Lost to #6 Auburn, #6 aTm, #7 Alabama, #10 Georgia, #1 Mississippi State, and #17 Missouri, with Shutout wins over #17 LSU, and #8 Ole Miss. Inexcusable, right? How many teams have six top 10 games in one season? Letdown? Sure. But lets be real.

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The '15 team was lead by upperclassmen and had a lot of NFL players on offense. They blew ten wins by losing to fricking Toledo, Texas Tech, and the notorious Bert bed shite against A&M.

Toledo went 10-2 and ended the season ranked in 2015 if I'm not mistaken. The Tech and aTm game sucked, but we just weren't a very good team in the early season. Some of it is Bielema's fault, sure. Wasn't that AA's first year?

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The '16 team was a big "wtf" but they still underachieved considering the Bert bed shits that occurred against god awful Missouri and in the bowl game. As bad as that run defense was, it still should have been an 8 win regular season team.

Lost to #10 aTm, #1 Alabama, #24 LSU. The ones that pissed me off last year were the losses to Auburn, where Bielema let the team get intimidated (I think) and the loss to Missouri, as you rightly called it shitting the bed. You are partly right about the run defense, but you aren't thinking about the implications of a run first team like Arkansas not being able to stop the run. No way we win 8 with that run defense.

I'm not here to defend Bielema. Some of the complete breakdowns and losses are definitely his fault. He let the team relax too much when they were up. I'm not even sure if he possesses a killer mentality to keep the foot on the gas and up the teams arse when things are going well anymore. But if you're going to claim that just an old body could come in and do better, you should at least throw out some names so we can look at their record.

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Posted by ArHog

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Posted on 3/29/17 at 6:40 pm to troyt37

I'll just leave this nugget here

Bo Mattingly? @SportsTalkwBo 1h1 hour ago
Bret Bielema joined the show & dropped the nugget that Frank Ragnow could show up on defense at some point

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Posted by Hawgnsincebirth55

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Posted on 3/29/17 at 6:57 pm to troyt37

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Wasn't that AA's first year?

shows how much you know about this team. No that was Brandon's last year.

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Lost to #6 Auburn, #6 aTm, #7 Alabama, #10 Georgia, #1 Mississippi State, and #17 Missouri

1. There can't be 2 #6 teams auburn and a&m both ended up being overrated and that's life in the sec but he had chances to win those games and didn't do it. We're not Arkansas state or Louisiana tech we don't play for moral victories if so we need to move to the sun belt. And on that note idc if Toledo went undefeated in their vrao conference you should never lose to a team of that caliber.

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Posted by Arkansasrazorback

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Posted on 3/29/17 at 7:01 pm to troyt37

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Lost to #6 Auburn, #6 aTm, #7 Alabama, #10 Georgia, #1 Mississippi State, and #17 Missouri, with Shutout wins over #17 LSU, and #8 Ole Miss. Inexcusable, right? How many teams have six top 10 games in one season? Letdown? Sure. But lets be real.

I didn't say we should have won all of those games or the fact that we didn't is "inexcusable." However, we shouldn't have choked away EVERY one of them (the collapses I mentioned). We play good teams every year. The rankings you posted don't indicate final ranking. We played good teams when we won ten too.

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Toledo went 10-2 and finished the season ranked

And we still had less than zero business losing that game.

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The Tech and aTm game sucked

Sí

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But we just weren't a very good team early in the season

Seems to be a common theme under Bielema. A season is 12 games long. The entire résumé counts.

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Wasn't that AA's first year?

No. 5th year senior, 3rd year starter, NFL draft pick BA

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The ones that pissed me off last year were the losses to Auburn

That one sure was embarrassing. Arkansas is not a rent a win, doesn't recruit like a rent a win, and shouldn't get beat like one in a coach's fourth damn year. We just put up zero fight and quit. We quit in the LSU game too in the second half. Well coached teams don't do that.