TVD had zero turnovers until the injury hit. Duke was whipping our beat up injured OL.
Jake after taking a lead played the worst half of football from a Miami QB I’ve ever seen.
He turned it over 5 times, 5 times, 5 TIMES in one half, and that was main reason we got beat in that 2nd half.
Now if you are a HC/OC, and you just witnessed that abomination, would you not lean on a running game and defense? UVA pass defense is a strength of their team.
Their offense has struggled, their OL stinks, can’t run the ball, struggle to score.
Now what would be your game plan?
TVD wasn't doing a thing until he was hurt. Some was on him, largely on Gattis.
Jake came in and passed for two quick TD's.
Duke comes back and scores. We're down again.
We then go for an inexcusable 4th down. We had the first down, ball delivered, but it was dropped.
Duke scores again and were back to 10 down with 14 minutes to play.
Duke then sacks and causes a fumble. The OL doing its thing, beaten like a drum.
Duke scores, 12 minutes and some change left, up 17.
That's a very tough spot to be in. You aren't coming back and winning 90 plus percent of the time there. I don't care who the QB is. We still tried, but failures all over the place made for a bloody 4th quarter. One INT was on our receiver. The sack fumbles, that's on the OL first and ball security secondly. We're forced to throw the ball, can't block, the defense is sitting on routes knowing a pass is coming as there isn't time to run the ball, we're down 17.
Yes, it was a **** performance. Still, our hand was forced, you're fighting an uphill battle. We tried and failed on every level.
I sure as heck wouldn't have counted on our run game to do anything. It hasn't all season. I also wouldn't call half the passing concepts we isex but thats me.
What drives me absolutely insane about this staff is how we look to the sideline to check the call to see if we need to change it and the majority of the time they still make the wrong call. What I mean by that is that's used to make sure you've got the right call made. We typically don't exploit what they're showing us.
Want to know a game plan, watch literally any game they've played and see what everyone else did. Every team they've played has scored more in 4 quarters. GT is the only team they've played that put up less yards, but scored one more field goal in regulation. ODU put up more yards and points. Richmond put up more yards and points.
Thr entire thing was an offensive abortion of a plan. You want to thank someone today, thank UVA's inept offense coupled by a solid defensive performance. We're lucky their guy dropped a surefire TD in our end zone. This offensive staff coached up a loss, but UVA didn't capitalize.