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OK I never trashed Mike. I Did say I wished he’d have used a different lead title for the story when he first came out this morning. I even Clearly said it’s OK to speculate. BUT I’d rather apologize than I had be in the wrong and Not apologize. So that in mind I’m sorry @MikeGriffith if my comment came across as bashing or trashing. That Certainly wasn’t my intent. My apologies.
I am NOT sorry @MikeGriffith and I will tell you why: His first article speculated that with a tightrope surgery “Brock Bowers WOULD miss the rest of the season”.
How convenient to “update” an article that was “speculative” yet you changed the article to remove the two lines included in your original post that had multiple Dawg fans, including myself, posting responses about how typically putrid it was of MG to post an article like that.
You aren’t fooling me and I bet you aren’t fooling others as well. Nice try, though. We know your true colors when it comes to your quality of articles regarding MY DAWGS on this website.
There have been a handful of SEC players that have had tightrope surgeries on their ankles and been back in 3 weeks from the date of their surgery. The Dawgs are going to Day 2 of week 8 of a 14 week season (if you include the bye week), so to speculate and use the words “he WILL miss the remainder of the season” is what set me off; and it isn’t the first time MG has pulled this clickbait nonsense.
Fool me once…You know, the…the thing…
And I do not have dementia like that senile fool living at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue does!
I choose to be optimistic. You can go through life worrying about everything or you can be the half glass full kind of guy.
I am the optimist. We will win the rest of our games and see Brock in the playoff.
See how easy that is?
Yep !! And I really love and appreciate your optimism !! You and some others are like that and it helps Me to stay optimistic !! Lights my fire to you might say !! I Try to be an optimistic person, I really do. But I confess to many times I let the ole dark side get to me.
Brock Bowers is a huge and valuable part of this team. But it is after all a TEAM, and their success or lack of shouldn’t be Soley Based on one player. Brock will want this Team to win with or without him. So they just have to press on. That’s the bottom line.
Wouldn’t it be So cool if they keep on chalking W’s and Brock comes back to help finish it all up ??!!?? I’m trusting and believing in Delp. He’s no slouch. And I’m loving what I’ve read about Lawson Luckie. There’s a silver lining to this to. Pretty sure Brock will be off to the NFL after this year. Sure can’t knock him for that. So Delp, Luckie, Spurlin those guys will be here next year. This experience should be of big help to them !! Go Dawgs !!
In this case it's not next man up, but next men up. Thankfully Ladd is coming back and Rara and Dominic are stepping up and becoming productive receivers. Oscar is solid. Luckie and Pearce will have to contribute. Hate it for Brock, but the identity of this year's team has been and continues to be depth and next man up.
Ha - love the take. It truly is next men and not man; it will take way more than 1 to replace. Gonna be fun and interesting to watch how this plays out.
Not to sound cliche but a few things taught me to always be optimistic.
My mother who I love immensely was a dark cloud of negativity that I had to minimize as best I could. Minimize the negative people in your life or if they are not related cut them out of your life completely.
Second thing is I have found working for myself and almost losing everything 3 times that you can always start over and only you can pick yourself up and move on.
Third, being optimistic is a much better and funner (made up a word there) to go through life. People enjoy being around positive people and it is encouraging. Remember you can do it.
Last thing is my Lord and Savior told me to that worrying about tomorrow will not add a day to your life. When you don't have the answers ask for His help.
So I am going to call it now. Dawgs will 3-Peat!
Upper ankle had tightrope surgery today.
Some forget..Oscar Delp was the #1or #2 TE (depending on the ranking service you look at) in his class. Delp is no Brock Bowers, no one is, but he's a pretty good TE himself. Same with Luckie, and Spurlin, both good TE's themselves. It'll take all 3 of those guys stepping up, plus the WR's, to help take the pressure off of Beck. I'm not panicking over this injury to Bowers, it happens in football. Although I hate to see it happen to any player. Plus it's beyond the control of anyone, except the Operating Surgeon, and Bowers himself. No doubts that Bowers will rehab as hard as he works on the practice, and game fields, to come back better than ever..GoDAWGS!
AMEN My Brother !! AMEN !! Sage advice on your part and SO True !!! Thank You !!!
Here's my tips on going forward.
Look for Luckie to get some balls thrown his way.
Look for Rara to get more balls thrown his way.
Look for JackSaint to get more balls thrown his way.
Plus a healthy dose of Bell and Edwards.
Love is blind and ignorance is bliss. But it just isn't reality. You may want to reacquaint yourself with the definitions of optimistic, realistic and pessimistic. It is not pessimistic to recognize the reality of what is ahead. Tough games and the need to play much better. Especially on defense. No more cheat code (BB's) on offense. Offense will need to step up and carry the team. The D hasn't been able to so far against very mediocre competition. Getting DEdwards, RRob and (fingers crossed) KMilton healthy is a necessity. All hands healthy on the OL (AMims). Getting LMcC healthy is also a high priority. To the point that he shouldn't play again until TN. Probably the same for Milton.
The margin for error on this team was minimal from day 1. Now there is no margin for error. That is the reality of where this team is. If you don't see that love is blind and ignorance is bliss.
Buzzkill.
You must have a pretty depressing life. Mine is great. I think we still have a great chance to win it all.