The key to USC’s season is that while the offense is full of stars, it will be defensive coordinator Alex Grinch, who gets to do the dirty work and face the pressure of working with less talent.
Fittingly, his T-shirt today said “strain.”
Grinch was very pragmatic talking about injuries during camp.
“We’ve had a lot of guys out over the course of camp, the biggest frustration was guys get opportunities because of that and they don’t take advantage of the opportunities, and that happened a little bit,” Grinch said.
On the scrimmage last weekend, he said, “I thank God it wasn’t a game, long story short.”
Then he focused on the injured players.
“You get to be better football player by playing football. We don’t get these last two weeks back,” he said. “(The rush end) position needs to get shored up.”
Grinch’s best friend will be the favorable schedule. But he still faces a thankless task knowing Caleb Williams and Co. will get the lion’s share of the credit when USC wins and he might get the blame if USC struggles or heaven forbid, loses.
To use a Star Trek analogy, Lincoln Riley will be Capt. Kirk planet hopping and engaging with all the interesting aliens while Grinch is Scotty stuck down in the engine room dealing with the dangerous gamma rays.
Very cool Star Trek story and many of us wouldn’t know about it, were it not for DRUNK HISTORY!
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Wiley&Grinch are more like the Lone Ranger and Tanto. The Lone Ranger, sitting majestically with his white horse and all the trimmings. Whereas he instructs his underling, “Tanto, go to town.”
You see, Tanto had to do all the dirty work, had to clean up matters before the Lone Ranger would parade into town to apply the
final-touches.
Any comparisons to football?
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They couldn’t even think about doing that tv show these days. It would send the woke to their safe places.
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Tim Conway did a sketch on the Carol Burnett Show in which was dressed as the Lone Ranger and he’s calling Tanto on the phone trying to talk him into saddling back up. It didn’t go well…
“…. Oh, so that’s what Kimosabe” means…”
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To change the subject, let’s get serious here for a moment. Silliness be damned, this is as serious as a heart attack– the SC defense is obviously suspect. And with mounting injuries, apparently the unit is getting worse.
Maybe Scott’s predicted scenario of 50-48 scoring-orgies will play out.
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When guys go down, the next guy HAS to step up. I think we will see a lot of stepping up coming. I have to believe Foreman will get it together and make a big push to fill the rush slot. That would make it easier to move guys around to give Tuli the license to annihilate opposing Qb’s by coming from different line ups. Our defensive key is Foreman getting into the game and performing up to his ability.
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When a starting First-String footballer goes down, it is true the next guy “has to step up”–
Problem is, the “next guy” is second or third string for a reason. And no matter how hard he tries, he just won’t be as good as the First-Stringer.
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steveg49,
I disagree. Foreman is not the key to the defense. From what we saw from him last year, he barley was in the play, hardly had a tackle for loss, and got blown off the line of scrimmage. His mechanics and physic got him killed. He needs to prove that he can play. Until that time, he is just another player.
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Imagine a USC team that wins by scores of 50-14 instead of 50-48. (I bet you see Pete Carroll on the sideline…)
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I always hated star-treck.
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My wife would watch Star-Trek and I would fall asleep.
They could have called it Star-Wreck for all I cared.
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WAS WOLF NAMED AFTER THE ORIGINAL SCOTTY ??
BEAM ME UP SCOTTY
BY THE WAY LT OHURA DIED LAST WEEK
RIP LT
AND
THEY ALWAYS DEFEATED THE KLINGONS EVEN WITH RICARDO MONTALBAN WHO WAS A FRIEND OF MINE
CATCH HIM ONFANTASY ISLAND !!
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You were Tattoo’s stunt double uh TIREBITER?
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HEY OWNS
I READ YOUR DUMB POST YESTERDAY ABOUT YOUR BABY SISTERS VAGINA
THAT WAS NOT A COOL POST MR OWNS
ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU SAID YOUR MOM ALWAYS HAD DRY HUMPS
HAH
MY POST ABOUT THE BRUIN GIRLS AND THE COBWEBS IN THEIR PUSSY MUST HAVE REALLY GOT TO YOU
HAH
THATS WHAT IM HERE-FOR OWNS
TO BRIGHTEN UP YOUR LIFE AND MAKE YOUR DAY
HAH
GOTCHA MR OWNS !!
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owns get owned yet again by the big dog.
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THANK YOU 67
OWNS WANTS TO PLAY
ITS FINE
I CAN PLAY TOO
LOL
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I really have nothing against Mayfield. But I will be hoping he gets injured.
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I guess there’s some Manti Teo documentary out there. Think I heard someone say Manti cried after getting to Notre Dame because he’d rather be in (Southern) California. Scott Wolf please comment.
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I’d watch my first ever episode of The View before I’d watch a Manti Teo documentary.
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HEY SO CAL
CHECK OUT
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO
WITH ANYA
ITS NOW FREE ON HBO !!
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LOL! Don’t have HBO, but the wife & I have been looking for some movies to watch. I’ll buy it On Demand. Thanks for the tip.
We caught Ready Player One, per someone on here’s suggestion. (?) It was really good!
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ANYA IS THE BEST BRO
SUPER YUMMY
TEN TIMES BETTER THAN AOC
LOL
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Hey TIREBITER you senile AH, is it true your nickname for your wife is “Shoo Fly.” From what I heard, your bar Flip wife, “Shoo Fly,” blew every sailor in 6th fleet – so wet mouth. Osa Messina, and Geo. Tyndall want to date “Shoo Fly.”
# Unbeknownst to you, you senile mackerel, “Shoo Fly” is still doing her ping pong ball canon act in Compton dive bars – for free.
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FYI TIREBITER, my mother, father and ex-wife have passed away, and I have no siblings. So you’re throwing spitballs at a battleship.
TIREBITER you’re the anal spawn of a female Chihuahua and an alky Gopher.
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ugh,y r u so angrey,u nead to get urself a missus ed,dont be so up set like ol’peenus breth,we iz ur frend hear,smdh
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Just Rent,
You are nothin’ but SCUM, trash, and evil. Scum, show respect. Oh, I forgot, you took the “Angela Davis Class of being SCUM”, online, at the library. May your cardboard box be reposed by Amazon due to cardboard shortage.
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“Reposed,” LOL.
PT what’s it like to be life-long, half-wit ignoramus.
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Former top recruit Korey Foreman’s fresh start at USC hampered by injury
https://news.yahoo.com/former-top-recruit-korey-foremans-001815426.html
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SC defense is struggling– did you hear that Trojan offense?
So we need 50-points from you guys every game!
Yeah, yeah, I know, in reality that’s not going to happen
But I can wish!
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Riley was praising the D earlier in the week. Disinformation.
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Charles is the new “Inside USC”. Thanks for all your links.
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Scooter,
This year, the defense is in a rebuilding and learning year. It will get moved, banged up, and burned. However, if they improve between games 1 and 6 by cutting down penalities cutting back rushing yardage, and less yardage in the game by 20% and bringing the scores back down in the 20’s for opposing offense, then they will be okay. 2023 defense must improve in order for Sc to be what we want, dominate
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This is just guess PT, I mean who knows what goes in your pinball brain, but dominant works better than “dominate” – LOL.
Might I suggest you sign up for an a ESL 100 class.
PT = chronic horse’s ass.
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GENUINELY SORRY FOR ALL YOUR LOSSES OWNS
THATS ROUGH
HOPE YOU ARE DOING OK
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