The beginning of the end was all the dropped passes in 2006 that never got better. We went a whole season
without any adjustments in play calling or coaching to correct the problem.
The end of the end was the Bama game last year. We had exactly the right tools to destroy Bama but never used them. The Bama linebackers could not cover short passes. We had Stafford, Moreno, and Greene. So we ran right at them trying to establish the play-action pass ... which of course was always a deep ball against the other strength of their defense. What we needed to do was play dink&dunk passign game to keep our defense off the field.
That was it. I knew by halftime of the Bama game that there was no hope of our coaching ever getting any better. They had the perfect tools but didn't know what to do with them.