Jesus Christ to a lot of these comments about faustian bargains and shit. QE played because he knows the entire offense and has been a 3 year starter. Arch has started a total of 2 1/2 games this year. QE has his faults, but at the end of the day we had a chance to beat a team that returned all of their draft eligible defense and they stopped us. We literally could have gone to OT against the team that fuck stomped both Tennessee and Oregon. That's how good our team was. The fluke fumble for a TD was just that, a fluke. If we didn't score we lose by a TD to the team playing for it all. It fucking sucks, but shit, at least we showed up and punched them in the mouth. We held a fucking freak show of a WR to 1 catch for 3 yards, and their other best WR to 52 yards. That's their bread and butter and we took it away. That's called sound defense. After we shut them down they went to Tate, who got like 85 yards or some shit. They have what we should have had this year if Baxter doesnt get hurt in August, a two-headed monster RBs.
We didn't just "shoot ourselves in the dick", we just got beat by a better team that night. That's it. Nothing else to ponder about. Could we beat them?maybe, probably, but we didn't,and now we have to wait to get our revenge game 1 next season. They lose a shiiiiiit ton of their entire defense outside of Caleb Downs. They lose their QB, like us, they will be breaking him in, but Arch has 2 starts under his belt,and regardless of who it was, he beat them. And just like they do, we have a shit ton of talent coming and already on campus as either rs frosh, rs soph,and true fish. We signed the #1 class, and a lot of them will play.
We get Wingo,who's Arch's favorite target,DeAndre Moore, maybe, but highly doubt Golden, 2-3 of those 4/5 star WR's will be playing in game one. Also, we get Jordan Washington as a bad ass TE, Townsend who is a freak, and finally on defense Baker has give us 3 top shelf DTs, and so far we get Cole Brevard, and former 5 star Travis Shaw,who I believe will be well coached up by Baker and PK.
We still have another portal window to add another 1-2 DT's. Alex January will be back and has played a lot of ball for a frosh.
Secondary will be fine. Kobe Black isn't Jahde Barron, but Barron wasn't who he is until his 5th season. Black is a damn good DB. Hopefully Taafe returns, and Mcdonald has shown up a lot. JJ-R and Gilbeau will take that extra step like all (most) so. Williams will be back by the end of Sept, I believe.
This team is oozing with talent. We're going to be fine.
As for the Cotton Bowl loss. Fuck it. We lost and they won. Welcome to being a sports fan. We have the talent and the coaching to get us back to the CFP and win the whole muthafucking thing. Georgia got taken down in rd 2. We should have beaten them, bud we were still finding our identity in the first game, and the SEC championship went to OT and we lost on fade by a QB that only recruiting junkies had ever even heard of. As a sign of joy, we fucking killed Carson Beck's body and mind that he now has to transfer. That's some baller shit right there.
We may honestly be ranked #1 going into the season because ain't nobody gonna beat these big nut, dong dragging on the ground motherfuckers.