re: Questions going into Ole Miss

Quitting? The hell you reading that?

No one's quitting. I'm saying when an offense puts points on us, can we answer? If it was just 1 game it would have been different. It's been two in a row.

That's not an anomaly, that's a pattern.

I just feel like offense should be firing on all cylinders this late in the year. Hopefully we can continue to get better and take it to ole piss. I'm a dawg through had through. Our offense has just looked pedestrian as of late

I'm more inclined to believe it's partially a Bobo problem based on the play calls. IMHO he has an offensive Porche, but drives it like a 60 year old Ford farm truck. And no, I'm not inclined to get into a Bobo debate. It's just my opinion and ain't gonna change. If you don't care for it: tuff.

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No one's quitting. I'm saying when an offense puts points on us, can we answer?

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And that's the gist of it right there. We don't know because we don't play offense for 4 quarters and haven't since Monken left. We play for the lead and then not to lose the lead.

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know exactly what you mean by that and you are correct, however during the Monken years we would keep pouring it on till time expired. The HC is the same, so the explanation doesn't lie there.

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Nahhhhhh

One thing is for certain, a LOT of teams are running offenses based on the screen/ short pass game as a big part of the playbook and philosophy. The thing that the dumb dumbs have a huge issue with when Bobo does it.

I think some of our plays that do not work are due to lack of individual execution. It happens. You gotta coach through it. Some of the time, it’s just great individual effort by a defensive player… some of the time, it’s a defensive call/scheme that puts the other team in a spot to beat us on the play. Football is tough right now. Talent is spread out, coaches have a lot of resources available for scouting and tendencies. I still think we will be fortunate to not have 2 losses by the end of the regular season. I have a feeling the game plan this weekend offensively will be a bit more aggressive than it was vs UF.

To me, the entire game is about one getting pressure on their QB and two maintaining, possession.

A few random thoughts:

I have significant concerns about SCW fielding punts in a tight game.

I understand the concept of the quick horizontal passing game being a running game extension, but we are still leaning on it as if Branch and/or Bowers are catching it. They aren’t though, and I don’t think it suits our current team nearly as well.

Woodring is struggling badly and I hope he snaps out of it.

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If our defensive backs don't learn to turn and look for the ball, then we will likely have multiple PI penalties.

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Absolutely maddening game-in and game-out. There's literally zero excuse in 2026 for a DB playing at this level to be missing this basic skill at that position.

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I went back and watched the Sugar Bowl from last year. Going conservative with the lead cost us the game as it did with the Auburn game this year.

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I don't think we went conservative with the lead against Auburn. I think we had turnover issues and I also think Nate Frazier looked rusty in that game and we struggled to get the run game going.

The common theme in those two games was Gunner taking a huge hit up near the head and looking off his game for a few quarters afterwards.

I know we jest about keeping the playbook close to our chest heading into big games, but is there a chance we kept it painfully vanilla against the 9ators?

We almost entirely abandoned the downfield passing threat right from the jump.

Don't risk it if you don't have to? Our TEs alone are likely the best group in the country at that position, top to bottom. What's the rationale behind barely throwing the ball past the LOS?