Looking back, that L against A&M sucked

[treeddeep]

How bad did that hurt us?

 

[fmbdawg17]

Bad. That loss sucked as soon as OM dominated them and Auburn did the same to them at their home stadium. No excuse for that game. Still tied with the Egg Bowl in my book for worst performance this season. We were wide right and a crap performance against A&M from repeating last year.

 

[57stratdawg]

They were a much different team when we played them.

 

[121Josey]

How bad did that hurt us?

Not as bad as the L in LSU.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Like the other losses

their Dline whipped our Oline.( Except for maybe LSU)

#15 for them was a terror.

Move on.

 

[boatsandhoes]

This is the deal

They were a much different team when we played them.

It's true, aTm was at their best when we played them. So was Lsu. Both nose dived late. I suppose you could look at a lot of schedules and point to timing.

I still come back to really poor Oline play, crucial db injuries, and no run game whatsoever. You just can't control a game/clock/tempo without an Oline and a running game.

 

[Palos verdes]

Our defensive philosophy, and lack of physicality is why we lost that game. Physical teams beat A&M, we are not a physical football team. Mullen won't beat Ole Miss again, unless we return to the hard nose team we were in his first two seasons.

 

[57stratdawg]

Kyle Allen got hurt against Bama and they never recovered. If you look at his stats the first 5 games vs the rest of the year - they're night and day.

I still come back to really poor Oline play, crucial db injuries, and no run game whatsoever. You just can't control a game/clock/tempo without an Oline and a running game.

Agreed.

I said it then and I'll say it again - we lost that game on offense at the end of the 1st half. Malik Dear scored to make the score 10-17; our next two possessions were 3 and outs. Ball game.

 

[patdog]

They were a much different team when we played them.

Yep. We really caught a bad break on scheduling by catching A&M and LSU when we did. If we play those two in the second half of the season, we're 10-2 and in a major bowl.

 

[Sapsdawg]

Kyle got hurt in our game. Compare his first half and second half stats. I think he had 9 consecutive incompletions in the second half at one point. They were a much different team when he was healthy.

 

[johnson86-1]

It's true, aTm was at their best when we played them. So was Lsu. Both nose dived late. I suppose you could look at a lot of schedules and point to timing.

I don't think LSU got significantly worse. Maybe LF got a little more worn down, but we held them to 19 despite not doing anything on offense. We just **** the bed.

A&M I agree though was a totally different team with a healthy Allen versus an unhealthy Allen. But it still came down to our Oline, particularly the tackles, being terrible enough to screw us against teams with good DE's. A&M, UM, and even LSU were all able to get to our QB enough that we couldn't run our offense. Give us an above average LT in any of those games and the results could have been different (and probably would have been different in A&M and LSU).

 

[NCDawg.sixpack]

their Dline whipped our Oline.( Except for maybe LSU)

#15 for them was a terror.

Move on.

Their DL whipping our OL says a lot. They did not have a very good DL, other than no. 15. Most other teams blasted them off the LOS.

 

[patdog]

LSU had some injuries on the OL, TE and FB that hurt them in the last month of the season. Fournette is the best RB in the country, but he can't do much when his blockers are hurt and his QB isn't a threat to throw the ball.