Well, I hung in longer than I expected to once Appleby began to show his "remember me? the back-up to the guy who can't move a HEALTHY offense" true colors late in the 2st qrtr...
But now I gotta listen to those morons chanting that lame Braves thing again?
And Cleveland doesn't even TRY to go after one of the few halfway accurate throws Appleby's managed to throw long today.
Mmmmm, probably need a coupla more WRs out there on the recruiting trail, too:
Cleveland's a lazy choke artist (HATE guys like him) who won't go after it, get his uniform dirty...and Calloway's still our best--and HE isn't real consistent.
OK. This is a loss, you all know it as well as me. We need to make wholesale upgrades at QB and WR. Surprisingly enough, while we still need MORE of them, we DO seem to have the makings of the START of a decent O-line after all...and we're SET at RB (PLUS there's another 4+-star kid committed there in the next class).
But WE ARE FUCKED if Delrio is the starter come next August. Go out and get us a 5-star QB andEVERY DAMN WR you can, Mac.
In this one, our last infintessimal hope dried up with the WR play there in the 3rd qrtr. Callaway blew the big moment...the Cleveland didn't even TRY to go get that potential TD.
Another breakdown, another Nole TD.
Gonna LOOK like they smoked us, but we beat ourselves--thats the worst of it.
Glad I saw last week's game, or I'd be sure there was no hope at all--not for YEARS, and THEN only if Mac and Co. managed 3 or 4 big time recruiting hauls in a row.
As it is, they'll still need a couple--but if this coming one's good enough, we COULD start ahowing something NEXR year and be BACK by '18--and by "back" I mean WINNING SEC Championships and at least playing in that 4 team playoff.
That's gonna do it for this year though, Gators--by getting drubbed this way, all it'll take is ANY kind of win by Tennessee tonight to get THEM into "Sugarbowl" and us the "Stained Toilet Bowl" bid.
And I remain com0letwly unconvinced that this FSU team is substantially "better" than us. As I implied before, it is the very fact that even undermanned, it has been key letdowns by the QB and WRs at key momenylys that sealled pur fate here--and that makes it WORSE, because it wasted the put-iy-all out-there efforts on the part of everyone else, so many who HAVE played thwir hearts out again, as they jave done for weeks DESPITE all the injuries and aforementioned weak efforts.
I salute the SENIORS AND FRESHMEN who jave showed true heart and grit, who came together and tried to do everything they could and more to make magic out there last few weeks.
The rest, the maybe 3 or 4 guys who play like if it ain't easy, it ain't WORTH it, well, they can either take the hard look at themselves they need to in order to even BELONG HERE, let alone "at the next level", or just move over on the bench or move on--above all MOVE OUT OF THE WAY, hopefully for the younger, more talented and motivated young players at their position (WR, mostly) that hopefully our Coaches are already planning on bringing in to compete with and ultimately displace them.
Notice I DON'T include either of this year's QBs in any of the above. Appleby's gone after this year, and I can only repeat: If Delrio's even in the RUNNING for starter next season, we are beaten before we even begin. He should be no MORE than a 3rd string backup at ANY SEC school--and that only becausecof all hos "experience".
Which means we're now left with 2 "highly thought of" but completely untried-at-this-level QBs in the wings now--but Mac's GOT to bring in at LEAST one more to compete.
We're too important a program in a talent-rich state NOT to get that covered, and that is what it takes. It's what the other perrenial Championship-contending programs all manage to do, year in, year out.
I may set UP the thread for next week's Championship game, but I may not watch it. This one was painful and frustrating enough, thankyou (I've had the sound off since midway in the 3rd, once it got to 17-6, so I have witnessed a silent version of the ongoing sink and virtual collapse--unfortunately).
Sorry, but late in games like this one, where we seem to have inevitably wilted and self-destructed against the "cross state rival" that in truth isn't fit to be compared to us in ANY other important and tangible way, I am filled once more with a sense of waste and hopelessness--and I neither but, nor even wanna HEAR Coach Mac's relentless "look on the bright side" relaxed optimism for even ONE SECOND, ONE WORD longer...
"GET IT FIXED, COACH!!!"
Convince us that you do, and we'll be there and IN, all the way!
