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USC Morning Buzz: Another Chance To Remember A Key Stat

Now is as good a week as any to point out again: Who else besides Sir Lincoln of Riley has won three Heismans and never won a national championship? Or maybe even just multiple Heismans and no national title? Or maybe three Heismans and never appeared in a national-title game?

Maybe to win a national title you need defense. And an ability to run the football. Does either rank highly with Riley?

  • Linebacker Eric Gentry played just nine snaps against Colorado but Riley said he was healthy.

“He’s back full go,” Riley said. “But when you miss the time that Eric has, he missed all of spring ball . . . and was very limited all of fall camp. He’s healthy but he’s still getting his feet underneath him . . . and listen we got a better linebacker corps than we did last year. It is what it is. There’s more good players.

“Eric’s going to have a chance to have a prominent role.”

This is another instance where a good player just doesn’t play enough (like with Christian Roland-Wallace the first four games).

43 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: Another Chance To Remember A Key Stat”

  1. If the problem with Gentry is that he has missed a lot of time, is the solution going to be making him miss more time(only 9 snaps)?

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    1. Grinch calls the same crap “Speed Defense” every game no matter the opponent. The idiot doesn’t use different game plans relative to an opponents strength and or weakness.

      Defensive linemen always trying to shoot the gaps to get in the backfield instead of just doing a straight rush which would at least clog up running lanes. Linebackers all over the place, out of position, predictable blitzes that opposing offenses avoid with quick screens for big plays.

      You don’t always have to focus on trying to get the sack, blitzing all the time leaves an already weak Trojan secondary that doesn’t know how to tackle for shit, hung out to dry.

      Bear Alexander and the other defensive linemen are big enough and strong enough to dominate in the trenches, this shit where they’re told to shoot gaps is finesse bullshit. Just let them do what they have been coached to do, run through the players in front of them.

      Colorado has the worst running game in the PAC 12 and they torched that idiot Grinch’s crap scheme. It’s the same shit scheme every game, never any adjustments.

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      1. Bear Alexander isn’t used to shooting gaps, where he comes from where they play real defense they shove opposing linemen right back into the quarterback

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      3. Crazy Lady aka Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & Michael Guarino & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and Jack Smith and Pigskin Thoughts and Maui Joe is so mean-spirited and demented that she thinks mocking cancer patients and doxxing Maui Fire Victims is good comedy. She is as hilarious as Senile Joe’s stooge:

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      4. Cal75, My Cal friend that I went to high school with went to the Cal game just this Saturday. he said he had a great time and was treated like a Capitalist instead of a socialist. he liked that part.

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    1. Gentry is not the answer to getting a stout linebacker corp. And very disappointed in the supposed stud Tackett. No discipline and runs around like he doesn’t know his assignments 

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      1. Tackett is a product of his coaching, he hasn’t gotten any at USC because any competent LB coach would coach him up or yank his ass when he played undisciplined football. It could also be his DC with his complicated schemes that no one on the defense seems to know what to do, where to go, etc.

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      1. Crazy Lady aka Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & Michael Guarino & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and Jack Smith and Pigskin Thoughts and Maui Joe looks like The Coward of the County!

        BfJY

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  6. Another FYI. This morning on the way into the office, I was listening to College Sports Radio on XM, and they were breaking down the OU/Texas game. To this point in the year, OU is giving up 10.8 points per game with Brent Venebles running the defense, as compared with USC giving up 24.2 per game. Now, they have some transfers come in, etc. but so has USC. The common thread between the two…Alex Grinch.

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  7. Riley’s wonder boy, Tackett, couldn’t sniff out a fart in a paper bag.

    Overrated and way too much playing tine, while Lee and Davis get the shaft!

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      1. He’s always late with his reads and then gets caught up in the traffic. Very rarely do you see him being the first player at the point of attack.

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    2. Speaking of overrated, Crazy Lady aka Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & Michael Guarino & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and Jack Smith and Pigskin Thoughts and Maui Joe is a chicken!

      Plow Horse
      JUNE 23, 2023 AT 2:50 AM
      Hey chickensh*t Gabby: You called me out when you brought my wife and mother into it. You would never do that face to face and you know it. You are the one who knows nothing about street etiquette. So stop acting like I need to canvass the homeless encampments trying to find you. Be a man. Pasadena boxing gym – give me a date pussy boy. Have the balls to tell me about my wife and mother to my face.

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    3. Tackett didnt play a traditional linebacker position in high school, so all his knowledge is coming from Odom and Grinch. Oh, well, another possible great athlete wasted by this excellent defensive coaching staff.

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      1. From an athletic viewpoint, he looks the part. It’s the mental aspect that is hindering his play. Let’s hope he gets up to speed sooner than later….he’s going to be around for a while

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      2. Crazy Lady aka Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & Michael Guarino & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and Jack Smith and Pigskin Thoughts and Maui Joe, your mental aspect is hindering you and your Dictator Senile Joe.

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  8. Update!…..MG is now in concussion protocol, after getting knocked out by a coconut yesterday. He told hospital staff that he was once the Mayor of LA and his house burned down in 1995.

    #cuckoo!

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      1. He’ll claim it was some radical libtard that was trying to silence him. According to
        a source, his political rants have been out of control around the clubhouse, he earned what he got. Pineapple head meets coconut!

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      2. Michael Guarino might be an arsonist, pyromaniac.

        He said he lived in Oakland and it burned.

        He says he lives in Hawaii and it burned.

        That clown seems to be running around lighting fires

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      4. One Crazy Lady aka Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & Michael Guarino & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and Jack Smith and Pigskin Thoughts and Maui Joe sock puppet is talking to another!

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    2. Update! Crazy Lady aka Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & Michael Guarino & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and Jack Smith and Pigskin Thoughts and Maui Joe is still afraid to fight Plow Horse.

      Plow Horse
      JUNE 22, 2023 AT 10:23 PM
      Gabby is the biggest pussy on this blog.

      Still waiting for dates, Mr. keyboard tough guy.

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  9. So Lee finally starts having good games almost dominant games. Cobb comes back and Lee is ignored. Cobb then is pretty much a non factor after he comes back. What gives?

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      1. The head-scratcher is why Crazy Lady aka Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & Michael Guarino & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and Jack Smith and Pigskin Thoughts and Maui Joe would think it was a good idea to dox a retired attorney with lots of time on his hands and many connections over a 40 year career. She is as dumb as AOC

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      1. You reek of cowardice, Crazy Lady aka Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & Michael Guarino & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and Jack Smith and Pigskin Thoughts and Maui Joe!

        Plow Horse
        JUNE 22, 2023 AT 8:33 PM
        Gabby: I didn’t use the term “white guy.” The CEO of Ocean Gate used the term white guy. I suppose that reading comprehension isn’t one of your strengths. But since you brought my wife into it, something that you would never do if we met face to face, let’s meet up Mr. keyboard tough guy or are you going to chickensh*t out like you normally do. I work out at a boxing gym in Pasadena, CA. Name a date and time and I will make a reservation.

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