SWC75
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- This team lost at home to Western Michigan. They lost to Vanderbilt and Iowa State and got crushed by West Virginia and Pittsburgh. But we couldn’t beat them. Now we are 5-4 and need to beat at least one team that’s better than this to get bowl eligible.
- When a good team gets the ball, you wonder if each play is the one where they are going to break a big one. When we get the ball, we know that it’s going to take 10-12 plays to score and we can’t afford any errors- sacks, penalties, drops, turnovers, etc. You are just praying they don’t screw this play up.
- The first half seemed like Syracuse vs. Syracuse. The worst performances in the late Coach P. era vs. the worst performances of the Marrone or maybe even the G-Rob. Era. Upperdeck pointed out in the chatroom that we got five turnovers in the first half and didn’t punt in the second half an lost. How does that happen?
- Against West Virginia we used the whole playbook, all of our weapons and the whole field. Now we are back to using 2-3 plays that work until the other team adjusts to them. Meanwhile, UCONN kept running the quarterback and it looked like the 2004 Temple game, where the QB just kept running it and we couldn’t figure out how to stop him, even though he was no passing threat at all.
- Special teams was a disaster. We open the game by giving up a big kick-off return then try to kick away from Williams and kick it out of bounds and give them the ball on the 40. Krautman missed a field goal that would have been huge for momentum just before the half. Chris Gedney says he has a “lower body injury”. if so, why aren’t we using Lichtenstein. Jonathan Fisher was terrible, averaging only 33.5 yards a punt. Fortunately he didn’t have to punt in the second half but what will we get when he goes out there next week?
- Dorian Graham hasn’t fielded a kick-off since he went 98 against West Virginia. In this game he caught one pass for 4 yards. He did get 33 yards on four end-arounds. He had 40 on the first three of them then -7 when we went to it once too often. This guy is the closest thing we’ve got to a game-breaker. He’s not just fast but he’s strong, hit’s the hole fast and runs north-south. We’ve got to get him the ball in situations where he can really do something with it.
- Ryan Nassib is clearly a “rhythm” quarterback who needs to be firing at the defense out of the no-huddle to be effective. In the first half, while we were again trying to “establish the run”, (against a team whose biggest strength is their defensive line), he was 7 for 17 for 94 yards. In the second half he was 17 for 22 for 181 yards. If we’d come out firing, I think we would have won this game. I also think we’d have gotten more out of Bailey, who got only 50 yards on 16 carries. Again, the passing game is our fastball. The running game is our change-up.
- Getting off to good starts is so important, especially on the road and against an underdog, (yeah, I know they were favored but we shouldn’t have lost to this team). This is the third time this year that I can recall in which we’ve won the toss and deferred to the second half. Toledo went on a 10 minute scoring drive and Louisville and Connecticut scored almost immediately.
- It’s a frustrating time and fans need to be able to vent after a game. But you can go too far. Virtually everyone in the chatroom said we’re doomed to finish 5-7 now, as if we’d lost four games on the same day. Then a caller to The Score’s post game show announced that “all our recruits are left-over garbage” and predicted we’d never win a game in the ACC. Our players are not garbage and we have three games left to become bowl eligible, two at home . This is a conference full of “elevator” teams that are up and down from week to week. We are down right now but it doesn’t mean we’re going to stay down. Have a little faith or at least more respect than that for the team.
- When a good team gets the ball, you wonder if each play is the one where they are going to break a big one. When we get the ball, we know that it’s going to take 10-12 plays to score and we can’t afford any errors- sacks, penalties, drops, turnovers, etc. You are just praying they don’t screw this play up.
- The first half seemed like Syracuse vs. Syracuse. The worst performances in the late Coach P. era vs. the worst performances of the Marrone or maybe even the G-Rob. Era. Upperdeck pointed out in the chatroom that we got five turnovers in the first half and didn’t punt in the second half an lost. How does that happen?
- Against West Virginia we used the whole playbook, all of our weapons and the whole field. Now we are back to using 2-3 plays that work until the other team adjusts to them. Meanwhile, UCONN kept running the quarterback and it looked like the 2004 Temple game, where the QB just kept running it and we couldn’t figure out how to stop him, even though he was no passing threat at all.
- Special teams was a disaster. We open the game by giving up a big kick-off return then try to kick away from Williams and kick it out of bounds and give them the ball on the 40. Krautman missed a field goal that would have been huge for momentum just before the half. Chris Gedney says he has a “lower body injury”. if so, why aren’t we using Lichtenstein. Jonathan Fisher was terrible, averaging only 33.5 yards a punt. Fortunately he didn’t have to punt in the second half but what will we get when he goes out there next week?
- Dorian Graham hasn’t fielded a kick-off since he went 98 against West Virginia. In this game he caught one pass for 4 yards. He did get 33 yards on four end-arounds. He had 40 on the first three of them then -7 when we went to it once too often. This guy is the closest thing we’ve got to a game-breaker. He’s not just fast but he’s strong, hit’s the hole fast and runs north-south. We’ve got to get him the ball in situations where he can really do something with it.
- Ryan Nassib is clearly a “rhythm” quarterback who needs to be firing at the defense out of the no-huddle to be effective. In the first half, while we were again trying to “establish the run”, (against a team whose biggest strength is their defensive line), he was 7 for 17 for 94 yards. In the second half he was 17 for 22 for 181 yards. If we’d come out firing, I think we would have won this game. I also think we’d have gotten more out of Bailey, who got only 50 yards on 16 carries. Again, the passing game is our fastball. The running game is our change-up.
- Getting off to good starts is so important, especially on the road and against an underdog, (yeah, I know they were favored but we shouldn’t have lost to this team). This is the third time this year that I can recall in which we’ve won the toss and deferred to the second half. Toledo went on a 10 minute scoring drive and Louisville and Connecticut scored almost immediately.
- It’s a frustrating time and fans need to be able to vent after a game. But you can go too far. Virtually everyone in the chatroom said we’re doomed to finish 5-7 now, as if we’d lost four games on the same day. Then a caller to The Score’s post game show announced that “all our recruits are left-over garbage” and predicted we’d never win a game in the ACC. Our players are not garbage and we have three games left to become bowl eligible, two at home . This is a conference full of “elevator” teams that are up and down from week to week. We are down right now but it doesn’t mean we’re going to stay down. Have a little faith or at least more respect than that for the team.