Pump the brakes.

#29
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VOLfrombama said:
You pump the breaks. We finally have a Qb with some pocket presents. He was the escape goat last year, and a pre-madonna the year before that. We have fallen by the waist side for too long. Been a tough road to hold. For all intensive purposes we should be better. I just hope nobody puts our team on a pedal stool.
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slow your role there big fallow.
 
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I do not except this thread. Did the Germans pump the brakes after they bombed Pearl Harbor?

VFL-82-JP only thing worse was trying to "HOLD THE FLASHLIGHT WHERE I'M WORKING"
 
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Reminded of the old Groucho Marx line from the movie Monkey Business:

"You’re a woman who’s been getting nothing but dirty breaks. Well, we can clean and tighten your brakes, but you’ll have to stay in the garage all night."
 
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VOLfrombama said:
You pump the breaks. We finally have a Qb with some pocket presents. He was the escape goat last year, and a pre-madonna the year before that. We have fallen by the waist side for too long. Been a tough road to hold. For all intensive purposes we should be better. I just hope nobody puts our team on a pedal stool.
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Great impersonation of a Florida board
 
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TNnative said:
Who cares about the point? We've been hearing this way too long, and most are sick of it. The expectations are high, and should be. And when they aren't met, fans are either gonna go ballistic and blast players and/or coaches, or they are gonna make excuses for them. Just how it is.
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Don’t have a mental “break”down. Put the “brakes” on your expectations. At least you used the correct “too”. GO VOLS!!!
 
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VOLfrombama said:
You pump the breaks. We finally have a Qb with some pocket presents. He was the escape goat last year, and a pre-madonna the year before that. We have fallen by the waist side for too long. Been a tough road to hold. For all intensive purposes we should be better. I just hope nobody puts our team on a pedal stool.
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You forgot that you could care less.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Every time I hear or read "pump the brakes," it makes me think of summer days, sitting in sweltering heat behind the wheel of my old man's car parked in our driveway, pumping the brakes repeatedly to get air bubbles out of the lines after he's done changing a drum or something. That'll give your leg a workout, esp. if the old fella had a few beers before starting the project. Heh.

Never really heard it called "pumping" brakes when, you know, you're driving in snow or on wet roads in the days before ABS. That was usually called tapping them. You know, "tap the brakes repeatedly, allowing time between each tap for the tires to regain traction."

Of course, anyone born after about 1990 (so anyone still in the teens or twenties, more or less) has never learned to pump (tap) their brakes at all. ABS took that phrase right out of our lexicon.

So those younger folks, they have absolutely no clue what the hell this thread is about.

Heh. :)

Pump those brakes, boy, keep pumping.
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You know it’ a good post when you see the word “lexicon”. Good job JP.
 
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Ok here’s my chance:

The saying is also “couldn’t care less” not “could care less”. Think about it: if you could care less then you probably care too much. That’s not the point most ppl are going for. Just sayin... proceed!
 
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VOLfrombama said:
You pump the breaks. We finally have a Qb with some pocket presents. He was the escape goat last year, and a pre-madonna the year before that. We have fallen by the waist side for too long. Been a tough road to hold. For all intensive purposes we should be better. I just hope nobody puts our team on a pedal stool.
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I am not in complete agreement with pumping the brakes, either. We just need to go into this with our eyes wide-open. As far as JG's pocket presence, I hope it has improved, and he is more decisive, with the ball, and more informed, pre-snap. I don't think JG was the scapegoat. He was just a part of the overall problem. It isn't on his shoulders, to win for us. Actually, I've heard more griping about the o-line, and play calling. He was a bit of a prima donna, in the Ga Tech game, in 17'. But I think he got over that. He's a good kid. We fell by the way-side when Hamilton failed to put his foot up Phil's behind, and explain to him that 8-5, and losing ****** ACC teams in the Peach Bowl, was unacceptable. It has been too long. It has been a rough road. I do think we'll be better, for all it is worth, and the only people putting UT on a pedestal are some of the fans, looking at everything through Orange Tinted glasses.
 
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