Norwood is awesome. Matthews is scary good off the edge.

Russell Wilson has no pocket presence or internal clock and he ran as if he was wearing ankle weights. I was surprised how un-athletic he seemed at times and I’m not discounting your rush.

Garcia better learn to slide. He won’t live to see 30 if he doesn’t.

From what forest did you harvest your tight end? That guy is big.

Your secondary is going to be great…in another year. They are going to get burned from time to time this year.

Garcia missed a couple of wide open receivers, and that was a bad pick.

Highlight of the night was the NC St. guy who dropped the go ahead touchdown in the 4th.

I want to thank you for showing up defensively.

The announcers must have talked about SEC defensive speed 30 times in last night’s broadcast.

1. OK. We dominated this game. Why didn’t we win by more? Why did this come down to a dropped N. C. State pass and a great play by Stephon Gilmore?

I think that is just the way it goes sometimes. We looked alot better than them IMO but due to a couple key mistakes (see: 2 FG’s), we let them hang around. NC State is not terrible and when you let a team hang around, their gonna have their chances. I kept repeating over and over to myself last night about how pissed I would be if we lost this game because we really did look better than them but all it would have taken is one play for the sides to be reversed.

2. What did you think of Stephen Garcia?

I was encouraged by his performance. Maybe selfishly I wanted Spurrier to let him loose a bit more but Spurrier is alot smarter than I am and he had a gameplan and he stuck to it. Garcia controlled the game and did alot of things right. Sure there are many other things to work on but overall I’m pleased.

3. What did you think about Russell Wilson?

Not impressed at all. I’m sure he will have much better games but if teams find ways to pressure him and stop his feet, he will struggle. He’s short and while he manages the game well (no INT’s) I would not trust him to air it out all over the field if he had to. Of course, who else does NC State face this year that has 2 guys like C. Matthews and Norwood to pressure Wilson like that and be able to chase him down from behind? I’d imagine not many.

4. Why didn’t Brian Maddox run more in the second half?

He had 16 carries in the first half I believe. That is alot for a guy who isn’t used to starting. He had 38 carries in his career coming in and he had never had more than 12 carries in a game before. Throw in that it is the opener and I’m sure he had to be a bit gassed. I think Spurrier was thinking he would wear their D down with Maddox then bring in Giles to break off a couple big runs or too. Not a bad gameplan if you ask me.

5. UGA?

I said this in another thread but I’m not really taking too much from this performance into next week. I’ll be interested to see how UGA plays tomorrow. We do get 2 more days to prepare. Hopefully we make it 2 in a row in Athens.

Bonus: Defense?

Major props to the D. They won the game for sure.