My thoughts...

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:43 pm

~Well what's to say. Sheehan was terrible today. Not below average. Not disappointing. Flat out terrible. He's a young QB hopefully he learns from his mistakes and bounces back for league play. He had a habit today of looking at the rush instead of downfield, and his accuracy was way off pretty much all day.

~Speaking of looking at the rush, our OL is very overrated. This group may be mostly the same guys as last year, but they are not nearly what we were expecting coming into the year.

~The playcalling before halftime was absolutely idiotic. We get the ball with almost 3 minutes to go and we try to kill the clock? Hey, you cannot do that! Our stupid playcalling resulted in a screen pass pick six. Then after we get the ball we again try to milk the clock, until we find ourself in good field position. We then suddenly decide to air it out for 50 yards down the sideline? What the hell? The playcalling in the last 3:00 of the 1st half was insane. Did it cost us the game? No, but it was still stupid.

~Gregg Brandon needs to get his head out of his freaking ass and put Bullock in the fu**ing game. He's the only actual RB we have and for some reason we choose not to use him. It will cost us games.

~I hope we've seen the last of Anthony Turner. We give him the ball on 3rd and one and rather than take the first down that was there he tries to bust it outside. That's a selfish play trying to do to much. He had a job and he failed miserably...very disappointing.

~Freddie is a straight up playa.

~The entire defensive coaching staff should get reamed. The gameplan today gave our guys absolutely no chance to succeed from the get go. Rush 4, rarely blitz, and give the guys 10-15 yards of cushion all day long. you will never slow down, let alone stop, a quality QB with the defensive gameplan we ran today. I don't care if we get beat deep once or twice...it's a total pansy move to sit back and basically wait for their Heisman candidate to screw up. I don't know what genius thought up that gameplan but it was flat out pathetic.

~Penalties, penalties, penalties...UGH.

~I know that it won't be en vogue today, but I honestly wasn't that impressed with BC. Our offense left about 40 points on the field with idiotic decisions and poor accuracy. Their defense did NOTHING to slow our team down, we shot ourselves in the foot. Tough to really get a read on Ryan as he could've been sitting out there on a chair and chucking it up to the uncovered receivers all day. We employed a deadly combination of don't cover & don't rush the passer defense.

~The lone really bright spot of this game is that in the grand scheme it doesn't really count. The conference slate continues next week and we better get our crap together. This team has a chance to win the MAC, but they wouldn't beat Buffalo the way they played today...better get it together.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:33 pm

Take a deep breath.

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:34 pm

Our OL is my biggest concern right now, besides the fact we seem to have completely abandoned our ground game.

What happened to our line?

ZuluWarrior · Post by **ZuluWarrior** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:50 pm

OL is a concern. We can't run the ball. The fact we throw 70% of the time one would think it would open up the run. Too much pressure on QB.

Sheehan will have a few more days like this, probably this year, but he's going to be very good.

DL needs to get pressure. We finally try a blitz and they score an easy TD on a screen.

Can't complain about special teams.

Today wasn't a shock. Need to bounce back next week against the Red Things. I still believe we will be in the thick of things in the league.

gspointer · Post by **gspointer** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:50 pm

The NG for BC was 325. Our guard 290 (maybe) and the rest just above that. No push. We are just not that strong up front. I'll say that until the cows come home. They have shown little.

Birddog

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:17 pm

gspointer wrote:The NG for BC was 325. Our guard 290 (maybe) and the rest just above that. No push. We are just not that strong up front. I'll say that until the cows come home. They have shown little.

Birddog

The thing is in order to run out of the spread you don't really need push in the traditional sense. You can take advantage of smaller, quicker OL guys and open lanes. You've already spread the defense out horizontally. We don't seem to even care to try to run the ball.

zeket10 · Post by **zeket10** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 11:15 pm

hammb, I thought I saw the middle all blocked up when AT ran to the outside. Whoever called that play was dumb, don't put that on AT wasn't his fault. He took what he had. If you think that was selfish and not just doing a job look at Sheehan. He was forcing pass where here he had no business. It looked like he was trying to prove somthing, like "I am not scared to keep on throwing this ball wherever I want."

BGGrad01 · Post by **BGGrad01** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 11:23 pm

I don't think AT was being selfish on that play. He was just trying to make a big play. Unfortunately, we did not need a big play. We needed one freaking yard. He clearly had the first down if he would have fallen forward. Instead, he tried to bounce it outside and the DB made the play.

It is just too obvious what we're going to do when #17 trots on the field. Mix in an option with him and Geter or something aside from the same QB draw if we're going to continue to use him. If not, sling a three yard out or drag to Corey.

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 11:25 pm

zeket10 wrote:hammb, I thought I saw the middle all blocked up when AT ran to the outside. Whoever called that play was dumb, don't put that on AT wasn't his fault. He took what he had. If you think that was selfish and not just doing a job look at Sheehan. He was forcing pass where here he had no business. It looked like he was trying to prove somthing, like "I am not scared to keep on throwing this ball wherever I want."

The middle was stuffed so AT broke it outside. He had a clear lane back to the inside of the guy that ended up making the play. Rather than cut it up and dive for that yard he tried to bounce it further outside and make a bigger play out of it.

As for Sheehan's play you won't see me apologize for that...it was horrid. He got rattled and kept trying to throw the ball where it didn't belong.

zeket10 · Post by **zeket10** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 11:34 pm

Their was no big play to make besides get the first down. AT was going to get poped if he cut up by another player, but you probally missed the other replay angle cause you were to busy cursing him out because they didn't get the first down. But hey non of it matter cause A LOSS IS A LOSS!