Nassib

[Fjoinkay]

I thought he played one of his best games on the road. When he struggled a little early he worked through it and maintained a positive demeanor. His body language was much better, and he looked very confident, and he eventually found his groove. If he can continue to play at this high level and everyone can cut down on the mental mistakes they can make a bowl game, but they've sure dug a nice hole for themselves.

 

[OrangeinBoston]

I thought he played one of his best games on the road. When he struggled a little early he worked through it and maintained a positive demeanor. His body language was much better, and he looked very confident, and he eventually found his groove. If he can continue to play at this high level and everyone can cut down on the mental mistakes they can make a bowl game, but they've sure dug a nice hole for themselves.

If you think that, 9 games into the season, a team that habitually makes mental mistakes will all of a sudden stop making them, you are dreaming. If the coaches haven't found the solution by now, if the players haven't realized what it takes to win by now, they simply never will.

 

[Fjoinkay]

I fear you may be right, but I think a lot of the mistakes can be eliminated especially the offsides penalties. I actually like that many of these guys are too aggressive and that is the reason they jump, but at a certain point that needs to fade out. These guys need to be aggressive AND wait for the snap. If the offsides were more an issue of these guys lacking confidence or getting beat consistently I'd think it was hopeless.

This team needs to focus on the fundamentals in my opinion. I have no idea how they practice, but in game situations many of these guys when under stress revert to bad habits or flawed tendencies. It's not something they do all of the time. I just think the coaches need to keep it simple and hammer away at the fundamentals so that these kids trust the teaching in all situations. It needs to be engrained in their brains. One thing about Louisville is that they play very smart football within what they do.

 

[orangepassion]

I agree about Nassib-I thought he was excellent. It's too bad we dropped 2 TD passes

 

[MikeSU02]

I thought he played one of his best games on the road. When he struggled a little early he worked through it and maintained a positive demeanor. His body language was much better, and he looked very confident, and he eventually found his groove. If he can continue to play at this high level and everyone can cut down on the mental mistakes they can make a bowl game, but they've sure dug a nice hole for themselves.

He threw for less than 50%. That is terrible.

I know there were some drops, but he needs to be at about 65% for us to get wins.

There were a bunch of issues yesterday and it was bad weather, but he was missing guys in the flat.

Regardless, we need him to bounce back next week at home.

 

[qdawgg]

We watched different games because I thought he was terrible for a large part of the game and was a big reason the offense couldn't get anything going at the start of the game. Almost every throw was behind, low, high, too far ahead, you name it. He missed multiple throws that would have picked up at least some easy yards, missed some 1st down throws, and was abysmal on short touch throws. His throw to west was a perfectly thrown ball however.

 

[Alsacs]

Only complaint I had with him was his blitz recognition. Cincy tipped off the corner blitz numerous times and he never audibled to a hot receiver. With that said he wasn't the reason we lost yesterday. The zebras, and our rush defense are why we lost.

 

[Jake]

That sideline end zone pass to west was probably the best deep ball Nassib has ever thrown...and west dropped it.

 

[NineOneSeven]

Only complaint I had with him was his blitz recognition. Cincy tipped off the corner blitz numerous times and he never audibled to a hot receiver. With that said he wasn't the reason we lost yesterday. The zebras, and our rush defense are why we lost.

Give it a rest. The refs had some extremely poor calls (the fumble was easily one of the worst I've ever seen), but the reason we lost was because we did everything possible to lose the game. No way to deflect blame there.

 

[PhatOrange]

That sideline end zone pass to west was probably the best deep ball Nassib has ever thrown...and west dropped it.

i only watched bits and pieces of the game yesterday and i missed this play that people have been talking about. thankfully i haven't even seen a replay of it either ...

 

[Alsacs]

Give it a rest. The refs had some extremely poor calls (the fumble was easily one of the worst I've ever seen), but the reason we lost was because we did everything possible to lose the game. No way to deflect blame there.

Zebras had an impact on that game, I didn't put it exclusively on them as our rush defense was pathetic. However, if you don't believe the refs had an impact on that game you are being kind. Every call on the field that was reviewed on the field was ruled in favor of Cincinnati thus the booth had to find indisputable evidence for anything to go our way. The officials typically suck for both sides there is no way Cincy fans would say they had any problems with the refs yesterday.

 

[GoSU96]

I thought he played one of his best games on the road. When he struggled a little early he worked through it and maintained a positive demeanor. His body language was much better, and he looked very confident, and he eventually found his groove. If he can continue to play at this high level and everyone can cut down on the mental mistakes they can make a bowl game, but they've sure dug a nice hole for themselves.

He made some GREAT throws yesterday. The TD to Lemon was perfect.

 

[007]

Only complaint I had with him was his blitz recognition. Cincy tipped off the corner blitz numerous times and he never audibled to a hot receiver. With that said he wasn't the reason we lost yesterday. The zebras, and our rush defense are why we lost.

Only complaint I had with him was his blitz recognition. Cincy tipped off the corner blitz numerous times and he never audibled to a hot receiver. With that said he wasn't the reason we lost yesterday. The zebras, and our rush defense are why we lost.

Hard to tell watching on TV, but from my couch the CB blitzs were schemed perfectly and never tipped. In fact, they overloaded the side away from the CB blitz both times, forcing Nassib to rotate the protection to that side. In theory, the hot read will also be to the over load side. That is exactly where he was looking and that's why he never saw the blitz coming from the blind side. Perfectly timed and perfectly executed by Cincy.

Take issue with RB that failed to pick up that blitz. Nassib didn't have a chance.

 

[tbonezone]

and that one long completion was a duck the receiver had to stop and wait for else it had gone for six if hit on stride...

 

[Fjoinkay]

and that one long completion was a duck the receiver had to stop and wait for else it had gone for six if hit on stride...

He showed more touch on that pass than any long ball for the past 3 years, and then he did it again to West. I'm not saying his numbers were great. I'm saying he was playing well and making more consistent good decisions on the road, and I can clearly see development and more maturity in his process. In my mind it was one of his best overall games on the road which is what I said at the top.