Will you be happy?

If you believe that this is the most talented team we will ever have then that is in fact a problem. This staff wasn't building for one year only to fall apart. We have better recruiting and the team will get better.

I'll still be pissed because we lost to fricking Memphis and Arkansas

If we beat Alabama, Auburn, State, TAMU and LSU in the same season, how could you not be happy?

But this is the bestest best team in OM history!



Bad time for a bye week. Got 2 more weeks of this shite.

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It is the most talented team Ole Miss has had most probably to date

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CJ Johnson is our starting MLB and has played DE almost his entire OM career. Our other LBs are like 200 lbs. We have no guard play whatsoever. Our secondary is legit bad at every position.

This whole "most-talented team ever" is offset by severe deficiencies at key positions.

Having an even distribution of talent > top end talent.

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CJ Johnson is our starting MLB and has played DE almost his entire OM career. Our other LBs are like 200 lbs. We have no guard play whatsoever. Our secondary is legit bad at every position.

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It's the coaching that sucks, not the talent.

Okay, we stayed the same at OG as we did last year with a slight improvement with Patterson.

We got better at C with Conyers, (yes I know he's hurt). But stayed the same if you want to count Still.

I think we got better with CJ over DT at MIKE. Denzel is still there would you say he's more talented than Bird?

Trae is the same. Prewitt and Hilton are about even.

Senquez was the only one here that shows some regression.

We're more talented at QB and WR. So I'd say this team is more talented than last years.

I don't really think comparing to last year's team is the best way to asses overall talent, you have to consider where they rank in the conference overall.

If you ranked our LBs in the SEC they would be at or near the bottom, IMO.

Conner has been injured which has been a huge loss. CJ Johnson is playing MLB out of necessity and he's a better rush end (Youngblood getting a ton of snaps as a result.) Gates has been serviceable, but I don't think he's a guy you want playing 50+ snaps a game. Temario Strong never developed. Victor Evans not ready. Denzel has never been the same as he was in 2012, and he's like 5'10 200 anyway.

Secondary is a complete mess:

Elston has been good. Hilton is a gamer but he doesn't have the ideal size, and he's not a 1-1 cover guy @ CB. CJ Hampton has been a bust. Tony Bridges not nearly as good as advertised and was benched in the Arky game. Tee Shepard bust. Anthony Alford bust. Kailo bust. Zed Woods isn't ready yet. Moore twins and Carlos Davis are special teams-only kind of guys and yet they've seen real snaps in big games this year.

To me the biggest coaching fail is CJ Hampton, but it's hard to judge exactly why he sucks.

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We are talent deficient at the following positions:

OG
C
LB
S
CB

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2 of our guards were top 100 players coming out of high school. I would think that qualifies at being talented at that position. Elson, Conner, CJ Hampton are all pretty damn talented as well. I'll give you LB and C, but at the other positions, we are not lacking talent, just good coaching.

The thing is before 2013 and his ACL injury Morris had a second round grade and was 100% declaring after the season. He didn't suddenly become shitty. I watched Ken Webster and Tony Bridges(Tee too but he had other issues not hearing related) play physical one on one bump coverage against our WRs including Quon in August. Did they suddenly forget how to cover? The common denominator is coaching and it falls to the 4.3 million dollar man. Mullen takes these second tier MS recruits and develops them and we take the same or higher rated kids and they bust out.