I think you are right Shank. We may have to write this season off and look forward to 2015 as far as Murray is concerned. He does need more time and he's slowly coming around to that.
It will probably end up being a fight between Nole and Rafa for the rest of the season yet again with Nole edging most of the time. Rafa has now 3 titles to defend from this point on and Nole has a few to defend as well after USO including WTF. But given his fitness and no apparent lack of motivation, he might as well be up for it.