Well, I really don?t know what to say. I don?t have words and probably won?t for a while. That one stung. Even taking out Tennessee, 6-2 has been on the racket for us and we?ve let it slip past. Eventually, you have to win those types of games you have to be able to close teams out. And it?s seeming more and more that Arizona State was the anomaly and not the norm.

1. Shapen wasn?t perfect yesterday, but he played a hell of a game and played good enough to win. I thought earlier in the game when we could not get the run game going Shapen kept us in the game. He came through for over 300 yards and I thought he extended the pocket and the play a few times. But he also took some really bad sacks. Just some you cannot take, especially on the last drive.

2. Kamario still has a lot of growing up to do. Look no further than the 4th and 1. This is not 3A High School football. It?s the SEC. You can?t outrun people to the corner on 3rd and 1. Be a 17 football player and run into some contact and use your god given height and strength. Be Tim Tebow. Be Dak Prescott. Go get a 17 yard.

3. I thought Booth was OK in the run game but outside of the flip pass touchdown he was not very good in the pass game. However, Gayten was awful. We need Fluff back in the worst way.

4. If you can find any positives from yesterday it?s that Ayden Williams has finally taken over WR3. I thought he had a great game yesterday. I thought all our receivers did.

5. Our DL, like the rest of the D, played really well until we needed them to step up. Deonte Anderson makes a penalty that will haunt us for a while. You just can?t be stupid right there. Let him run out of bounds and we have the ball up 17 with 11 to go at their 38.

6. LB group played fine. I thought Gullete had his best game of the year, probably not coincidentally it was against his former team.

7. Our secondary was leaky. I thought Kelley Jones played out of his mind but the rest left a lot to be desired.

8. Special teams was a big reason we lost if we are being honest. We get a one in a million defensive chop block that gives them another shot at a TD and then give up a punt return to tie it. We also have a FG blocked.

9. The last drive still pisses me off. We have it at the Texas 46. We essentially need 10 yds to get into FG range and have just gotten 24 yds in 2 plays. Run a quick slant to Thompson or Evans or leak Seydou out in the flat and get the yardage. We again did not even give our kicker a chance.

10. Lebby has to learn to win. It is that simple. We go 3 and out on back to back drives where 2-3 first downs on either of them effectively ends the game.

11. Lebby needs to hire an OC. Go get Phillip Montgomery or go drop a bag on Kendall Briles desk in Ft Worth. But go get someone. Yesterday was the epitome of he needs to be the HC and not the OC. He was still thinking like an OC late.

12. I am not all the way out as I was last night, but I am not all the way in like I was. I am in wait and see. We desperately need a win on Saturday. Like in the worst way possible.

13. Yesterday has the ability to lose the team and the locker room to doubt. Lebby will have his hands full the rest of the year keeping the team engaged.

Keep The Fight, and even though it seems impossible right now, Keep The Faith. If being a Mississippi State fan was easy, then everyone would do it.

HailState