Tequilla
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I love the people that think that it is 100% the coaches job to lead a horse (the players) to water.
No matter how much Petersen tells the stench of Seven's players that they have to respect everybody and compete on every play, a lot of the front running players won't get the message until they experience it.
Think about it this way ... how many times do you see someone about to make a stupid decision, someone tries to give them suggestions to do something different, the dumbass tells the person to F off. They go on to make the stupid decision and then learn from it and admit that they were in fact a dumbass. That's what we got yesterday.
Here's the positives from yesterday:
1) Players came out thinking that they didn't need to respect their opponents from Snap #1 and paid for it (this will come in handy later in the conference season when we're playing road games against teams like Colorado and Cal) where a slow start and taking for a granted a win could actually put you far enough behind that you can't make it up
2) A combination of a complete ass chewing AND halftime adjustments led to a completely dominating 2nd half performance - I know Georgia State didn't get a 1st down for at least a quarter and a half. Not only was there the ass chewing and the adjustments, but the players listened and executed afterwards.
3) Special teams took the lead in turning the game around - which further preaches to the players the fact that Petersen wants to win in 3 phases of the game ... all considered equal. There will be a game that we win this year in conference because of special teams whereas with Seven we lost at least a game a year because of special teams.
We'll play our best game next Saturday ...
There will be continued growing pains next year, and I do think it's unlikely that we don't fall on our face somewhere during the year ... but there's also absolutely no reason to not have the sweatpants at full mast right now.
No matter how much Petersen tells the stench of Seven's players that they have to respect everybody and compete on every play, a lot of the front running players won't get the message until they experience it.
Think about it this way ... how many times do you see someone about to make a stupid decision, someone tries to give them suggestions to do something different, the dumbass tells the person to F off. They go on to make the stupid decision and then learn from it and admit that they were in fact a dumbass. That's what we got yesterday.
Here's the positives from yesterday:
1) Players came out thinking that they didn't need to respect their opponents from Snap #1 and paid for it (this will come in handy later in the conference season when we're playing road games against teams like Colorado and Cal) where a slow start and taking for a granted a win could actually put you far enough behind that you can't make it up
2) A combination of a complete ass chewing AND halftime adjustments led to a completely dominating 2nd half performance - I know Georgia State didn't get a 1st down for at least a quarter and a half. Not only was there the ass chewing and the adjustments, but the players listened and executed afterwards.
3) Special teams took the lead in turning the game around - which further preaches to the players the fact that Petersen wants to win in 3 phases of the game ... all considered equal. There will be a game that we win this year in conference because of special teams whereas with Seven we lost at least a game a year because of special teams.
We'll play our best game next Saturday ...
There will be continued growing pains next year, and I do think it's unlikely that we don't fall on our face somewhere during the year ... but there's also absolutely no reason to not have the sweatpants at full mast right now.
