SWC75
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- We lost 0-30 on national TV to a 2-6 team. Dino Baber had said on his show that this game was a chance to recruits to “see how we play”.
- Watching football is supposed to be fun. Watching Syracuse football this year has never bene fun. Each game has seemed to have an inevitable outcome from the opening kick-off. It isn’t so much soul-crushing as soul-draining. It’s like watching a leaking balloon collapse.
- We had 7 first downs in this game. Louisville had 26. For the season we have 114 first downs. The opposition had 229, twice as many. That’s what drains you. The offense can’t stay on the field and the defense can’t get off of it.
- Our offensive line has Matthew Bergeron, Dakota Davis, Carlos Vetterello, Darius Tisdale and Airon Servais as well as Chris Elmore. Those are veteran players, not untried freshmen. Taj Harris and Nykeim Johnson can take it the distance. Anthony Queeley is a good possession receiver. Aaron Hackett and Luke Benson are fine tight ends. Sean Tucker has star quality at running back. Yet we run for 92 yards and pass for 45 yards and never come close to scoring. We never even had a field goal attempt. Andre Szmyt had the night off. Was it all because Jacobian Morgan lacks experience?
- What’s missing with Morgan in there is our long passing game. At least with DeVito and Culpepper we’d get that on exciting long TD pass per game. Jacobian in this game was 5 for 12 for 40 yards.
- 3rd and 6 and we run the ball up the middle for 1 yards? Then we go for it on 4th and 5. Of course we don’t make it. I guess it didn’t matter what we did.
- We had 8 penalties for 68 yards. They included a false start on 3rd and 8, a delay of game the first play after a kick-off, a false start on 2nd and 7 and a couple of personnel fouls on defense.
- We fumbled two kick-offs. Our turnovers were all due to veteran players. Harris let a good pass go through his fingers and into the hands of a defender. Nykeim Johnson failed to secure the ball on a kickoffs. Aaron Hackett made a diving attempt a pooch kick, bobbled it and rolled over it.
- Our defense actually played well most of the time but they can’t seem to do it for three plays in a row. Louisville was 10 for 18 on third and fourth down. We were 1 for 12.
- We’d actually entered 7 of 8 fourth quarters still having a chance to win this year. Make that 7 of 9.
- Remember what Dino Babers said at his introductory press conference? “Close your eyes and visualize this. You're in the Carrier Dome. Your house is filled. The feeling is electric. The noise is deafening. You have a defense that's relentless. You have a special teams that has been well-coached. You have an offense that will not huddle. And you have a game that's faster than you've ever seen on turf. Open your eyes. That's going to be a reality. That's going to be Syracuse football." When you look at Syracuse football now, you want to close your eyes.
- Watching football is supposed to be fun. Watching Syracuse football this year has never bene fun. Each game has seemed to have an inevitable outcome from the opening kick-off. It isn’t so much soul-crushing as soul-draining. It’s like watching a leaking balloon collapse.
- We had 7 first downs in this game. Louisville had 26. For the season we have 114 first downs. The opposition had 229, twice as many. That’s what drains you. The offense can’t stay on the field and the defense can’t get off of it.
- Our offensive line has Matthew Bergeron, Dakota Davis, Carlos Vetterello, Darius Tisdale and Airon Servais as well as Chris Elmore. Those are veteran players, not untried freshmen. Taj Harris and Nykeim Johnson can take it the distance. Anthony Queeley is a good possession receiver. Aaron Hackett and Luke Benson are fine tight ends. Sean Tucker has star quality at running back. Yet we run for 92 yards and pass for 45 yards and never come close to scoring. We never even had a field goal attempt. Andre Szmyt had the night off. Was it all because Jacobian Morgan lacks experience?
- What’s missing with Morgan in there is our long passing game. At least with DeVito and Culpepper we’d get that on exciting long TD pass per game. Jacobian in this game was 5 for 12 for 40 yards.
- 3rd and 6 and we run the ball up the middle for 1 yards? Then we go for it on 4th and 5. Of course we don’t make it. I guess it didn’t matter what we did.
- We had 8 penalties for 68 yards. They included a false start on 3rd and 8, a delay of game the first play after a kick-off, a false start on 2nd and 7 and a couple of personnel fouls on defense.
- We fumbled two kick-offs. Our turnovers were all due to veteran players. Harris let a good pass go through his fingers and into the hands of a defender. Nykeim Johnson failed to secure the ball on a kickoffs. Aaron Hackett made a diving attempt a pooch kick, bobbled it and rolled over it.
- Our defense actually played well most of the time but they can’t seem to do it for three plays in a row. Louisville was 10 for 18 on third and fourth down. We were 1 for 12.
- We’d actually entered 7 of 8 fourth quarters still having a chance to win this year. Make that 7 of 9.
- Remember what Dino Babers said at his introductory press conference? “Close your eyes and visualize this. You're in the Carrier Dome. Your house is filled. The feeling is electric. The noise is deafening. You have a defense that's relentless. You have a special teams that has been well-coached. You have an offense that will not huddle. And you have a game that's faster than you've ever seen on turf. Open your eyes. That's going to be a reality. That's going to be Syracuse football." When you look at Syracuse football now, you want to close your eyes.
