This Is Missouri and You Must SHOW ME

Well. Like Urban Meyer saying he needed a break from coaching because of his heart, I lied. May 15th, I blogged I would be back and better than ever. Unfortunately, I suffered from Post Traumatic Football Syndrome. An underwhelming last season from the Jags, a dismal performance from FSU in the Rose Bowl Playoff Game, and to top it all off, Dante Fowler tearing his ACL in the first OTA. There's only so much a football chick can take. There may or may not have been a few tears shed over these events. Yes I know, there's no crying in football. I was so overwhelmed. I couldn't trash talk. Well, I could trash talk but only about the Florida Gators. But that gets old after awhile.

Before I know it, there's a new season and it's time to pull myself up by the boot straps.

So. Here I am. I'm wondering how in the world FSU will do it without Jameis Winston. How will the Jaguars and Gus Bradley perform so that we don't start over with a new regime if a lackluster season occurs. How. HOW. 

How will this all be done? 

It sort of reminds me of the season the Jags had a couple of years ago with Josh Scobee's 59 yard field goal and David Garrard's Hail Mary. That was awesome. I was so naive the next season and became devastated when Garrard was cut and we sucked. When will we be good again? WHEN? 

Ok. So I've whined sufficiently. 

I want to believe Sean Maguire at FSU can show me something and if he can't Everett Golson is behind him. I want to believe BoBo Wilson can show me some amazing Wide Receiving. Derwin James and Jalen Ramsey..... There are closer than anyone to being elite. 

I want to believe Blake Bortles can show me something. I want to believe Allen Robinson and Rashad Greene can show me something. I want to believe the defense is at the ready (especially after all the crying Victor Cruz from the Giants did after we played them). That O-Line though.....

So you're asking what the point is. The point is, this might be Jacksonville, Florida but really this is Missouri. And you MUST "Show Me". 

SHOW ME. 

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We Must Protect This House

Urban Meyer:Bandwagon Coach

Shortly after Urban Meyer, coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes, won what the analysts say is the most "legitimate" National Championship of our time (insert eye roll), everyone i.e.- Kirk Herbstreit, began saying that Meyer had the best winning percentage of any coach since World War II. Yeah? 

HOLD ON PLAYA.
I don't doubt those numbers, but is winning the only thing that matters when we are speaking about coaches? Or, how many coaching vacancies has one filled and how many years do they stay?
Let's start with the first question: Is winning the only thing? Well no. It's not the only thing, but it sure doesn't hurt. Bill Parcells once said in regards to Lawrence Taylor, my job as a coach is to make men better players and better men. Now I'm paraphrasing, but can we say that's what Urban Meyer does? Ahem. Aaron Hernandez. He's allegedly killed how many people? Reportedly, Urban couldn't wait to get rid of him. Percy Harvin. Percy didn't like doing stairs to warm-up during practice, so Meyer changed warm-ups to shooting hoops. Really? Why is Braxton Miller "flirting" with Jimbo Fisher and FSU football?! Because he knows he's knows he's not in a pro style offense at OSU. He wants to go first round like all of Jimbo's QBs. I'm not saying they are wildly successful after that, but they go 1st round.  Tim Tebow was perfect as far as off the field. Arguably, Meyer could've done some things to help with his mechanics but chose not to because he was so good at the college level. However, that hurt him on a professional level. Those are the obvious examples.
Let's talk about how many places Meyer has been a head coach and how long he was there:
Bowling Green: 2001-2002
Utah: 2003-2004
Florida: 2005-2010

















Ohio State: 2012-present


As you can see, he hasn't been anywhere over 5 years. His worst season record as a head coach came in his last year at Florida and without Tim Tebow, 8-5. Suddenly he had family and health concerns and needed to leave Florida. Then 10 months later, he was suddenly swooped up by Ohio State. If I was an Ohio State fan, I would be waiting for the other shoe to drop. Just know, Urban Meyer is leaving sooner rather than later. Urban Meyer is a Bandwagon Coach.

"You can say I'm just a Hater,

But I'm not the only one.

One day, 

Ohio State fans,

 you'll join us,

And the football world 

Will be as one."

MDK In The House

My Tim Tebow Football Conspiracy Theory

It all began with innocent highlight reel of Urban Meyer giving Tim Tebow throwing instruction sometime before the Sunday game. The wheels began turning:
1. Tony Sparano is pretty much on his way out of coaching for Miami.
2. Urban Meyer is not presently coaching.
3. Miami Needs a Quarterback.
4. Denver has 3 Quarterbacks.
5. Miami is on it's way to picking first in the 2012 Draft.
6. Miami is having a LITTLE trouble avoiding blackouts.
7. The Miami Dolphins honored the 2009 National Championship Gator team. (really? that was 2 almost  3 years ago.)
8. John Elway is the dominant figure in the Denver Broncos Organization.
9. John Elway played college football at Stanford.
10. Urban Meyer was getting chummy on the sidelines with the Dolphins owner.
11. Andrew Luck will probably be the No.1 pick in the 2012 draft. He also plays college football for Stanford.

See where I'm going with this? Miami fires Sparano. Loses a bunch of games. Gets the first pick in the draft. Hires Urban. Trades 1st round draft pick to Denver for Tebow. Denver gets Luck and voila Elway gets his man. I LOVE ELWAY!! Oh and Tebow gets to return to Florida...I mean the state of Florida....LOL.

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