Sans Burks this unit stinks

Looking at Arkansas' tackling grade should be treated like looking at a solar eclipse - don't look at it without protection or you might go blind... https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/arkansas-snap-counts-pff-grades-vs-auburn-defense-1

Good stuff from Pittman, IMO... https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/hogs-put-auburn-controversy-behind-them-shift-focus-to-ole-miss

I haven’t heard what it is or if it is serious. Also read where Levi Draper is hurt? How or why is that a secret. I have just assumed he wasn’t doing well enough to play?

Comments from both head coaches + an NBC rules expert: https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/explaining-the-controversy-at-the-end-of-arkansas-auburn

..then explain how the “Hunter Heave” thing in 2015 against Ole Miss wasn’t thrown out under the same premise. Some of the players thought the play was dead when the ball hit the ground before AC picked it up and started running, but it wasn’t and the play continued (as it should have).
Oh and..FVCK THE SEC

He plays aggressive and has great size. Has filled in nicely since Brown's injury. He may develop into a baller in the secondary

Game Thoughts

Sam Pittman continues to prove he was the right hire for this job. The main key in this hire was regain respectability and compete week in and week out. This state is very much blue collar mentally and Sam’s nature really appeals to that.

Stylistically, we’ve been competitive and different in all three games. Auburn saw the offense wake up and tempo take effect. It truly is a case of getting a first down and then applying the threat of tempo at a team. Franks has been efficient with the ball and I have 0 concerns with the sacks he’s taking! He’s still learning his throw away valves in the schemes of this office and we say yesterday he get a grounding call while still trying to figure it out. I’d rather sacks than putting the ball in jeopardy. Briles has also been shackled by playing the best D in the country, losing his top two skill players, playing in conditions that had sitting water on the field, all with an inexperienced OL. As the season progresses and we get healthy the offense will definitely continue. There were some brilliant and beautiful play calls last night that were creative and well timed. The answer at WR is Burks and Woods outside and Warren in the slot in 11 personnel and when we go 10 shifting Burks inside to bring in Knox. Also honk that the only knock with Trelon Smith is homerun speed but his running style is very similar to Chase Hayden pre-injury. Really excited on O for the future.

Defensively we’re so much improved from last year it’s childish. I’m so impressed with the DL. Jon Marshall is playing on fire, and I’m really impressed with the play of Zach Williams, Eric Gregory, and Mataio Soli. I wish we’d have a DG and Coates 100% as well but those three young guys are the real deal. I wanted Zach Williams to sack Bo Nix so bad so the announcers could stop with the Patrick Nix Auburn QB legacy deal and say something about Zachs old man being a former Hog stud as well. They probably hadn’t done that kind of research though. Man we need Zimos, Andrew Parker, and Levi Draper to get it going in the worst way because as good as Bumper and Morgan are playing they just have WAYYY TOOO MANY snaps a game. Need that depth there. At DB we gotta get healthy. Foucha, Catalon, and Slusher are a hell of a Safety Trio though and GBJ has been improved. Gotta get healthy and man it’s really up from here. Odom for Broyles award is real. Before we talk about the tackling issues remember the conditions and understand the material of the jerseys. It’s hard as hell to grab one of those when they’re dry let alone slippery wet because of how tight they are and the dri fit material most are made with.

Special teams has been horrible and as much as i hope it was mostly just a weather deal early in the game and first game jitters against UGA, it’s still a tough pill to swallow. If they’re good against Cold Piss though it’ll all look a little more logical.

Lastly after sitting on it, I don’t blame the refs on the field at all for the ending of the game for blowing the play dead. For guys that have seen countless spikes to kill the clock it’s a play that I’ve never seen the QB do backwards and most likely they haven’t either. But the guys in the replay booth should pay the money they made back and find a new profession. Absolutely horrible job and the SEC’s excuse, that came out way faster than I thought it would honestly, was trash too!

Go Hogs! #BeatColdPiss

Look! So don’t beat me up for this take..... but for some reason I feel like Trelon has a coming out day tomorrow! Something tells me he gets 100 rushing and a 100 receiving yards. I don’t know why I feel this way but I do. They habe known all week Boyd is going to be out and put in a game plan for smith.

Where is this guy? I thought he was looking good in fall camp and now we haven’t seen him on the field? Our receiving crew looks very thin when JDW is getting PT...

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Option 3

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Let them know how you feel.

1. Ole Miss's offense is a problem - Nikki

Ole Miss may rank dead last in total defense so far this season, giving up a whopping 723 yards and 63 points to the Alabama Crimson Tide, but their offense looks like it can keep them in any game they play this season. They didn't mess around with two quarterbacks on Saturday and it looks like they'll stick with Corral passing and Plumlee just coming in to run. Matt Corral threw 21/28 with no picks and ran for 40 yards too. They run the ball a lot with either Corral or Plumlee and Jerrion Ealy or Snoop Conner. They have the 24th best rushing offense in the country right now, averaging just below 200 yards per game. I imagine they'll pick up the 200 pretty easily versus Arkansas based on what we saw this weekend. Elijah Moore, Jonathan Mingo and Kenny Yeboah have all put up 100-yard receiving games far. By PFF grades, Ole Miss's offense ranks 5th in the SEC through three games. Their weakest point has been offensive line play. The Rebel offense has also been pretty clean so far with just one pick thrown by Corral. He ranks 3rd in the nation with a 76% completion rate. The Rebels are also 7th in the nation in 3rd down conversion percentage at 55%.

2. ..... its defense is not - Hutch

Thankfully for the Razorbacks, Ole Miss’ defense has more holes than Swiss cheese.

Through three weeks, the Rebels are giving up 51.7 points on 641.3 yards per game. Opponents are averaging 8.8 yards per play - which is nearly a first down. All of those marks are by far the worst in the country.

It seemed like Arkansas finally figured some things out against Auburn, so if it can keep that going against Ole Miss, we could be in for a wild shootout - which would be par for the course with these two teams.

What the Razorbacks can’t afford to do is get off to a slow start. Another three-and-out on the opening possession or five straight punts could put them in too big of a hole to dig out of because of how efficient Ole Miss is on offense.

3. RECEIVED VOTES - Nikki

Hutch wrote his column on Sam Pittman returning respectability to Arkansas football and what's better affirmation than the Hogs getting votes from coaches (and SIDs) in the polls. Last week was the first time they've received votes since 2016 in the USA today coaches poll. They got just vote this week despite such a harrowing performance against Auburn but as Pittman has been saying..... It's just the beginning. Since moving to Arkansas ahead of Chad Morris's first season, all I've experienced here are sad, often embarrassing losses. But not anymore!

4. Yes, Arkansas got screwed - Hutch

And not just once, either.

The officials screwed up by blowing the play dead when they did. I’m willing to give them somewhat of a pass on that, though, because I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a backward spike the way Bo Nix did Saturday. Still, it’s always best to let the players play it out and then fix it on replay.

Speaking of replay, I initially wondered if they might not award Arkansas the ball because there wasn’t an “immediate” recovery. The officials are blowing their whistles and waving their arms to signal the end of the play long before Joe Foucha fully possesses the ball. I have seen several fans on Twitter say “but we got it within 2 seconds!” Well, two seconds is a long time in football. However, a respected former official has come out and said that the continuing action by players should have been enough to override the early whistles and give the ball to Arkansas.

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Finally, the SEC statement was garbage. It referenced the “immediate continuing football action” discussed above, which in one expert’s opinion actually happened. Plus, the officials making the call during the game didn’t actually give that explanation. There was no mention of there not being an immediate recovery when the ref made the announcement and, when asked about it afterward, Sam Pittman did not say that’s what he was told.

Long story short, the Razorbacks got screwed.

5. SEC Opening Lines - Week 4 - Nikki

Auburn (-3) at South Carolina
Kentucky at Tennessee (-7)
LSU at Florida (-13)
Ole Miss (-2) at Arkansas
Texas A&M (-7) at Mississippi State
Vanderbilt at Missouri (-16)
Georgia at Alabama (-5)

I had a fine week three of betting but doubling down on Florida for no reason other than I don't believe in Jimbo Fisher... was a mistake. I also foolheartedly thought Mike Leach would get his squad together for a comeback week against Kentucky and boy, was I wrong. TWO POINTS. Miss State threw for four more interceptions than they did points on Saturday. Completely embarrassing. And now, in classic Leach fashion, he's saying the team's full of bad apples that need to hit the road. Just two weeks ago, he was loading up a bandwagon...

I came out +86.57 in week three so I'm up $330 this season.

Have the best offense we will have seen so far this season? Matt Corral looks pretty good, Ealy and Conner are 2 very capable backs, and Elijah Moore is no joke. Plus their tight end, can't remember his name, seems to be having a pretty good season. I know their defense is as terrible as it has been for a while, but their offense scares me more than Awburns did.

This is an egregious screwing by the SEC office and its officials. IMO, we need to give the SEC the middle finger and take credit for this game. Tell the SEC we aren't going to take this anymore.

We need to draw as much attention to this as we can. Screw the fines, set up a go fund me. It needs to stop, 26 years of this crap.

I’ll say it’s in the Vegas Zone

Ole Miss -5

Former Razorback golfer Austin Cook continues his hot streak on the PGA Tour.Either by a Monday qualifier or a sponsor's exemption Austin got into 4 tournaments.Last week,he needed a top 10 finish to qualify for this week' RBC Canadian Open.Today,standing on the 16th tee,he needed a birdie,birdie,birdie finish to finish in the top 10,and earn an invite to the Quicken Loans tournament next week,and he pulled it off.This young man could be in med school right now,but these 6 figure checks might keep him on the golf course for awhile.

Winner:


Sam Pittman
The Razorbacks made a heck of a hire. No, they did not win Saturday against Auburn. But three games into his first season, Pittman’s team has shown more fight than the previous two Razorback head coaches managed in their entire tenures. It might not mean a ton in win-loss record improvement in 2020, but the future is bright in Arkansas, and that’s something that hasn’t been said in a few years.

The SEC can take it’s “immediate recovery” BS and shove it up it’s ass next to its “we didn’t want to make teams play back-to-back seasons” explanation for why they made the Covid schedules the way they did while putting Florida in our schedule 2 seasons in a row.

I’ve always looked down at fans who want to go to the Big 12, but man it couldn’t be more obvious that the SEC hates us. Absolutely zero respect as a member. When the stated logic of decisions they make are in direct contradiction of what they did with us, it’s obvious that we don’t factor into their decision-making. When a senior member of the conference is in a tough spot, we will pay for it every single time

Arkansas/AU game didn't happen on the SEC channel...what gives ??

Probably done for the year.

the ball depending on who the officials want to win...I defy anyone to review the game play by play and watch when the umpire spots the ball for the next play...on average they gave AU and extra 30(+) yards and subtracted a minimum of 30(+) yards...on one drive in the 1st quarter the spot went from 3rd and less than a yard to 3rd and 2 but we were in such a hurry to line up and run a bad play our coaches didn't pay attention