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It’s one of those losses where it’s hard to conjure the proper verbiage to describe it.

It feels like all of your emotions are being pureed into a smooth paste of pure dread, and then you’re forced to swallow it all over again with both hands hogtied behind your back — no pinched noses today, friends. You could feel angry, embarrassed, devastated, hysterical...all valid in their own ways.

But ultimately, we all learned the truth that the 2023 are going nowhere fast, and that conclusion was just galvanized in very painful fashion. The defense once again got skewered, as has so often been the case over the last month or so, and it came in the form of rookie phenom C.