We probably got the Music City Bowl from the projections I've seen (including my own). I think most people are pretty happy with that.
Silver lining
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I’ve watched Johnson break tackles all year. He’s a big tough guy to tackle. We had him and the keystone cop move by our own guy knocking our tackler off him cost us 7 points.
That dude may very well be the best back in the country. I figured he would break at least one big play.
How could this be masked at all? Your big 6'3 receivers can't block worth a **** for 9 games, but all of a sudden can block when DH lights a fire under their asses. Yeah, receivers coach needs to go. Special teams has cost us how many games this season with sheer incompetence? Yeah, ST coach needs to go. Running backs coach is a subpar recruiter and can't teach his running backs how to hit a cutback? Yeah, he needs to go. 5 star Dylan Raiola getting worse as the season goes along. Glen Thomas needs to pack his bags.
These are obvious deficiencies. Regardless of how the last 3 games with Holgorsen went. We could have won all three. And yet these coaches were performing far below any sort of acceptable standard.
Shavers should have stayed the hell away from it. Low IQ all across the roster.
I’m with ya. We wanted this one bad and to lose it the way we did makes it hard to be rational and see the big picture. Or at the least see the positives. Kids played their asses off but just could make a few plays we needed (missed throws, missed tackles, missed blocks and dropped passes) and we made a few critical errors that cost us the game. (fumbles, punt debacle, bad snap) In the end I saw less coaching issues in this games than others, I mostly saw kids playing hard that made mistakes or missed making a play in key situations.
Now that doesn’t mean we don’t need to make some changes on the offensive staff. But I saw a Neyor drop a pass that would’ve gone for a huge gain. I saw Riaola miss about 3-4 throws that would’ve changed the game. I saw Shavers go after a ball he thought touched the return man. (It didn’t) I saw our tackles miss multiple blocks on the edge that got DR killed and the last one cost us the game. And lastly I saw a long snapper **** the bed on gimme FG. You can put some blame on the coaches for those mistakes/missed plays, but it mostly looked like we need some better players in some areas and the good players we have need to get better. This can be addressed with some good portal additions and better offensive coaching should help the good players we have improve.
Long story short, if Rhule makes the right coaching moves in the off season and gets us some good additions from the portal this team can make a big jump. And I know similar things have been said before but what do y’all want me to do?
If I try to put my anger, pain and disappointment aside for a moment… I still see the opportunity for us to be a lot better next year.Skippy Mac has to go. He’s never gonna inspire good players to be great and great players to become pros. Kids need to pe pushed, and 25 year olds don’t have the confidence, experience or respect to motivate 20-22 year olds. It just doesn’t work.
We are not going to lose the bowl game because we have nobody who should have the slightest thought of opting out, whereas other teams will lose their best players for the bowl.
One silver lining though is we beat the spread again. Not sure the year total but I think this team did a pretty good job of beating the spread this year. Lots of moral victories.