SWC75
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- We’ve now played NC State 11 times. Ten times they have had teams that wound up with winning records, (I’m assuming this one will do so). Ten times we have lost to those winning NC State teams.
- How about not falling behind 3-21 or 7-18? How about not throwing an interception on your first pass?
- 23-30, 26-35, 25-33. It seems like a broken record. In all three games we had makeable plays that could have reversed the result but we just didn’t make them. The ones I will remember here are the touchdown that was negated because one too many guys were off the line of scrimmage, (we got a field goal so that’s four points), Erv Phillip’s 18th catch when he tipped the ball to himself but couldn’t hold on, (it would have bene a great catch), the interception that was negated by a holding penalty off the play, the missed field goal, (3 points) and the poorly stroked onside kick, (at least that’s what I assume it was). There were also more missed tackles than we saw in the first four games combined.
- More than any one play, there was the stretch from the negated touchdown pass, (when the field goal with 2:28 left in the 3rd pulled us to within 17-26) and NC State’s punt at 5:42 when the game was in the balance and we just couldn’t push the door open. We had two possessions and punted, then gave up the ball on downs and gave up their clinching scoring drive. We had the momentum but let it slip away.
- Eric Dungey is on a pace for 324 completions this year while Steve Ismael and Erv Phillips are on a pace to get 122 and 106 receptions, respectively. But Dungey is on a pace for only 17 TD passes and Ismael and Phillips for 5 TD receptions each. I realize it was on a different level but Jimmy Garoppolo threw 53 TD passes his second year under Babers while Matt Johnson threw 46 TD passes in his second Babers season. I didn’t expect those numbers but 17TDs is not enalry enough for all the completions we are getting.
- It was pitiful to see NC State run the ball almost at will, especially in the first half and we couldn’t seem to get any running play blocked. They ran for 256 yards at 5.4 yards per rush. We rushed for 59 yards at 2.0 per attempt. Dino said in his press conference that the problem is we’ve got teenagers playing against 21-22 year olds. That’s true and it’s an advantage. But what are we supposed to do? Check in in two years to see how we’re doing? We’ve got win games now.
- He’s not Superman waiting in the wings to solve all our problems but why aren’t we grooming Markenzy Pierre to become our #1 running back? We’ve blown his redshirt. Strickland gives us nothing, (143 yards in 51 carries in 5 games), and I can’t believe they think Elmore is going to be better. Elmore’s an interesting player by he’s more Refrigerator Perry than “the Bus”.
- Cole Murphy had another out-of-bounds kick, another missed field goal, (48 yards into the wind but it wasn’t close and was the 5th time he’s missed in 6 attempts outside the Dome), and bounced the on-sides kick, which made it easy to field.
- Sean Riley Ole’d another punt and put us on our 4 yard line. Dino sent Ismael out for the next one. Riley got the message and took a stab at returning the next one.
- We had 12 penalties for 93 yards. NC State wound up with 6 for 49 yards. Ours negated a touchdown and an interception. You can blame the refs all you want but we can’t do anything about them. We can do something about how we play and shoving a guy just because he’s jawing at you on the other team’s 5 is not what we need.
- The game got really chippy, with a near brawl and we are lucky it wasn’t worse than that. I was disappointed Dino wrote it off as an outgrowth of the two team’s “desire to win”. Everybody desires to win. Thinking is good, too.
- How about not falling behind 3-21 or 7-18? How about not throwing an interception on your first pass?
- 23-30, 26-35, 25-33. It seems like a broken record. In all three games we had makeable plays that could have reversed the result but we just didn’t make them. The ones I will remember here are the touchdown that was negated because one too many guys were off the line of scrimmage, (we got a field goal so that’s four points), Erv Phillip’s 18th catch when he tipped the ball to himself but couldn’t hold on, (it would have bene a great catch), the interception that was negated by a holding penalty off the play, the missed field goal, (3 points) and the poorly stroked onside kick, (at least that’s what I assume it was). There were also more missed tackles than we saw in the first four games combined.
- More than any one play, there was the stretch from the negated touchdown pass, (when the field goal with 2:28 left in the 3rd pulled us to within 17-26) and NC State’s punt at 5:42 when the game was in the balance and we just couldn’t push the door open. We had two possessions and punted, then gave up the ball on downs and gave up their clinching scoring drive. We had the momentum but let it slip away.
- Eric Dungey is on a pace for 324 completions this year while Steve Ismael and Erv Phillips are on a pace to get 122 and 106 receptions, respectively. But Dungey is on a pace for only 17 TD passes and Ismael and Phillips for 5 TD receptions each. I realize it was on a different level but Jimmy Garoppolo threw 53 TD passes his second year under Babers while Matt Johnson threw 46 TD passes in his second Babers season. I didn’t expect those numbers but 17TDs is not enalry enough for all the completions we are getting.
- It was pitiful to see NC State run the ball almost at will, especially in the first half and we couldn’t seem to get any running play blocked. They ran for 256 yards at 5.4 yards per rush. We rushed for 59 yards at 2.0 per attempt. Dino said in his press conference that the problem is we’ve got teenagers playing against 21-22 year olds. That’s true and it’s an advantage. But what are we supposed to do? Check in in two years to see how we’re doing? We’ve got win games now.
- He’s not Superman waiting in the wings to solve all our problems but why aren’t we grooming Markenzy Pierre to become our #1 running back? We’ve blown his redshirt. Strickland gives us nothing, (143 yards in 51 carries in 5 games), and I can’t believe they think Elmore is going to be better. Elmore’s an interesting player by he’s more Refrigerator Perry than “the Bus”.
- Cole Murphy had another out-of-bounds kick, another missed field goal, (48 yards into the wind but it wasn’t close and was the 5th time he’s missed in 6 attempts outside the Dome), and bounced the on-sides kick, which made it easy to field.
- Sean Riley Ole’d another punt and put us on our 4 yard line. Dino sent Ismael out for the next one. Riley got the message and took a stab at returning the next one.
- We had 12 penalties for 93 yards. NC State wound up with 6 for 49 yards. Ours negated a touchdown and an interception. You can blame the refs all you want but we can’t do anything about them. We can do something about how we play and shoving a guy just because he’s jawing at you on the other team’s 5 is not what we need.
- The game got really chippy, with a near brawl and we are lucky it wasn’t worse than that. I was disappointed Dino wrote it off as an outgrowth of the two team’s “desire to win”. Everybody desires to win. Thinking is good, too.
