Ok, so Collins is gone

[Shamoan]

but remain calm...its not like he on the field results are irreplaceable. great numbers in the scoring defense department, but most competent oc's could put up big yards against his defenses. obviously, if you are going to pick between the two, you are going to pick the former (points vs yards) and overall, collins did well for us outside of his propensity to give up huge plays at times. as we know where he earned his paycheck was in the redzone. where this hurts the most is on the recruiting trail and that impact has yet to be seen. hopefully, we can hire someone that brings back the aggression and speed off the edges. you got some good with the bad with collins, but this is an opportunity to take a step forward imo. its going to be interesting to see where mullen goes. our psycho defense was solid, but would be better described as moderately loony.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Not detecting much if any panic over this...

All will be ok.

 

[thatsbaseball]

I think he left (mentally) before the Egg Bowl...and I`m not kidding.

 

[hotdogface]

Given Mullen's postgame comments, it may be that Mullen thinks the same thing. Though that would be shocking, because a win there could have seriously advanced Collins' career.

 

[BigLeagueChew]

It wasn't your defense that lost the game as much as your offense's inability to do anything outside of 3 drives....2 td's and the turnover on downs.

 

[121Josey]

It wasn't your defense that lost the game as much as your offense's inability to do anything outside of 3 drives....2 td's and the turnover on downs.

You forgot the fg and missed fg. But that's just points and not nearly the points that UPigg put on that a$$. BTW, was the Upigg embarrassment worth winning the Egg Bowl?

Oh, State's offense put up 445 yards, no turnovers. Only AU (502) and TAMU (455) had more. The anomoly here is the TSUN offense having more than 500 yards - especially rushing yards.

 

[Lou3000]

It wasn't your defense that lost the game as much as your offense's inability to do anything outside of 3 drives....2 td's and the turnover on downs.

Given Ole Miss' track record, we shouldn't have needed 35 points to beat you. LSU needed just 10 and Arkansas needed just 1. Even Alabama could have won with 24. Had our defense shown up, we could have walked out of Oxford with a W.