It is a 5 year plan, and we’ve got 2 1/2 years left.
People need to chill out just a bit and realize that we were NEVER going to compete (truly compete) with Alabama for the SEC west this quickly, given the Sh*t-show Sam inherited from you-know-who. Knee-jerk reactions and suggestions that just amount to venting because they are disappointed. I have not read one thread (after the game) yet…and I probably won’t until tomorrow. Especially if KJ comes back next year (and is fully healthy). Maybe not so much this year, but I think our trajectory is still fine. The pendulum of luck and injuries will balance out in the long run. But taking a longer look type of approach, I’m far from hitting the panic button. IMO, those expectations were never reasonable, but that doesn’t stop fans from being fans (which is their right, by the way). Many of them (unrealistically) thought that because we finished with 9 wins last season, it was “logical” to expect 10 this year. Against a hot team playing at home.Īs Nolan famously used to say, “All sickness is not death”. As it was, they were a couple of fourth down conversions (that’s another story for a different thread) from making this game very, very interesting. It would have been easy for this team to throw in the towel and lose 63-7 today. The thing I’m looking at? We’re still, as a team, playing very hard. But sometimes, it’s just “one of those times” when everything seems to go wrong. And we have some holes (but almost every one but Bama and Ohio State does). The other team fumbles the ball, but it goes out of bounces or they recover it back.
What should be penalties against the other team are not called, and questionable ones that could go either way against us ARE called. Or, in the hands of opposition receivers. Tipped balls land just out of the reach of our defenders trying to intercept them. Plus, this year the bounces are NOT going our way. If we play a four man front, or blitz, we’d damn well better get there or the other team’s band is gonna be playing. If we try to play man, we have guys running free down the field several times a game. Because of THAT, we almost HAVE to play the rope-a-dope “double cloud”, which means a 3 man rush.
The result is that we are absolutely terrible defending the pass. This team lost some talent (to LSU) in the secondary, which was mediocre to begin with, and then has had a rash of injuries there. We probably were a 6-7 win team that won 8 and then won a Bowl.
We had a good team with some weaknesses, but for the most part, the ball bounced our way more than it didn’t (Ole Miss was one that didn’t).
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