BG @ Buffalo game thread -MAC East Title Game

[Rollo83]

This coaching staff in big games is like a whore in church. Sweating bullets and looks like they don't want to be there.

Exhibit B...

[Rollo83]

Typical Clawson in big games.... Conservative and it's gonna bit him big time

Exhibit C...

[kdog27]

What's your point? We aren't allowed to be upset when we are playing poorly? Here I sit with 3 Alabama fans bitching about how poorly they are playing and they lose about once every 2 years. We played like crap for much of the first half, tell me we didn't. You can choose to have the attitude of every thing is going be be OK and I am perfectly fine with that, but dont tell me how to root for BG. You want to bring up exhibits? I'll pull up 20 threads over the past 5 years where we bitch early and end up losing... But why would I.

[Flipper]

Exactly..at the time those posts were made we were looking like the same ol Falcons....close but not quite there. So people complained about it. BFD...glad you feel the need to play I told you so, but I don't think it's all that fair in this instance and in any instance, it's kind of a dick move.

[Rollo83]

So you think the Alabama fans are calling for Saban to be fired?

It can't be "I told you so" because I didn't say it. If you write it, you own it.

You can be upset with the way the teams playing, hell we all were. But do you have to call for the coach's head and compare the coaches to a "whore in church?"

[Flipper]

Well...since Nick Saban has won an ass load of titles at Alabama, no I don't think the people down there are going to be calling for his firing. Then again..no one that I can think of was calling for Dave Clawson to be fired. A number of people..myself included...looked at the Toledo loss as a sign that even though Clawson had done a tremendous job in rebuilding, he might not be the guy t take the final step. But we weren't swinging any axes. The way the offense was playing in the first half yesterday certainly lead me to think we were once again going to come up short. Thankfully, the defense kept us in the game long enough for the offense to sort it out and we won going away.

I don't have a problem with "owning" anything. The criticisms were valid at the time...by winning the east Clawson has shown he can do more than come close to winning a division and I'm looking forward to next Friday.

So far as the whore in church thing goes...obviously that's not an appropriate comment to make even in jest..but I get the sense that you're bothered by all of the criticism not just the most tasteless.

[kdog27]

Comparing Clawson to Saban is hilarious.

Pretty sure I created a thread praising the coaching staff and players a couple weeks ago saying I was glad they were proving me wrong. Also made one earlier praising Shaun Joplin.

Not sure who you think you are anyway because you have bitched about this team plenty over the years IIRC.

Edit:
Went back and looked at your posts from the past couple weeks. Damn you were hard on Joplin, yet no love or ownership as you call it when he plays a hell of a second half. Terrible fan you are. Though I guess most of your problem is with people that call out Clawson. Guess it's OK to bash an individual player but not the guy making nearly a half a million bucks. I have never called for Clawson to be fired. Many of us have expressed concerns and doubts and were glad to be proven wrong over the last month. I have been wrong many times and will be again.

[Flipper]

Besides..Tyler Tate would have hit that 57yd FG, so the Clawson/Saban comparison is dead in the water

[Schadenfreude]

I'm kind of enjoying what Rollo did there.

[kdog27]

I'm kind of enjoying what Rollo did there.

I just don't see the point. If we can't say anything negative then it's only logical to me that we can't say anything positive either. What's the point of having a game thread? Not all of us have the luxury to go to games based on where we live or what is going on in our lives and this is how we watch the games and interact with one another. If you're at the game are you allowed to moan and groan when you don't like something? Just trying to figure out the rules on how to be a Bowling Green fan.

[Flipper]

I guess I just don't see the point to it...what exactly are you trying to prove?

[AyZiggy97]

I'm usually not a fan of Rollo's posts, but I say bravo in this thread.

The argument that BG was playing a bad half of football when they were down by 4 points is bizarre. It's not like they hadn't been in that position, or worse, at various times during the season. Games are 60 minutes long and seasons are 12 games long for a reason. If I had been judged on my mid term grades, yikes.

Frustration is a human emotion. But if you put something out there as a truism in the heat of the moment, be prepared for it to be shown incorrect or premature at the end of the day.

I think moaning is completely different than some of the comments that are being rehashed here. I'm not in favor of a Pollyanna approach, but maybe being two scores down before unleashing criticism is worth considering.

[kdog27]

My problem is Rollo was and has been negative plenty of times around here. Even in this very thread but I guess that's OK because he knows where the line is of what's acceptable.

It's on the internet? So what, so are a trillion other things. Goodnight and goodbye to this thread.

[Flipper]

But the negativity wasn't "incorrect"....they played a terrible first half offensively...the negativity was warranted. I'm ecstatic that the second half went better and there was a happy ending, but that first half had the same feel to it as every other close loss we had the past couple of years so people talked about it. Again...I'm not sure WTH any of this proves...

[footballguy51]

The first half was not a poorly coaches half, and this is why. We used the run, our strength, to setup the pass. We were gashing the Buffalo defense on the ground to start with. If we complete some of those passes that were EASY passes to catch, we probably would have steamrolled Buffalo. But, by not catching those passes, Buffalo didn't need to worry about the passing game because ours was nonexistent. And, rather than continue to complete passes to receivers that couldn't get open and couldn't catch passes while standing wide open, we tried going back to plays we can execute so we could gain yardage.

In the second half, the announcers said something really interesting about Matt Johnson's 56-yard run, and I swear I was thinking that all the way up to halftime. We had set that play up for the entire first half. Again and again we handed off to Greene and he was caught from behind by a speedy defender that wasn't respecting the fake or the backside bootleg. We hammered that play to death to see if that was a consistent reaction, and it was. I was playing the coach-from-the-couch saying, "We need to fake the hand-off and bootleg off that. It is SO open." That's what we finally did, and it was a thing of beauty.

Since our pass game was ineffective due to mental mistakes, we used the first half to keep it close and test some theories. That was a great move. What else should we have done? Continue to throw to receivers that were dropping the ball and then go 3-and-out after gaining no yards? THAT would have been poor coaching.