Relax....we are going to beat the shit out of ole miss.
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Relax....we are going to beat the shit out of ole miss.
I "ignore" it because it's used as an excuse by some in our fan base to make an excuse for poor performance- and I think I was pretty clear about that. Yes "down" games happen but as I said Jackie seemed to coach that way and that's not a good way to be to maximize your potential. And I'm pretty sure Dan Mullen agrees with me. In fact, Jackie is pretty much the only coach I have ever heard say anything like that.
I remember Coach Justice in high school after we beat Vicksburg 17-14 and had to come from behind to do it in miracle fashion say "To go undefeated you are going to have to win a close game at some point". That's a MUCH better attitude to have than "well, we can only emotionally get up for three games".
And there is PLENTY of evidence during Jackie's tenure even during some of his best seasons that his philosophy on that was flawed and IMO held us back some. You can't build respect for your program if you beat Alabama but also lose to 2-9 LSU by 35. People are going to think that the win over Alabama was a fluke. There are multiple blowouts, losses to teams like Troy and Northeast Louisiana that show that his philopsophy is flawed. Dan has pretty much eliminated the non-power 5 losses essentially. Yes, we've gotten blown out a few times but at a much less frequency than Jackie and most of those are probably from Alabama and Saban if I had to guess without looking. And I don't remember Dan getting blown out by a non top 25 team off the top of my head.
We should never sleep on a SEC team. Ever.
ONE GAME AT A TIME
We got the backs to along with Fitz to control these games. Our Defense needs to keep it up. Just take it one game at a time. One game at a time.
DBAP.
We bout to roll both their asses. We'll Rush for 700 yards over five days.
We've lost three games to three top 10 (maybe top 5) teams.
We've beaten the hell out of everyone else we've played. We'll have 1000 yards of offense that week. No way Grantham's D let's them keep up.
THIS! Right now our football team isn't sad and moping they are ****ing pissed!! It's on twitter, instagram, folks are talking. Not only is this team focused they are ****ing angry.
It's going to be a slaughter. Thursday night at the Egg Bowl is going to be an electric crowd because our fans are angry also.