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Discuss The USC-Nevada Game/My Reaction

Well, that went exactly as planned. Nevada was pretty awful and USC is unlikely to have another game this easy the rest of the season.

A lot of people got to play and make plays. Everyone will be happy. The fanboy media will be happy.

The fans will be happy. USC had the audacity to say the crowd was 62,916.

Now to get serious: I’m surprised USC’s lack of physicality. The program is in Year 2 under the strength training of Lincoln Riley and I don’t see much in terms of physical play, especially on the lines. This is something that would matter against Notre Dame and Utah. Not Nevada or San Jose State.

When did Mason Cobb get hurt? Was it a late-in-the-week injury? It’s a problem if Cobb and Eric Gentry can’t stay healthy. I don’t care how good Tackett Curtis is going to be, right now he tends to overpursue plays and his targeting penalty was a poor decision.

The secondary looked unimpressive. Domani Jackson gave up a TD and got burned on another play but the pass was incomplete. Same thing happened with Ceyair Wright.

And I can’t say the offensive line improved much other than it played a bad team. Caleb Williams was still running for his life a few times.

USC needs to be tested now after two gimme games. But when will that test occur? Saturday against Stanford? Let’s see.

Also, what will Riley say about Raleek Brown?

91 thoughts on “Discuss The USC-Nevada Game/My Reaction”

  1. Ed ‘n me just got off the horn with Miss Rita Moreno, who thot tonite’s game wuz a grate victoree for the men of troy. Pleaze dont call hur a fangurl, she can’t help herself.

    Prezinent biden just congrachulated the wolfpack on a grate upset victoree. The prezinent musta bin day drinkin, jus lyke tinee timmy Obama, who iz past out on his tin foyl colleckshun and cant watch hiz baby bruins play the bicoastal carolyna chanticlars.

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    3. You still haven’t learned how to spell, Missus FucTARd? Try adjusting the spellcheck on your phone, because ur shit just ain’t funny. Is Ed still eating Lawyer John’s Azz out? 😂😂😂

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    1. No more cupcakes, ‘Ol Mule Shoe his boyfriend Alex Grinch and the other two idiots Shaun Nua and Donte Williams are fucked

      LOL!

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      1. And when they win next week, you will put our your stupidity for all the world to see. They don’t see your needs on the chalkboard.

        Talk about the loneliest hater. Feeding off of the Trojans to be relevant.

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  3. Criticism of the secondary is deserved. I cringe when the ball is thrown on Domani’s side. D-line and LBs looked better.

    Nevada rushed the ball 38 times, for 49 yards, their longest rush was 11 yards.

    USC offense generated 670 yards, including 20 rushes for 215 yards. Sounds like the physicality wasn’t nearly as bad as Scottie makes it out to be.

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      1. MG, your right I was happy with the the effort on defense. Let’s see the secondary start getting better n man 2 man. DC, can you start calling audibles at least 10 seconds before the snap please it would make it easier on the defense.

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    2. You can’t put much into what Wolf writes, it is all biased, unfair, heartless, unpopular opinions from a guy with a real schtick he has to stick to. By Wednesday we will get the report of a conversation he had with a “coach” from somewhere embracing all of Wolf’s negative viewpoints.

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      1. An as usual ’49 all you have to contribute isn’t worth the time to utter your pathetic, bozo rah-rah, anti-Wolf, BS.

        Wolf has the Blog; you ’49, have your head, high up your kazoo.

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      2. Steveg —by offering cynical observations, Scott triggers us into writing supportive ones — it’s all part of the plan —
        #ScottIsInTheBusinessOfStrengtheningOurLoveOfUSC
        #ScottWolf:TricksterFanBoy

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      4. You can’t put much into what Wolf writes, because he doesn’t pretend that USC is the greatest since sliced bread like my dumb Azz does..😂 By Wednesday we will get the report of a conversation he had with a “coach” from somewhere embracing all of Wolf’s negative viewpoints. Wolf needs to pretend like I do, because I believe USC is a tough physical team, that would beat Georgia, and Alabama. I’m the biggest Azz Lick Fanboy in the southland 😂😂.

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      5. sorry, but I am seeing the same game as Wolf. this wasnt a team that should get 350 yards or put pressure on caleb.

        i can bet that Henson is not satisfied with the right side of the offensive line. Monheim and Dedich are great, and I think Pregnon is going to be great by later in the year, but those two veterans, Tarquin and Kingston get beat alot or allow the pocket to collapse on Caleb.

        The big question is whether Paige can push for first team reps as left tackle and allow Monheim to shift back to right tackle. I think the right side of the line has one more week to prove themselves or things get shaken up.

        The defensive secondary is a mess. Grinch and Donte need to be fired.

        And why are they making such a big deal about Curtis when Davis seems to be pretty fast as a linebacker? Curtis might be great in the future, but he isnt great right now.

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      6. Game: “why are they making such a big deal about Curtis when Davis seems to be pretty fast as a linebacker? Curtis might be great in the future, but he isnt great right now”

        100% in agreement with you. Well said. The kid was hitting 75mph fastballs in high school, and now he’s facing 95 mph fastballs. His processing ability is not yet at the 95mph level…..Davis is more mentally prepared with better closing speed.

        Tackett has taken the most snaps at LB, perhaps Riley is willing to overlook his shortcomings in flavor of game experience to advance his development, while a kid like Davis, IMO, should be the one getting more snaps.

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  4. It’s obvious Scott didn’t watch the game. He was too busy counting empty seats….

    Scott is completely wrong about Tackett. The kid is solid at the point of attack, but his preceding speeding is in question. This means he’s late on his reading which actually leads to “under-pursing”. He’s not ready to play inside/out. A 43 defense with Tackett on the boundary side would benefit him better

    Jackson keeps getting tuned due to bad technique. The kid struggles to stay on the hip of the receiver. Perhaps he lost a step due to the ACL injury.

    Lloyd is looking like the back we thought he was. I love Travis, but Lloyd is better. Duce has deceptive speed. Foreman was getting pushed around. Game ball for Shame Lee led the team in tackles with 10, including a sack.

    Time to listen to Su’a Cravens!

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      1. It’s obvious Scott didn’t watch the game. He was too busy counting empty seats….

        Scott is completely wrong about Tackett. The kid is solid at the point of attack, but his processing speed is in question. This means he’s late on his reads which actually leads to “under-pursing”. He’s not ready to play inside/out. A 43 defense with Tackett on the boundary side would benefit him better

        Jackson keeps getting turned due to bad technique. The kid struggles to stay on the hip of the receiver. Perhaps he lost a step due to the ACL injury.

        Lloyd is looking like the back we thought he would be. I love Travis, but Lloyd is better. Duce has deceptive speed. Foreman was getting pushed around. Game ball for Shane Lee, led the team in tackles with 10, including a sack.

        Time to listen to Su’a Cravens!…..

        (Too many adult beverages affected the above post, my bad)

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    2. Shane’s best game IMO. He was hampered with a broken arm last season, maybe he is now fully healed and this is what we can now expect from him going forward.

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      1. I have been a tough critic. I think it was deserved. But today showed me his potential. Perhaps he builds on it so we don’t have to rely as much on Tackett.

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    4. You don’t play three linebackers in today’s college football. Tackett needs to simplify his reads and stop playing with his eyes. He’s immature. When he has one read with the ball in front of him, he’s solid. But football is never that simple all the time.

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    5. Agree that Lee had a great game, hope he keeps it up.

      Not sure I agree about Tackett, I think he needs more time in the program before he plays alot. I would rather see Raesjon get more experience.

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    1. The Webfoots played a cupcake and ran up the score over 80. What kind of team goes to that extreme to humiliate another team. Oregon sucks, and they showed it today.

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      1. I have lost all respect for Lemming. The guy kept the pedal to the floor the entire game…. he really was milking the style points….I hope we give them a good ass whipping

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    2. Like Oregon and Notre Dame playing FCS schools? Going from typing with knuckles to typing with your feet?

      Blackmon selected in the third round, thanks, Dante!

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  7. Just had a nice shot of several SUCLA cheerleader skanks coming back from a commercial and I hate to admit that based on that sample, this may one of the “once in a blue moon” that they give the USC Song Girls a run for their money!

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    1. Fuck dude…..you sound fucking hard up for a piece of ass….FREAK! ….I see why you have NO friends and family hides from you……CREEPY PERVERT…..I AM SERIOUS

      (I am sure your old lady appreciates you making these types of comments)

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    3. Dude, MANY posters comment on cheerleaders. Face it, you just love to cry and whine about anything I post. Don’t lie to yourself. Everyone on this blog knows it.

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      1. Would you talk that way in front of your wife?….I see why they threw your old man into the dumpster…you both suffered from a little man complex

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    4. And btw, just because I say someone is attractive, male or female, doesn’t mean I’m “fantasizing” about them, you sick freak. Again you are projecting your own shortcoming onto others.

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      3. LOL! Look who’s talking about “not normal”. Nearly a dozen blog members have called you out for exactly that and you pretend it never happened.

        Instead, you point to a few who have disagreed with my political beliefs. Quit lying to yourself, Village Idiot.

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    6. Actually I have noticed the ucla girl cheerleaders are far better looking fie close to a,decade now than the gals all from 28th St…that’s the problem …. thanks to decades of generational chokehold, unless one belongs to a sorority they can kiss goodbye any consideration for beibg selected as a cheerleader at USC…the 18 yr old females all have that de regieur ‘kabuki style” makeup instead of the fresh alluring look the Bruin girls have. Flat out the Bruins have better looking more enticing cheerleaders.

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    1. Something is really wrong between the guy’s ears. He was talking one day about my 74-year-old mom lactating into my mouth…..how fucking warped does your brain need to be to think that way….A dude like that needs a good ass whipping

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    2. He was referring to Scott, Dumbass.

      Once again, you choose to ignore who started bringing family members into it. I’m almost glad you did the same to Plow Horse so everyone could be reminded.

      That’s why most of the blog members call you the Village Idiot or Let’s Meet Up, because you’re a fool.

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  9. Gotta say congrats, Scott, on your 63-14 prediction; almost exactly right. The game and the score went pretty much as you predicted.

    To make your predictions complete, I must say, as a fanboy, 1) I am happy, and 2) USC has the greatest football team in the world.

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    1. And lastly ibrancy, you are one(1) huge, bozo, horse’s ass.

      I mean WTF: “USC has the greatest football team in the world.”

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      1. JustRepetitive,
        Get a quarterback.

        While your looking for your sanity, tell your coach that there’s are more than 3 routes that received are allowed to run in pass plays. 4 interceptions?

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      1. Sure Crabs, and the film “The Valley of the Dolls,” is the greatest movie ever made.

        Cue: The Tulane FB Fight Song

        SUCC FB, what a bunch of choka, choka, choka, choke job pussy’s.

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  10. Well, if they run over Stanford then it’s not going to be appreciated by Mr Wolf. Compared to other coaches, they could do a better job but they deserve the benefit of the doubt. This expect less and glass half-empty approach is childish.

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  11. Take away 2 big big plays, and they were solid but until the DL can make Qb’s make hurry throws, then it keeps DB on a island in Grinchy schemes. On every play it seems like somebody is in the wrong position and to the races. Let’s get that fixed for Stanford. Grinchy start on Monday send a reminder of all your audibles for film test. Who ever scores the highest on that test. That is who you start for Stanford.

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    2. Eric…if Jackson can’t keep up with these pedestrian receivers he’s faced the last two games, what’s it going to look like when he faces future NFL receivers down the road. He should be dominating if he’s as good as you say….just saying

      We might have the best offense in college football. But with the current state of our defense. The Washington, Oregon, and ND look like games we would go in as the underdogs

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      1. Gabby when we get to those games against Washington Oregon Utah ND, we should be a better team. We do have the best offense. We certainly have multiple big playmakers. Jackson will get better this is just his second start. Come on Gabby you know who is his position coach is. ? DC Grinchy is not helping the players by moving them around 3 seconds before the SNAP.

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  12. UCLA PIGEONS- STRUGGLING AGAINST ANOTHER CUPCAKE. EVEN THE PIGEONS WILL LEAVE THE ROSE BOWL THIS YEAR WITH THE OFFENSE UCLA HAS- SO FAR CAL, STANFORD, ARIZONA, UTAH, USC, WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON ST, AND COLORADO LOOK BETTER. Ethan Garber – is GARBAGE.

    This could be Chip Kelly’s last year—The talent in the Pac 12 is excellent except for UCLA, and Arizona St.

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    2. Memo to: tommyd

      Much to Clown U’s future distress, UCLA has settled on Dante Moore as it’s #1 QB. I couldn’t be happier.

      Moore seriously reminds me of another fair UCLA freshman QB, Cade McNown.

      Remember Clownsters, Cade never lost (4- 0) a rivalry game

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    3. I can no longer make fun of Chip —he wore a “Maui Strong” t-shirt at the game in support of the folks on this besieged island.
      [Unfortunately only about 19,000 actual —not “reported”—fans were in the stands to see it]….

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      1. 19,000 -that’s a laugh unless half of them were from the Carolinas rooting for Coastal Carolina. The Pac 12 is really good this year UCLA will be close to the bottom in the standings even Colorado is better this year. My question is why a young talented player like Donte Moore would even come to such a lousy football program at UCLA and play in front of 10,000 fans at best where no one cares. Once Chip gets fired at the end of this season Moore will transfer to a real football program where he could win a Heisman not a basketball school, and even that is fading also.

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  13. OWNS- GET OFF YOU BUTT, AND GET OUT TO THE ROSE BOWL QUICKLY. YOUR UCLA BRUINS ARE STRUGGLING AGAINST A CUPCAKE…IN COASTAL CAROLINA, AND NEED YOUR SUPPORT.

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    1. Not to worry tommyd, Dante Moore is taking care of winning business.

      UCLA selected it’s starting QB; cranked a nice win vs a determined Coastal Carolina team. CC had UCLA on the ropes, but CC lost the initiative after Moore bombed them in the 4th qtr.

      The only thing we really know tommyd after SUCC’s slaughter of Nevada is LR is willing to wax Caleb ass for free.

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  14. People, Grinch just needs to run more zone coverage. Hopefully, he’ll understand that his two best corners are Roland-Wallace and Covington and use them accordingly. Wright and Jackson need safety help to the inside. They don’t know how to stay level or at least inside the side pocket of receivers. At least bump at the scrimmage to dislodge and slow receivers down! I don’t understand the free release stuff.

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    2. TW, Grinchy is not smart. I don’t know y he doesn’t play press coverage, if you have big corners you use hands legally, he doesn’t stunt his lineman to get more pressure on the QB’S. Yeah we got 5 sacks, 10 TFL can we do that against the Dogs Quacks, Domers n Utes . If we can keep improving our players we can get closer to getting to our goal.

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  15. The defense looked better. Our backup quarterback got quality time playing time. Tacket Curtis was robbed by the refs. The accidental head bumping was hardly targeting because it lacked intent to injure. Unfortunately refs don’t have to consider intention. I think Curtis’s being in the game is just to give him game time experience. The kid has a motor but he wastes gas quite often.
    I finally saw what everyone is complaining about. The PAC 12 channel coverage is just slightly better than a cell phone video. During the broadcast they had a live camera roaming the campus.

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    1. The time to win the Heisman comes in that Notre Dame to UCLA stretch of games —if Caleb beats the Irish in South Bend he’s off and running….and USC gets into the playoff picture.

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    1. 100%. Why should Riley praise Caleb at this point? He needs his QB to get sharper before we take on Notre Dame, Utah, Washington, Oregon & UCLA….
      #IfWeWin4OuttaThose5We’reInThePlayoffs….
      #…AndCalebProbablyWinsHis2ndHeisman

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  18. Covington is easily one of the best DBs on the team. Never makes mistakes, never gets beat, great run support, and for some reason, they won’t start him. This high school crap has gotta go. He’s gonna walk, but instead let’s boot the incompetence.

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    1. I havent really watched closely enough, but the times I noticed him, he is really solid. It is possible that Covington and CRW are the corners once we hit the real teams later in the season. Maybe they just used these early games to try to build some competition from Domani and Ceyair.

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      1. Possibly gametv, but they are going to keep rotating the DB’s because they have to have fresh bodies. Covington does play the right way. I can see him playing more once we get to the brutal 2nd half of our schedule. It would help our backend if our DL can collapse the pocket better, n make QB uncomfortable.

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  19. Oh man, don’t even get me started on Oregon State, who’s usually the laughing stock of the Pac-12 when it comes to defense, somehow managed to lock down San Jose State. They held them to 17 points, 56 yards rushing, and 223 yards passing. Let that sink in for a moment. This is a defense that usually couldn’t stop a jogger, let alone a college offense, and they made San Jose State look like a Pop Warner team.

    What does that say about our defense? I’ll tell you what it says: it’s embarrassing!

    If Oregon State’s defense can contain an offense that rolled all over us, then what are we even doing? San Jose State ran and passed for double the yards on us compared to what they did against Oregon State. We’re still floundering in the swamp of mediocrity.

    We all observed that our defense was a laughing stock last year, we tried to orient our selves toward improvement, decided to change something, and then acted on it, but Grinch just sucks – 3rd and 22!

    If this were us against Oregon State, we’d be the team giving up double the stats. I expected to not be worse than Oregon State, and yet here we are.

    You know what kills me? That line the coaching staff keeps trotting out: “We’re two plays away from…” Two plays away from what? Glory? Victory? Nah, more like two plays away from having fans tear their hair out. It’s the football equivalent of saying “I’m two beers away from making sense.” It’s ridiculous!

    You wanna be a hero as a quarterback? Play against Grinch’s defense. You’ll look like Michael Vick in his prime.

    We need a D coordinator that knows defense is half the game? When the defense stinks this bad, it affects everyone. The offense has to carry the weight, special teams are demoralized, and the fans are reconsidering their life choices. The cost of keeping Grinch far outweighs any potential benefit.

    So, it’s painfully clear we have zero excuses. What are we doing, running a charity for opposing offenses? Time for a serious overhaul, starting with Mr. “Two Plays Away” Alex Grinch.

    The defense rests, Your Honor—literally!

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