The Run Defense was amazing today

[Czar]

Discounting Fournette's two home runs, they did stupendous against him. Minus those 130 something yards, and he had a really pedestrian day.

 

[Czar]

Also, it'd be nice if we got this kind of crowd every week. Half those penalties can be chalked up to the crowd.

 

[AZOrange]

Huh? I mean he was an eyelash from a 350 yard day.

 

[Rage4CUSE]

Discounting Fournette's two home runs, they did stupendous against him. Minus those 130 something yards, and he had a really pedestrian day.

Oh yeah just minus the 130 yards. He still has 110 yards if you minus the two runs. Run defense did as well as can be expected. No great.

 

[SWFLCUSE]

Discounting Fournette's two home runs, they did stupendous against him. Minus those 130 something yards, and he had a really pedestrian day.

They showed a graphic sometime today that says he hasn't bene tackled for zero or negitive yards this season. We got him a few times early and blew him up at the point of attack.

 

[Czar]

Oh yeah just minus the 130 yards. He still has 110 yards if you minus the two runs. Run defense did as well as can be expected. No great.

I just find it more impressive that it wasn't constant gashing. We tackled him for loss today. No one has done that yet this season. Yeah we gave up two big plays, but one was on a broken play that involved everyone already being downfield.

 

[creatorsgam]

Huh? I mean he was an eyelash from a 350 yard day.

Yeah but in the context of him being (almost) the entire Tiger offense, against a defense that displayed some vulnerabilities against Wake and a MAC opponent, it isn't really that much. In my opinion, the Syracuse defense either met or exceeded expectations of those that are informed and attentive.

Edit: Although quoted, not meaning you in that last sentence if it reads that way.

 

[CBandit]

They showed a graphic sometime today that says he hasn't bene tackled for zero or negitive yards this season. We got him a few times early and blew him up at the point of attack.

Can't be true. He was stopped a few times behind the LOS against Miss St in the second half when they stacked the box. Might have been more to that graphic than just that

 

[supp]

Discounting Fournette's two home runs, they did stupendous against him. Minus those 130 something yards, and he had a really pedestrian day.

Let's not get carried away. Tackling was generally better than previous games. Fournette of course runs like there's no one even there. He was shedding at least one guy on each run. If not for a once-in-a-generation talent, perhaps, the run d looks better than it did.

 

[supp]

They showed a graphic sometime today that says he hasn't bene tackled for zero or negitive yards this season. We got him a few times early and blew him up at the point of attack.

He had 4 negative carries before today. He may have had that many today. Yet, he still came a few yards short of breaking the LSU single game record for rushing.

 

[leftytg]

"amazing"? "stupendous"?

How about "passable"? Or "perhaps not as bad as the stats suggest taking all things into consideration"? "could have been worse".

The words amazing and stupendous want to sue you for slander for associating them with the syracuse run defense today.

 

[tbonezone]

fournette ran like a hot knife thru butter. glad to see we dinged him up a little but tack on the penalty lost yardage and he ate our lunch all day. just a punishing runner.

 

[Delmar]

Discounting Fournette's two home runs, they did stupendous against him. Minus those 130 something yards, and he had a really pedestrian day.

That's a little bit like saying that the Dodgers pitched well against Reggie Jackson in game six of the '78 series except for the home runs.

Our guys played great today. There is nothing remotely pedestrian about Fournette. He will run up numbers on everybody.

 

[AZOrange]

Yeah but in the context of him being (almost) the entire Tiger offense, against a defense that displayed some vulnerabilities against Wake and a MAC opponent, it isn't really that much. In my opinion, the Syracuse defense either met or exceeded expectations of those that are informed and attentive.

Edit: Although quoted, not meaning you in that last sentence if it reads that way.

You didn't offend me...I thought we played hard and we gave him trouble at times, but he's a dominant player and just owns everyone. He might run for 2400 yards this year. Maybe more.

 

[upperdeck]

he had 4-5 nice runs. the 2 long ones were nothing to do with his talent just huge holes. several other short runs were the ones that showed his skill set.. but really that oline let him get 4-5 yds down field with no contact. the last run was in garbage time and why was he even in there?

when he was out of the game they couldnt run at all.