I'm the lone voice in the wilderness that actually feels better after the game than I did before it.
Like everyone but apparently Gus and Rhett, I do recognize the 3 QB rotation was an utter failure, and Johnson particularly has no business ever seeing the field again.
I was ok with JF3 getting the snaps he did to mix it up a bit. He may not have done shit but hand the ball off, but for whatever reason it was working. But if all of Johnson's snaps were given to White, we would have beaten the #2 team in the country. Even in spite of that, we were in striking distance. Two on-target passes to the endzone that could have each won the game if not for being perfectly defended. Few out there thought we'd be in the same zip code as Clemson by the end of the game. Herbstreit was laughed at for saying it might be kinda a sort of close game with us losing. Everyone else said it would be over by halftime.
The fact that everyone else in the SEC (besides Bama, of fucking course) looked at least as much like shit as we did gives me hope. When I was predicting 4 wins, that was before realizing just about everyone else was gonna be as bad as we are. Now IF, and it's a huge IF, Gus can have the fucking humility to see that Jeremy Johnson was a huge fucking bust, and that White was constantly on the verge of getting in a rhythm before getting yanked, and needs to be THE guy, then we can easily unfuck this situation, IMO. But like I said, huge if. Not sure Gus is up to it. I hope he is. This defense is good enough to carry us with a competent offense.