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THE UPSIDE
- Job 2 is Job Done. It didn’t look good for much of the afternoon but we came back and got it down and now have a chance to be 3-0 for the first time in 24 years. When you beat the teams you should beat, you stay on schedule.
- With 2:15 left in the third quarter things looked particularly bleak. We were only down 13-17 but had given up over 300 yards and gained barely 100. We’d had one first down since the first quarter and that was by penalty. Meanwhile, we had a very hard time stopping their offense, which seemed to get a first down any time they wanted with a simple pass to the flat we couldn’t seem to figure out. Eric Dungy rolled out to his right, hesitated, avoided a rusher and threw a side-arm pass to midfield where Brisley Estime slipped a defender and ran away from two more of them for the touchdown that turned the game- and maybe the year- around. The Salt Badger ROARED!!!!!
- I had my question for the next coach’s show in my mind: Why aren’t we throwing to Steve Ismael? He had three catches for 29 yards in the first seven quarters of the season. Then, on SU’s first possession of the fourth quarter, 2nd and 13 at the SU 47, Dungey threw a pass down the right side over the hand s of two defenders and into the hands of Ismael, who took it the rest of the way to give SU a 27-17 lead. One thing we’ve missed in recent years is guys who could take it the distance. Guys like that can make a huge difference. Now we’ve got some. I guess I’ll have to come up with another question.
- Those big plays seemed to inspire the defense and Shafer and Bullough called the dogs out. Wolford, who’d had his way with the SU defense most of the day, suddenly was running for his life. It looked like a zombie movie. He got sacked 4 times and threw two interceptions, both on plays where he was hit. Meanwhile, we stuffed the run, holding them to 46 yards on 1.4 yard per carry. But most importantly, we shut them out in the second half. Their first two possessions of the half were tough to watch- a ten play, 42 yard drive ending in a missed field goal and a 12 play 33 yard drive ending in a punt. But when we started playing Zombie defense, they gained 24 yards on their next three possessions, including a 15 yard roughing the passer penalty that gave them their only first down in that span. That’s when the game was decided.
- Dungey's throws were great but maybe the most impressive thing he did was to absorb a blind-side, middle of the back hit - and then spring back up and immediately get everybody organized for the next play. Tough, cool kid.
- People love Jordan Fredericks but are down on George Morris. Fredericks has carried 20 times this year for 124 yards, (6.2 yards per pop), with his longest being 31 yards. George Morris has carried 18 times for 117 yards, (6.9), with his longs being 34 yards. No reason to think less of Jordan but maybe we should think more of George.
- Led by Morris we outgained the Deacs 149-46 on the ground. And those yards set up the big passing plays.
- Great to see Donnie Simmons who has overcome injury and waited his turn, grabbing that pic and rumbling into the end zone. Wolford clearly never saw him, not expecting a DE to be in coverage like that.
- That was one of many interesting wrinkles the coaching staff used on both side. That’s fake to McFarland followed by the fade to him down the sidelines was interesting. We also had a reverse to a wideout leading to a pass that might have been completed except for an interference that wasn’t called. It gives our future opposition something to think about.
- Hated the quick kick but the defense made it work.
- Loved the orange unis. WE are the Orange!!!And you could read the numbers fine, although the names are too small a font to be legible. Let’s get rid of the whites, (which are just Nike’s standard design- look as the dozens of other clubs that look alike), and the grays, (that don’t look like much of anything. Just use the last week’s blues and this week’s oranges, whichever provides the greatest contrast with the other team.
- Those were supposedly the two worst teams in the ACC. Both of them are legit FBS, power-conference teams who are going to win their share of games this year. It’s not like the old Big East, where Rutgers and Temple has the rosters of mediocre 1AA squads. You have to bring it for every game in this league.
- Were you not entertained?
2-0 with 10 to go!
LET’S GO ORANGE!!!!
- Job 2 is Job Done. It didn’t look good for much of the afternoon but we came back and got it down and now have a chance to be 3-0 for the first time in 24 years. When you beat the teams you should beat, you stay on schedule.
- With 2:15 left in the third quarter things looked particularly bleak. We were only down 13-17 but had given up over 300 yards and gained barely 100. We’d had one first down since the first quarter and that was by penalty. Meanwhile, we had a very hard time stopping their offense, which seemed to get a first down any time they wanted with a simple pass to the flat we couldn’t seem to figure out. Eric Dungy rolled out to his right, hesitated, avoided a rusher and threw a side-arm pass to midfield where Brisley Estime slipped a defender and ran away from two more of them for the touchdown that turned the game- and maybe the year- around. The Salt Badger ROARED!!!!!
- I had my question for the next coach’s show in my mind: Why aren’t we throwing to Steve Ismael? He had three catches for 29 yards in the first seven quarters of the season. Then, on SU’s first possession of the fourth quarter, 2nd and 13 at the SU 47, Dungey threw a pass down the right side over the hand s of two defenders and into the hands of Ismael, who took it the rest of the way to give SU a 27-17 lead. One thing we’ve missed in recent years is guys who could take it the distance. Guys like that can make a huge difference. Now we’ve got some. I guess I’ll have to come up with another question.
- Those big plays seemed to inspire the defense and Shafer and Bullough called the dogs out. Wolford, who’d had his way with the SU defense most of the day, suddenly was running for his life. It looked like a zombie movie. He got sacked 4 times and threw two interceptions, both on plays where he was hit. Meanwhile, we stuffed the run, holding them to 46 yards on 1.4 yard per carry. But most importantly, we shut them out in the second half. Their first two possessions of the half were tough to watch- a ten play, 42 yard drive ending in a missed field goal and a 12 play 33 yard drive ending in a punt. But when we started playing Zombie defense, they gained 24 yards on their next three possessions, including a 15 yard roughing the passer penalty that gave them their only first down in that span. That’s when the game was decided.
- Dungey's throws were great but maybe the most impressive thing he did was to absorb a blind-side, middle of the back hit - and then spring back up and immediately get everybody organized for the next play. Tough, cool kid.
- People love Jordan Fredericks but are down on George Morris. Fredericks has carried 20 times this year for 124 yards, (6.2 yards per pop), with his longest being 31 yards. George Morris has carried 18 times for 117 yards, (6.9), with his longs being 34 yards. No reason to think less of Jordan but maybe we should think more of George.
- Led by Morris we outgained the Deacs 149-46 on the ground. And those yards set up the big passing plays.
- Great to see Donnie Simmons who has overcome injury and waited his turn, grabbing that pic and rumbling into the end zone. Wolford clearly never saw him, not expecting a DE to be in coverage like that.
- That was one of many interesting wrinkles the coaching staff used on both side. That’s fake to McFarland followed by the fade to him down the sidelines was interesting. We also had a reverse to a wideout leading to a pass that might have been completed except for an interference that wasn’t called. It gives our future opposition something to think about.
- Hated the quick kick but the defense made it work.
- Loved the orange unis. WE are the Orange!!!And you could read the numbers fine, although the names are too small a font to be legible. Let’s get rid of the whites, (which are just Nike’s standard design- look as the dozens of other clubs that look alike), and the grays, (that don’t look like much of anything. Just use the last week’s blues and this week’s oranges, whichever provides the greatest contrast with the other team.
- Those were supposedly the two worst teams in the ACC. Both of them are legit FBS, power-conference teams who are going to win their share of games this year. It’s not like the old Big East, where Rutgers and Temple has the rosters of mediocre 1AA squads. You have to bring it for every game in this league.
- Were you not entertained?
2-0 with 10 to go!
LET’S GO ORANGE!!!!
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