Fixed it so it looks more familiar. 34 - ZERO. I'm not putting a gun to my head yet.
85 yards passing, a quarterback who threw at least two balls directly to defenders (no receiver in sight on either) and an offense that looks like something you'd see a junior high private school team running. The gun is not to my head, but it's damn sure in my hand and I'm looking at it.
Franklin looked like a frenetic douchebag on the sidelines, too. He needs to get his monkey ass up in the booth.
After one game you can put me squarely in the "holy SHIT, what a mistake I hope we can survive this" camp. Things that have me seriously, seriously concerned:
1) Todd looked like a complete loser. No touch on his passes and a complete inability to make a decision. Standing back in the pocket for ten seconds and no idea where to throw the ball? Panicking and throwing it to the other team? Perhaps the worst quarterback debut I've seen in a long time.
2) Franklin has always seemed out-of-control. From his off-season sound bites to his refusal to pick a quarterback, he's bothered me. I got nothing good out of Saturday. He looked like a sweaty, disorganized bum. The stubborn decision to swap series with the QBs kept both afraid to make a mistake and didn't allow either to develop any kind of rhythm. But he's a douchebag who's going to do things his own way.
3) Franklin's ability to evaluate talent in SEC terms seems woefully. woefully lacking. Todd is further from ready to be an SEC quarterback than Paul McCartney's one-legged former wife. Burns is ahead. A drunken orangutan could see that. But Franklin's bull-headed insistence on making Todd "his guy" kept Burns from getting the number of number one reps he should have and has stunted his development. I was really hesitant about Franklin from the beginning, but after watching one outing, I pretty much think he is an assclown. Not impressed. He's rinky-dink.
4) If we'd been playing an SEC-caliber team last night we might have played well enough on defense to hold them to 10-14 points, but we wouldn't have come close to scoring that much. Not anywhere near. You can write that off to "not showing all our cards" and "playing vanilla" but isn't that the same bullshit we've heard for the last couple of years? What if we just don't have any true playmakers on offense other than the backs and our O-line? If that is really the case, Franklin's gimmick shit isn't the way to get them moving or to hide the defencies under center and at wideout.
I hate to complain about a 34-0 win, and I appreciate the desire to see silver linings, but there were a hell of a lot of dark clouds, too. Yeah, it's all sunshiny today, no question. Don't look at the weather. Just ignore that monster hurricane brewing off the coast.
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