pearsall had a few that even OBJ and randy moss would have missed, fingertips to the ball while you're laying out for it isnt good enough. the ball was poorly placed and timed for the bobble/interception. that ball is supposed to be thrown to the chest or his right side as he hooks. Instead it was to him just as his head was beginning to turn (early due to pressure) and was thrown to his left side with as much heat as any pass thrown. I'm tired of posters that have no understanding of timing and ball placement putting that on him. I'm not blaming mertz as he was pressured and did the best he could, but under the circumstances so did ricky. just a bad play at a bad time, with a bad o-line.
this loss isnt on the players. the kids played hard, didnt quit, gave a lot of effort right up to the end. so lets stop pointing at players (besides moten) as the issue. the issue is poor coaching, poor play calling, bad scheme, INattention to detail, and a staff's holistic failure to address and correct the same issues we saw all through last year. We have the ball down 13 with 6 minutes left and it takes us 5 minutes to move 30 yards? Even dildo dan could have moved us 30 yds in 2 plays when we really had to have it. And lets not mention that mertz took sacks during that drive and none of the 2 TOs we had in our pocket were deployed.
Thank god billy gets those saved TO's going into next week...
This staff is an absolute embarrassment to P5 football and the SEC. They should have never been hired and now we are stuck with them b/c the buyout is in the 30+ million arena and fan apathy is so low nobody cares enough to cough it up to get rid of this dunce. At least not before foley and stricknine are perp walked out first. For all the poster bashing on folks who brought up kiffin as an option, its going to be pretty damn frustrating when they boat race us out of the stadium this year. Would kiffin been the right guy? No. But it wouldnt be as bad as it is now either.
I truly believed that this game would give us an indication of whether we were finally going to get out of this hole or if it truly is over for this program. We didnt need to win to affirm the former, but what we showed tells me the latter. Its over. It's so over the fat lady already sang, shes now horse, hospitalized, and suffering from a record breaking case of laryngitis.
The entire AD org needs to be thrown out on their collective azzes, and then a 4-6 year whole of program rebuild is required to get us back to respectable. And that wont start until the AD dept is cleaned out completely. For all practical purposes, this program is dead. And dont misunderstand me to think im claiming potaters killed it; he didnt. But if we were in cardiac arrest coming into his tenure, then he's done the equivalent of criss crossing the wires on the defibulator battery pack, zapping us, and ensuring we'd never regain consciousness.
God help us all.
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