Damn. We're 3 plays from being 7-2

[Shadow34]

Where was this defense and OL play vs Kentucky?! Great win. Super proud. But boy what could've been.

 

[Fogdog]

Crazy, isn't it?

Where was this defense and OL play vs Kentucky?! Great win. Super proud. But boy what could've been.

If we have different outcomes on three plays...the last plays of the games...we're not having all of these ridiculous rants about "your and idiot" and "fire Mullins". We're just saying "Wow, didn't see this coming." I think we have decent shots against Arky and UMiss. If we beat Arky, it will definitely put some umph into the egg bowl. We'll be playing for a trip to Shreveport!!! Sweet!!!

Williams can run over UMiss. We just have to stick with it and not throw interceptions into the end zone.

 

[The Riddler]

Our kicker sucks on the left hash. Center the up right USA and then today pull it leff today. In the words of micheal Irvin " come on man"

 

[gymdawg.sixpack]

If he starts aeries williams from day1 we win those 3 gms. Also im still pissed about egg bowl 2012 and all 2013 wjere he started russell over the younger dak.

 

[8dog]

And about four plays from being 2-7.

Glad to see us run the offense that fits us and that has made us succesful. Along with playing a legit running back.

 

[coach66]

Yup.

Nm

 

[skydawg1]

Our kicker sucks on the left hash. Center the up right USA and then today pull it leff today. In the words of micheal Irvin " come on man"

Agree on the left hash. But...don't all FG's need to be kicked from either left or right hash? Someone let us know if a FG can be kicked from between the hashmarks.

 

[engie]

We are whole lot closer to being a real competitor than anyone has been willing to admit for 11 months now.

Closer, and farther away. Can't play the "what could have been" game though. Half the teams in the country are a handful of plays away from being in playoff contention. The close losses to teams we are actually better than this year is the statistics returning to the mean from all the nailbiters we had against those teams that Mullen prettymuch never lost before.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

We are whole lot closer to being a real competitor than anyone has been willing to admit for 11 months now.

Closer, and farther away. Can't play the "what could have been" game though. Half the teams in the country are a handful of games away from being in playoff contention.

probably a bit of an exaggeration about half the teams and playoff contention.

The 3 bad losses definitely sting worse now. It's funny bc if we win those 3 games and lose this one...everybody is bitching at how Dan can't win the big one.

This team has a bright future regardless and hopefully everyone can see that now.

 

[engie]

Try going through seasons from other "good" teams' perspectives sometime. It's eye-opening. Everyone that's pretty good is always just a couple of plays away. That's what makes college football so great.

 

[57stratdawg]

Amen. This was suppose to be a power team. Took us half the season to remeber.

 

[RightOfCenter]

How awesome would it be to make a bowl now?

 

[Fogdog]

We are whole lot closer to being a real competitor than anyone has been willing to admit for 11 months now.

Closer, and farther away. Can't play the "what could have been" game though. Half the teams in the country are a handful of plays away from being in playoff contention. The close losses to teams we are actually better than this year is the statistics returning to the mean from all the nailbiters we had against those teams that Mullen prettymuch never lost before.

Beg to differ. Looked it up. No other team has lost three games on the final play. That's unique to good ole MSU. So, I wouldn't lump us with teams who are a handful of plays away...

 

[engie]

Beg to differ. Looked it up. No other team has lost three games on the final play. That's unique to good ole MSU. So, I wouldn't lump us with teams who are a handful of plays away...

The final play or an earlier play -- you can still break a whole metric **** ton of games down to one play. Doesn't matter where that play falls. It's like saying you "lost on the last play" when your closer gives up a bomb in the 9th -- yet the shortstop had a 2-run error on a double play ball that gets you out of the inning unscathed in the 6th.

And you still missed my actual point in the statement -- which was how many games that would have been total disaster losses -- that we flirted with in the Mullen era and escaped in the end without people losing their minds. 2013 Bowling Green. 2013 Kentucky(2-10). 2013 Arky(3-9). 2012 Troy(5-7). 2011 La Tech. 2010 UAB(4-8 just to name a few. Statistically -- when games come down to that -- you win half the time -- and Mullen had managed to previously escape all of them until this season. It's a miracle we hadn't been caught once or twice before. People seem to have forgotten a bunch of them -- since they didn't happen in the last 2 years of the Dak Prescott era -- and everyone knows those two years are the reality of what we are as a program and anything less is a failure** And that's really what the majority of the insanity is about -- the South Alabama game -- and losing 2 straight to Ole Miss.

 

[Sutterkane]

Uh, Dak started over Russell when Tyler was hurt in '13 and was not exactly lighting the world on fire.

Statistically his worst year was 2013, and even that was boosted heavily by the Liberty Bowl win. Dak also never really played that well against OM except for 1 quarter and OT in 2013. And even that really was wrapped up by Nickoe Whitley more than anything.

 

[engie]

You clearly missed half of the quantifying statements in what I said and also lumped multiple different statements into a single idea. Might want to try again.