Our boy Huskerh8er commences Hate Week as only Huskerh8er can:

Yes Husker fans…I hope you get all that coming to you in the coming weeks. I hope your dog named after Bob Devaney is playfully and unknowingly headed toward an oncoming truck right now. I hope genital warts are rapidly forming on your nether-regions as you type your e-mail to Tom Osborne, telling him what a great job he's doing. If you have been lucky enough to form a relationship with a girl, I hope she is on her back with someone else, thinking about a bruised cervix while you’re daydreaming about Roy Helu celebrating that big touchdown in the middle of a sea of gold t-shirts and noise. I hope your sister is getting filled out like an application and used in ways that would make Sasha Gray blush. I hope your eyeballs are eaten by fire ants. I hope your skin is eaten by a mutated flesh-eating virus found in an isolated section of your yellow foam corncob hat.

 

Rot in hell you arrogant, toothless, straw-hat wearing, Ricky Skaggs listening, John Deere driving, Adrian Fiala worshiping, gum chomping, balloon releasing, tunnel walk obsessing, delusional illiterate fuckheads.

I hereby declare Hate Week® officially open.

I like to do this towards the end of the out-of-conference season. I figured it's time to not even look at my old ballot, nor the total eff up that the AP throws out each week. This week, there's a lot of movement because we've seen enough of some teams to just throw the old ballot away and forget this 'move them up one if one team above them loses' crap. Suggestions will be taken.

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Florida
2	Alabama	1
3	Texas	1
4	Southern Cal	4
5	Boise State
6	Oklahoma	5
7	Ohio State	2
8	LSU	1
9	Cincinnati	12
10	TCU	4
11	Virginia Tech	1
12	Penn State	2
13	Houston	9
14	Oklahoma State	1
15	Mississippi	11
16	Brigham Young	2
17	Kansas	2
18	Missouri	2
19	Nebraska	6
20	Iowa
21	Georgia	1
22	California	16
23	Georgia Tech	4
24	Michigan	1
25	Stanford
Last week's ballot

Via Doc_Nice

First off, it’s great that Mizzou is 4-0. Awesome. Especially considering most “experts” were saying the Tigers would finish their non-cons with a 3-1 record at best. I’ll come clean, at the beginning of the year I was predicting the Tigers would drop Friday night’s game against the Wolf Pack. So bottom line, Friday night was a good win for the Tigers. Props.

But I think if they play like that against a good team they’re getting beat by at least two scores. And I’ll go ahead and include Nebraska in that category. Some might argue that Nevada was a desperate team playing for its season. And I would have no idea how you’d come to that conclusion after watching the Pack stumble through four quarters.

When I first heard about the Wolf Pack’s fans plans to boycott this game to protest coach Chris Ault I thought it was ridiculous. Ault’s made that program a perennial bowl team, what more do you want from him? But this looked like a horribly coached football team. They repeatedly shot themselves in the foot by doing things like using three timeouts on one possession, which probably would’ve even made Bill Callahan cringe.

So no I don’t think this was a desperate team playing to salvage its season. This was a desperate team trying to avoid a total collapse. But ya know what? 4-0 is 4-0 and through the non-conference part of their season the Tigers have exceeded just about everyone’s expectations. With a young team like this you have to enjoy every victory. Sure we can nitpick because we’re sports fans and that’s what we do but ultimately when they finish with a victory you’ve got to be happy about it no matter how it looked.

• That extended lede was fairly negative so I’ll balance it out with this: That 11-play 97-yard drive in the fourth quarter to essentially put the game on ice might have been as impressive as any scoring drive the Tigers put together during the Daniel-Maclin-Coffman era. Seriously, it was that good. And through his first four games as QB1, Blaine Gabbert appears to be an ice-cold closer.

• But it still looks like Blaine gets a little rattled when defenses can get a decent pass rush going against him although he really started settling in after the first quarter in this one. He reminds me a lot of Peyton Manning early in his career in how as soon as a defender gets near him he kind of freaks out and starts rapidly shuffling his feet. And yes, that was a very rare negative comparison to Peyton Manning.

• Gotta be concerned by Derrick Washington’s inability to get rolling once again. He finished with a respectable 75-yards on 16 carries but those numbers were kind of inflated by his 42-yard gain on that long fourth quarter drive. For the majority of the game he was a non-factor. I don’t know how to explain his struggles. I’m completely perplexed. Not sure if it’s an issue with his ability to find the holes or the O-line’s ability to create them (that’s what she said). I’ll give it another game before I really start to get concerned but we’re really gonna need him to come around quickly.

• Judging by D-Wash’s Twitter and Facebook updates over the weekend he’s heard some criticism from the Tiger faithful and it sounds like his confidence might be a little shaken. He mentioned some Tiger fans complaining that he should no longer be the starter. First to those fans: Shut up. Yeah Kendial Lawrence has had some eye-opening runs and yes De’Vion Moore has supposedly looked good in practice. But D-Wash is the starter and there’s no debate. The guy has proven himself. You don’t bench a back of his caliber after a couple shaky performances this early in the season. Secondly, to D-Wash: Get over it. You’re a division I athlete so you’re always going to be able to find something negative about yourself on the message boards and blogs. If you’re letting that get to you then that’s probably a major part of your problem. Just do your thing.

• We might be witnessing Danario Alexander making The Leap. He’s only 13 yards away from matching his career high for receiving yards in a season and only one TD away from matching his high in that category as well. There’s not a more enjoyable experience for a sports fan than watching a player with tremendous talent finally put it all together. That might be what we’re seeing here. Jared Perry was very solid once again also. That Danario-Perry-Kemp trio of receivers is starting to look very nice.

• Defensively it was hard to really assess how the Tigers played. One drive they looked great and the next they would get completely pushed around. Will Ebner is one guy who was all over the place. Spoon and Aldon Smith were everywhere as well. But that defensive line is going to have to get better against the run by the time the Nubs come to town.

• Shakespeare’s Pizza Playa of the Game: Super Danario, grab a slice. Danario was absolutely unstoppable. He finished with nine receptions and a career-high 170 yards and two TDs. Honorable mention goes to Blaine Gabbert who as mentioned was a cold-blooded killer in the second half.

• Now we get an off week to conjure up as much hate as humanly possible before the Huskers come to CoMo a week from Thursday. My early thought is that this is going to be the ultimate 50-50 game. Despite their loss to Va. Tech I’ve still kind of been impressed by Nebraska thus far. But with the Thursday Night Lights on at Faurot you can bet the Zou is going to be fired up. It should be a good one.

Found this pic on Nate Bukaty's Twitter. For those of you not in KC, Bukaty co-hosts a popular sports talk radio program on 810 WHB.

If I ever have  a daughter and for some strange, sick reason she decides to go to kU, I swear to God I will have her get a restraining order on this old bastard whether he's still alive or not. You can't be too safe with characters like this.

Let's hope it hasn't hit Wes Kemp, but from his Twitter feed, it looks like he may have been a little sick earlier this week. Wes has come through in every game so far this year, and the flu is a pain in the ass. Take it from someone that's already rolled with the Piggy flu this year; it's harder to get rid of than Paris Hilton's herpes.

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Seeing how the game this week is on a Friday, it might throw a hitch in your game day traditions. Most people have at least one game day tradition, most of which could be classified as 'what the hell?'. Maybe you sit in the same place? Eat the same thing? Wear the same thing?

I'll start it off.

1). Must be wearing a Mizzou jersey. Be it a Brad, Chase, or Blaine jersey, the rotation has rendered my closet as a black and gold heaven. You'd think a Friday game might kill this one off today? Nada. The one really good thing about not having a dress code at work.

2). I swear. A lot. Dammit, on to the next.

3). Budweiser. That is all.

4). I shave. Yep, I shave every game day. Even if I'm rocking the pedofile beard, a trim is in order.

What are your game day traditions? Throw them in the comments.

I find it funny that the so-called pundits (looking at you Phil Steele) picked Mizzou to be 1-3 or, at best, 2-2 going in to conference season. Mizzou's one win away from another 4-0 start. Will it happen? I'd say 'bet your ass on it', but how does it go down in Reno? You can read that last line as dirty as possible; hookers are legal in Reno.

Ault has a good running game and will probably go with the offensive strategy of 'A good running game runs the clock and keeps their offense off the field.'. Mizzou must capitalize on offensive opportunities because they could be few and far between if Nevada has it's way with time of possession. I'm still going far past the spread of 7pts in Mizzou's favor. I'm calling a Victory Whiskey drinking 35-14 win for the Tigers. It won't be easy, but Blaine Gabbert, DaNario, Jared Perry, and Wes Kemp will be too much for the Pack D. The Tigers have a quick strike offense, so even if Nevada does dominate the T.O.P., the Tigers will still throw points on the board. The problem comes if the Pack get up early, which could happen on pure adrenaline and being pissed off after getting waxed last year 69-17. It won't be a walk through the park, but the Tigers have better athletes at all positions.

Via his Twitter page.

Hey Nevada, I hear they call ur offense the pistol.Well I call @Wash24 the AK-47 and @SeanWSpoon12 the rocket launcher.ha,pistol,that's cute

This comes after one of the greatest tweets of all time.

Man I love mizzou football lol..@BlaineGabbert @D_Alexander81 @SeanWSpoon12 even @dmatter (let's never fight)

A kU shot and a Nevada tweet? Only Kim English. This will never get old. Of course, you can follow Mizzourah on Twitter.

These Eagles cheerleaders are happy to see you join the team.

The Eagles have signed recently released TE Martin Rucker to their practice squad joining Jeremy Maclin on a potent Philadelphia offense. Yeah, I know, it's the practice squad so he's not officially on the team but while Brent Celek is a pretty decent TE, I can definitely see Rucker competing for the backup job with Alex Smith.