Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
Georgia, LSU, and Alabama had some of the best defenses in the country this year. Two of those three were on the road. The other we had at home beat everyone on their schedule.

Simply put AGAIN- we are not going to consistently score a ton of points on bluebloods and elite defenses. I don't care what scheme we run or who our coach is. And that's not going to change with Barbay either. Our fans think that some coaching genius can make some fancy play calls and all of a sudden our three star guys are going to be 4-5 star guys because they're coached up- and it doesn't work that way.

All of this "well we stat padded against bad teams" stuff is bullshit. Most years our fans aren't even able to come up with that accusation so that says something in and of itself right there.

The best thing we can hope for is that we are competitive enough to have a chance to pull off an upset over a blueblood that isn't down. And that will be the case until we get four stars on our team.

In the meantime no one talks about Arnett's defense giving up 30+ PPG to those bluebloods or the 99 yard drive they allowed to set up Ole Miss's failed 2 point conversion or the fact that his defense allowed like four TD's in a row to Kentucky after our offense took the lead. But yeah- all defense this year!
Maybe if Will Rogers didn?t fumble the ball at the 1 yard line the defense wouldn?t have had the chance to give up a 99 yard drive.

People are seriously bashing the defense?..

There has been maybe been 2 games the offense won the game for state the last 3 years

2020 LSU
2021 Auburn

The only game I will blame the defense for losing is 2021 Arkansas

Memphis is iffy but we turned the ball over too much that game and gave them short fields.