Big plays

[nccusefan]

It feels like another game that we outplayed our opponent and lost due to big plays. On offense LSU had 4 plays that accounted for 193 yards and 3 TD. On Defense they had the interception that led to the 1yd TD. Those 5 plays were the difference.

The few big plays that we have usually come from trick plays.

Do we lack playmakers that are capable? Do we just fail to capitalize, either by drops or by penalties that negate our big plays? Is it our lack of a running game which allows teams to drop more players into coverage? Is it play calling with too many throws underneath? Is it a lack of arm strength by ED to throw over the top of coverage? On defense do we take too many risks on defense that expose us to big plays?

 

[tbonezone]

we gave up pass plays to 4 different receivers of 87 , 43 ,43, and 22 yards. D needs to ...

 

[PAcuse]

It's a catch 22 on defense if we don't take risks then they have all day for the routes to develop and if we bring to many then we but our secondary on an island. Defense we are close but we are just missing a little at this point imo.
Offense you have to have trick plays against a fast athletic defense like LSU.
Riley dropping the touchdown sure doesn't help at all.
Dungey's arm strength is just fine, we played against secondary U last night and did just fine.
The lack of run game does hurt a bit, but as we showed last night we can still compete without it, BUT we will need it in the future.
To the point about play calling passes underneath that is offense 101. It will force the DBs to creep up closer and closer to allow the deep ball. If they don't I'll take 5-7 passes all day long.
Last night we showed we are closer to a finished product, yes we still have some mistakes to clean up for sure, that will soon be full of play makers and doing some amazing things.

 

[Alsacs]

The defense has gotten faster.

The offense needs more speed.

The WRs especially aren't as fast as other teams.

We need more speed.

 

[SoBeCuse]

I thought Dungey's arm looked really good last night.

The DL and LBs have been playing well. We must not forget that in ALL the games so far; once any QB (and the LSU guy had a cannon) gets a little time and decides to go downfield then our secondary is toast. It just is what it is. They aren't particularly good or fast. Their tackling improved yesterday it seemed. But, we saw in MTSU/CCSU games that they can get burned no problem. Now that LSU guy was a freak...the big guy who also plays pro (?) soccer, but, it's happened in every game routinely.

 

[TheCusian]

It feels like another game that we outplayed our opponent and lost due to big plays. On offense LSU had 4 plays that accounted for 193 yards and 3 TD. On Defense they had the interception that led to the 1yd TD. Those 5 plays were the difference.

The few big plays that we have usually come from trick plays.

Do we lack playmakers that are capable? Do we just fail to capitalize, either by drops or by penalties that negate our big plays? Is it our lack of a running game which allows teams to drop more players into coverage? Is it play calling with too many throws underneath? Is it a lack of arm strength by ED to throw over the top of coverage? On defense do we take too many risks on defense that expose us to big plays?

On D, they were bigger and faster than our DB’s. It is what it is.

That’s where talent deficiencies really show up against teams like LSU, Clemson.

 

[TheCusian]

I thought Dungey's arm looked really good last night.

The DL and LBs have been playing well. We must not forget that in ALL the games so far; once any QB (and the LSU guy had a cannon) gets a little time and decides to go downfield then our secondary is toast. It just is what it is. They aren't particularly good or fast. Their tackling improved yesterday it seemed. But, we saw in MTSU/CCSU games that they can get burned no problem. Now that LSU guy was a freak...the big guy who also plays pro (?) soccer, but, it's happened in every game routinely.

Mostly agree. The DB’s look real good on short and intermediate throws. Not a lot of those routes are working at all. The longer throws + time are usually trouble for any secondary. But we take bad angles from the S position

 

[SoBeCuse]

Mostly agree. The DB’s look real good on short and intermediate throws. Not a lot of those routes are working at all. The longer throws + time are usually trouble for any secondary. But we take bad angles from the S position

True. We're not talking though if a QB is having 7 sec back there. The CCSU dudes were getting behind them too.

 

[TheCusian]

True. We're not talking though if a QB is having 7 sec back there. The CCSU dudes were getting behind them too.

Agreed. When we didn’t bring an extra guy it wasn’t pretty