Alex Collins

[lakecityhog]

Collins is looking good in the 2nd quarter! Helping to chip a DE, running HARD! and taking care of the football.
Not a Seahawks fan, but proud to see Alex doing a good job.

[Hogs run wild]

I was not impressed with Rawls' running. Alex should be the starter if he can hang unto the ball.

[lakecityhog]

I think that this game, given he remains solid with ball security and keeps doing a good job may well move him up a bit.

[hoggusamoungus]

I think CBB should have played him at linebacker. We were so weak at that position and with his size and speed, surely he would have excelled on that side of the ball.

Just yanking your chain.  The Pettway thread turned to that degree of humorous.

[lakecityhog]

Glad to give you a laugh this holiday season!

Merry Christmas!!

[bennyl08]

I think CBB should have played him at linebacker. We were so weak at that position and with his size and speed, surely he would have excelled on that side of the ball.

Just yanking your chain.  The Pettway thread turned to that degree of humorous.

We all know Alex would have been way too slow.

[hogsevenseven]

Christmas Eve and AC is running.

[Danny J]

We all know Alex would have been way too slow.

Yeah...he only looked fast breaking away from that super slow defense LSU is known to field.

[3kgthog]

Yeah...he only looked fast breaking away from that super slow defense LSU is known to field.

Why does it seem like that was the one and only home run TD of his Hog career?

[factchecker]

Why does it seem like that was the one and only home run TD of his Hog career?

Texas Tech: 84 yard TD run in 2014:

AnM: 50 yard TD run in 2014

UTM: 63-yard TD run in 2015

[King Kong]

Why does it seem like that was the one and only home run TD of his Hog career?

Because you have a terrible memory

Merry Christmas

[onebadrubi]

Why does it seem like that was the one and only home run TD of his Hog career?

Your negativity just gets so d a m n old

[Tejano Jawg]

Also...I was driving tonight and listening to the game on the radio. The announcers said "they gotta get Alex Collins back in there!..." in reference to his pass protection/blocking. Seriously. Pretty cool.

[bennyl08]

Yeah...he only looked fast breaking away from that super slow defense LSU is known to field.

Just to clarify my post was sarcasm.

[lasthog]

Just to clarify my post was sarcasm.

Benny, just to be sure to leave no wrong impression with some, maybe you should go one step farther and define sarcasm.

[jgphillips3]

I love the back he became over his career but his early running style at the lighter weight, while not good for surviving multi-years in the SEC or NFL, was a heck of a lot of fun to watch.

[3kgthog]

Your negativity just gets so d a m n old

There's an ignore button, sweetheart.

[jkstock04]

I love the back he became over his career but his early running style at the lighter weight, while not good for surviving multi-years in the SEC or NFL, was a heck of a lot of fun to watch.

I too always felt like he was more explosive for us earlier on. I could be wrong but looks to me like the Seahawks have leaned him up quite a bit.

He played a pretty good game the other day...Seahawks wound up losing but was still cool to watch him get all that play time.

#36 for anyone wanting to look out for him and hasn't seen him yet.

[jgphillips3]

I too always felt like he was more explosive for us earlier on. I could be wrong but looks to me like the Seahawks have leaned him up quite a bit.

He played a pretty good game the other day...Seahawks wound up losing but was still cool to watch him get all that play time.

#36 for anyone wanting to look out for him and hasn't seen him yet.

His open field running was beautiful to watch.  Haven't seen him yet for Seattle.  Gotta check him out sooner.

[HiggiePiggy]

Benny, just to be sure to leave no wrong impression with some, maybe you should go one step farther and define sarcasm.

Sarcasm is "a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark; a bitter gibe or taunt."[1][2] Sarcasm may employ ambivalence,[3] although sarcasm is not necessarily ironic.[4] "The distinctive quality of sarcasm is present in the spoken word and manifested chiefly by vocal inflections".[5] The sarcastic content of a statement will be dependent upon the context in which it appears.[6]

Origin of the term

The word comes from the Greek σαρκασμός (sarkasmós) which is taken from σαρκάζειν (sarkázein) meaning "to tear flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer".[1]

It is first recorded in English in 1579, in an annotation to The Shepheardes Calender by Edmund Spenser:

Tom piper, an ironicall Sarcasmus, spoken in derision of these rude wits, whych ...[7]

However, the word sarcastic, meaning "Characterized by or involving sarcasm; given to the use of sarcasm; bitterly cutting or caustic", doesn't appear until 1695.[1]

[preachr]

https://youtu.be/G2y8Sx4B2Sk

[lasthog]

Sarcasm is "a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark; a bitter gibe or taunt."[1][2] Sarcasm may employ ambivalence,[3] although sarcasm is not necessarily ironic.[4] "The distinctive quality of sarcasm is present in the spoken word and manifested chiefly by vocal inflections".[5] The sarcastic content of a statement will be dependent upon the context in which it appears.[6]

Origin of the term

The word comes from the Greek σαρκασμός (sarkasmós) which is taken from σαρκάζειν (sarkázein) meaning "to tear flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer".[1]

It is first recorded in English in 1579, in an annotation to The Shepheardes Calender by Edmund Spenser:

Tom piper, an ironicall Sarcasmus, spoken in derision of these rude wits, whych ...[7]

However, the word sarcastic, meaning "Characterized by or involving sarcasm; given to the use of sarcasm; bitterly cutting or caustic", doesn't appear until 1695.[1]

Thanks for this.

Now, me thinks no one will ever miss the sarcasm in a post.

Care to take a shot at hyperbole?

[Pig in the Pokey]

Rawls is hot garbage. Next year, Alex and CJ Procise will be the seahawks backfield. Pretty decent if you ask me. I think AC could eventually be a Beastmode Lite and CJ Procise is a dangerous man.

[HiggiePiggy]

Thanks for this.

Now, me thinks no one will ever miss the sarcasm in a post.

Care to take a shot at hyperbole?

hy·per·bo·le
hīˈpərbəlē/
noun
noun: hyperbole; plural noun: hyperboles
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
synonyms:   exaggeration, overstatement, magnification, embroidery, embellishment, excess, overkill, rhetoric; More
informalpurple prose, puffery
"the media hyperbole that accompanied their championship series"
antonyms:   understatement