One more thing before I go over to Girlfriend's place and just hunker down, at most maybe monitor the score from time-to-time (I might just set up GE on my phone and let Y'ALL tell me if there is some amazing turn-around in the offing--something I do NOT expect in ANY way...):
I don't WANT to get into that "BLAME-thing" that we all have an inclination towards when things go wrong and both the reasons and the results are complicated. We grope for something simple, and putting it on one thing, or even better, one PERSON, is just so inviting. It is an illusion, though: the tip off is when you can come up with MORE than one, you can put several DIFFERENT things or people in that "blank" and make the same pronouncements.
There ARE a number of actual specific problems and factors (yes, and PEOPLE, too--the staff, lead by our Head Coach, is doing all they can to get THAT done), that are dragging us down, and they need to be CHANGED for us to turn our fate around by next season. For now, it is all about small triumphs, devil-in-the-detail changes that are going on at the most fundamental level. We are finally getting those penalties under control. We are seeing who comes to play on EVERY play.
But we are just under-MANNED, especially on the lines.
I'm not always happy with the way Weis calls the game, but I still have a feeling he'll do better, a whole LOT better with his kind of team. He's done a nice job of mixing things up this 1st drive of the 2nd half...now what about redzone success? Again, Weis needs to remember what he's GOT personnel-wise. Nixon jumps. Worst friggin' time for it. See? Now what?
AGAIN a throw underneath. ANOTHER FG. We should be tied now, at LEAST. Like I say, "Death by a thousand cuts": that's been our story in every ONE of the post-"double-no.-1-weeks"-losses. This is looking just like the Auburn loss. No TDs.
Well, who knows? Maybe we can actually rise up and "put one away" finally after Turkey Day against Half Assed. That would (almost) be a fitting consolation.
