Hey man how else ya gonna learn unless someone slaps ya upside the head?
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I can't stop thinking about how HUGE the Hawai'i game is.
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Hey man how else ya gonna learn unless someone slaps ya upside the head?
The Guest
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Normally I'd make a joke about 'tini liking the abuse and that it runs in the family, but in this case...ah what the hell!
'tini likes the abuse--it runs in the family. Except for his Grandmother and she's a saint, and I'll fight anybody who says otherwise.
Unleash Hell
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You didn't take my bait....ummm hurricane fans, that was all set up for you man!
I've done my best to put that experience out of my memory. The Orange Bowl was like a freaking war zone that day. Fistfights breaking out, people shoving each other. It was nasty.
I prefer to let you wallow in mediocrity with delusions that you actually know what the **** you are talking about.
Yup because replacing their whole O line is nothing to do and they should be a great unit come September 3rd or whatever it is. Imagine what people would be saying if CU had to replace a whole O line, a 1000 yard rusher and receiver, upper class men or not many of these kids will be playing their first full game against a BCS team with experience on the D line and LB position.
The Guest
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BB: 'tini actually showed some balls here, while additionally outlining a coherant argument. You gotta give him some credit.
It will not be the smoothest transition, but if you have a QB, you are already well ahead of the game. Replacing a 1,000 yard receiver in Hawaii's offense is a regular occurrence. The RB may be more difficult to replace.
And our front seven has a lot to prove as well, so I do not consider it a huge mismatch on paper. Maybe I am wrong, but I would be happy to see the defense hold them under 30. In the end, it is all going to down to whether the offense can take several steps forward anyway.
P.S.-You actually made a decent post here.
Unleash Hell
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Hawaii has the top returning WR in the WAC, Royce Pollard
True, but Royce was only 3rd on his own team last year, and Hawaii lost the other 5 of their top 6 along with everybody else except for 1 O-line and qb. They only have 3 returning starters on O. Our front 7 better have a field day with their O-line.
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I am beginning to think Embo is playing this very well. I know we have been bad on the road, but the more I read about the loses Hawaii took from last year's team, the more I like our chances. We come out with a ball control run based offense that eats the clock to keep thiS a lower scoring game the better off we will be. If, and it is a big if, our defensive front 7 can take advantage of the inexperienced o line, we could make this a long day for the Rainbows. If this was the third game, I would be more concerned but we get them out of the gate. I am beginning to like our chances more and more in this game.
CVilleBuff
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It's huge in that a loss probably ends any bowl hopes before they even started, and it would certainly be huge to get this ****ing annoying road losing streak off our backs and gain some confidence for road games in the Pac. The good news is we're catching Hawaii at the best possible time - they're replacing a ton of starters and their high powered offense is going to take a few weeks to jel. Buffs need to keep it simple - get physical, run the ball and dominate TOP. Hawaii's D is going to be porous and Hansen should be able to catch them off-gaurd and get some nice passes once the run gets established. Hopefully our D is up to the task of bending but not breaking and and leaves the Islands with confidence in knowing that they can withstand the passing barrages they're destined to face in league play. Early, not-so-final prediction: Typical first game with sloppiness in all aspects: Buffs 27 'Bows 25
lawdogg
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As important as the Hawaii game is, for all of the reasons outlined above, I actually think the Cal game the next week will give us a better sense for what the season could end up looking like. Although Cal has had some road woes of their own, talent wise, they are solidly in the middle of the Pac-12. If we can beat them, I think it bodes well for us playing against the UCLAs, Zonas and Washingtons of the world.
3option
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While I'd love to think that this game is going in the W column, I'm worried. Hawaii might have some new folks, but so do we... we are replacing two starting DBs on a defense that left tons to be desired last year. I have painful visions of Hawaii running 1-step WR screens for 10 yards each over and over and over again or the offense putting us in 1st and 15->20->25 by jumping offsides or getting procedure penalties repeatedly. I believe that JE and co can eventually fix these things, but given inertia, we might be expecting too much asking for him to do it in one game. Later in the season I expect to see a team that is much more disciplined and physical than any we've had for years.
Cal will be a test for sure. They have some weapons at WR to test our secondary, but they also have major question marks at QB and RB. They also have really good athletes all over the place on defense and their front seven will provide a test for our OL, but their are some questions in their secondary that we may be able to exploit with Richardson/Clemons.
I think we squeak one out in Hawaii and figure out some things to fix and Cal comes in thinking about how easy it was last year and they Ralphied.
Ironically, I take comfort from this. We had 2 NFL corners last year, including a 1st rounder and possibly the best corner in the draft, and finished near dead last in passing defense. I think, if the push from the front 7 is going to be as improved as we think it might be, we might see a substantial increase in pass D statistics. I think this will be another example of how effective good coaching can be.
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Unleash Hell
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I think Cal is in for a rude awakening when they visit Boulder
I agree we are gonna try to run their ass into ground and keep our D off the field as much as possible. Probably a good idea cause the secondary scares me, we gotta have guys step up quickly. However, Id love to see us PA and go deep on the first play to PRich or Clemons. Nothing wrong with going PA on the first play when we are gonna be a run first team the majority of the time. Think the balance will come as the season goes. Id like to go deep just to let them know we arent afraid to take a shot and catch them slippin. No 3 yd out lol.
This is from random Internet post, so take it FWIW. Also read that their offense may rely on dink and dunk routes, since they lack the proven break away receivers from last year. Moniz pitched nearly 40 TDs last year and they're at home, so there's no reason for over confidence given the youth in the Buffs secondary.
Her boobies drag down to her knees......
Actually this proves how stoopid the Giants are.....
buffs04
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Hawaii and Cal will set the tone for the season, to be sure. Hawaii is on the road against a typically-dominant passing attack, the Buffs just put two corners in the NFL, and we don't have a proven pass rush (although I think the talent may be there). Cal embarrassed us last season.
I certainly hope the new staff does better on the road than Hawkins, at any rate: auto-loss in a full half of our games each season got old pretty quickly. They both are winnable games, IMO, but I wouldn't go so far as to predict a blowout in either one.
I certainly hope the new staff does better on the road than Hawkins, at any rate: auto-loss in a full half of our games each season got old pretty quickly. They both are winnable games, IMO, but I wouldn't go so far as to predict a blowout in either one.
dpc8302
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Hello Buffs,Another Warrior fan here. I find it interesting that most fans for UH and CU think the game is going to be an easy win for their respective schools. I'm predicting a UH win only because I'm a UH fan. I have yet to actually look at who's really returning for the Buffs. What I do know is that UH is replacing just about the entire oline this year like they did last year. They put up over 500 yards in the opener against USC. The difference between last year and this year is that the oline has more talent and depth. Minus austin hanson, there are actually 2 returning players with meaningful playing time. Lefiti and leonard were both labled starters after spring 2010. Lefiti, the starting center, found out that he had broken his foot in the spring game and would require surgery. He sat out the first few games before rotating in every other series with Ginlack.Leonard got injured in practice the week of the USC game. He ended up playing only 5 games with one start. Both are back and healthy.I'm not too worried about our rb situation, because we have a couple of big backs sterling jackson (6'2", 220) and joey iosefa (6'0",245)that can run and block in this system.I'm worried about the recievers, but in recent years there has always been people who step up. I'm more concerned with moniz' health. If he is fine, UH is fine offensively. In fact, the only losing seasons UH has had since 1999 have been when they started a new QB for most of the year.