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.

 

[CuseBlood44]

he brought us home at clemson. no easy feat.

On one throw

 

[Cusefan69]

After the first pick and watching their O tear us up, I would have told Willis to strap it up you're getting it 45 times and we are going on every 4th down.

Don't disagree but Willis got a shoulder stinger or slight dislocation yesterday. It happened on a run play towards the Duke sidelines. My son saw him come off the field and you could see a trainer looking to try and either pop the shoulder back in or something.

 

[JKinUtah]

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

It's not like it was a secret if you've watched any film on our defense this year...

 

[Blanko97]

It's not like it was a secret if you've watched any film on our defense this year...

I’m just saying, it’s the obvious yet this coaching staff can’t do anything about it for 17 games

 

[djorange1989]

Yesterday is what a football team looks like when they have been riding nothing but an excellent passing game for almost a year and a half and all of a sudden don’t have that horse to ride anymore. What else has this team been good at? Good news is the Fran to the SEC talk should calm down now. Rickie was bad yesterday but the rest of the team , when they should have rallied around the kid, looked like an uninspired mess who gave up before halftime

 

[wfschrec]

Its hard work man!

Oh I know

 

[Fanalways]

Yesterday is what a football team looks like when they have been riding nothing but an excellent passing game for almost a year and a half and all of a sudden don’t have that horse to ride anymore. What else has this team been good at? Good news is the Fran to the SEC talk should calm down now. Rickie was bad yesterday but the rest of the team , when they should have rallied around the kid, looked like an uninspired mess who gave up before halftime

Pathetic that they didn’t even seem to try in front of a sold out crowd. They should be embarrassed.

 

[JKinUtah]

Poor cook got killed today because of the inaccurate passes

You can blame many things on Ricky but to say the (non) targeting hit on Cook was Ricky’s fault is asinine.

 

[Citiprayer4]

In all the years that I've been a fan of Fran brown's football teams. I've never seen a team of his quit. The offense quit on Ricky. That's why he kept having a throw off his back leg. You didn't stick to the foundation that you have been working on all this time. It's okay to lose but don't quit.And the defense went missing in action. Syracuse Football go back and dedicate yourselves to play like there isn't no tomorrow. And support Ricky as next.man up.

 

[Bayside44]

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.

Cuse wasn’t organized. We had all our timeouts. Slow it down at that point.

 

[Cuseregular]

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...

Yep I think number five sensed just that, got pissed off and was starting to step up and take more of leadership role in the vacuum. I think that continues and should be encouraged, Kid is a player

 

[DuxburyO]

In all the years that I've been a fan of Fran brown's football teams. I've never seen a team of his quit. The offense quit on Ricky. That's why he kept having a throw off his back leg. You didn't stick to the foundation that you have been working on all this time. It's okay to lose but don't quit.And the defense went missing in action. Syracuse Football go back and dedicate yourselves to play like there isn't no tomorrow. And support Ricky as next.man up.

Thanks for your insight. Fran is awesome and I hope he wants to be SU’s football coach for a long time. He makes me a proud alum and for more than his record. Saturday’s game was bad. Real bad.
I bet he learned stuff and addresses this ‘quit issue’ quickly

Beat SMU and keep moving forward