Duke Postgame Thread

[Goin' Deep]

Allen, McCord, Wax,...last year we had on field leadership...
McCord, Angeli... we had ready made QBs.
Today we have neither.
A performance like that in front of supposedly a sellout crowd!!??
No pride...

 

[Offthedome]

Willis always looks good. How does he never end up with 20 carries? Can't we just get him the ball five straight times to wear out a defense?

Seriously. Less Nixon, and more Willis. Especially less Nixon up the middle.

 

[kingtidge]

Seriously. Less Nixon, and more Willis. Especially less Nixon up the middle.

Yeah, Willis has such better lateral cutting ability and vision hitting the gap on the middle runs. Nixon certainly has his uses, but up the middle is not his forte.

 

[Blanko97]

Dukes running back called the teams poor tackling being on film and exploitable, how embarrassing

 

[Scooch]

I mean this sincerely and as a compliment (not as a referendum): this season has the aroma of a pasqualoni season.

A late era Pasqualoni season!

That's why I pushed back yesterday on the notion that results like yesterday require patience because it's part of Fran's "rebuild". Results like yesterday happen to established programs, we literally saw it here in the late 90s and early 00s.

It was the result of a D that has leaned heavily on the O since last season, and a QB who was not at all ready for prime time.

 

[Cusefan69]

Haven't seen this mentioned so I'll throw it in here - Duke had a 4th and 3 around midfield, if that in the 2nd. We were a mess on defense. Calling a TO might have forced Duke to punt, instead of the extremely easy 1st down and eventual score.

Rickie is getting killed here, and he clearly didn't play well, but he was let down all over the field today and then became really one dimensional.

So to me Diaz was going for it no matter what because he had zero concerns about the SU offense. I mean zero. I would add that Duke was way more physical than our team was yesterday as well. They were aggressive all game. It was kind of like the Mike Tyson quote "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face ". Syracuse had a plan, Duke punched Syracuse in the face and Syracuse got handled.