I think we had a great season made it to the SEC Championship and to the final 4 once again. With that being said we just had to many question marks IMO, so what are you biggest what ifs for the season?

1. A healthy CJ Baxiter, we missed the power run or in some games being able to run the ball at all. CJ in pass protection, the passing game and being able to just fall forward and get 2-3 yards was missed.

2. A healthy Quinn Ewers, Quinn was on fire until he went out vs UTSA i can’t help but think he would have kept building off that and not battling injuries.

3. AD Mitchell returned for his sr season, I say AD because I remembered he at least considered it unlike Worthy but we missed a number 1 WR in games. I would have loved to seen Bond and AD on the outside with Golden at the slot position. Moore played well but being younger I just think Golden would have been a improvement at slot WR.

4. Special teams, we definitely took a step back at special teams as a whole having last year’s special special teams play as a whole would have been tremendous for us.

5. As great as the defense was can’t help but think if it could have been better with a Sweat or Murphy.

The confidence quinn loses from his injuries never let him get to the next level

19 minutes ago, AJJ_Sports said:

The confidence quinn loses from his injuries never let him get to the next level

I agree to a extent, I do believe for a few games his ab injury wouldn’t allow him to do physically do what he wanted to which hurt his confidence 

36 minutes ago, Jbro52 said:

I agree to a extent, I do believe for a few games his ab injury wouldn’t allow him to do physically do what he wanted to which hurt his confidence 

I agree!

Many of those “what if’s” are fantasy. There was zero chance that AD was ever going to come back after the season he had and having a young daughter to provide for. And the Sweat and Murphy thoughts about the season being better well those guys were seniors. It’s not like those two what if’s were even remotely possible. 

The only real what ifs for me are what if the holding gets called on 3rd and 8 and what if Sark puts Arch in and runs 4 QB sneaks. We were where we wanted to be. 

What if Sark doesn’t decide to pitch it 5 yards backwards from the one yard line 😭

]The obvious "what if", and rightfully so, is what if we had a fully healthy CJ Baxter and did not have the season ending injuries in the preseason 

1. What if Derek Williams Jr. Never went down with injury

2. What if Johntay Cook decided to not act like Antonio Brown and acted like everyone else, resulting in him getting the regular playtime planned.

3. What if Bert Auburn Makes those crucial misses.

2 hours ago, pskjace said:

Many of those “what if’s” are fantasy. There was zero chance that AD was ever going to come back after the season he had and having a young daughter to provide for. And the Sweat and Murphy thoughts about the season being better well those guys were seniors. It’s not like those two what if’s were even remotely possible. 

What if we added Barry Sanders. 

2 minutes ago, Red Five said:

What if we added Barry Sanders. 

That’s a dangerous team right there

3 hours ago, pskjace said:

Many of those “what if’s” are fantasy. 

All impossible conjectures are fantasies.

A total waste of time unless you are drunk at the bar.

FIFY

what if the howard fumble doesnt hang on facemask and then drop perfectly in his hands. what if the quinn fumble doesnt plop perfectly back up into jack sawyers hand for a lumbering long td. what is te doesnt get 15 yard penalty on our final drive that made it to the 1 yardline YO

Don’t believe in “what if” it’s an excuse.

“what if “ Texas didn’t stop USC on 4th and one in Rose Bowl.

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I think if Auburn makes those kicks in the SEC Championship game and we ended up playing ND or PSU we'd be playing tOSU for the Natty this upcoming week.  Would have likely put  UGA on the other side of that bracket.