SWC75
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- I came home exhausted. I had to lie down and take a nap before writing this. I’ve written Updowns for basketball games in the wee hours of the morning with more energy than this. My BP was 133/76/58 yesterday. Today it’s 148/90/60. I’m not ill. I spend a lot of energy rooting for the team, chanting like a cheerleader throughout. I hate games in all sports where my team has a good lead and watches it dissipate as everything goes wrong down the stretch. Even if we pull out those games, as we did today, it doesn’t feel like a victory. This was a victory and a big one but I’m having to tell myself that. It was 31-14 with a little more than 5 minutes left. That would have been a nice final score.
- Last year’s hero, Dan Villari, had a bad game. After going unused in the Ohio U. game, he dropped two early passes. One was on a hard hit but the other was the rookie mistake of looking downfield before you catch the ball. It was 3rd and 7 at the GT 26 and he had the first if he had caught it with plenty of green in front of him. But the ball was on the ground. Then after GT had scored to make it 31-21, an onside’s kick bounced off of him and was recover by the Jackets, resulting in the drive that made it 31-28. The thing is, it bounced off o him withing 10 yards of the kick. If Tech had fallen on the ball at that point, it would have bene our ball – unless it touched one of our players. Why is a veteran palyer even in the 10 yard zone?
- A list of the special teams sins has already been posted: two blocked kicks, (I sent the rest of the game feeling we had to avoid kicking the ball, which is a hard way to win), a kick-off out of bounds, (the next one only went to the 10 yard line), and then Dan’s foul Pa. Fortunately, we’ve got two weeks to fix this. hey, we fixed the defense!
- Our tackling was better but still far from perfect. There were 6-8 plays where it took the 4th and 5th guys to pull out the stinger. Derek McDonald is curing himself for not getting Haynes King down in the backfield on his second touchdown. What bothered me on that play was that no one reacted to it. Instead the waves parted and King waltzed into the end zone untouched.
- We’ve only had one turnover in two games but we’ve also only produced one. I was praying for one at the end and I’m not religious.
- Two games: 11 penalties against us, (which is not excessive: Dino’s teams had that on one game), 4 against the other team, (which is amazing). We had an unnecessary roughness call on a sideline play that was itself unnecessary and a “good catch” call on another sideline pass where the Jacket receiver seemed to kick up some white with his toe along the sideline. I do like the fact that the Dome’s replays show the controversial plays, several times in slow motion. We used to be able to tell the bad calls because they didn’t show them.
- I’m not seeing mention of our upset win over the #23 team in the country as I flip around the CFB stations. I’m sure they are thinking that GT’s win over FSU was more about FSU than them and that they were overrated. That may be true. We’ll see as the season progresses. As Al Davis said: Just win Baby! Keep doing that and they can’t ignore you.
- Last year’s hero, Dan Villari, had a bad game. After going unused in the Ohio U. game, he dropped two early passes. One was on a hard hit but the other was the rookie mistake of looking downfield before you catch the ball. It was 3rd and 7 at the GT 26 and he had the first if he had caught it with plenty of green in front of him. But the ball was on the ground. Then after GT had scored to make it 31-21, an onside’s kick bounced off of him and was recover by the Jackets, resulting in the drive that made it 31-28. The thing is, it bounced off o him withing 10 yards of the kick. If Tech had fallen on the ball at that point, it would have bene our ball – unless it touched one of our players. Why is a veteran palyer even in the 10 yard zone?
- A list of the special teams sins has already been posted: two blocked kicks, (I sent the rest of the game feeling we had to avoid kicking the ball, which is a hard way to win), a kick-off out of bounds, (the next one only went to the 10 yard line), and then Dan’s foul Pa. Fortunately, we’ve got two weeks to fix this. hey, we fixed the defense!
- Our tackling was better but still far from perfect. There were 6-8 plays where it took the 4th and 5th guys to pull out the stinger. Derek McDonald is curing himself for not getting Haynes King down in the backfield on his second touchdown. What bothered me on that play was that no one reacted to it. Instead the waves parted and King waltzed into the end zone untouched.
- We’ve only had one turnover in two games but we’ve also only produced one. I was praying for one at the end and I’m not religious.
- Two games: 11 penalties against us, (which is not excessive: Dino’s teams had that on one game), 4 against the other team, (which is amazing). We had an unnecessary roughness call on a sideline play that was itself unnecessary and a “good catch” call on another sideline pass where the Jacket receiver seemed to kick up some white with his toe along the sideline. I do like the fact that the Dome’s replays show the controversial plays, several times in slow motion. We used to be able to tell the bad calls because they didn’t show them.
- I’m not seeing mention of our upset win over the #23 team in the country as I flip around the CFB stations. I’m sure they are thinking that GT’s win over FSU was more about FSU than them and that they were overrated. That may be true. We’ll see as the season progresses. As Al Davis said: Just win Baby! Keep doing that and they can’t ignore you.
