Have done a ton of reading all takes here on CIS and trying to get my head right about where I think we are Really going to be this week.
Trying not to knee jerk mope, but 4 days later I can't escape that we are getting straight boatraced, like 45-10 bad, like 38-17 at best bad.
All the compensatory points made ring kinda hollow and some of the real heads are pointing out some problematics. My lying eyes vs. GT, regardless of THE call and officiating laid bare the flaws we knew might rear....I just didn't think they were going to vs. GT - THIS TIME because we had looked so good and were getting mad strokin'.
Having seen what we didn't against GT - after we steamrolled lessers and had an up game vs. ATM early season....I still feel like we're holding a bag of Fool's Gold.
Just can't shake that 2 decades of PTSD; that much as I want to acknowledge some real progress in year 2, I think it's more likely that we get folded and implode to the preseason 5-7 to 7-5 season areas than we are to go on some miraculous run.
Mario having lost the locker room;
TVDud's reliance on luck and X;
Smelling our own farts against Brigham Young Episcopalian and getting exposed by GT;
Mids Run game against good teams, passing game figured out by ACC foes;
Guidry defense holding up for most of a game against good opponents, but needing offense to be straight fire - GT didn't inspire confidence.
Countered with:
Maybe TVD didn't revert more than this one game to the same shell he did in 22 multiple times against teams with a pulse;
Maybe Dawson was looking ahead and playing hide the sheet;
Maybe we did need to get high on our own farts to get smacked back into toughness that was starting to show;
Maybe we are a wounded animal that cares and shows up.
I wanna be wrong so bad, but I am gonna mope until I can't - and am mad AF that I was starting to believe and got rug-pulled with a really BAD overall game vs. GT that looked a whole lot like the last 2 decades of Miami that's made me a mope.