Time to face reality for my fellow Canes fans. Many things can be true at once, and this is what I belive to be true. - Any win is a good win. We used to play our best against FSU and still lose, like in the Kaaya years. But now, the talent gap is so wide, we can play mediocre and win. - We are a good team. - We are not a great team. - Good may be good enough to win it all this year, because no team is clearly better than the rest. NIL has greatly spread the playing field and parity is among us. Whoever gets hot and lucky in December will win. - Because we can stop the run, we should be in every game, outside of just weird circumstances, which can happen. - We’re nowhere near as good as last year on the o-line. Everyone wants to complain when we don’t score 50, but we can’t really pound people in the 4th. We did against Clemson, we didn’t against Wake, we kinda sorta did against FSU. Cam Ward used to camp out behind the line. Mensah gets pressured, a lot. - Mensah doesn’t have the strongest arm. He should come back next year. Won’t help his arm strength per se, but it will help his development. - The losses against UL and SMU (garbage) ended up being good for us in ‘25. We played like we had everything to lose the last four games, crushed everyone, and rolled with that momentum right into the national title game. - I don’t WANT to lose any games, but we will. We will not be undefeated this year. That loss will suck, but it will be good for us. This team needs to hit the playoffs hungry and like they have everything to lose. - Bottom line, Mario has us back at #1 for the first time since ‘02, we’re winning big games, bringing in monster recruits, and should have a shot at title runs every year for the foreseeable future. Cannot ask for anything more. #GoCanes 🙌