Thoughts...

Rollo83 · Post by **Rollo83** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 10:27 pm

Couple of things from today's debacle:

1. How many years does this go on? We play no defense…D coordinators come and go, players come and go…with the same results. Players are not in the right position to make plays, and when they do have a chance to make a play…they don’t get it done.

Either one of two things are happening or a combination of both…(a) we aren’t recruiting talented enough players on the defensive side of the ball…too many high school offensive players moved to defense once in college. Or, (b) we do an absolute horrible job of coaching the defense, we don’t make adjustments during the game, and we draw up defensive game plans that stink. We’ve wasted some really great offensive talent the last 5-7 years due to a defense that couldn’t stop its own shadow.

2. How can we not be able to make adjustments to our spread offense when they drop 7 or 8 people into coverage? What, we’ve never seen this before? Omar or Josh never faced this defensive tactic when Brandon was OC? Ok, I can see having trouble with it for half a game, but this is our second game where we haven’t had an answer? And, didn’t we spend all week in practice working on this s**t?

3. I am not ready to give up on Sheehan. I still think he is our QB for the future. He’s got a gun for an arm and shows the necessary mobility to avoid a pass rush. Moving on to his second and third receivers will come with experience, as will knowing when to dump the ball off. Just needs a little coaching and better play calling. And, I don’t buy that the spread needs a mobile (J5) QB. Omar ran the spread better than Josh IMO and he wasn’t mobile at all. I think Omar benefited from having PJ Pope where Tyler has nobody…empty backfield…not even a threat of the run to keep the linebackers honest.

“The fish rots from the head”…Brandon has to go.

Rollo83 · Post by **Rollo83** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:06 am

Re-read this post and just insert Tulsa where it says Miami.

You just never know which team is going to show-up with Brandon leading this program. This was totally embarassing.

You can't blame the coach for fumbling the ball and missing wide open receivers down the field. But, this was a team totally unprepared to play this game and against this opponent. Tulsa had the worst defense in the country and we could not even score a single offensive point? This goes way beyond simply blaming it on the unpredictablity of dealing with young, student athletes. When you get beat this bad in all phases of the game, its on the coaching staff. Other programs don't seem to go through this rollercoaster ride sh&t!

Falcon137 · Post by **Falcon137** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:11 am

Echo echo echo....Are we going to have 100 different threads about how bad we were? Lets move on, hell half of us were in the chat talking American Gladiators by the time halftime ended.

jpfalcon09 · Post by **jpfalcon09** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:11 am

Selective amnesia.

Most will forget about this game next year when August 30th comes around, indeed the loss stings and BG played probably as bad as possible, but it was still a successful season. They can hopefully use it as a motivational tool and not get down on themselves.

The only quip I have is that GB does not deserve an extension this offseason. I don't care if it hurts recruiting having him going into next year w/o anything long term, he needs to feel the fire on his ass to get things straightened out and know that a lack of preparedness as shown tonight will not be accepted.

buffaloefalcon · Post by **buffaloefalcon** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:20 am

And you're watching American Gladiator because...! That's why this country is going to h*ll in a hand basket! Jeez, you must be voting for Rudy or Mitt huh!

Falcon137 · Post by **Falcon137** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:23 am

buffaloefalcon wrote:And you're watching American Gladiator because...! That's why this country is going to h*ll in a hand basket! Jeez, you must be voting for Rudy or Mitt huh!

Good post.....

freefalcon · Post by **freefalcon** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:32 am

Falcon137 wrote: Lets move on, hell half of us were in the chat talking American Gladiators by the time halftime ended.

WHAT...I missed American Gladiators!!??!!

BGFalconfromCincy · Post by **BGFalconfromCincy** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:58 am

freefalcon wrote:
Falcon137 wrote: Lets move on, hell half of us were in the chat talking American Gladiators by the time halftime ended.
WHAT...I missed American Gladiators!!??!!

don't worry its on tomorrow too

h2oville rocket · Post by **h2oville rocket** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 6:52 am

buffaloefalcon wrote:And you're watching American Gladiator because...! That's why this country is going to h*ll in a hand basket! Jeez, you must be voting for Rudy or Mitt huh!

Yeah, because theree's a clear connection between the two.

pottereed · Post by **pottereed** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:22 pm

It's the same connection between Iraq and Osama.

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:14 pm

Barrack Osama went to school in Iraq, right?

h2oville rocket · Post by **h2oville rocket** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:20 pm

Flipper wrote:Barrack Osama went to school in Iraq, right?

Yes and he ran up the score against the Iranians in the marsh wars of the 80s. As US president he WOULD be an American Gladiator and the tie to Hillary and global warming is too obvious for anyone to miss.