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- I feel like the operation was a success but I wish they’d used an anesthetic. I’ve often said that there are two things I want out of a game: to win and to feel that our chances of winning the next one are good, or at least improved. This one was like the Connecticut game: we got the win but not the feeling. You can’t claim to be a good team if you are barely beating bad teams.
- Three turnovers, a kickoff return for a score by BC, a missed field goal, an indigestible 16 penalties for 135 yards. We were very lucky Dungey didn’t get thrown out of the game in the first quarter. We were also lucky that BC’s receiver couldn’t catch that ball at the goal line. Then there was the bootleg where the entire defense bit on the fake and no one could run down a lumbering 240 pound QB. That was a 4-8 team that happened to be 4-4 at the moment.
- Our offensive line was over-matched in this game. They couldn’t open holes for the running game and they couldn’t protect Dungey, who was sacked 5 tiems and on the run several more. We had no clue as to how to pick up blitzes: you could see one coming on TV but our guys couldn’t adjust to them. Donatae Stickland is supposedly in the game because he’s a better blocker than Jordan Fredericks but he totally whiffed on one key play.
- The horrendous 16 penalties included 8 false starts, (and there was another that offset by a BC penalty. There were two in a row in a first quarter drive and three of them in a 1st and goal situation in the third quarter. Maybe the hurry-up offense contributes to this but in the 8th game of the season, this isn’t within sight of being acceptable. O-line coach Mike Lynch must be in hiding right now.
- Like his team, Eric Dungey was productive but far from perfect. Early in the game he was forcing long throws into cover and one of them got picked off to end a drive and set up a BC field goal. That was also the play where he, in frustration, threw the interceptor onto the ground after they’d both gone out of bounds and then shoved another guy to the ground after the guy confronted him. Imagine the rest of the game if Eric had been ejected, as might well have been if the refs saw the whole thing. While I’m at it, I’ll also imagine the game without Eric’s two fumbles. We couldn’t have won without him but we almost lost with him.
- Dungey was again our leading rusher, both in yards (54) and carries). For the season he’s carried the ball 121 times to 114 for Strickland, our nominal “running back”. Babers has said he doesn’t like a running quarterback because they get banged up to much. Well, that’s what he’s got, which I think is the result of the failure to properly design a running game to compliment the passing game. We’ve got the wrong personnel in there and the plays we are running: the little draw play, the pitchout to a runner with no blocking, the option that always results in an early pitch to the back, are terrible.
- 532 yards produced 28 points. Last week 561 yards produced 31 points. Against Notre Dame 489 yards produced 33 points. Against Connecticut, 469 yards produced 31 points. Verses USF 549 yards produced 20 points. We got 28 points on 414 yards vs. Louisville. Colgate? 554 yards = 33 points. Even in the one game we actually had trouble moving the ball, Wake Forest, we got only 326 yards but that produced only 9 points. It’s ceased to be a freakish thing or a statistical anomaly. We just seem to hit a glass ceiling on actually putting points on the board. We have yet to score more than 33 and the NCAA average this year is above 30ppg. We put up interesting numbers but we just haven’t been an exceptional offense. And we’re certainly not an exceptional defense. Let’s not even talk about special teams. If you are going to be a good team you need to be really good at one of them.
- Three turnovers, a kickoff return for a score by BC, a missed field goal, an indigestible 16 penalties for 135 yards. We were very lucky Dungey didn’t get thrown out of the game in the first quarter. We were also lucky that BC’s receiver couldn’t catch that ball at the goal line. Then there was the bootleg where the entire defense bit on the fake and no one could run down a lumbering 240 pound QB. That was a 4-8 team that happened to be 4-4 at the moment.
- Our offensive line was over-matched in this game. They couldn’t open holes for the running game and they couldn’t protect Dungey, who was sacked 5 tiems and on the run several more. We had no clue as to how to pick up blitzes: you could see one coming on TV but our guys couldn’t adjust to them. Donatae Stickland is supposedly in the game because he’s a better blocker than Jordan Fredericks but he totally whiffed on one key play.
- The horrendous 16 penalties included 8 false starts, (and there was another that offset by a BC penalty. There were two in a row in a first quarter drive and three of them in a 1st and goal situation in the third quarter. Maybe the hurry-up offense contributes to this but in the 8th game of the season, this isn’t within sight of being acceptable. O-line coach Mike Lynch must be in hiding right now.
- Like his team, Eric Dungey was productive but far from perfect. Early in the game he was forcing long throws into cover and one of them got picked off to end a drive and set up a BC field goal. That was also the play where he, in frustration, threw the interceptor onto the ground after they’d both gone out of bounds and then shoved another guy to the ground after the guy confronted him. Imagine the rest of the game if Eric had been ejected, as might well have been if the refs saw the whole thing. While I’m at it, I’ll also imagine the game without Eric’s two fumbles. We couldn’t have won without him but we almost lost with him.
- Dungey was again our leading rusher, both in yards (54) and carries). For the season he’s carried the ball 121 times to 114 for Strickland, our nominal “running back”. Babers has said he doesn’t like a running quarterback because they get banged up to much. Well, that’s what he’s got, which I think is the result of the failure to properly design a running game to compliment the passing game. We’ve got the wrong personnel in there and the plays we are running: the little draw play, the pitchout to a runner with no blocking, the option that always results in an early pitch to the back, are terrible.
- 532 yards produced 28 points. Last week 561 yards produced 31 points. Against Notre Dame 489 yards produced 33 points. Against Connecticut, 469 yards produced 31 points. Verses USF 549 yards produced 20 points. We got 28 points on 414 yards vs. Louisville. Colgate? 554 yards = 33 points. Even in the one game we actually had trouble moving the ball, Wake Forest, we got only 326 yards but that produced only 9 points. It’s ceased to be a freakish thing or a statistical anomaly. We just seem to hit a glass ceiling on actually putting points on the board. We have yet to score more than 33 and the NCAA average this year is above 30ppg. We put up interesting numbers but we just haven’t been an exceptional offense. And we’re certainly not an exceptional defense. Let’s not even talk about special teams. If you are going to be a good team you need to be really good at one of them.
