Golden Tate's Matt Leinart Moment...
by Paragon SC on Oct 18, 2009 12:07 PM PDT
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PrintYou know many USC fans gave Matt Leinart a lot of grief over his "I still think we are the better team" remark after the 2006 BCS Title game against Texas. A lot of non USC fans skewered Leinart too...I felt the criticism was justified. I know it was an emotional loss but you can't say some thing like that. It simply yakes away from the great performance that you put up even if it was a losing effort.
Well, Notre Dame's Goden Tate decided that he wanted a spot on the wall of shame...
From ESPN.
"I feel like we have just as much, if not more talent than them,'' said Notre Dame wide receiver Golden Tate. "We [both] got two great coaches. We both have great players. … No, I don't think they have better athletes. I don't think they have better coaching.''
Uh, so if USC doesn't have better coaches and players, then how do you explain the Trojans' eight-peat?
"They just come out and outplayed us a few times,'' said Tate. "I think this year was different. I think we lined up well against them and I thought we competed. Someone's got to win and it just happened not to be us this week.''
Or in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Just a few times?
Really??
Charlie Weis has done a great job and teaching his players to talk smack but for some reason he can't coach them up to beat ranked teams for all the talent he has.
No wonder Jimmy loves Golden as his favorite target they act and think the same way...
Stay classy clowns!
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I think Weis has talent on his squad, but his secondary, and run defense was just not that good. He never seems to cover USC defensively, and that is Notre Dame’s biggest problem. We gave them a touchdown with the interception, and the trick play gave them another. Clausen had a few impressive drives, but overall Matt Barkley outplayed Clausen in my opinion, and the stats reflect that. Golden Tate had a monster game, and was the MVP for the Irish that day.
Going back some years to ND’s 11 game winning streak. There were quite a few games in that streak when USC “competed” and had “Good coaches, and players” and still lost. No one really remembers that there were close games in that streak, they just remember that we lost 11 in a row. The Irish didn’t get blown out, and they are treating that fact like they had a chance to win. Well all they had was a chance to tie at the end, and they blew it. All the pressure was on them, and if they didn’t blow 25 seconds snapping the ball on the 10 yard line, they might have had 4 chances at the endzone instead of 3. Bad coaching on Weis’ part. I think he lost the game right there when he took the ball out of his offense’s hands for a 4th try for the tie. Guess what Golden Tate, that is bad clock management, and constitutes bad coaching.
I think Charlie has them convinced that there is a playoff system.
That they will play in the snow and that they will film all the other teams play calling, plus no field goals just fakes.
Paul D. Kelley
It's not about doing your job, But can you do it with a TENNIS BALL in your throat!
by so.cal.native1952 on Oct 18, 2009 2:32 PM PDT reply actions
12 seconds from being undefeated!
I’m not surprised that someone from the Notre Dame team had a Leinart moment. Perhaps Clausen didn’t say anything because he was already in front of the mirror working on his post touchdown punch-and-crouch-2-3 pose for the next near victory.
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