While not quite as ancient, all I've been asking for is a clean game. Just play well. That's all I care about. Don't line up offsides, don't drop punts, don't drop 50 passes, don't line up wrong on offense, don't snap the ball when the QB isn't ready, don't commit dumbass post-play penalties, don't forget the snap count, don't run into your own man on defense etc. etc. etc.
That's all I ask. If you play well, and someone beats you, I will tip my cap. But we have REALLY good players, and we have (off and on), for a while. We could just never get out of our own way. I can think of countless examples in big games. And we lost most of them.
Well, we finally saw it on Saturday. EVERYONE did their job. It wasn't perfect. We had a couple drops. Cam made an ill-advised throw. We missed a FG. We had a brainfart on the back end on a sweep and it went for 71 yards. That's fine. Nobody is perfect. But overall, it was very, very clean. As clean as its been in a LONG time in a game of that magnitude. And what happened? We beat the everloving **** out of a rival, and SEC team, on the road, with the whole world watching. Flat out embarrassed them.
I have no idea how this season will go. I'm trying to not get out over my skis here, even though I said since the spring portal window closed that this is one of the best rosters in the country and not winning 10 games (or really, 11), was totally unacceptable. We won't play quite that well every single week, and that's OK. But it really was a breath of fresh air, OP is correct. To line up, in Game 1 where things often go sideways, on that stage in that building against that pathetic existence of a program and do....THAT. Genuinely, one of the best days of my life being in that building on Saturday.
Let's keep it rolling. Again, not getting ahead of myself. I've been around this game a long time and have learned you're usually not as good OR as bad as you think you are after 1 game. At the end of the day, it was just 1 of 12. But keep improving week over week, and I think we all have a very good chance to have a **** of a lot of fun this fall.
