Upon further review – this loss was poor execution not play calling.

[TheCusian]

51 yarder looked good. More of that please.

 

[kcsu]

I watched the game again this morning and i still come to the same conclusion regarding Mac. He doesnt have a feel for the game or his players and i think he called a poor game because of that. It was so easy to see that Hunt was way off just didnt have it. It was also plain as day that we were dominating them on the Oline between the tackles. Insanity is do the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. He was insane to not run the ball until they could stop and equally nuts to think that Hunt was all of sudden going to find his groove. Again zero feel for the flow of the game.

 

[Chris02M]

I watched the game again this morning and i still come to the same conclusion regarding Mac. He doesnt have a feel for the game or his players and i think he called a poor game because of that. It was so easy to see that Hunt was way off just didnt have it. It was also plain as day that we were dominating them on the Oline between the tackles. Insanity is do the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. He was insane to not run the ball until they could stop and equally nuts to think that Hunt was all of sudden going to find his groove. Again zero feel for the flow of the game.

you can't just run down 18 though in late 3rd quarter

 

[RICuse44]

The blocked punt which led to a score to make it 24-13 was the biggest play. We had gotten back to 17-13, and that turned momentum back to Maryland. But those other 2 plays sealed the deal.

Yep. One offense, one defense, and one special teams. All told that is a 28 point swing at worst, 17 point swing at its best.

 

[Pat Kelly]

Did you see the same game I saw? We only threw about 3 bubble screens. Hunt saw open receivers and he tried to hit them. As you can see 5 different receivers had at least one reception 19 yards or longer. Only 5 passes were for less than 9 yards. Four were over 20 yards. Only one of the drops was a screen, the rest were longer patterns.

We had 219 yards passing. Hunt went 5-19 during one stretch so McD ran 79% of the time in the 2nd half

Bubble screens are not the problem and neither were the patterns. Hunt simply missed them and 4 catchable balls were dropped.
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What's your point? I'm not saying we ran a lot of bubble screens... we didn't. Hunt didn't notice wide receivers who were open downfield farrrr too often.

 

[eddie in nc]

I agree with the post above that states Hunts running impacts his passing. He looked very winded and I think that has an adverse effect on his accuracy and probably decision making. It takes a lot out of a QB to run like that and then sit in the pocket while still trying to catch your breath. He has to be the best conditioned guy on the field if we want him to carry this offense. And right now, I don't think he is.

 

[SmilinBob]

Crusty will you do me a favor and watch the receivers on film if you get a chance. Check separation, spacing and cuts/route running. This is something I'd like to see because after watching successful teams that throw with receivers with average speed and how they are open so frequently. Granted...the SU guys were often quite a bit Saturday which was good but my guess is that Maryland isn't that good vs passing offenses and they as we talked about before covered the bubble passes and took that away.

 

[upperdeck]

almost every bad throw was off a late progression read and usually throwing from a bad position. he was fine when throwing in rhythm . the same could be said for Brown. when su made him go through his progressions he struggled or got sacked. people also need to look at several of the throws he threw behind guys was because he saw the wr late and the hole he was throwing into to about the INT, if he had thrown 2-3 of those in good spots they get picked.