As someone who went to Vanderbilt and has followed this team since the beginning I'm used to bad football. And like to think I've developed a sort of spider sense for a bad game vs confidence crushing defeat that ruins a season. Because Ive seen a lot the latter over the decades. And I'm not feeling that. The amount of points we gave up kinda scares me. But this game reeked of a stinker from the get go. Celebrating last week like we won the super bowl, long road trip, perhaps too much confidence, a hot QB that the NFL hasn't quite figured out yet, etc...  Also we seem to need a chip on our shoulder. We beat the good teams but lose to the bad ones(and don't forget lousy win over the browns).  Most importantly going forward we seem to be a match up team. I'd rather us play QBs that hold the ball and look to throw down field. Quick accurate passing is something we struggle against. And Garop is obviously good at that and was a bad matchup. Our coaches need to figure out a game plan for this because we don't have a great answer.

I am a little worried about titans game cuz we have nothing to play for other than not playing Tennessee again. But I've still got hope when playoff time comes, we will be super fired up no matter who we play. And that seems to be a big deal for us.

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