Can I steal a phrase from Croom, but it actually does apply here- if you can't see the improvement, they're blind. They just say stuff like that to make us angry. The fact that they even care enough to say something is a step in the right direction. Used to be, it was all friendly/friendly between us- now I'm glad that their damn bird hit a window.
We played like complete crap on the road Sat. Everything that could go wrong did it seemed like. And we STILL were what? One inch away from tying them and then maybe we try a two point conversion and who knows what happens from that point on. And to stop that play- regardless of whether you like the play call or not- it basically took a guy making probably the play of his life to stop it.
Now, I do agree with those that say that we need to beat a SEC West team other than Ole Miss. That's our next step. More than likely though that's going to come at Scott Field. Obviously, it's easier to beat someone at home than on the road. That's why this game Thursday is so big for us- it's another opportunity to beat someone from the SEC West, and then we have Alabama later at home.
The thing that we all have to remember is we are only going to continue to get better and better under Dan- we will break through sooner or later- Lord knows that we have a break coming our way. Once that happens, then we will be able to get that "one more inch".
As we all remember two years ago, we were only one inch away from beating LSU at home and then we beat Ole Miss. Then last year, we beat Georgia- a somewhat underrated win for us- before we took out Florida on the road and then beat Ole Miss on the road and then went to a New Year's Day bowl. We just need to continue to build on what we have done.