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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 190168" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>You can make a very good argument for your case. I just don't think it is convincing. I'd even agree if for say just two of those four "could have" won games we had actually won. Johnson once said -- in what I thought then real hyperbole, that "good teams don't lose two in a row," but we all seen good teams do that. In 2014, even. Nor do I think it should be easy. It's why they keep score, and I too have competed. It is just a hard slog sometimes, and it really should be to appreciate the win. (Win 12 games against Alcorn State, and you have, well, 12 wins against Alcorn State.) Alas, I metaphorically picked up the razor blade after our 9th game of the season, when we were worse defensively and offensively than before, our QB was in real danger of injury while the body language of the O linemen was one of confusion, and our once-reliable running game was further reduced to impotence and passing to desperation. (We do not do desperation well.) And the so-we-thought strengths of the team in '15 -- defense and the O line -- are in massive fail mode. In the case of the defense, yet again. Except this time, the offense could not make it good.</p><p></p><p>I have been a fan too long not to hope they win out and set up '16. But were I a betting man, and I'm not, I'd go the other way. The real question I have going into next year, with all others being a given -- lord, who would not be a bundle of nerves of the defense or special teams? -- is whether Justin Thomas is going to be able to get his game back on track and hold his option decision until he can get a commitment, or is that now gone as a matter of self preservation? Right now too often the DE or LB is making the option decision for him. It requires nerve right up to the end. Kind of a gridiron game of chicken until somebody blinks. Right now Thomas is blinking.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately we tend to think of what might have or could have been. But they weren't. And we aren't good enough to change them. It's like the guy betting on coin flips and losing on heads on every toss, but sticking with his call based on the law of averages. He doesn't understand and won't accept that his coin toss stands alone. There is no "average" on that toss, it is either heads or tails. A bad analogy, but then scoping out four games as coulda kind of is too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 190168, member: 2175"] You can make a very good argument for your case. I just don't think it is convincing. I'd even agree if for say just two of those four "could have" won games we had actually won. Johnson once said -- in what I thought then real hyperbole, that "good teams don't lose two in a row," but we all seen good teams do that. In 2014, even. Nor do I think it should be easy. It's why they keep score, and I too have competed. It is just a hard slog sometimes, and it really should be to appreciate the win. (Win 12 games against Alcorn State, and you have, well, 12 wins against Alcorn State.) Alas, I metaphorically picked up the razor blade after our 9th game of the season, when we were worse defensively and offensively than before, our QB was in real danger of injury while the body language of the O linemen was one of confusion, and our once-reliable running game was further reduced to impotence and passing to desperation. (We do not do desperation well.) And the so-we-thought strengths of the team in '15 -- defense and the O line -- are in massive fail mode. In the case of the defense, yet again. Except this time, the offense could not make it good. I have been a fan too long not to hope they win out and set up '16. But were I a betting man, and I'm not, I'd go the other way. The real question I have going into next year, with all others being a given -- lord, who would not be a bundle of nerves of the defense or special teams? -- is whether Justin Thomas is going to be able to get his game back on track and hold his option decision until he can get a commitment, or is that now gone as a matter of self preservation? Right now too often the DE or LB is making the option decision for him. It requires nerve right up to the end. Kind of a gridiron game of chicken until somebody blinks. Right now Thomas is blinking. Unfortunately we tend to think of what might have or could have been. But they weren't. And we aren't good enough to change them. It's like the guy betting on coin flips and losing on heads on every toss, but sticking with his call based on the law of averages. He doesn't understand and won't accept that his coin toss stands alone. There is no "average" on that toss, it is either heads or tails. A bad analogy, but then scoping out four games as coulda kind of is too. [/QUOTE]
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