Welp.....

Just a short public service announcement this morning, as I'll have more time to dive into stats and thoughts later on.  Just some general thoughts:

Our fans are the biggest bunch of sissies.  Actually, a better way to say it is that they are out of their minds.  I've chosen to stay away from talk radio for a few days because I can't stand the idiocy.  We lost a game.  It was ugly.

• This is not the worst Florida team in 25 years.  That was last year's team.  This team is now poised to go 7-4 at worst it seems (would be 8-4 but they didn't play Idaho).  That doesn't make it better, but people should stop saying stupid stuff.  They have talent on D.
• We do not have the talent we need on D yet.  Pruitt is recruiting like crazy.  We're better than we've been in a while on D in flashes.  We had a bad game.  This is no surprise to Pruitt and he won't make excuses.  I think he came to Athens to build a winner and a nasty D.  That will take some time.  Devin Bowman should not be playing, nor should Aaron Davis, but they're all we've got.  BTW, I don't know where Langley was.
• It was a bad loss.  All losses are bad to me.  I don't really judge them per margin of victory, because I don't judge wins that way.  We're trying to win every game.  That's the goal.  No coach thinks, "Let's blow these guys out."  Not a single one.  The goal is to win the game.  The 2008 Bama game and 2012 USCjr. Games were much different.  Those games we got stonewalled from start to finish.  This was different.  But even blowouts have moments that can flip a game.  Arky was in our redzone 2 times in the final 5 minutes of the half and we came away with 7 points and they came away with zero.  It's a funny sport.
• Every time you take the field, most BCS teams can beat you (and certainly an SEC team) if you don't handle your business.  We didn't handle our business and that team on the other side played fantastic, probably the best game they've played since whipping FSU in 2012.
• I honestly don't know how to respond to people that say they are tired of the 'faceplant' games and we've got to get a coach that won't do it.  "This is unacceptable" and "We settle for mediocrity"!  Do people watch the sport?  LSU got NAILED two games this year.  NAILED!  Auburn got NAILED by LSU last year.  Johnny football went into T-town in 2012 and stormed to a 21-0 lead.  A terrible (as we know now) A & M team boat-raced South Carolina in the opening week, and now they can't beat anybody.  Auburn came out asleep against MSU and would have gotten killed if Dak had remembered they were wearing the maroon jerseys, as that's the only thing that kept it close.  I have sat through every one of Mark Richt's losses.  They all hurt.  I would like to find the magical formula where that won't happen and we come out with our hair on fire for 12 weeks.  No one does that.  Most teams have a face-plant every season and a couple other sleep-walking games.  The key to a championship is to win them.  I just can't find this mystical team where this doesn't happen. 
• And this is the biggie:  How would Oregon have fared w/o Mariotta @ UCLA, vs. Washington, @ Cal, vs. Stanford?  How would MSU have fared vs. Auburn, @ Kentucky, vs. Arkansas, vs. UT-Martin without Prescott?  How would FSU have fared @ Syracuse, vs Notre Dame, @ Louisville, vs. Virginia without Winston?  That's who those teams played in the stretch where we've lost Todd.  Oh yeah, we also lost Todd's top back-up (Sony) in that time-period.  So, how would those teams have fared without their best player AND his top back-up?
• Were we still better than that Florida team?  I think.  I don't know.  At one point last year during the Vandy game I was thinking…we've got Aaron, but they've got better skill players than us right now.  We have no running back and no play-maker at WR.  Nick is fantastic.  So proud of him in this stretch.  But Matt Jones is good, too.  They spelled Jones with Taylor, who is remarkably better than Douglas.  How equal are our defenses?  Florida's is better.  Plain and simple.  Hutson is better than Harris, but they didn't need him to do much.  How is our O-line w/o Boss?  Not as good.  We still could have won the game, but some of that caught up with us.  We still have way better athletes than Mizzou and Arky.  That is not the case with the Gators.  And our best and another top 5 athlete didn't play.  It hurt us, finally.

I think I'm done.  Onward and upward.  Go beat UK and let's see what happens.