{"id":151640,"date":"2010-01-07T21:43:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T02:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iqranews.com\/u-s-news\/hook-em-horns-hook-em-horns-sign.htm"},"modified":"2010-01-07T21:43:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T02:43:56","slug":"hook-em-horns-hook-em-horns-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/151640","title":{"rendered":"Hook Em Horns, Hook Em Horns Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the holiday break, I watched the 2006 Rose Bowl game on DVD. Twice. It was both one of the worst officiated games ever, and one of the sloppiest from our offensive end. Lots of dumb turnovers, lots of really stupid defensive miscues, even a missed extra-point! We scratched out the historic victory in 2006 because of Vince Young&#8230;but Colt McCoy doesn&#8217;t have to be Vince Young tonight to win. In fact, here&#8217;s all I think we have to do to win tonight:<br \/>\n# We need to play turnover-free ball &#8212; or as close to that as possible. Momentum always shifts with turnovers, but even more so in title games. Taking care of the ball is crucial, and I think &#8212; given that the Longhorns are much more relaxed and loose than Saban&#8217;s team &#8212; we will have a chance to do that tonight. But that&#8217;s where we get to the old saying about the most important piece of real estate in sports rests between the ears.<\/p>\n<p># Defense, defense, defense. Even in one of our worst offensive performances ever &#8212; we never should have beat Nebraska &#8212; we still won, and it was because of our defense. We were able to overcome turnovers and all the mistakes in the 2006 title game because of our defense. Alabama and Texas have the top two defenses in the country. Our last trip to the Rose Bowl was an offensive shootout. I bet this year, it&#8217;s a defensive battle. 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Twice. It was both one of the worst officiated games ever, and one of the sloppiest from our offensive end. Lots of dumb turnovers, lots of really stupid defensive miscues, even a missed extra-point! We scratched out the historic victory in 2006 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}