DAVID VS. GOLIATH

They "must" be giants.

Let me get one thing out of the way. Take that Idaho. U- da –ho now! #5 TCU is coming to town this weekend and I’m ready. The wife and I are going to grab a couple pumpkin spice lattes and hit the road for what could possibly be the biggest win in CSU history.  Call me a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.

This got me thinking back to CSU’s win over #6 Arizona back in ’94.  Arizona has been a pre-season favorite to win the national championship, thanks to their “Desert Swarm” defense. That is until Sean Moran recovered a fumble and rumbled 78 yards for a dudge. Rams won 21-16. That game was in Tucson. Imagine if we beat the Frogs this weekend in the Fort? I will personally flip a car over. Just not my car.



TCU QB Andy Dalton



When it comes to breaking down TCU’s team, well, there’s really not much to say except that they’re freak’n awesome. Andy Dalton has been pretty unstoppable dating from last year. The guy’s gun slinging arm and instinct running ability make him a huge task for Ricky and the boys. It will definitely be their toughest test all season and it’s basically giving the younger components of our defense some excellent experience for future years. Maybe TCU’s wide outs can teach our young secondary how to cover them. Or, maybe TCU’s entire defense can give us a couple of pointers on how to drive a human being into the turf. If we have any chance of victory this week, our defense will have to step it up. I’m a little optimistic but these arm tackles and unawareness of the ball has got to go. Creating turnovers would be the only thing to offset the lack of crushing people. To do both seems merely impossible.

You can drive this thing through
those holes the O-line were making
last week.

Offensively I think we obviously keep doing what we’ve been doing for the past two and half quarters of game time that we’ve played. We’ve looked stellar! I love the mixing up of play calling. I love that we’re finally taking chances down field. And especially love that we’ve started to create holes that a Ford F-750 can rail through. (If you’ve never look up one of these trucks, I highly suggest googling it. They’re ridiculous. Especially the six door triple cab.) If Pete can keep on top of his game and pick apart defenses like he’s been doing, I think we can hang around long enough to possibly pull off an upset. Pipe dreams?

Finally, let me apologize for being such a negative Nancy the last few weeks. Call it tough love. It’s just that I’ve invested so much love the last 15 years and the Rams were not pulling their own weight in this relationship. They cheated on me. I would cook dinner and wait and watch it go cold, without even a phone call. No text either. And could you put your clothes in the hamper? Is that so hard? Maybe you could tell me I look nice. We’ve had so many good times over the years,  and it got to the point where you had lost 12 in a row and I couldn’t take it anymore. I’m so sorry I said those things about you being lazy and untalented and worthless; I didn’t mean it.  But I’m back, baby. Slow down the bandwagon so I can get back on. There, that’s much better. How about I come up to Fort Collins on Saturday and we hang out for a few hours? Sound good baby? Ok, this is getting off track… Go Rams!

Let’s hear from you, the reader. Comment below. What do you think our chances are this weekend?