I...er...uh...

From what I'm seeing on message boards from around the country, a great many people who watched our game vs. Mizzou refer to it, in as many words, as a great big Charlie Foxtrot.

There were some glimmers of hope; the defense played pretty well and was rather aggressive...for the first half...if you don't count the times that the corners were watching the defender rather than watching the ball.

Then there were three time outs in the first quarter, the WTF two-point attempt, miscues, mistimings, mismanagements, and general misfortunes.

It's far too late after a day that was far too long to enumerate them here.

I almost feel bad for the guy...it almost seems too bad to be true, you know? He just must be going senile or something, I can't figure it any other way. It seems pretty damned fundamental that when you're pinned down on your own 5 that running out of the pistol puts the quarterback ON THE GOAL LINE!!! It seems likewise fundamental that running out of the pistol on 3rd and short puts the ball an extra FOUR TO FIVE YARDS FARTHER BACK than it needs to be. There must be some natural reason for this...maybe something is eating his brains from the inside? Maybe he has lupus?

Or is this miracle creation of an offense just too damned perfect to be concerned with trifles like that?

It also seems to me that our young star, our promising young quarterback, talented though he is, isn't maturing the way one might expect. His decision making doesn't seem to be getting any faster...or better, for that matter. In fact, it almost looks like he's second guessing himself an awful lot of the time, and I see him, each and every game, morphing closer and closer to becoming David Neill. Either coaching isn't helping him with his problems the way it should, or coaching is creating these problems...or both.

It's too late to do much more for right now, but as I'm pretty sure that traffic is about to spike around here, there will be plenty of sequels in very short order.