(11-15-2023, 02:14 PM)Caldrac Wrote:

(11-15-2023, 02:04 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Everyone knows the tittians are playing above their talent so far, but they do it by being tough, strong and gritty. This week isn't going to be easy, that D Line is licking their chops like lions appraising a lamb.

Yepper. I don't think they'll come out as soft and unprepared as they did against the 49ers. After that lines performance? Rauscher should have had them hitting the sled collectively going 100 yards one way and back the other way a solid 5x to get the [BLEEP] out of their system.

Being tough, strong and gritty is sometimes a mindset. It's not always about just being a gym rat. Plenty of guys know this from lifting. There's always a rep or two in the tank to pull out of you if you're being honest with yourself, finding that fire in your belly and not being too chicken [BLEEP] to attack the situation instead of reacting to it and letting it come to you.

These guys need to come out on Sunday and be [BLEEP] nasty and mean. Set the tone. I'll forgive an early personal foul or hands to the face in this one. Just don't let it cost you a TD of course. LOL.

Oh, maybe that analogy will help. 

We're in the gym, you and I, and I set 360 on the rack. "I need you bench this" I say. You say, "I can't bench that much it's 170 pounds over my max." 

Nonsense I say, you just need to be coached right. Now, let's do this. 

"But I can't" you say, "I can't lift that much!" 

Ok then, I say, how about if I change the weights around and use 20s and 10s instead of 45s, that will work. Ok, now let's get in there.

"But I still can't lift it!"

Well ok then, how about I use a different bar. Ok, now I've put the weights on this EZ Bar instead of the Olympic we had. Time to shine!

So you look at me like I'm nuts, lay down on the bench, and promptly crush yourself under the weight you couldn't lift no matter how we proposed it.

This team's line is that weight, and no coach, formation, or play call can change the fact that they just get whipped by the guys across the trench from them. They were 31st rated coming into the year and they've really lived up to the moniker, and it's not going to change 10 games into the season. They don't practice hard and strength train in November, that stuff is done in the summer and camp. This time of year is body maintenance and conservation. You seem to think that they are going to have a radical change, but by this point of the year you are what you are, and this team is just plain weak in the trench. And we get to go against another one of the bullies this week.

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