So Tahj is now 4th in a lot of Heisman talk. If he keeps his numbers at this same pace and Clemson finds a way to go 13-0 then all he would need to have happen is Stanford to get beat once or twice, Bama get beat once and somehow hope either Boise loses or their QB slows down his sick pace. Basically what I am saying is all their numbers are so similar it will go to whomever leaves their team to an undefeated regular season.
The Tigers lead the nation in snaps. When I heard that one of Chad Morris' biggest goals was to have 80 snaps a game I thought that is not nearly as important as other stats. But, you can't have a lot of snaps without sustaining drives and you also need to actually run a "hurry-up" no-huddle offense. Since the departure of Rich Rodriguez the Tigers have always ran a no-huddle, but rarely a "hurry-up." Nothing was more frustrating over the last decade than watching the Clemson offense manage to get a little momentum (rare enough) going and rush to the line and then turn to the sideline while their lineman sit there wasting energy in a 3-point stance and then run an awful play. So now I understand the snap goal. Do you really think Chad is just this brilliant at halftime. Maybe he is a little, but more than that is these defenses are dead tired in the 2nd half. Research says the first thing to go for an athlete when fatigued is not speed or strength, but the brain. Defenses break down when they are tired, because they struggle to make the quick decisions needed. Thus the domination of the Tigers in the 2nd half.
What worries me is if Ga Tech can sustain drives then the Tigers will not wear down the Tech defense like they have other teams. This is the big game. If the Tigers can get to the bye week and lick their wounds they should be ready for the last three.
And time for a tangent:
Saw a great article about Dems registering as Rep. to vote for Ron Paul. They are a little pissed that Obama lied and said he would get troops out of Iraq immediately. And since Ron is the ONLY Republican candidate to pull them out of Iraq and Afghanistan and cut "Imperial" spending, he is the only choice in either party if you are anti-war.
Dr. Ron is finally saying he will not cut any money to "defense," but cut money to mantaining our empire. We will be safer if we weren't overextended. It's like basketball. If you run a full court press, you will create some turnovers (kill terrorists), but you will also give up some easy baskets (attacks on your soil). The best way to protect your basket is to get as many players in the paint or troops on your home soil. There are 10 terrorists from a country the US has a base in for every one who is from a country we are not in. There are whole books on this "blowback" principle. They don't hate us as much because of our "Western" ways, they hate us because we won't mind our own business.
Anyway, the blue republican aricle has some really good paragraphs http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robin-koerner/blue-republicans-an-idea-_b_897405.html
"As we were all having our "I'm right, you're wrong" Democratic and Republican arguments, the powers that be made themselves more powerful, and while we were arguing, we have lost most of the rights that we weren't arguing about because we took them for granted.
It is as if we have suddenly looked up from an argument at the kitchen table over which sofa we should buy for the living room, only to find out that the house has been foreclosed on and we're homeless. Sure, the issues we were arguing over were important -- but they were not the most important, nor are they now the most urgent.
As I have written elsewhere, America has been brought to its knees by a Left that has empowered the state and a Right that has subsidized big business."
Brilliant. That is why Ron Paul is actually a third party candidate. There is no difference between Obama and the other Republican knuckeheads. 9-9-9 only talks about a new way of collecting taxes, but doesn't talk about spending. Great, another beuracracy to collect your national sales tax and I'm sure every business in the country will be so on top of getting every dime to Washington. Changing the way you bring in revenue without talking about cuts is like a family in debt deciding they will change from Discover to Mastercard to pay for everything.
Everyone should quit worrying about can Ron Paul win. Someone told me all that matters is beating Obama. I used to think that, but all other of these candidates would change nothing. Any vote for them is a vote for future bankrupcy, endless war and possibley the end of the great experiment known as America. As I got older I started to really like the ideas Republicans said. That the government (especially at the federal level) is inneficient and unproductive and that people should be empowered and not enabled by the welfare state. But Republicans are in bed with big business and especially the military/govt/industrial complex. I now would never call myself a Republican. I am a conservative and until more people like Ron Paul are in the Republican party then I will stay away. I think Ron would love to run under another party, but he knows the better thing for our country is to try and push more people in his direction.
So there is very little difference between the two parties and if you are Democrat leaning, fine, stay that way. But for this one election see if you like what the old man stands for. He stands for everything Ben Franklin, GW and Thomas Jefferson does. There is a reason those men feared so much power in one place and tried to spread it around to the states. That reason is the mess we are in now.
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