HOLY SWEET MOTHER OF GOD DO WE NEED MARCUS THOMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When I was a little kid (you know 25, 26) I used to dream about being the starting quarterback in the Super Bowl and calling a double reverse flee-flicker for the very first play of the game – so I was thrilled when Meyer called it and we got six. Still it was a disjointed play that Kentucky almost blew up and probably wouldn’t work against tougher competition.

When I first read that Marcus Thomas was suspended (“because I got high, dodi do di do do…”) for five games I sent out an email to some of you that said “We’re done.” Before the game I was calling him the second most important player on the team, but even I didn’t realize how much we were going to miss him. Good Lord!! I know it was extra-humid and we were coming off an emotional win, and won by 19, but Kentucky simply isn’t at our level and it is inexcusable that we played that way.

QB: You know it’s funny, when I first showed up here three years ago I heard about how great the Leakster was. I watched him and said, hey he’s not an accurate thrower. People used to crack on me for that, but I trusted my eyes rather than the hype. I very clearly remember watching us at Tennessee (the infamous Baker push back game) and he threw a TD pass to O.J. Small. The commentators watched a replay and talked about what an accurate passer Leak is while I watched Small have to reach behind his head to get the ball (as an aside – Small had good hands). For a good year I was the voice in the wilderness (NOTE: I was right, as is now generally acknowledged, which is why I feel justified in sending you all these writeups – and why your job is to read them) as I explained that he was pretty good at everything else, but not at putting the ball where he wanted (I say this less now, he doesn’t see defenders occasionally – which happened on his pick). Now Gainesville’s love affair with Leak is over and ironically I find myself defending him. He’s actually become a little more accurate, he hits most of his passes – just not in stride. In the end Chris Leak is a good quarterback: not just a not bad quarterback, but a good quarterback. Will Tebow eventually be better? Seems possible, but he is not right now. Leak gives us the best chance to win against the brutal Double-Tiger-Dawg October schedule. Meyer has been spot using Tim well so everyone thinks is he the second coming, but he is not being asked to read defenses. On that touchdown throw (that was called back) all he did was turn and fire – and it might have been picked or swatted down if two Wildcats had not Keystone Kopped into each other. Leak’s game was decent, nothing to write home about considering the competition.
GRADE: B

RB: Wynn (21) did not do as well as he did in Knoxville. He and Moore (33) put up some nice stats (and a fumble) but it never seemed that we could count on getting yards when we needed them – we piled up yards but did not score that much. Tebow ran the best of anyone. I still like Latsko (42), but the way they use him telegraphs that we are going to run – he is only on the field when the play is a run right behind him.
GRADE B- (this is Kentucky we are talking about after all).

WR: Baker (81) is beginning to establish himself as the dominant receiver of the bunch. I’m surprised how much Caldwell (5) has struggled to come back – thankfully we still have Cornelius (6), but I’m alarmed not to have three steady guys at this point in the season. Last year we ran too many shovel passes because Meyer loved them so much he ignored that misdirection plays only work if you use them occasionally – if you throw twenty shovel passes a game the defense isn’t going to fall for it. This year’s version of the shovel pass is the end around. Whenever I see one of our receivers in motion back towards the center of the field before the same I figure the odds are better than 50-50 he is going to get a handoff. Knock that off Urban.
GRADE: A-

TE: Poor Tater Salad (number 84 in your program, number one in your heart) barely made the field.
GRADE: NA

OL: This line is better at run blocking that pass protecting, save for our left tackle Phil Trautwein Jr. (75). Your left tackle should be primarily a pass blocker, he watches the blindside after all, and Trautwein (can’t think of a nickname – yet) holds his own on passes, but one runs he was repeatedly just blow back off the line on running plays. He isn’t just bad individually, he’s so bad I noticed twice he got pushed into Latsko’s way so Billy could not make his block. And the line as a whole got several false starts and holding calls.
GRADE: C+

DL: Kentucky didn’t even try to run – their first rush wasn’t until well into the second quarter for Pete’s sake (rarely see that) – yet they still managed to gash us a few times. Maybe you can say we weren’t expecting it, but I am worried that better teams will be able to do even more damage to us. Rather than just replace Thomas with the backup (#93 Steve Harris – I think) they juggled the line so now McDonald (95) is back at DT for the first time in close to two years and Derrick Harvey (91) starts opposite Moss (94). Harvey looks okay, he is raw – might get better. They flop the ends occasionally, a tactic I have always favored: don’t allow the OL to get comfortable. Without Thomas I supposed the passrush might be better – especially with a rusher inside now – but the run defense will be weaker. And I’m not seeing the rush develop yet. I know we got a bunch of sacks, but that was later in the game when our depth and athleticism (and the humidity) started to add up, early on their guy had time. Again this is Kentucky – not good.
GRADE: B-

LB: No one misses MT more than Brandon Siler (40), who had his least explosive game in a long, long while. We bring our linebackers up to show blitz and then drop out of it too much, our guys don’t back into the pass lanes quickly enough sometimes. Let’s stop being cutesy and rather than do that all the time just play good football. Also I’m ready to make my first call for a change of the year. Brian Crum (13) is lanky, but not great in coverage and has not done much in four games. Brandon Spikes (51) is a true freshman, but just seems more natural in coverage – where we really need help. The downside is he might be small against the run – but that is what Siler and Everett (30) are for (and Marcus Thomas – opps). As an aside Everett is good against the pass too, he is a pretty complete player, more so than Siler who, while still more valuable, is really only useful around the line and takes bad angles in coverage. Get Spikes in the lineup now so he can start the Bama game and have that experience before that killer October.
GRADE: B- (other than Everett and Spikes each knocking a pass down I don’t remember the corps making any other notable plays – do you?)

DB: There was less confusion in coverage this game, but I told you our corners were bad. Tremaine McCollum (18) either corner blitzes or fakes it presnap all the time, but must be the worst actor in the world – every time you can tell what he is going to really do.
GRADE: B (did clamp down after a while and did not have any problems with Nelson (1) got dinged and left the field).

ST: I don’t care if you have to put the whole starting offensive line, Leak, and Tebow out there to block, we have to change the bodies out there now because it horrific how bad we are. Let’s review: in four games we’ve missed FIVE extra points. FIVE!!! Three were blocked (not that the two botched snaps are any better). Maybe UT’s special teams just suck because Brandon James (25) did not find any space.
GRADE: F (and it is going to stay at F every single game until I see them make some positive plays – just average won’t cut it).

Coaching: I’ve already mentioned I don’t like all the end-arounds and fake blitzes. Nor do I care for not just running a weaker team over when we have lead – stop passing and just beat them up – we could use the fine tuning in the running game anyway. I liked the double reverse flee-flicker (but I thought of that years ago so I’m not giving Meyer many props), but you know I am going to pound Meyer for the 4th and goal fake field goal from the 22. What could possibly be the justification for that in a game that is already won with a kicking unit that needs the practice and confidence? Unless he was so worried they would botch it and drop morale even lower. But it was only a 40 yarder: we hopefully could have executed that and gotten our first fieldgoal of the year and if we couldn’t then it is just time to close up shop for the season. Yes we beat Kentucky, but they are awful (their coach has been a lame duck for over year – amazing I know) and there was not one clever coaching decision that contributed to the victory after the first touchdown.
GRADE: D

Football 101: I considered doing “misdirection,” but decided to give the defense some love – plus it gives me a chance to add another point. A “Zone Defense” one of two ways a team can try to stop another from passing. One is man-to-man coverage, where the defenders each pick and offensive player (well usually one or both safeties stay deep down the field to prevent a big play) and follows him around the field, staying close to knock down the pass if the opposing quarterback passes to him. The risk of this defense is that if the receiver can get away from his man he can make a big play. Teams that constantly play man defenses need to have very good corners (all teams play man when blitzing). The University of Florida Gators do not have good corners…ergo we should play zone. In zone a defender is responsible for a certain area of the field, not a particular player. Should a receiver enter his “zone,” the defender covers him until he leaves (and is passed off to another defender). There are many varieties of zone, were various players go to different spots in the field (even defensive linemen) – quarterbacks have a harder time reading these defenses and are more likely to make mistakes (they are also more likely to complete passes because receivers can “sit down” in the zone – that is run to a spot between two defenders and stop). Some coaches don’t like zone because they feel it is less aggressive – the defense waits and reacts rather than attacking the offense and forcing it to react (every defense should mix in both types of coverage). Our personnel (especially with Spikes) is more suited to zone: Everett and Spikes underneath to cover the short passes – Siler can clear a few heads in the middle – and our talented (and sure tackling) safeties deep, will protect our corners. Also, it is not relevant to us because we don’t play any (I think), but zone is better against running QBs because the defenders face the offense and watch it in zone, rather than running around and ignoring everything but their man.

Fans: Boy were they ever angry when Kentucky got up 7-6 late in the first half. And we were generally bitter for the whole game as everyone seemed to realize we were not smacking the WildCats around the way we should. Pretty impressive awareness from a group that often seems to be 99% drunk freshman girls in skimpy outfits (NOT A COMPLAINT!). Yes they are morons for wanting Tebow, but everyone always wants the other QB (49ers fans, NOT ME, once called for Joe Montana to be benched). Finally I was right behind an Alumni section (my seats were okay, not great) and they are not as into it. They don’t stand up all game the way the students do.
GRADE: A (good for not being happy complacent and realizing we need to be better)

Play of the Game: Come on, how can you even ask?

Player of the Game: Dallas Baker, his second of the year. There weren’t too many other candidates.

Looking forward: Alabama should be a win, but we have a lot of issues to work out for LSU, Auburn, Georgia. We are not going to go 3-0, and 1-2 seems just as likely as 2-1 right now. Hell 0-3 is not outside of the realm of possibility if we can’t kick extra freaking points. I can smell Jackie O’s $20. Maybe we can look the other way on Marcus Thomas? It was just pot…

University of Crappy Football

UCF won Conference USA last year, over Southern Miss who gave us a bit of trouble at first. UCF was supposed to be better on offense, but not as talented on D. Their fans sure expected a game because they came out in force. They were everywhere, there is no way most had tickets. There were also some hiding in UF gear (who are we the Oakland Raiders?). Usually when we play someone outside the conference we let them hang around for a while and then pull away as our deeper roster comes into play. It was nice to see us just blow someone out (first time I’ve seen that in person). I don’t know that we didn’t slaughter them mainly because they were so bad. How many passes did their receivers drop? People were starting to feel bad for them after a while. For now I’ll say it was us.

Also I want to mention this because I’m surprised how few people seem to know about it, but after every game the band marches to Potato Rock (in front of Turlington) and then the percussion corps plays a few tunes. It’s a neat way to end the evening, very wholesome 1950’s. Up close you see that the band’s jackets are a part leather, part corduroy – poor bastards. This time UCF’s band came to have a drum off. They kicked our band’s ass. Their unis are snazzier too – sort of futuristic zoot suits.

I had the worst seats I’ve ever had in the Swamp, 60th row – 30 rows higher than I had ever been before. It’s a different experience up in the thin air, people are not packed in as thickly, cops don’t come around to check tickets or make you get off the benches. It is not as loud as when you are right on top of the field (but still impressive). You can also see what the band is doing. They run around and spell “Gators” as the crowd does the “Give me a G, give me an A!” routine. Who knew? As for the game the angle gives similar you a similar feel of watching a game on TV, save you can see the whole field rather than just the line and QB (I hate that about TV). The net result of this is I will be talking more about our schemes and than individual performances this week.

QB: We know what Leak is at this point, I’m getting tired of inventing new ways to say “smart, but inaccurate.” He had a good game, nice two minute drill. He also almost tossed a pick in the redzone when he threw off his bad foot. There was a pass rush, but it is better to take the sack than turn it over. UCF blitzed against our five wide and he cleverly ran straight up the field – once he got beyond the line it was open running. Tebow played more, but his ugly pick seems to have taken the bloom off a bit (good, it will stop the ignorant from calling for Leak to be benched). There seemed to be less “Te-Bow” chants, similar to how getting killed in Tuscaloosa ended those asinine “Ur-Ban Mey-er” chants (never saw someone become more popular before doing anything). They are not having Tim run the full playbook, only asking him to read half the field before he takes off. I correctly predicted every play from the formation before the snap on his TD drive; as Jackie O. Bryson can confirm. And yes, I’m aware and alarmed that I am talking about the backup more than the starter.
GRADE: A

RB: No one has really claimed the job yet, but as a whole the team ran well. Wynn (21) seems to be the best of the bunch for the moment. Latsko (42) saw a little more action, usually he just stays behind one to the guards and just hits that hole (well) – but then they run some misdirection out of that set.
GRADE: B+ (over half our 200+ yards came from QBs and WRs, that’s not worth an A)

WR: The new popular chant is “Per-cy” for Harvin (8). He again used his amazing speed to get us a couple of big plays. However he’s still at the stage where he just uses his athletic talent to make plays – not football skills (such as running good routes to get open). We’ll see how much he does against SEC talent. I caught Leak having to personally tell him wear to lineup a few times. The other freshman, Fayson (11), played the way freshman usually do – he got a holding call and dropped a pass. The often forgotten redheaded stepchild of the offense (you probably know him as Jemalle Cornelius (6)) had the best game of the unit, all of his catches were nice plays. UCF’s secondary was bad, but everyone made plays, and blocked for one another.
GRADE: A+

TE: Tater Salad (number 84 in your program, number one in your heart) was on the field a bit more, made a few blocks (Latsko is a better blocker, but Tater Salad is faster with the ball in his hands). And as we botched another extra point, it became clear that he runs a hot route in that situation and it was not his fault.
GRADE: B+ (just as an aside I haven’t seen another TE since 2004)

OL: Running lanes were open, but UCF did get a little pressure, about the only negative for our offense all game. The interior of the line seems to be the better spot.
GRADE: B+

DL: Wow!! What a difference Thomas (44) made. The Golden McNuggets got nothing on the ground all night and got a safety (why were they running laterally on their own goalline?). Thomas, our chief run stopper, keyed the pass rush too. Moss (94) and McDonald (95) made a few plays, but so far the line has not lived up to the hype whatsoever. That’s discouraging given how much I expected from (and pimped) Moss.
GRADE: A- (Thomas gets an A, everyone else a B+)

LB: They didn’t do anything spectacular, but filled well on the run, especially when their QB scrambled it seemed (he got upended twice).
GRADE: B+

DB: They were confused at several points again – running around and talking to each other, literally grabbing and pulling people to where they were supposed to be. Nelson (1) seemed the most confused. Again this could be a problem when we get to the meat of the season. Also I noticed that Joiner (19), not the hard hitting Nelson, is one who comes up into the box when they expect run (so I assume he is the strong safety). They also use Nelson as the slot corner in the nickel often (he occasionally blitzes). Their WRs were dreadful, even against our backups they just dropped pass after pass.
GRADE: B+ (as bad as UCF was there were no picks or notable plays).

ST: Special teams will cost us a game some point this year. That is two bobbled extra points now – our kicker is inconsistent enough as is, thank you. Some coach needs to tell Nelson to fair catch occasionally because he is going to get hurt or fumble eventually. I was right that he had those big returns last week because Southern Miss’s punter was out kicking the coverage. Nelson also has to control his temper – he is a personal foul waiting to happen.
GRADE: D

Coaching: Meyer has drastically cut back on his shovel passes from last year, on to the next complaint – but not today because honestly he is handling Tebow and Harvin well, cutting back the play book and using them at the right time so they can experience some success early. UCF found success running wide to our left and hitting comeback routes early, but our defense made good adjustments and both of those had dried up by the second quarter.
GRADE: A

Football 101: A “comeback route” is when a receiver runs hard up the field to make the cornerback covering him think he is running deep. The he suddenly stops and runs back toward the line scrimmage to catch the pass before the defender can react. Defenses can counter this three ways: drift a linebacker over to get in the passing lane, put a safety over the top so the corner jump the route, or switch to zone from man-to-man.

Fans: The place emptied out pretty early, which tells you most Gator fans are not students of the game. We were pretty nice to the UCF folks (42-0 will do that). Props to Jackie O. for screaming before the snap and getting into the cheers as much as any drunk freshman. But she doesn't get gambling.
GRADE: A-

Play of the Game: Tie: Harvin’s first TD gave everyone in that stadium the sense that UCF might be very athletically outmatched. Caldwell’s TD at the end of the half ensured that UCF had nothing to take into the locker room. Even I whipped out my keys at that point.

Player of the Game: Marcus Thomas. He was our pass rush and his presence on the line kicked up our already great run defense a notch. Always funny to see a fat guy do a sack dance.

Bottom Line: We have a bunch of questions right now: RB, OL, DBs. Tennessee will tell us a bunch. They barely beat Air Force, so I’m predicting victory – but we are not good enough to win the SEC.

Southern Miss

Last year I watch the first couple of games against the dogs and said the team had some real issues. Several (Maury and Billy just leap to mind for some reason) suggested I was reading too much into a game we won by 20 – but the season bore out my worries. Southern Miss is not your typical opening game dog, but their QB, RB and three defensive linemen were getting their first starts, and we took our time putting us away. In plain English: I got worries.

You may notice I am giving individual credit on plays less often than normal; this is because I had great seats. Front row in fact. However I was on the five yard line (near the band endzone) so while I was right on top of some of the action I was pretty far away from other plays and could not always see exactly who was making the play. And the cheerleaders were right in front of me blocking the view occasionally. What? you ask, the cheerleaders weren’t cognizant of letting the fans see the game? Nope, not at all. And they tried to pump up the fans when we had the ball (so annoying) – I know they are trying to make a living out there and may not care much about football, but get your act together and know what is happening on the field. Try to remember what we came to see.

QB: Leak had a game (that’s not a typo). He is a still pretty smart quarterback (doesn’t throw into coverage and knows when to throw it away) who, while not fast, can get out of some sacks. Alas he also still struggles with accuracy, and especially needs to work on his timing with Andre Caldwell (5) (not good when you can’t hit your best WR when he is open deep – twice). To be fair his interception early looked to be a quick drop pass to a spot and the WR ran to the wrong place. Tebow came in a couple of times to run. He looks smaller than he did in the Orange N’ Blue game. He’s 6-4 and could lift to add some bulk.
GRADE: B+

RB: What the hell happened? Wynn (21) looked okay, especially going outside, before he was dinged, but our leading rusher was a freshman receiver (not good, all the more so since he only had 58 yards). Moore (33) looked alarming average and was occasionally telegraphing when he was going to get the ball by running in place the way a five year old does when he has to pee. Take away his 27 yard run against the backups in the last minute of the game and he averaged 2.2 yards a carry. His touchdown catch was nice, but he was wide open underneath a clearing route (*see Football 101 for an explanation). And once again Meyer seems to have no interest in using our quality blocking fullback Latsko (42)
GRADE: D+

WR: Last year each week a different receiver stepped up to be the guy, so I’m not willing to declare Dallas Baker (81) all-SEC. As I mentioned Caldwell got open for big passes a couple of times, Leak just did not get it there. Of course the big news of the game was true freshman Percy Harvin (8) who is as fast as advertised – but do try to remember his big plays were runs, he only caught a few balls.
GRADE: B+ (this is a unit grade – Cornelius’s one catch, for 26 yards and a TD, is included)

TE: Did not see much of Tater Salad (Number 84 in your program, number 1 in your heart). The only time he was involved in anything other than blocking was failed two point attempt were he was open, but never looked back for the pass the than landed near him. I believe this was a called two-point attempt because the holder bailed early and Tater Salad was wandering around in the endzone, if it was a busted play on a bad snap (because why would you go for two there – other than to practice going for two) and if he wasn’t running a route, then I don’t know what he was doing wandering around alone in the endzone (unless he realized it was a bust almost instantly).
GRADE: incomplete

OL: Oh boy. For a team with three new DL starters they sure got a bunch of pressure on Leak. Of course we had four new starters too. We got some movement on running plays, but not consistently. It was their first game, and one (new) starter is hurt, so I won’t kill them, but they need to get better by Tennessee.
GRADE: C

DL: Even missing our best run stopper, Thomas (44), who was being disciplined, it seemed that most of Southern Miss’s running plays went for about two yards and that was it (but again this was their RB’s first start). However I caught both ends, Moss (94) and McDonald (95), shooting upfield and blowing containment a few times. More alarming neither got much pressure at all. Moss of course had that weird bone particles in his blood issue last year, but he does not seem to have taken the summer to get any bigger – or maybe he just looked small because I saw him up close. For this game he held his own on the run, but can he all year? Of course the other issue is you don’t want your pass rusher to lose speed either, so we’ll say he is okay as is. My biggest worry after no pass rush is conditioning, I saw some hands on hips in the first quarter!?! Maybe this was why so many guys were rotated in early.
GRADE: B (I’m not going to knock them for not living up to the hype of being the greatest UF line of all time, but you need to get some sacks boys).

LB: Everett (30) had a pretty good game, better than you might realize. He did little that was spectacular, but did all the little things well. He stayed with his guys on coverage, filed gaps, blew up blockers, made a few good tackles. He won’t get much credit for it, but you need guys playing that way to be a winner. Siler (40) was very disruptive on the blitz (unfortunately though he provided almost all our pressure). He needs to work more on not being obvious when he is coming, although the might be a strategy as he is rather talented at baiting the line into thinking he is coming and then bailing. The new guy, Crum (13), looked a little confused on coverage early, but otherwise did little of note.
GRADE: A-

DB: This will be the hardest section to grade because the safeties played well and the corners didn’t. Smith (28) didn’t know where he was supposed to be on some plays, even from the very first drive as Joiner (19) had to move him around. Lewis (22) got beat at least once that I remember and had a brutal pass interfere (where he was beat again) waived off as uncatchable. I’ll give credit to the coaching staff for naming Joiner as a starter over Jackson (3). Tony had a pick – it was right in front of me: he went and got that ball with his hands, taking it away from the receiver. Sure it was a floater into coverage (only the CB was beat – shocker – and even he got back because it was a duck), but he was right were he was supposed to be (and I like that). Joiner also had 2 passes defensed, a stopped a RB at the line who had gotten past Moss, and did well directing traffic. Nelson (32 last year, now 1) had some big hits.
GRADE: B (lets not be to generous for stopping a QB making his first start).

ST: Nelson had some nice returns, but that was in part because their punter kept out kicking the coverage – and most of the time the return was on, even when the Golden Eagles were pinned deep (not sure why that was). Coverage was good, but once again we are purposely leaving an alley outside the numbers on kickoffs (which they tried to exploit once). We are also still using that stupid three men five yards behind the line punt blocking formation. Wilber (10) had a good kick to pin inside the ten at one point. Whatever the plan on that two point conversion was, the play did not come out well.
GRADE: B+ (as mixed bag, but better than last year).

Coaching: First the good: there were far less of those annoying shovel passes and 1-2 yard routes by receivers. They used Harvin well on misdirection plays and did not over use them (which has been Meyer’s tendency). Now the not so good: boy did they look confused on defense early on. On the first drive the secondary was pointing and trying to figure things out every play. Leak was telling receivers where to lineup on some plays too. That is not the hallmark of a team ready to play and really bothers me. I know it was the first game, but that is inexcusable. Also I would have liked to see them run more once we were safely ahead as the running game clearly needs work. Going for it on 4th and 13 early was a horrendously bad move – Southern Miss was out of the game and you let them get some hope back and they proceeded to drive the field. Did he learn nothing from the Tennessee game last year? If the field goal is too long, you punt and pin them to make them have to beat you. I may be a liberal who grew up watching Montana and Rice, but I’d rather see UF play conservatively and make sure to get the win against the teams we should beat (especially since our strength is the D). Pull out all the stops for Auburn. We caught Southern Miss in a rebuilding year, but in seasons past they’ve been good enough they would have given us a very tough game the way we played. That worries me and doesn’t help me warm up Urban, not one bit.
GRADE: C+
NOTE: I made the joke about registering “FireMeyer.com” before (again: as a joke, I’m not calling for his head), but without doing research – someone already has, but just to block others.

Fans: I’ve heard us be louder (although we did make them burn a timeout), and the shouts when Tebow came in were moronic: A: we were on offense and B: Leak should be the starter this year. There was some girl sitting by me not even cheering (although at least she had a UF t-shirt on).
GRADE: A-

Player of the game: I strongly consider Joiner, but in the end all the big plays where we just flat out beat Southern Miss straight up were made by Dallas Baker.

Play of the game: Nelson’s interception in the endzone, no doubt. They were getting a little momentum back and that absolutely killed it.

Football 101: A “clearing route” is when a receiver runs a route (usually a post – that is runs hard straight up the field past the corner) to draw all the coverage to him so someone else can run a shorter route underneath him and be wide open for a catch. We did an excellent version of this on Moore’s TD catch. He slipped out from the backfield and caught the ball with no one within five yards of him (everyone was down in the endzone) and then bolted for the score. Then I had to think about propping a guy I said should be the starting RB to keep my rep up when he really had a subpar game or keeping it real for my fans.

Bottom line: Meyer may be in his magical second year, but this team has too many issues. We’re not going to win the SEC, as Heather’s shaved head will eventually attest (you’re not seeing me in a dress).