We were traveling last week and I was disconnected from technology until this morning, so I've missed all discussion.
I was happily romping around New Hampshire with the family, enjoying a fine autumn New England day on Saturday. I intentionally kept my phone put away so as to not be distracted in general, and to not think about our game specifically. Just wanted to focus on having fun with the fam.
As cruel fate would have it, we stopped for supper about 5:30 at a random restaurant in a rural area and were seated at a table directly underneath a TV that had our game on. In New Hampshire. What are the odds? Not knowing it was our game, I glanced up to see who was playing and saw we were getting ransacked 24-3. It was midway through the 3rd quarter. I tried not to watch but couldn't help glancing up.
What I saw was disturbing. My observations:
1. We looked VERY poorly coached. Almost like we were playing playground football. We just looked totally discombobulated...like 11 guys just running around in no discernably coordinated effort.
2. From the part I started watching until early in the 4th, I think I saw us commit 5 penalties. Several of them with impeccably bad timing. Terribly, terribly undisciplined. It seemed that just about anytime it looked like things might start going our way, we committed a penalty.
3. Beamer consistently looked confused/frustrated/perplexed on the sidelines. This is all-too-often an occurrence.
4. Some were saying on here last week that Ole Miss was soft. From what I saw in the game, they looked like grown men tossing little boys around.
Granted, I saw a snippet of the game (from about 9 minutes left in the 3rd quarter to the first few minutes of the fourth), but what I saw turned my stomach. Perhaps that was not representative of our performance on the day.
Edit: I'm way too far behind to read all the other threads related to the game, but a quick skim seems to suggest that what I saw in my brief snippet of the game was, sadly, pretty much representative of our day.
I was happily romping around New Hampshire with the family, enjoying a fine autumn New England day on Saturday. I intentionally kept my phone put away so as to not be distracted in general, and to not think about our game specifically. Just wanted to focus on having fun with the fam.
As cruel fate would have it, we stopped for supper about 5:30 at a random restaurant in a rural area and were seated at a table directly underneath a TV that had our game on. In New Hampshire. What are the odds? Not knowing it was our game, I glanced up to see who was playing and saw we were getting ransacked 24-3. It was midway through the 3rd quarter. I tried not to watch but couldn't help glancing up.
What I saw was disturbing. My observations:
1. We looked VERY poorly coached. Almost like we were playing playground football. We just looked totally discombobulated...like 11 guys just running around in no discernably coordinated effort.
2. From the part I started watching until early in the 4th, I think I saw us commit 5 penalties. Several of them with impeccably bad timing. Terribly, terribly undisciplined. It seemed that just about anytime it looked like things might start going our way, we committed a penalty.
3. Beamer consistently looked confused/frustrated/perplexed on the sidelines. This is all-too-often an occurrence.
4. Some were saying on here last week that Ole Miss was soft. From what I saw in the game, they looked like grown men tossing little boys around.
Granted, I saw a snippet of the game (from about 9 minutes left in the 3rd quarter to the first few minutes of the fourth), but what I saw turned my stomach. Perhaps that was not representative of our performance on the day.
Edit: I'm way too far behind to read all the other threads related to the game, but a quick skim seems to suggest that what I saw in my brief snippet of the game was, sadly, pretty much representative of our day.
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