Saturday's Forecast Calls for Heavy Amounts of Tebow

by John Expat on Sep 30, 2008 10:46 AM CDT in Football Comment 3 comments

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From a Razorback perspective, Ole Miss' 31-30 victory over Florida last Saturday was probably the worst possible thing that could happen at this point in the increasingly-depressing season. Sure, some part of that is because it's never fun to see photos like this of your controversial ex-coach while your controversial new coach is presiding over a complete meltdown against a historic rival. Ultimately, though, that stuff doesn't really matter anymore.

No, the main reason that game sucks for us is that a fired-up and angry Tim Tebow now faces Arkansas with something to prove. Instead of catching the Gators looking ahead to LSU and possibly holding them to, say, a 30 point defeat, we're treated to quotes like this:

"I'm sorry. I'm extremely sorry," [Tebow] said. "We were hoping for an undefeated season. That was my goal, something Florida's never done here. But I promise you one thing: a lot of good will come out of this.

"You have never seen any player in the entire country play as hard as I will play the rest of this season and you'll never see someone push the rest of the team as hard as I will push everybody the rest of this season, and you'll never see a team play harder than we will the rest of this season."

Granted, Tebow was probably salivating the thought of attacking the Hogs' Kleenex-thin defense even before he was stopped on that crucial 4th-and-1 late in the game against Mississippi but now he's going to play extra-hard? This could be ugly...has a player ever racked up 1,000 yards of total offense in a single game before?

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Yep, a Tebow storm is a coming. Touchdown showers and extra point winds ahead. haha. OR maybe not? Just what if the Gators come out there and over-compensate for the Ole Miss game and try too hard instead of just playing their normal game? And just what if the Hogs get a lucky turnover, a run back for a touchdown, or an easy touchdown after a broken coverage (see Ole Miss game) and something really positive happens in the first quarter for a change? A few breaks against them and it might get into the Gators’ heads that “Uh, oh, here we go again. This can’t be happening!” And this time they won’t have the comfort of the Swamp to help them swing the mighty mo in their direction.

I admit this. The chances of Tebow touchdown showers certainly rate higher, much higher, but there is still the off chance that the sun comes out and shines brightly on the Hogs for a change. Hopefully the players are eating from that positive trough of thought this week and will go out there and give it their best. I am not convinced that what we’ve seen thus far is their best. And I don’t think they believe it either.

by KevinHog on Sep 30, 2008 2:04 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs