Why is everyone so down right now?

[ronpolk]

Maybe I'm just letting a vocal minority make me think everyone on here is down on the team.

I think we still have a chance at 10 wins. Obviously that won't be easy. I agree the USM 1st half was not good and at times the LSU first half was not good. I think the auburn game showed that we actually faired fairly well against LSU and LF. And Dak has looked good. The last half of LSU and yesterday has been as good as Dak as ever thrown the ball here. Obviously the question marks are at RB and safeties. I just don't get the doom and gloom. Honestly I think it has more to do with OM winning last night.

 

[Bulldogg31]

I'm with ronpolk here.

Best news ever is that the SEC west is mostly average to ******, including Bama!

 

[tatedog]

Remember a couple years back when Ole Miss beat a highly ranked LSU team that had just lit us up for what seemed like a million 4th qtr points, and we just barely got by Bowling Green the same night? Swan lake nearly exploded. Last night was that x 1000 for many. We ended up beating Ole Miss that year and finishing ahead of them in the conference as well.

 

[drt7891]

Because we don't have a very good team and we don't have very good coaching.

We have no running back (at least one Mullen is willing to play), we have no offensive line, and we have no secondary. We have linebackers, but they can't figure out how to tackle. We are good for at least one special teams fumble a game. We can't make up our minds whether we want Tim Tebow or Tyler Russell at Quarterback. We do everything possible to get in our own way from a coaching perspective (see Bama and OM 2014, LSU 2015). We play soft defensive schemes and cant even buy a turnover. I think we lose on the road at Auburn and TAMU and La. Tech scares the **** out of me. I make no apologies for the "gloom and doom" predictions, but nothing about our team excites me or gives me hope we will be much better than mediocre.

Meanwhile, those ******** up north have a team that can likely win the west, and perhaps the SEC. With a coach who knows how to get his team to play loose and aggressive, and they will only get better this year. On the flip side, We are paying a coach 4 million dollars to hoard timouts and yell at assistants.

 

[maroonwhitedawg3ddd]

I completely agree with drt7891 he's spot on with his assement of our team and our coach!! Lose at Awbarn and this season is over!!

 

[dannyripms]

I like northerns defense as well. I like that aggressive style. They play with swagger and try to hurt you. We need that mentality. If our guys can get that then watch out.

 

[BossDawg78]

We have no running back (at least one Mullen is willing to play), we have no offensive line, and we have no secondary. We have linebackers, but they can't figure out how to tackle. We are good for at least one special teams fumble a game. We can't make up our minds whether we want Tim Tebow or Tyler Russell at Quarterback. We do everything possible to get in our own way from a coaching perspective (see Bama and OM 2014, LSU 2015). We play soft defensive schemes and cant even buy a turnover. I think we lose on the road at Auburn and TAMU and La. Tech scares the **** out of me. I make no apologies for the "gloom and doom" predictions, but nothing about our team excites me or gives me hope we will be much better than mediocre.

Meanwhile, those ******** up north have a team that can likely win the west, and perhaps the SEC. With a coach who knows how to get his team to play loose and aggressive, and they will only get better this year. On the flip side, We are paying a coach 4 million dollars to hoard timouts and yell at assistants.

I think this pretty much answers the question.

 

[ronpolk]

The last 6 quarters the OL has been fine. I get that 4 of those were against an fcs team but the OL was fine against LSU in the second half. And I don't understand the thought process that our defense sucks. We have given up 16, 21 and 13 points. USM has went on to score over 50 in their 2 games since and we all seen what LSU did yesterday. The defense isn't the 84 bears but it's not like Ron cooper is calling the plays. I don't think the comments about the QB need a response. Dak didn't run against LSU. He did against the other 2.

 

[Bulldogg31]

USM QB Nick Mullens is in the Top 15 in the country in passing yards, attempts, and completions.

Looking at the SEC West he's possibly one of the two or three best QB's we'll face all year.

 

[gymdawg.sixpack]

I love how our own fans have crowned a team that didnt put together 1 drive last night sec champs. Ill take that as yall not knowing much about football.
Kelly is ok. Hes not better than wallace. They still have no ground game. And their defense is much more vulnerable than last yr. THAT tsun team isnt winning the west. Now i will say im interested in seeing them play a good team without being spotted 20+ pts. Maybe theyre good. But you certainly cannot attain that knowledge from last night's performance or lack thereof from bama.

 

[Crazy Cotton]

i really hope these doom and gloomers are putting all their money where their mouths are. I'll give them my bookies number if they want to bet the farm on the barn.

 

[muhstate]

We're only 3 games into the season and some people here act like this season is un-salvageable. We handled at USM team with a pulse on the road in a late night rivalry game, lost a close one to a good LSU team (in which after the first quarter made good adjustments for the most part) and blew out our FCS team like we were suppose to.

We get a not so great Bama team at home, as well as Ole Miss and our road games are against a busted up Arkansas team that isn't very good and an Auburn that has a quarterback that is more than willing to give us the ball and is close to mentally quiting. A&M scares me the most at this point but we'll see how the next few weeks shake out.

We may totally 17 that all up and end up 6-6 but step away from the edge. We have some talent and there is alot of football left to play.

 

[Palos verdes]

No. Kelly is better than Wallace and then some. Northern MS loses by 2 touchdowns last night with Wallace, at least!

Northern's DL is better this year. Their secondary is still debatable.

They're a 17ing very good football team. Just accept it and move on.

 

[msstate7]

No. Kelly is better than Wallace and then some. Northern MS loses by 2 touchdowns last night with Wallace, at least!

Northern's DL is better this year. Their secondary is still debatable.

They're a 17ing very good football team. Just accept it and move on.

Kelly > bo

Not sure about defense though...

Total defense --
'15 = 10th sec
'14 = 4th sec

Scoring defense --
'15 = 7th sec
'14 = 1st sec

Passing defense --
'15 = 9th sec
'14 = 3rd sec

Rushing defense --
'15 = 10th sec
'14 = 4th sec

Sacks --
'15 = 13th sec
'14 = 7th sec

Of all those stats, the only one we aren't ranked higher than them is rushing defense

 

[BELdog]

I'm convinced that half this board is comprised of women. You ***** simply because you like to hear yourselves *****.

 

[Dog316]

We have no running back (at least one Mullen is willing to play), we have no offensive line, and we have no secondary. We have linebackers, but they can't figure out how to tackle. We are good for at least one special teams fumble a game. We can't make up our minds whether we want Tim Tebow or Tyler Russell at Quarterback. We do everything possible to get in our own way from a coaching perspective (see Bama and OM 2014, LSU 2015). We play soft defensive schemes and cant even buy a turnover. I think we lose on the road at Auburn and TAMU and La. Tech scares the **** out of me. I make no apologies for the "gloom and doom" predictions, but nothing about our team excites me or gives me hope we will be much better than mediocre.

Meanwhile, those ******** up north have a team that can likely win the west, and perhaps the SEC. With a coach who knows how to get his team to play loose and aggressive, and they will only get better this year. On the flip side, We are paying a coach 4 million dollars to hoard timouts and yell at assistants.

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And you are living la bella vita? Don't kick the cat on the way out.

 

[TheStateUofMS]

You're points on Dan's time outs uses are valid, but Freeze shouldn't be crowned a better coach. Do you remember at LSU last year? He calls a TO, takes his FG unit off the field and proceeds to allow Bo to throw a pick and lose the LSU game.

If we would have beaten LSU by either the FG, or made the 2pt conversion instead of dropping it, you'd be feeling a whole lot differ.

 

[msstate7]

If we would have beaten LSU by either the FG, or made the 2pt conversion instead of dropping it, you'd be feeling a whole lot differ.

Or bama throws a td instead of an int on that last drive

 

[Seinfeld]

I agree with you that Kelly > Wallace, and I really don't think there's any question there. However, it's hard for me to lose sight of the fact that the kid got 150 yards and two TDs Sat night on two completely bogus plays. On one, there was a blatant O lineman downfield which not only drew the LBs in, but also helped in causing Bama's DB to completely leave Core for the wide open TD.

Then, I guess you can say that this is one of the things that's funny about college football, but Kelly made an atrocious decision to flip the ball up in the air while getting sacked, and had it not been for a miraculous tipped ball, folks would be ripping him for a boneheaded move. As luck would have it, however, Kelly hits the lottery and Danielson goes on to talk about how "composed" Chad Kelly has been all night. Unbelievable...

My point is not to discount OM's victory, because they walked into Tuscaloosa and flat out got it done last weekend, but at the same time... there was A LOT that went the Rebs' way on Sat night and at some point, I can't help but think that the pendulum is going to swing back. It typically does prior to season end

 

[Digging dog]

Heat strokes tend to make you feel bad***