re: Golding is underwhelming!

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The now 2-3 Ole Miss Rebels ran 88 offensive plays. If anyone was wondering just why things snowballed against our defense in the 4th quarter, there you go.

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Well, no. At the start of the 4th quarter, the score was 52-17. I don't have a participation chart by quarter in front of me, but I'd be willing to bet a large chunk of our defense at that point consisted of second- and third-string players (which, due to injury, would normally be third- and fourth-string players). I suspect that contributed greatly to Ole Miss' success in the fourth quarter.

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Let's try this, let's do something about ole miss ability to sustain a crap offense for 4 quarters. The QB can't throw and mostly he was just running around and making stuff up as he went.

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We DID do something about Ole Miss' ability to "sustain a crap offense for 4 quarters" -- namely, they didn't do much of anything at all offensively for about 2.5 quarters. We gifted them seven points early in the first quarter. Other than that, they scored 10 points when the game was even remotely in doubt. It was 52-17 at the start of the fourth quarter.

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Memphis held the rebels to 10 points, California held them to 20 points, and even the worse SEC defense in the West, Arkansas, gave up 31. Stats say they all did better or no worse than out effort.

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Plumlee was 7-7 passing against Cal for 82 yards, and ran for 53 yards against them. All of that was late in the 4th quarter. He almost led them back to a win (or at least a tie) in that game. This is the same Cal that was ranked 15th last week, before being upset by Arizona State.

Against Alabama, he was 10 of 28 passing (36%). His running ability was the difference, and his running ability is worlds better than Matt Corral. Who, by the way, was the QB in the other games you noted.

Our experience on defense is in the secondary. When you have a bunch of young and inexperienced defenders in your front seven, and you're suddenly facing a very mobile four-star quarterback for whom you have a grand total of six minutes of game film, this type of thing can happen.