Ray Lucas's bad play probably cost us more than anything. We had a healthy OL that year with Jaimie Nails, Todd Perry, Tim Ruddy, and Todd Wade all playing above average. Ricky was killing it. Chambers and McMichael were making plays in the pass game. Surtain, Madison, Marion, JT, Zach, and TBo were at the top of their games, and Mare was still clutch. Lucas cost us some games.
Cam Cameron's camp cupcake resulted in a lot of injuries that led us to 1-15. And I've never seen such a poorly conditioned or coached team. I know people like to bash Sparano, but I think people really need to look at how bad Cam was.
I understand Culpepper was hurt, but the fact that when he got to us he made no effort to rehab his injury and then refused to work on getting back into shape when Saban benched him.
I like Welker the player, but how he left Miami left a sour taste in my mouth.
Wanny really set us back awhile.