From Bad To Worse

- Jamar Chaney fractured his leg in the loss to La Tech. He has already had surgery and is done for the year. Chaney led the team with 12 tackles Saturday. Saying that this is a huge loss is an understatement, Chaney was clearly the second best player on the defense. Coaches were impressed with his backup, Jamie Jones, and said he was good enough to start. They better be right or Mississippi State is in trouble.

- There was going to be a long post about the stupidity of Croom trying to run a 2 QB system. Make no mistake, in the situation we have this year it is a monumentally dumb decision. Luckily Croom has put the 2 QB experiment to an end:

"Wesley’s our quarterback. We’re gonna sink or swim with him." He later added, “Right now we’ve got one guy I feel totally confident in."

Thank you. Personally I think he picked the right guy too, but even if he had chosen Lee that would have been fine. Pick one and go with it.

- As far as Lee playing over Carrol in the 4th quarter:

"No, it wasn’t a mistake to have Tyson out there. It may be your opinion, or the opinion of the fans, but all my decisions are based on practices going into the games."

Yes it was a mistake Croom. You are dead wrong but are too stubborn or blind to admit it. I think the fact that Lee couldn't get a single 1st down in the 4th quarter against a presumably bad defense is evidence enough that he shouldn't have been in there. I don't give a crap what you saw in practice. Lee has played well in practice and Carroll has led multiple last minute game winning drives. I wonder who should play when the game is on the line? Doing well in practice and doing well in games are two totally different things Croom and if you don't know that by now you shouldn't be a head coach anywhere. As I've already said though, he has scrapped the 2 QB deal and gone with Carrol, so even if he doesn't want to admit it, clearly he knows he messed up. Tip of the hat for that.

-Mississippi State held an unscheduled practice at 7am this morning in which they worked solely on special teams. I'm glad Croom sees what a disaster they were and knows he has to get them fixed, but shouldn't he have worked on ST once or twice in the month leading up to the season?
The team will practice again at 3.


I'm forcing myself to rewatch the game and will have thoughts up later on, probably Wednesday. Its probably best to cool down before talking about it anyway.