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25 tweets about the 2016 season I’d like to delete … and 10 I should pin

Chris Wright

By Chris Wright

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Some editors spend their days tweeting links.

I much prefer offering observations and opinions, engaging in friendly sparring, usually about the SEC but not always.

(W)right or wrong, it’s always fun.

Here are 25 tweets from the 2016 regular season that I’d like to forget … and 10 I should have pinned.

25 I’d like to forget

1. Crazy thing about the Canes: They were a botched field goal from beating FSU and could have coasted to ACC title game from there. Coulda, shoulda … but didn’t.

2. Call me crazy, but I’d still rather watch these four than the four we’re going to get.

3. I later amended and wrote that Jalen Hurts should win the Heisman … this year. I should have written that at 2:51 p.m., Sept. 23.

4. What was I thinking? How about, forever.

5. Oops.

6. Fortunately, the day turned out very well for both of us.

7. Well, it was true then.

8. I missed an important disclaimer when describing Mizzou’s legitimacy: “against bad teams.”

9. When Bama messes up, Nick gets to yell at Lane. I can only scream at myself.

10. Oh, what could have been.

11. Or not.

12. Vandy shut it down, all right. The Dores held Georgia Tech to a season-high 38 points.

13. So impressed with him during and after the Outback Bowl, just the way he carried himself. Then he darn near tried to bring down Vols Nation. Couldn’t though.

14. Obviously I mean to say LSU.

15. Speaking of swinging and missing … Why do I question myself? I was right … then wrong.

16. Clearly.

17. Kinda, sorta … the East eventually won a round or two, but the fight should have been called early. Like around December 2009.

18. Back when I was still mad about Alabama’s QB1 decision.

19. OK, so he’s not going to win. But can I at least get a rematch with Bama in the national title game?

20. Odd part, play that Pettway got hurt on was one where he tried to run away from the field. Do what you do, big fella.

21. I forgot about the OSU exception in the College Football Playoff criteria. It’s marked with a Buckeyes helmet sticker instead of an asterisk.

22. At least I got this part right …

23. I should have believed. Earlier, even.

24. This is the kind of detailed analysis that leads to TV gigs.

25. Time will tell, but give me Bama by 14 against the B1G-gest you got.

10 Tweets I’d like to pin

1. During spring ball, it was obvious, to me, anyway, that Jalen Hurts was just … different. In July I picked Alabama to go 6-2 with losses to Ole Miss and LSU because I was convinced Nick Saban would stick to the process and start one of the lesser veterans. Instead, Saban blew it up — and Hurts beat Ole Miss and LSU.

2. Moments before this, I tweeted that I couldn’t understand why Alabama hadn’t just named Hurts the starter from the opening kickoff.

3. Alabama slowed down but still finished fifth in the country with 41 sacks.

3. Honestly, I don’t know why they waited so long.

4. Poor Vols. This was just the beginning of the season to remember to forget.

5. The best adapt and thrive, not hope and survive.

6. Don’t believe me? Check back in 5 years.

7. Sure, the Buckeyes lost to the possible Big Ten champ, but let’s pick the Bucks ahead of Penn State, anyway.

8. Thirty minutes after they announced the postponement, the inevitable solution.

9. Anybody seen the updated spread lately?

10. Then. Now. Until Nick retires.

Chris Wright is Executive Editor at SaturdayDownSouth.com. Email him at cwright@saturdaydownsouth.com and follow him on Twitter @FilmRoomEditor.

Chris Wright
Chris Wright

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A 30-time APSE award-winning editor with previous stints at the Miami Herald, The Indianapolis Star and News & Observer, Executive Editor Chris Wright oversees editorial operations for Saturday Down South.

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