A few observations from tonight.

aerodawg.sixpack

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1) The way we handle the two quarterbacks is idiotic. Before the game, I thought it could be used successfully, but then I saw how the coaching staff handled it and I am now on the bandwagon of sitting Relf for the rest of the year and just going with Russell.

2) Playcalling is still unbelievably stupid at times. Most of the night it was ok, but then they would do things that make me scratch my head.

3) Why was Perkins, who fell at the first sign of contact getting so many carries up the gut?

4) Chris Smith is our best true wide receiver and has been playing very well lately.

5) Who throws (or calls) an endzone fade to a guy that is 5'9"?

6) Despite playing badly, I thought the line did better than I expected. A couple of the sacks were completely on the quarterback not getting rid of the ball. Our tackles were just not capable of blocking Hightower and Upshaw.

7) Russell did well considering what he was up against, but he has to learn to get rid of the ball, or step up a little quicker in the box. He is the only one that makes me feel like we have a shot at converting on third and long with, and I think the wide receivers think the same thing because they seem to play harder when he is in. Also he needs to throw to his checkdowns a little more often. He did on that really good drive that was destroyed by putting Relf in, but seemed to get away from it later in the game.

8) Even though he returned a long kick return tonight, I don't think Perkins should be on the kick return team. He tip-toes worse than Anthony Dixon did in 2008. That one return was the only play that I saw that he was not tip-toeing.

9) Charles Mitchell has really stepped up here late in the season. He is making tackles by tackling and not hugging or running up and stopping like he had been.

10) Mini Favre's package was ok, but was used at the wrong point in the game. Why not throw that in for a play down in the redzone?

11) Our defense is good, and Chris Wilson is definitely worthy of the job. A few stupid mistakes by players and the failure of our offense led to most of the points tonight.

12) I was very pissed off during the game tonight at the mistakes, but now that I think about it, I think it just hurts more because we are better than I thought and the game was there for us to take if we had done a handful of things differently.

13) Moral victories are for the weak losers of the world, we lost this game because we were overmatched, and more importantly because we did not make the plays when they were there to make. Mullen and the coaching staff made mistakes and the players made mistakes that lost this game. I think we have a legitimate shot at upsetting Arkansas if we fix those mistakes.
 

mstatefan88

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Did those 1st two playcalls look familiar at all? Well they should. Exact same two plays we called against SC on our FG drive inside the 5 yard line at the end of the game, except the pass to Bumphis was on the other side. When I saw Bumphis line up iso on the top of the screen, I just started yelling. I knew the fade to Bump was coming. Then the belly dive to Ballard that everyone knew was coming.

And we did some dumb **** tonight. The late hit by Bure was awful. The pass interference on Banks was pretty bad too. He had position the whole way. No need to shove the guy.Carmon had 3 false starts. Just unacceptable. WR's missed a bunch of blocks tonight, and they dropped some important passes. I think Mirando needs to be fired, and we need to hire a special teams coach.