We actually seemed to be getting "better" at it, too--like we were practicing blocking-out-your-own-guy. And this wasn't the only thing like that. Have you EVER seen the kind of sequence-of-multiple-misses in blocking for kicks like we saw our "special" teams manage on consecutive series to give USC(east) their only chance to tie what was otherwise for them an already-lost game at the very end??? Let's see...our linemen can somehow find and take out their teammates week after week all over the field, then turn around and MISS COMPLETELY (either lay down opposite the man who they HAVE to block as their job on a kick of ANY kind, or arbitrarily ignore that man entirely and double-team the next one over instead), leaving the fastest opposing rusher a straight and free path to block the kick. I know it isn't on-purpose, but you really have to wonder at the level of coaching incompetence that produces even the possibility of such things happening, more than ONE let alone all of them, weekly, and finally a string of 'em at the end of one game when that game is on-the-line. I don't ask you to watch them all again...I hate even thinking about it here. But it still boggles the mind, when I do.
OK. Guess we best put it away, not look at it again until it's a memory we can face to measure how far we've come, how far we had to go to get to that future day when we'll be vying for Championships, a perennial power once more.
