Thoughts From the Bench Press: SMU

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It’s that time of the week again mutha****as and muth****ettes!

Ifs time to fill up that syringe and grip a buttcheek harder than an offensive tackle holding on to Bain for dear life

It’s time to spread enough snow to make the weather channel drop what they’re doing and head to Miami

It’s mother****ing BENCH DAYYYYY

Today may be Halloween but every Miami Hurricane fan knows the real scary season begins on November 1st

November

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Once again Miami has started off strong (to varying degrees) but after each win we’ve been looking out into the backyard knowing something was looming

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No more tricks, no more treats…it’s time to get ******* serious

This is what all the reps in June meant

I will admit this one is lighter on jokes than most because frankly our backs are against the wall and ******* around time is over

The most important stretch in Miami this side of Tootsies

Like the big ****y heroine (maybe a Mario joke?) in any scary movie it’s time to flip the script on the boogeyman

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First victim?

A fitting one

SMU

In the Halloween movies, Michael Meyers systematically tries to kill off his family members. Whelp look no further than the other sideline. Plenty of old Canes still lurking. Last year those castoffs played for the ACC title under our old OC while we sat home

I’ll spare some of the more graphic gifs but

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It’s their Homecoming game and I’ve heard about how rowdy the crowd will get

All 30k of them

To be honest you’d get a bigger crowd in Texas by opening a new Bucees

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THIS is why we finally start exorcising those November demons, beginning with SMU

Bain: If Michael Meyers played football he’d be Bain. Superhuman strength. No emotion. Endless motor. You can run from him the entire movie but he’s going to keep showing up. He will get the kill eventually. We’ve handled mobile QBs pretty well this year because of him on the edge. I expect this to continue

Lightfoot: If Slenderman played DE he’d be Lightfoot. Terrifying bend and scary talent when deployed correctly. Yeah he could add some weight but he’s more niche at the moment and plenty capable. If predicting a sack/FF in this one

Mesidor: If Jason Voorhies were a DE he’d be Mesidor. The board has killed him off so many times but he keeps getting rebooted (that’s a foot injury joke). He’s very similar to Bain just with more mileage. Somehow someway he always pops up outta nowhere to deliver the kill shot

Malachi Toney: If Art the Clown were a WR he’d be Toney. Is he supernatural? Is he a real human being? No one knows the true mythos. He may be new to the scene but he’s no less terrifying. Every game he seems to up the ante with doing absolutely disgusting things to a defense. I expect him to make us go “that’s sickening” a few more times AND ACTUALLY HOUSE A PUNT THIS WEEK

Beck: If M Night Shamalamalama was a college QB he’d be Carson Beck. He follows up absolute gems with pure flops seemingly out of nowhere. Every time he drops back to pass it’s like walking into the movie theater not knowing if you’re there for Sixth Sense or The Happening. Dude just get the ball to Bruce Willis (Toney) and let it rip


Verdict:

It’s November. It’s the road.

Watching Miami this time of the year can feel a bit like rhis:

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We need a young priest and an old priest

It’s time for a fresh reboot

SMU presents some challenges on offense and defense and I expect Rhett Lashlee to throw everything in the playbook at us. It might be tight at the beginning if the offense can’t set the tone

After not trailing the entire season we’ve now gone behind in 3 straight games

We are meant to be a front running team and watching us try and battle back from behind on offense has been scarier than that farmhouse scene in The Conjuring

Much like Saw X I think this game won’t be perfect but will put us back on track

Take a lesson from Jamie Lee Curtis:

Survive and advance

Sorry November

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Oh and since we went with a theme here I didn’t get any 80s **** references in so just google Dominique Simone and thank me later

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Good Guys 27
Bad Guys 17

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41-20 Canes. Bain gets 3 sacks this game on being a strip sack. I also feel we get a pick 6. Going to say Fitz with the pic and takes it back for us to put the nail in the coffin.
 
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41-20 Canes. Bain gets 3 sacks this game on being a strip sack. I also feel we get a pick 6. Going to say Fitz with the pic and takes it back for us to put the nail in the coffin.
I would love to see this. I think we are capable honestly.

I’ll be happy with any win and advance tbh but I hope we keep seeing some wrinkles that lead to some explosive plays
 
Just watched the SMu Wake game a man they are not a good team this year we better win! These are the games we need to dominate
I didn’t see it

Honestly I haven’t watched SMU at all this year so I’m going in blind but these games still just feel like it’s more about us than the opponent
 
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