I'm actually not insanely upset

Im not mad about the game, UGA made it moot which I said earlier. Im more concerned about injuries which was my fear before the game and Ill be damned if we didn't lose the 2 guys we couldn't replace.

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we played much better than i thought we would.

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Not me, It seemed to me the defense never got off the bus. Yes the passrush wasn't there but lets not fool ourselves. Joe B played pitch in catch all night on our DBs

LSU and Auburn were the two games I was sincerely worried about, we went 1 - 1 against them. That, to me, is a win in the end. I have a lot of faith in this team but I really want us to hand the keys over to Trask and...

Reel is gonna hate me.

Transition to a Spread Air Raid offense. Our best running plays were options, reverses and speed sweeps, even when Trask was in the game. If that's what it takes to move the ball then that's who we need to be.

I think a few experiments have proven not to work in this game.

Our defense was horrible. That was the only surprise of the game for me. The offense was good in the passing game . Mullen got to cute changing QBs with time running out and taking Jones out for the 3rd and 1 play . This loss was a team effort including Mullen.

Same. Look Mullen is one of the best play callers in the game. We are at Tiger Stadium at night with a bad Oline and our defense isnt stopping them. While I do agree he got to cute, if it works we call it brilliant. It didnt so it's a bad decision.

Mullen went to win the game. In the end that's what I want. Look at Smart. He is such a cowardly coach. I'll take bat shite crazy plays or weird shite any day if the coach is doing it to win over playing not to lose.

If we handle business against SCAR and get healthy for UGA, I'll feel fine. Need Zu and JG back. Would be nice to get Toney back too.

Mullen will turn UF into TEU in no time.

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Mullen proved what I knew all along, that dude can coach. He is squeezing everything he can out of this Jim Mcelwain roster.

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This. I really don't feel all that bad about last night. In eight quarters of football, we took down Auburn and then hung with LSU through three of the remaining four. I hate Trask threw that pick in the end zone simply because I really wanted to beat the spread, but I would have never guessed we'd hang that long in an offensive slugfest.

I'm surprised at how bad our defense is without Zu and Greenard up front, but LSU has a legit offensive juggernaut this year. They're going to score points on everyone they play I feel, and beating them will come down to stopping them a few times and not getting stopped yourself. So some of that is our depth issues getting exposed, and some of it was just LSU being that good. I think Joe Burrow is a complete prick, but he's one helluva quarterback.

I think that, in general, our coaching staff has schemed their asses off. We lost to a more complete team in their house last night, but we made them beat us at least. And no, that isn't a moral victory, but my expectations for this season was to be competitive with the best in our conference as a sign of us returning to being the best in our conference as well. No more of this showing up in Atlanta and just getting destroyed kinda shite. Through 7 games, I feel we are meeting that expectation.

Now CDM and crew have to keep the wheels on for next week. I think getting a win up at SCar after this let down and sandwiched in between LSU and UGA is going to be a tall order, one we're capable of, but one I can see us not ultimately filling as well.

I'm telling you right now, when the QB room is Carlos, Richardson and Emory Jones the team will be completely different. Recruiting comes with winning for some teams, and so if we win out the outlook is different.

I also want to say that I'm not complaining about Dan Mullen, he is a fantastic coach:

Some things did not work in this game. They were not good calls. Juggling Quarterbacks in the Red Zone is begging for disaster.


It's also a little fricked up that Trask drove us to the Red Zone just to watch another Quarterback go in several times to try and put up points that he ultimately got anyway.

3 of the 4 touchdowns in the Red Zone came from Trask passes -- just let the kid play as if he were Feleipe.

He called a wonderful game...except in those situations. I understand what he's trying to do, but I think the risk is far more than the reward. We got lucky Emory's pass was a touchdown on a freak of nature play because it could have easily been a pick (it was just lying there in the defender's hands but we were lucky Perine yanked it out) and Trask's pick can almost 100% be placed on Mullen for rotating them like that -- and maybe a little of defensive holding since Cleveland would have been wide open on a one on one.

Again, this is not anything more than saying we need to shelf that idea going forward -- we have way too many assets in the game at any time at WR not to use more outside runs (sweeps and reverses).