Deja Vu All Over Again

Houston Dale is like clockwork. About 10-12 practices into the fall or spring, he decides to tell the media and the fans that the team didn't "bounce around" enough that day. I mean...you can't be accused of being a "used car salesman" if you tell the prospective buyer the "truth" about every fifth car in the lot, right?

Take this quote from last August:

"We've got to have a better practice than we did today, our offense was really sluggish and sloppy. We had too many mistakes. We didn't break the huddle right and we felt a little too bit sorry for ourselves. You can't have any mental errors. You've got to come off the ball with good pad level. We did none of those things today. We have to do much better."

And now this after today's practice:

"We came out here today to try and get better and there were some guys feeling sorry for themselves. ... We had too many dropped balls. To me, it is a little bit of lack of concentration and a little bit of feeling sorry for yourself. We can't have that to have the team we want to have."

And amazingly, the next practice they always seem to get that "pad level" on track again...with the words "bounced back" usually uttered in the post-practice press conference.

Ugh...just win, please.