taken from Everyday Should Be Saturday - sorry if already linked or posted http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/?p=2861#more-2861 –WOOO!!! LSU/Arkansas. Who doesn’t love watching the SEC West? Watching their games is like watching old caveman movies where dinosaurs fighting people get distracted by a flying pterodactyl; when they kill each other in stop-motion animated death blows, the cavemen eat them. Perfect metaphor for this game, since the spectacular beasts on both teams were brought low by the cavemen playing around them and coaching them. Muddled best describes the play of both teams for the majority of the game with the exception of manmutant Jamarcus Russell and his brother in species advancement Darren McFadden, who spent the majority of the game attempting to elevate the lowly, unadvanced cavemen around them. Jamarcus Russell did his usual bit: standing with a tackler draped around his knees while firing passes fifty yards downfield without stepping into the ball. Dwayne Bowe answered the evolutionary bugle, playing havoc in secondary and allowing LSU to revert from the run-heavy game of the Matt Mauck era to the long ball artillery attack of the Rohan Davey game. He’s been phenomenal in the second half of the season. Even when he gracelessly rockets two or three picks a game he’s still a danger to come back thanks to an essential component of qb success: zero short-term memory when it comes to error. McFadden made THE awe-inspiring play of the year, splitting two future NFL safeties on a play they clearly misjudged. Considering that around the forty yard line McFadden hit the nitrous, we can’t blame them. Watch and drool; your “GODDAMN”s will distract your coworkers, so shut the door or staple your mouth shut prior to watching. And yet Humanity Advanced (as we will refer to McFadden from now on) was brought low by his coach, Houston Nutt, whose wackymantics hadn’t killed the Razorbacks this year…until this moment. The sequence: –First, kickoff coverage explodes and Arkansas immediately blows a momentum changing play by their best player as LSU scores on the following kickoff. LSU adds insult to injury by using a midget on the return, which while amusing is clearly bad form. –Second: with limited time and in need of a score, Houston Nutt rediscovers his inner Boss Hogg genius by not letting McFadden wreak havoc on the defense directly from the splashy “Wildcat formation,” but by letting Casey Dick–at this point doing his best Reggie Ball imitation despite being a foot taller–attempt to get the ball to McFadden and Monk. This would have been a sound idea had Dick done dick earlier in the game, or even done dick in previous games. Yet Nutt went geniusfied, came up with nothing on four feeble plays, and lost the game on the way into the SEC matchup with Florida. The point for Nutt and the Razorbacks: next time leave the battle to the mutant.
I'm watching a replay of the game right now. The third play of the game, McFadden comes back to the huddle and takes off the glove of his throwing hand. That's the play he completes a pass over the middle (3rd play of the game). He then puts his glove back on. Any Florida coaches listening. He takes off his glove, he's preparing to pass from the Wildcat formation.
