RF2044
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The games at UNC and NC State had worse weather by far. Especially vs the 2nd half of our game.
I don't think the conditions were anti short passing. Both teams passed it fine. Part of our game is throwing it down the field. I don't think that was possible because of the wet ball in the first half. The 2nd half we should have at least tried. Especially trailing. It did have an impact but IMO not as great as an impact as your comment is coming across. IMO it wasn't so bad that we had to completely abandon the pass. Our game was a nice day compared to what ND was playing in.
So to go back to your original post, no I don't agree that the weather had an impact on our quick passes since none of our quick passes that we did throw were off the mark.
IMO the coaches overcompensated for the weather.
You are entitled to your opinion, but several posters who attended the game DID in fact talk about how lousy the weather was, and how it undoubtedly adversely affected offensive play. Wake Forest wasn't as impacted, because they are a run first team. We were impacted more, because we can't run the ball effectively.
To your other point, I agree that the coaches overcompensated, but I was watching on TV and not in the stands. The people that were paint a different picture than how you frame it up. I think you were visually deceived by the telecast; which made it look a lot clearer than it did whenever they did a close frame shot, and you could see how hard it was raining and how hard the wind seemed to be blowing.
And you are missing the point about throwing the ball quickly. We did not get the ball out as quickly as we normally do--wet ball, wet field, whatever. Our WRs were slipping and sloppy out of their breaks all game long. That forced Dungey to hang onto the ball longer than he otherwise has all season long, and that was all it took for protection to break down.
A team doesn't go from passing for 400 yards a game and being in the top 10 in a variety of offensive statistical categories to producing a fraction of that and running about half the offensive plays we normally do without weather conditions being a factor... unless, that is, you buy the color commentator's stance that it was the WF defense that was responsible for all of our issues. I don't buy that, and neither did some posters who attended the game in person Saturday.
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