That’s Miami type stuff.

just keep it clean and back it up…

… but McClain does have a point.

Missouri State was obviously a cupcake, and while all of the points against Georgia does look impressive, the UGA defense has been far from stellar to date. Oklahoma State — despite not being as good offensively as a lot thought — had no real problems with them, and even South Carolina looked pretty dang prolific against UGA. It should be noted that the generally incompetent South Carolina offense had almost as much success two weeks ago against Georgia as they had last week against Florida Atlantic.

So, lots of points, lots of potential, but not necessarily a proven commodity just yet against a really good defense.

However, in all fairness, a valid counterpoint could easily be made as well… the Alabama defense hasn’t faced an offense anywhere near as good as the Hogs either.

Bob Petrino just talked about this in the Arky meeting.

I love it. I don’t think he’s talking trash so much as stating the facts. They’ve only played Missouri State and Georgia. And I don’t see our defense letting them hang 41 points like UGA did.

UGA practically handed at least three of those scores to Arkansas with turnovers and special teams’ mistakes. I didn’t watch the whole thing, but Arky really benefitted from UGA mistakes more than they just flat out whipped that ass.

Gators trash talked early on, before the season started, but only the media (mainly ESPN) carried on the hype. Florida was quietly studying the Vols and came out and just played. Albeit they didn’t look stella they did come out on top.

There’e something to be said about quiet confidence. Gene Stallings and the 92 Crimson Tide had it and now it’s time the 2009 team assumes that quiet confidence role.

when you can back it up. Just don’t let your mouth overload your a$^&&^. And any other cliches you can think of, just do it ON THE FIELD!!!!!!!!!!!

they were going to lose anyway. And if we think this will in any way make us less likely to win, then we’re not as good as we think.

What I’m trying to say is that it doesn’t matter. I was never a great athlete, but I know enough to say that bulletin board type things fade right out of your mind about three minutes into a game.

I’m not excusing pre-game trash talk. Even if it doesn’t really matter to the outcome, you still have to eat a lot of crow afterward if you lose. And it’s just not a real classy thing to do.

That said, is this quote all that bad? If anyone should be offended, it’s Georgia.

we play. There will be a good chance that some facet of our opponent’s game might be as good or better than ours. But, as a whole, we are in better shape than anyone else in our division. I’m just sayin’.

I don’t believe that’s really “smack talk” OR an insult to Arkansas, but more of a compliment to ourselves. Obviously it’ll be taken that way by Arkansas and will be pushed by the coaches…because that’s one of the duties of a coach, to motivate. Regardless, I don’t believe it’s going to impact the game or the outcome. I’m glad to see a little self pride and confidence by our football team

where the hell is Bix? I haven’t seen him in a month!

I believe Mallet will cause trouble early on,however I think the pass rush will get him out of sync in the long run.

…where exactly in this quote does ro call for us to win on saturday? where exactly does he say arkansas is an inferior opponent?

i’m putting this one into the gmac independence bowl quote “confidence in our abilities” category rather than any degree of smack talk everyone seems to be wringing their hands about.

…even the BOL message board is silent about this one.

The sky is not falling.

‘92 Miami’s Lamar Thomas pretty much said “I don’t know why you guys are working so hard, you are not going to win”

‘09 Bama’s Orlando McCain said “Arky has a good O, we have a good D”

Stark contrast.

almost everyone is acting like shula is still coach… saban ain’t going to have us show up unprepared and unmotivated. even though he couldn’t get the team jump started early against utah last year after the SEC championship game let down… so that makes him 32-1 as far as a motivator goes. I have full faith believin’ our team knows SEC competition starts this saturday and they will be hungry to prove themselves. so what about Mallet… let him throw 500 yards on us. Mcelroy will throw for 300 yards and we will run for another 300.

Isn’t smack talk, More like stating a fact, i like the confidence shown, the only real downside is that we haven’t faced an offense as potent as theirs either, i still say we have the advantage overall and it’s going to be close until we wear them down and take control which should be towards the 3rd quarter, but they do look better than they last year.

Ballin’ Bama Boom Train! WOO WOO!

AP

Responding to an incendiary quote from Alabama linebacker Orlando McClane, affable Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallet told reporters, “He said we score a lot of points on offense? That’s nothing compared to the points I’m going to score Saturday night with his mom.”

Nick Saban could not be reached for comment.