JPenn91

Ironically, our 8-5 team in 2014 had the best chance of beating that team from Tuscaloosa that everyone obsesses about... 20-13 OT loss

Anthony Jennings: 8/26 passing, 76 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT
Leonard fournette: 21 carries, 79 yards
Travin Dural: 3 receptions, 25 yards

Now we have everyone bitching about the defense when we have the highest scoring offense in the nation, not the SEC, the NATION

15. Let the band play Neck

At least they were consistent.
Consistently stopping the entire flow of game to review every call they made today.

Found it ironic that they stopped to look at so many things today but they couldn’t look at an actual scoring play at end of the Kentucky game.

One review was to see about possession. What made that one circumstance different than the few others that were very hard to tell real time? They reviewed the blocking foul on the Tennessee player inside the restricted zone. What if he was outside of the arc? They gonna reverse it to a charge on Mays? We gonna start reviewing every foul call?

Vitale may annoy some folks, but I agreed 100% on his rants about going to the monitor. If we’re questioning so many calls, what’s the point of having a ref in the first place?

Btw, pretty sure most of the reviews stood as called on the court

Regardless of being down 7 or 8 points, they still needed to stop the falcons from putting more points up and draining more of the clock.

It really wasn’t that bad of a decision. They could’ve easily lost 23-20 by getting 7 twice and failing to recover the onside kick at the end.

Warren Morris HR

ETA: Strictly football, I’d agree with your selection as far as magnitude and what the implications were. I’m sure people will bring up the Billy Canon punt return though

Valid question IMO

They play 5 on 1?

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You know you suck when divisions are important.

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Well, when the 2nd best team in the SEC West beats you for the National championship it’s not a big deal either

Same fans will be bitching about the basketball team if they fall short of an SEC championship and final four appearance next season.

Some people support the teams through thick and thin. Some people hop on the bandwagon when it’s hot, and are the first to ridicule players and coaches if they come up short on their sometimes unfair lofty expectations

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After the Auburn game where he got his last TD, he went -2, 2, -2, 5, -4, 4 in yards per game.

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One thing he did well was protect the ball. Did he muff any catches this year? I know he fumbled after catching a deep ball from Etling early on in the Auburn game, but I don't recall him dropping any punts, but he may have. He wasn't going Tre White on some shite and making you nervous as hell on almost every punt. It takes some major guts to be the guy back there catching that shite. He did it well. And all the guys we've had back there have been pretty fricking awesome over the years.

You also left out the fact that DJ only had 8 attempts in those 6 games. So yards per game might actually be equivalent to 1 return in a game. It would be pretty ridiculous to judge a QB or RB off of very few tries. Even the #1 returner in the nation from Washington that averaged 20.4 yards per return (6 above the next best) had a game where he had 3 returns for 7 yards and a 2.3 average.

I understand what you're getting at, but I don't think it was a lack of chark's ability, but more of punt coverage, depth of kicks, and blocking. Even if you make the first guy miss, you're depending on space in which to run.

Chark was actually unbelievable this year in every part of his game. He earned the #7 with his play this year, and I know he surprised many with how good he really was. I'd say that he's better than both Dural and Dupre ever were, yet he was playing behind them.

Also, I'll leave some more stats right for everybody as reference. One of everyone's favorite players, who also fumbled a punt deep in our own territory against UGA in 2013 after one-handing kickoffs in the back of the endzone all game leading up to that moment... I'd love someone to tell me how bad of a player/punt returner this guy was, and we'll just compare DJ to him for reference-

Odell Beckham: Games Returns Yds Avg TD
2011- 14 9 77 8.6 0
2012- 13 35 320 9.1 2
2013- 13 18 160 8.9 0

DJ Chark:
2017- 13 18 190 10.6 2