SWC75
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- Yes, we gave away a game in a season where we have little margin for error. But the team I saw today is a much better football team than the team I saw last year or even for the last several years. This team today would have beaten last year’s team 11 times in 12 games. They looked better than we did in coming back to beat Wake Forest last year. They certainly looked better than the team that beat Rhode Island by a touchdown, needed the ref’s help to beat Toledo in overtime and a last second field goal to beat Tulane, perhaps the worst team in the country. It certainly looked better than the team that lost seven other games. It would have taken the performance in the West Virginia game to best this team today. And I feel better about our football team than I have since that game. That we lost to a team that was in the “beatable” column is frustrating but now some other teams have joined that column.
- All Ryan Nassib did is complete 44 of 65 passes for 470 yards and 4 touchdowns. His only interception was on a tipped pass. He ran for 37 yards so he had 507 yards total offense. The attempts, completions, yards and total offense are all SU records. He was one short of the record for TD passes but he already owned that. Those are the sort of numbers we read about in other games but we never see in the Carrier Dome, a place that was built for an offense like this. And he did that with Alec Lemon and David Stevens unable to play.
- The offense was versatile and deceptive and Nassib played it like a violin. He had an efficiency to everything he did that we haven’t seen in a long time. He knew everything that was going on on the field, where everyone was and looked at one receiver and threw to another several times. His passes had touch on them and he threaded the needle when he had to. Nine different players caught passes and every one of them caught multiple passes.
- Marcus Sales got off to a rough start, being stripped of a first down reception and then flipping that pass into the air that was intercepted to set up a Northwestern score. But we’ll forgive him if he keeps getting 11 receptions for 117 yards and a score, we’ll forgive him. I can’t wait to see him and lemon working in tandem.
- This team ahs a lot of weapons. We’ve only begun to use Ashton Broyld. Jeremiah Kobena has finally figured out how to catch balls. I like the looks of Chris Clark, who isn’t even listed in the new Media Guide but looks like a player and a quick one. He’s a track star. Alvin Cornelius was supposed to be a difference maker but I didn’t see him today. George Morris remained on the bench. All these guys are guys who could make this offense even more dynamic because they could produce big plays.
- It wasn’t a game for the rushing attack but we won’t have just one guy trying to gain all the years this year. They weren’t used in tandem as I’d prefer but Jerome Smith and Prince-Tyson Gulley, (who reminded me of Antwon Bailey- he seems much stronger this year but still quick), gained 95 yards on 7 carries between them and Ryan Nassib, running what amounted to version of the old Syracuse sissors play by faking a handoff and going in the opposite direction, added 37 more. They haven’t used Ashton Broyld in a running situation yet but that will come. And we haven’t see Adonis Ameen-Moore or George Morris yet. I much prefer a running game that uses multiple backs that can give us different things than having one guy be the whole show. We probably won’t have a 1000 yard runner this year but I’ll bet we average more than the 120 yards a game we got last year with Bailey getting 80% of it. We had 144 tonight and we passed 65 times.
- We out-gained the Wildcats by a whopping 596 yards to 337 and had 33 first downs to 21.We ran 95 offensive plays to 72. Those are the sort of numbers you’d expect USC to roll up against us. I bet we do better than Northwestern did against us. This was a 2-3 TD win that we turned into a loss with a handful of bad plays. They all counted and they all mattered but we looked like a powerful team today.
- We were 12 of 20 on third down conversions. We held the Wildcats to 5 of 14. Kain Colter was the type of quarterback who ahs driven us crazy over the years with a combination of running and passing ability. But we contained him on third down today.
- Our defense is aggressive and physical. It reminded me of the old days when the other team looked like they were getting beaten up as the game went along. We only got credited with one sack but their quarterbacks, runners and receivers will show the school’s colors on their bodies when they peal off those uniforms. A lot of teams will know they played Syracuse this year.
- Jonathan Fisher sure can boom those punts. I’ll leave it at that.
- We did hold them to 16 yards a kick-off return. We had 3 touchbacks on kickoffs all last season. Ryan Norton had five of them today.
- The team showed a lot of guts coming back from 22 down to take the lead. Last year the opening game comeback was not a clue as to the chemistry and attitude of the team as the season progressed. My gut feeling is that this year it will be. if we have to win some games down the stretch to “rescue” the year, I think we will be able to.
- We have a talented exciting team worth watching this year. Come on out to the Dome and have a good time watching them.
0-1 but with 11 to be done
LET’S GO ORANGE!!!
- All Ryan Nassib did is complete 44 of 65 passes for 470 yards and 4 touchdowns. His only interception was on a tipped pass. He ran for 37 yards so he had 507 yards total offense. The attempts, completions, yards and total offense are all SU records. He was one short of the record for TD passes but he already owned that. Those are the sort of numbers we read about in other games but we never see in the Carrier Dome, a place that was built for an offense like this. And he did that with Alec Lemon and David Stevens unable to play.
- The offense was versatile and deceptive and Nassib played it like a violin. He had an efficiency to everything he did that we haven’t seen in a long time. He knew everything that was going on on the field, where everyone was and looked at one receiver and threw to another several times. His passes had touch on them and he threaded the needle when he had to. Nine different players caught passes and every one of them caught multiple passes.
- Marcus Sales got off to a rough start, being stripped of a first down reception and then flipping that pass into the air that was intercepted to set up a Northwestern score. But we’ll forgive him if he keeps getting 11 receptions for 117 yards and a score, we’ll forgive him. I can’t wait to see him and lemon working in tandem.
- This team ahs a lot of weapons. We’ve only begun to use Ashton Broyld. Jeremiah Kobena has finally figured out how to catch balls. I like the looks of Chris Clark, who isn’t even listed in the new Media Guide but looks like a player and a quick one. He’s a track star. Alvin Cornelius was supposed to be a difference maker but I didn’t see him today. George Morris remained on the bench. All these guys are guys who could make this offense even more dynamic because they could produce big plays.
- It wasn’t a game for the rushing attack but we won’t have just one guy trying to gain all the years this year. They weren’t used in tandem as I’d prefer but Jerome Smith and Prince-Tyson Gulley, (who reminded me of Antwon Bailey- he seems much stronger this year but still quick), gained 95 yards on 7 carries between them and Ryan Nassib, running what amounted to version of the old Syracuse sissors play by faking a handoff and going in the opposite direction, added 37 more. They haven’t used Ashton Broyld in a running situation yet but that will come. And we haven’t see Adonis Ameen-Moore or George Morris yet. I much prefer a running game that uses multiple backs that can give us different things than having one guy be the whole show. We probably won’t have a 1000 yard runner this year but I’ll bet we average more than the 120 yards a game we got last year with Bailey getting 80% of it. We had 144 tonight and we passed 65 times.
- We out-gained the Wildcats by a whopping 596 yards to 337 and had 33 first downs to 21.We ran 95 offensive plays to 72. Those are the sort of numbers you’d expect USC to roll up against us. I bet we do better than Northwestern did against us. This was a 2-3 TD win that we turned into a loss with a handful of bad plays. They all counted and they all mattered but we looked like a powerful team today.
- We were 12 of 20 on third down conversions. We held the Wildcats to 5 of 14. Kain Colter was the type of quarterback who ahs driven us crazy over the years with a combination of running and passing ability. But we contained him on third down today.
- Our defense is aggressive and physical. It reminded me of the old days when the other team looked like they were getting beaten up as the game went along. We only got credited with one sack but their quarterbacks, runners and receivers will show the school’s colors on their bodies when they peal off those uniforms. A lot of teams will know they played Syracuse this year.
- Jonathan Fisher sure can boom those punts. I’ll leave it at that.
- We did hold them to 16 yards a kick-off return. We had 3 touchbacks on kickoffs all last season. Ryan Norton had five of them today.
- The team showed a lot of guts coming back from 22 down to take the lead. Last year the opening game comeback was not a clue as to the chemistry and attitude of the team as the season progressed. My gut feeling is that this year it will be. if we have to win some games down the stretch to “rescue” the year, I think we will be able to.
- We have a talented exciting team worth watching this year. Come on out to the Dome and have a good time watching them.
0-1 but with 11 to be done
LET’S GO ORANGE!!!
