On the lateral play is the fucking worst. Just let the man with the arm throw it deep for a 50/50 ball.
We had the penalty. Knew it would be a short kick. Tell your guys to block and go for a real return. I hate both lateral calls
I'm seeing people post Dillon walked off the field on his own power and sat in the cart. He is probably fine. But fuck man. This loss.
The one call that I did disagree with (which was probably still the right call) is not going for 2 on the last TD. I had no faith in our defense in an OT situation. Would have rather just taken that momentum from the drive and try for the win right there
Good chance Gabriel has a broken collar bone. Gus gonna find out quick if Mikey is the QB of the future. Feels good to be on the 2nd string QB and 4th/5th string QB and still sleepwalk to a bowl game.
I swore I wasn't going to come on here and vent but fuck it, here we go. I can't agree with the "we needed to pass" people. MAR, and Coles to an extent, were carving up the defense on the previous drive. We had the momentum and three TO's. Running the ball has a lesser chance of a turnover, see what you get on first down and second down with the run, if you want to pass on third down and try the FG go for it but throw to the sidelines. Regardless, the worst that could happen is overtime! Why take the risk?!? And then when you fuck that up, you do that stupid lateral play instead of letting the dude with the golden arm throw it downfield? The chances of that succeeding are way better than the stupid laterals with a much less chance of injury. I realize blaming the injury on the playcalling is tenuous, but fuck man, adding the cost up is part of the deal. I haven't been this furious with a coaching decision since O'Leary days.
Sorry I disagree. Last drive to win the game, I rather put the ball in DGs hands, not the 2nd string RB. The pass was pretty safe and if nothing was there DG would have run. That ball should have been caught, and if it was would have been a gain of 15+
No one said we "needed to pass". Just that choosing to pass was a perfectly good play call. We needed a good 25-30 yards to have a comfortable winning FG. So play your offense. The pass play was a really short one and it would have worked. Id agree if he was throwing into coverage but he wasnt. Nothing wrong with the play call but the reaction is like he went for a homerun ball.
Our WRs cannot get open. They make some nice catches but they force DG to work so hard for them. Game shouldn't have been close but we had drives end over and over because DG had to find a checkdown 5 yards short of the line
Juat amazing that on extended broken plays no one can improvise to get open. I do wish DG would run more instead of a checkdown or just throw it away if it's a lost cause.
We just are not a top 25 caliber team. Sucks because I thought we were, but young guys on the road played a bit off and coaches couldn't get them to turn it around. Lots of mental errors. Lee out costs us a drive when the back up failed to snap it on 4th and 1. Flash got hurt, David got banged up, Bowser hurt. We were down to basically our 4th string RB! Just too much to overcome even against a lower ACC team. I'm 100% fine with the play call, but if Flash was in that is a catch, again playing back ups. Now DG is hurt. If he comes back we still will be a 3 loss team (Louisville and 2x vs Cincy). If DG is out for a while then we will probably drop a few more to Tulane and maybe Houston? Doesn't matter in the grand scheme because the talent level will only get better the next 3 years as we recruit with P5 status.
I don't argue so I'm done after this, but running is a large part of our offense, and at times (like right before all this went down, the tying scoring drive was 7 rushes and 1 incomplete pass) it was working much better than the pass. To me its more about the likely outcomes. You run the ball to try to get the yardage you need, whether it works or not, the worst outcome is likely overtime. You throw the ball and you introduce the potential for what happened. I just don't see why you needed to pass there and introduce the worst possible scenario. If you want to throw on third down to try to get better yardage then sure, but again, do it to the sidelines.
Gus’ run scheme is a thing of beauty when it gets rolling. Unfortunately sometimes it’s gets going and he thinks he needs to start throwing the ball more.
Yeah and I don't disagree and I would be mad if we abdonded the run. But all we have to go off of is one play which was really nothing more than a short pass that exposed an opening. It's likely on 2nd we go back to the run there. As far as outcomes thats just almost a freak outcome in the way a scoop and score would have been. I dunno. At the end of the day a guy needs to execute a play and not turn it into a disaster.
We have so many starters that were transfers, it’s pretty obvious that Heupel didn’t leave a top 25 roster behind. Sucks because I thought maybe DG could will us there, but apparently that’s not possible with our WR’s. I don’t follow recruiting, but I hope Gus better than Heupel there.
I don't pay attention to backup QBs (except Team Bortles circa 2013) but what's our QB room situation? I have no idea how good the guys behind DG are.
And of course the first game on is going to make me hate watch Cincinnati beat the shit out of Indiana probably.
Can’t wait to see his new rock em sock collection of his shoulder X-ray and him standing with a clipboard on the sideine
I feel like usf should not be favored by 3TD over any college football team including the fake ones who don't have matching equipment
Being 3 hours back is the best, I was asleep by 9:30 and ready to tackle the world when the baby was up at 5:30. Although at a trampoline park with my son now and gave two bounces and thought I was going to throw up.
maddening that Cincy can park themselves in the top 10 coming off a non-real football season and looking completely "okay" while we weren't given any of that blowing doors off people in 2017-2018.