He had 5th and 6th seniors that played together for a half a decade. If you combine our current OL’s entire career starts, it’s half of the starts that Ken marks, Shane vallot and max mitchell had EACH! We have 3 redshirt soph’s, a redshirt freshmen and redshirt junior on the OL (once burton starts) Levi Lewis had 3 starts before Billy even got here and still split time once Billy did get here then went on to start 39 games in 3 years. Percy butler, Manac, Humphrey, Torrence, Johnson, Bailey, garner, Gardner, wisham…all gone. Lost All those guys and we are still only handful of plays from being undefeated. You know what a lot those guys were before they learned how to win together? 7-7.
You're going to have close games throughout the year regardless of the team you are. Perhaps there are a few anomalies in the CFB world but by and large everyone has close games that you need to win to be a good/great team. We haven't won the close games because we aren't a good team. Not even arguing why we aren't a good team, we simply aren't a good team.
Bc most of these guys haven’t had to do it. They have been backups or substitutes but when it really mattered, they weren’t on the field, Especially on offense. When it mattered you had the 5 guys up front with almost 200 starts under their belt. You had a qb with over 40 starts, you had Percy butler playing special teams who is on a 53 man roster right now. You had a team full of guys who not only had been through the battles but had been through them together. Give the damn team a chance to figure it out. Our O-line of the last 3-4 years probably didn’t even need to talk to each other to know where they were going.
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