Here's what I know:
1) Every single game starts 0-0.
2) Every team is beatable.
3) We aren't shabby.
I'm not saying that I 100% believe we are going to beat Florida. I didn't claim that. Realistically, I know the odds of that are low. HOWEVER. What I DID say was that we CAN beat Florida. I don't care how "stacked" they are. I don't care if they are the team of the century (which they very well may be). They are still beatable. Ole Miss beat them last year, and nobody would have believed it beforehand. Why can't we? We will still have momentum. We SHOULD be 2-0. We should have two games of experience under our belt. We should have our entire fan base behind us. We should have proven to everyone that our system works.
Please, tell me why it is IMPOSSIBLE for us to beat Florida?
And yes, today I felt was very very well executed. Were there mistakes? Yes. Two interceptions, a fumble, and a muffed punt aren't great. But 7 incompletions is better than 8. 63 points is better than 62. Great defense is great defense. The fact that nearly every play we had produced positive yardage (in fact, our play average was almost a first down, 8.6 yards per play). We had TWO 100 yard rushers, a Quarterback who threw more TD's in one game than he did ALL year last year.
Am I judging our entire season on one game? No way. I know Western Kentucky is a King Muffin. But I also saw a lot of things that we had today that we have lacked, and that are going to most assuredly produce improvement in our results, whether we win or not.
Last year: Wyoming, scored 7 on one of the worst teams in the country.
This year: WKU, scored 63 on one of the worst teams in the country, and were 6 yards away from 70 when the game ended.
Last year: Florida blew us out.
This year: We might hang.
Last year: UCLA beat us.
This year: We SHOULD stomp them.
Like I said, every game starts 0-0, and being realistic, on paper, no, we shouldn't win. But I will never say that we can't.
And by the way...last years team that went 5-7 did not have these freshmen which produced more than 50% of our offense, and 24 points.
This is a new team, and this is a new day. Accept it, and love it.
