re: Give an honest assessment of your team going into the season

At best, I think we are 10-2. Gump will be a challenge and we will probably drop a second game that we should win.

QB is a question mark, but I think we are in better shape at QB than we were last year. King was our starter last year but was knocked out for the season early in the second game of the season. Calazada was not ready to start the rest of the season. He did beat 'bama by having the best game of his life, but the rest of the season, he was not great. Max was the starting QB for corndog last year behind a very unimpressive OL. He will do better than Calazada whether he is the starter or QB2. Our OL should be about the best in the SEC this season. Which ever QB gets the start, our OL should give them the time to make good decisions with the ball instead of having to scramble half the time.

The only other area that is questionable is our DL. Lost all of the starters this year, however, many of these guys do have a lot of playing time and should get better and better as the season goes on. There is some depth in the DL as well.

At worst, I think we go 9-3.