Willie Martinez: I’ve given you passes all season long for our awful, inexcusable secondary play, hoping that we’d improve. At times it seemed like we might have improved but, inevitably, we prove how bad we are…like tonight. Allow me to be an oracle of the obvious: we do not have an SEC-quality secondary and any blind grandmother in Soddy Daisy can see it. Time and again, our DBs have been used, owned, embarrassed, burned and just plain beaten by average QBs and receivers. We have seen it all season. We are seeing that again tonight. Our DBs cannot cover, they cannot play man, and, Lord help me, they cannot tackle. They are lost, completely lost, on what seems like every other play.
This unit — your unit — remains this team’s Achilles Heel. Through 9.5 games, your unit is the weakest on the team. And again tonight, they alone are responsible for way too many points against us. Your unit is helping make Rattler and his receivers look like All-Americans…as they have so many average QBs this season. Unacceptable. This is not how championship secondaries play. It’s not even how decent SEC secondaries play. It is inexcusable.
You are the coach. Not that it matters to anyone but me, but I hold you entirely responsible. So does my blind grandmother.
