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Message: [QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 1875717, member: 5685"] Since the 1st Q was awful I decide to watch more to cheer me up: SU drive -We ran the ball up the middle the first two plays for no gains. Seemed odd to force it again on 2nd down. We converted the 3rd with a nice screen to Stickland who was in the slot. -Then we ran the ball up the middle for a minimal gain before Dungey had his What fumble moment. The blocking wasn't great but Dungey had plenty of time. Philips was open and yelling for the ball. Dungey was looking in his direction too. He then tried to duck under the defender before trying to throw it away. That killed the drive. Not a good game for Dungey at this point. UL drive -They came out with a play action pass deep that Jackson overthrew. They WR was open with Winfield in coverage. The route was to the middle of the field and we provided no S help. Good pass might have been a 78 yard TD. -Another mistake by UL limits a long run. Jackson kept the ball on the read and went up the middle, running into his own lineman. Franklin again looked lost. On the snap he stutter stepped, not sure where to go, then decide to attack a gap to the right. If his assignment was that gap, why the right, left, right movement before going? If that wasn't his assignment, why in the heck was he going to the right when the RB was going left and Jackson ran up the middle, where Franklin just vacated? Also wouldn't it be more logical to have the OLB attack the gap on the right? Instead Bennett is watching the backfield and correctly moves with the RB. -Thanks to slowing themselves down on the last play, UL has a 3rd and 4 in which the WR drops the ball. Wasn't an easy catch since it was in traffic and a bullet. SU drive -First play is a poor throw by Dungey. Philips probably should have caught it though. Next play Neal empties then drops the ball as he tried to turn up field. -3rd down is the Estime pass. Great call. -We try and hurry the next play off and end up hurting ourselves. It was a screen to ET but both slots blocked the same defender, leaving the CB to make the tackle. However... -That might have been a throw away play to setup the next play. ET faked a screen while the 2 slots ran verts. Dungey hit Philips near the sideline for a nice gain. Estime looked to be the better option though and might have scored. -Next play they had good coverage. Dungey avoided the sack and then threw it away. He could have hit Neal on the circle but no big deal. -After a 2nd down run up the middle for no gain, Dungey runs out of the pocket for a nice gain. The WRs all looked to be covered. -The 4th down play was a mess. Coming off a TO we didn't line up correctly. Even if the ball wasn't batted down, Philips woudl have been taken down right away on the screen. Then there is Estime. He ran a route. Was he supposed to? The defender closest to him would have made the tackle, which makes you wish Estime blocked him. However that might have been Dungey's read. Defender tries to stop the screen, pass it to Estime. Defender stays with Estime, throw the screen. So either Estime or Dungey blew that read. UL drive -First two plays they passed for nice gains. Nothing wrong with the scheme or talent on these. -Jackson ran a zone read to the outside. We had no contain again. Thomas did a great job avoiding the blocker and forcing Jackson wide. Winfield did a poor job as he left Jackson go outside of him. It was only a 4 yard gain thanks to Thomas making a good play. -They ran an old school option which we defended perfectly tackling them for a loss. They had a block below the waist foul as well. -On a pass play, Jackson takes off right away but stumbles preventing any additional yards. -On 3rd and 16 the TE caught it and might have advanced for the first down but lost the ball. Cordy ended up with it for an "interception" SU drive -Not a good start to the drive. A run up the middle for a minimal gain but a false start was called. Then a QB draw for a minimal gain. Next play was a screen. Either the G or C needs to get a hit on the DT. We let him straight in which put too much pressure on Dungey, whose throw was almost caught by a defender. 3rd down was a screen to Neal for no gain. Conservative calls after the penalty. However an offsides gave us another shot at 3rd down. -Our second 3rd down attempt went incomplete. Ismail was interfered with but no call. That prevented him from making the catch. Wasn't a great throw by Dungey as it took forever to get out there, having no zip. If the DB was playing the ball he might have had a pick 6. UL drive -Wow did we get lucky the first play. Jackson faked to Ratcliffe who then ran a wheel. He doesn't drop the ball, he likely goes for an 80 yard TD there. They just had the right call vs our man coverage. If I am USF I am trying this play once a quarter. -A dropped short pass on 2nd brought up a 3rd and 10. Jackson made a great throw. Cordy almost got a hand on the ball, maybe if he was taller he would have. Can't blame anyone here though. -After another first via the pass we get a sack! Good job by Williams. -A QB draw gets a few more yards than it should due to a missed tackle. -Another 3rd down pass conversion. We brought a blitz. Hudson made the play. He could have reacted a bit better but it wouldn't have made much a difference. Bennett roughed the passer making things worse. Dumb play. -Jackson gets 5 up the middle on a zone read. Franklin did a nice job getting off the block but whiffed on the tackle. -After a pass to pick up the first down, Jackson makes his highlight TD run. Again we had no one assigned to contain. Hudson actually did a great job to come up to make a play before getting hurdled. I thought we were better in the 2nd Q but the first 12 mins weren't that much different than the 1st Q. Thankfully UL made a ton of mistakes or it would have been worse than the 35-7 score at this point. SU drive -Being a little more aggressive we get 30 to Ismail then the TD to ET. Great job by Dungey making that play happen. I get that UL was up 35-7 but it was nice to see us attack down the field. UL drive -A big pass gain is avoided by another drop. Might have been an 85 yard TD. That was followed by a bad pass incompletion. Third down they had us beat. They tried to throw over the top of Franklin but the WR couldn't come down with it. Thankfully Jones came over to help, was a nice reaction. Since he was at CB I am guessing we were in cover 3. SU drive -We got unlucky with the participating without a helmet call on the PR killing field position. -First play appeared to be a screen that was blown up. Dungey threw it away. Roughing the passer though got us back to midfield. Then a couple of short passes got us another first down. -ET ran a post and Dungey threw it as if he was going deep. Next play was a bad call. With not a lot of time left you still need to attack. We did the run pass option which won't even get you a first down in most cases. This time it was a 2 yard gain on the pass. Wasted play. -A run by Strickland up the middle goes for a nice gain and a first down. A screen to ET for a sort gain is followed by a short pass to ET that went incomplete but was nearly intercepted. -QB draw with a nice run by Dungey but for god's sake don't hurdle. Lucky he didn't get hurt. -I thought the 2nd TO was bad clock management by Babers. Let 20 seconds roll off first. Still leaves you with 28 secs to go 4 yards in 3 plays with 1 TO. -Hate the fade but it was there and ET should have made the catch. The 2nd time it worked for the TD. Problem was we left 40 secs on the clock instead of 20. UL drive -We were putting everyone back in coverage. Nice play by Ellison. Really poor throw by Jackson. SU drive -I don't get why we didn't go for the TD. First off I feel like a 38 yard TD pass is more likely than a 55 yard FG. Also they had a guy back to return the kick if it was short. In addition a kick from that distance has to be low, which makes it more likely to be blocked. On top of this is the game strategy. Best case we hit the FG and then score a TD our first drive of the 2nd half. You still need to make a stop to win the game. If you go for 7, then you don't need to make a stop. If you fail to get a TD, then you need to make a stop. So what does kicking a FG really accomplish? What is the difference between 0 and 3 points there? While there is a big difference between 7 and 3. [/QUOTE]

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