SWC75
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- We aren’t going to the Orange Bowl.
- How many times in the last two years have we seen balls thrown right into the hands of our defensive backs without their being able to hold on. Is there a drill we can run so our D-backs can catch the damn ball?
- Gulley should play for the Tigers. He knows how to whiff.
- 12 penalties for 110 yards. And it’s not the 15 yarders. It’s the five yarders that kill you because there’s no excuse for them. There were three false starts from wide receivers and one from the center, off all people!
- Eight days ago I thought we had a heck of a defense. We’ve given up 1036 yards, 636 yards rushing and 72 points.
- We came in 24th in the country, (of 120 FBS teams) in gaining yards and 73rd in scoring, (462 yards 27 points). The needle didn’t move today as we gained 482 yards but scored only 24 points.
- Did any of you think Krautman was going to make that field goal from 42 yards in the rain after couldn’t kick the ball over the linemen from 25? He’s gone from 18 for 19 as a freshman to 15 for 19 last year to 10 for 18 this year. Do you trust him more than you do your offense on 4th and 3 from the Cincy 25? When it only gets you with 8 points with 12 minutes left? HCDM: “I didn’t want to put my players in a bad situation if we didn’t make it.” Well, coach, you didn’t make it. And you still have to score again and try for two to tie it. If you make it on 4th and three and score a touchdown, you can win it with another touchdown. Sometimes being conservative makes it a bigger risk. And, as Alex Plavin just said on the radio, if you are being conservative to avoid mistakes and you are making them anyway, what’s the point?
- They just said on the radio that Marrone explained his decision to kick the field by saying it was “a 9 point game at the time”. No Doug, it was an 11 point game.
- Then there was the punt at the end of the half. Was that shank better than a pass attempt would have been?
- Why, if you are going to throw to a back, do you have Jerome Smith, who can’t catch a cold, in there? We got the ball back with 7:35 left, down 11, and with Sales, Lemon, West and Wales out there, the first two passes are to Smith. He ran the wrong pattern the first time and dropped the ball the second time.
- The refs were not only blind but they are now probably deaf due to the volume of the two coach’s shouting in their ears. Actually, they made the right call on the goal-=line play. In a classic example of our luck, a ball that was fumbled onto the goal line somehow bounced back onto the field and went out at the 6 inch line, thus giving the ball back to Cincinnati, who scored on the next play. But how could anybody have called that a touchdown to begin with? And how could they have missed the Cincinnati fumble on their own 10 yard line in the first quarter? They also called Keon Lyn for “targeting” when he hit the guy with his shoulder pad- not his helmet. They also missed a call on Nassib who threw a completed pass beyond the line of scrimmage. On Fisher’s punt at the end of the half, Matt Park said the refs spotted the ball where it went into the stands, not out of bounds. Ugh.
- Marrone stresses avoiding turnovers and penalties and good tackling. (I guess we avoided good tackling.) Here comes another week of “IHTDABJ”.
- How many times in the last two years have we seen balls thrown right into the hands of our defensive backs without their being able to hold on. Is there a drill we can run so our D-backs can catch the damn ball?
- Gulley should play for the Tigers. He knows how to whiff.
- 12 penalties for 110 yards. And it’s not the 15 yarders. It’s the five yarders that kill you because there’s no excuse for them. There were three false starts from wide receivers and one from the center, off all people!
- Eight days ago I thought we had a heck of a defense. We’ve given up 1036 yards, 636 yards rushing and 72 points.
- We came in 24th in the country, (of 120 FBS teams) in gaining yards and 73rd in scoring, (462 yards 27 points). The needle didn’t move today as we gained 482 yards but scored only 24 points.
- Did any of you think Krautman was going to make that field goal from 42 yards in the rain after couldn’t kick the ball over the linemen from 25? He’s gone from 18 for 19 as a freshman to 15 for 19 last year to 10 for 18 this year. Do you trust him more than you do your offense on 4th and 3 from the Cincy 25? When it only gets you with 8 points with 12 minutes left? HCDM: “I didn’t want to put my players in a bad situation if we didn’t make it.” Well, coach, you didn’t make it. And you still have to score again and try for two to tie it. If you make it on 4th and three and score a touchdown, you can win it with another touchdown. Sometimes being conservative makes it a bigger risk. And, as Alex Plavin just said on the radio, if you are being conservative to avoid mistakes and you are making them anyway, what’s the point?
- They just said on the radio that Marrone explained his decision to kick the field by saying it was “a 9 point game at the time”. No Doug, it was an 11 point game.
- Then there was the punt at the end of the half. Was that shank better than a pass attempt would have been?
- Why, if you are going to throw to a back, do you have Jerome Smith, who can’t catch a cold, in there? We got the ball back with 7:35 left, down 11, and with Sales, Lemon, West and Wales out there, the first two passes are to Smith. He ran the wrong pattern the first time and dropped the ball the second time.
- The refs were not only blind but they are now probably deaf due to the volume of the two coach’s shouting in their ears. Actually, they made the right call on the goal-=line play. In a classic example of our luck, a ball that was fumbled onto the goal line somehow bounced back onto the field and went out at the 6 inch line, thus giving the ball back to Cincinnati, who scored on the next play. But how could anybody have called that a touchdown to begin with? And how could they have missed the Cincinnati fumble on their own 10 yard line in the first quarter? They also called Keon Lyn for “targeting” when he hit the guy with his shoulder pad- not his helmet. They also missed a call on Nassib who threw a completed pass beyond the line of scrimmage. On Fisher’s punt at the end of the half, Matt Park said the refs spotted the ball where it went into the stands, not out of bounds. Ugh.
- Marrone stresses avoiding turnovers and penalties and good tackling. (I guess we avoided good tackling.) Here comes another week of “IHTDABJ”.
