overall tenor of the game is.
TF.com is known for having some of the best people on the web wrt football intelligence - that doesn't come from stifling or limiting honest discussion. But when it turns into constant moaning (if you look at the game threads, you'll find a few posters that post negatively at least 50% of the time), it's not helping anyone.
If you go back and look at the game threads, you'll generally find that I post quite a bit, but when things turn sour, I generally stop posting until / unless something happens to spark Bama. There's a reason for that - no one wants to read posts whining during the game. We're all watching it, we all see what's going on, so while you don' need to be a sunshine pumper, repeatedly complaining about the QB, the play-calling, etc. doesn't help anyone enjoy the game more.
Again, as Bayoutider used to say, "it's not what you say, it's how you say it"...
I do not consider a person who has issues with his team to be an Eeyore. To me, an Eeyore is someone who stops believing in his team. It is one thing to be concerned about poor production or execution. It is another to believe that your team will lose. Those who believed that Alabama would lose yesterday are Eeyores.
Those people take their concerns and turn them into a negative outlook. That is the definition of an Eeyore, no matter the subject matter.
It is possible to have concerns and retain a positive outlook. Really, it is. You just have to believe that your team will find a way to persevere.
Those people take their concerns and turn them into a negative outlook. That is the definition of an Eeyore, no matter the subject matter.
It is possible to have concerns and retain a positive outlook. Really, it is. You just have to believe that your team will find a way to persevere.
Wrong. An eeyore is someone who goes way overboard with a negative POV. There is a huge difference between between being a realist with big concerns and being an Eeyore.
Example
Realist: I don’t think Daboll has called very great game plans all year, and I think UGA might/probably will take advantage of that
Eeyore: I have no faith of us winning with Daboll with the clipboard because he hasn’t proven to call a great game all year.
See the difference?
We have had 3 games this year where we have "struggled" offensively (AU, Cowbell U, and Clemson). AU curb stomped UGA the first time around and just beat a hungry and feisty UCF team. MSU beat Heisman trophy winning L. Jackson with a backup QB AND Clemson was the number 1 team in America. Our team has more PPG than last year with 13 less NOTs. Alabama is not going to blow everyone out. No college QB will will get the ball to every open receiver. Sometimes you just need to win. Those teams we play give out football scholarships too. Jalen has won more games than anyone in the country and that's still not enough for you guys. I may just have to take a break from this board.
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