Key word: WAS

Mentally, our offense wasn’t there in the first half. That was, to me, the killer. The D showed up just fine outside of that 2-minute drill TD to end the first half.

Rees was also outmatched, again, by a defense that figured out how to get to him, literally and figuratively.

The biggest shock to me was our inability to block them. Golic may be not as good as Cave, but they were coming from every direction. And for once, it did look like the first hit rattled Tommy. But we can’t beat anyone without better blocking.
I have defended Tommy and Coach all year. However, this was definitely the time to make a change. But what happened to our hurry up offense? Tommy is at his best with the quick release, and we didn’t seem to do that at all.
I agree that the D was great. If Harrison caught that int… if Motta doesn’t fall down… I know, excuses.
What I also needed to see was a little more fire. They roughed Tommy twice. The horsecollar on Fleming. Someone needed to hit Luck in the mouth at least once.
I expected a bit more from Manti too. If he’s really the best mlb he needs to make a play every game that takes your breath away.
Coach did not call a great game. We do need more from him on the big games.

Hopefully this is the end of Rees, and Hendrix will start the Bowl game, and either he or Golson will be the QB next year.

There are things I think, and there are other things I know. Given the mix, I feel that Rees was the right choice. Pretty strongly, actually.

I don’t agree. The defense looked rather clearly ready to come to play. And really quite a bit of the offense looked good, but for the somewhat questionable penalties to start. The real problem was that the middle of our offensive line couldn’t keep Rees from getting destroyed. That’s not a “spirited play” problem. That’s a “our current starting center wouldn’t be starting for any of our opponents” problem.