[quotea8824c4="wademoore"]every now and then Shannon just seems to completely regress...
Ugh... this PT better do his future career some good..[/quotea8824c4]
Yeah, Shannon had "one of those games" and, much to my surprise, Cassidy didn't. I was very pleasantly surprised at his ability to manage the game/not lose it for us. 13/18 for 78 yards is nothing to write home about, but he had no INTs or fumbles, two of his passes were dropped, and he made no bad throws. I'll take it.
His performance was undoubtedly helped by taking a quick lead and being able to rely on Holliday to grind out the clock. Had we fallen behind and been forced to pass things would've gotten ugly, I'm sure.
And just as an aside: if this is how the Toros respond when Hogan gets hurt, then I'd like him to get hurt [ia8824c4]every[/ia8824c4] week. I didn't expect us to win this game, much less to do so by a score of 34-9. That's crazy.
Double aside: we lost stud CB Keven Biggs for the season to an [ia8824c4]inguinal hernia[/ia8824c4]. I hadn't seen that injury type before, so I looked it up. Here's what the National Digestive Disease Information Clearinghouse had to say:
"A hernia is a condition in which part of the intestine bulges through a weak area in muscles in the abdomen. An inguinal hernia occurs in the groin (the area between the abdomen and thigh). It is called "inguinal" because the intestines push through a weak spot in the inguinal canal, which is a triangle-shaped opening between layers of abdominal muscle near the groin. [ba8824c4]Obesity, pregnancy, heavy lifting, and straining to pass stool[/ba8824c4] can cause the intestine to push against the inguinal canal."
Keven, the first three possibilities explaining your injury don't seem likely, which leaves us with only one likely explanation for your injury.