re: How is everyone feeling about the rest of the season?

Based solely off the A&M game I have major concerns about all of the remaining away games.

The group seemed shook by the atmosphere.

Offense came out and essentially scored on the first 2 drives but the refs robbed them of both. Both extremely suspicious calls, I hope we submitted those for review to the conference. Not to mention A&M player shoved a ref which is normally an auto ejection and they didn't even flag him.

I do think those calls made a huge difference in the game and caused them to lose confidence and collapse. I don't think they were rattled by the environment at the start, but obviously they need to show more resilience and can't let some terrible calls lead to a blowout loss

After Saturday I’ll be able to respond with a definite answer

Those calls were huge.....but they didn't cause the defense to look completely unprepared. I was pretty confident in what Chuck Hicks and Newson showed the last 6 games of the 2023 season. None of what Baker did with Hicks in particular, relied on him moving laterally with a running back. It was downhill play to the gap and making the fill/play or spilling to Newson or Charleston. What Batoon is doing has slowed the defense down. The block destruction up front has to get better and I think it starts by changing the LB philosophy.