Our players did not in fact play this last Saturday. They got blown out so bad that the de-facto defensive team leader couldn't even wrap his head around Georgia being good, because he was still stuck on how bad Texas fucked Texas.
Georgia is very good, and there is no margin of error for Texas to fuck Texas like it did on Saturday, but Georgia didnt do much to step all over its own dick. The ant hill INT was fucking crazy.
So yeah, they need to learn to play for the sake of playing, not for anything else, but because they want to be the best individually. No one gives a shit if you feel good that you played to your commensurate compensation. I want these guys to play and every time they touch the ball or are involved in a play they are giving maximum effort with minimum mental error.
I'm not saying they are gonna phone it in, but I am saying that motivation is a real thing and we haven't seen them get motivated for the likes of Georgia, how tf do you get motivated for Arkansas?