Defense gave up 17 4th quarter points. We were lucky to have a QB that didn't fold under pressure like the previous years where we got close, but came up short.
I'll believe it when I see it...
Don’t be coy and stupid. The details were in the pudding last season. Rosier was awful and his 3rd down conversion % was an atrocious 25%. If he wins the job then I will support him but for right now we can wish for someone different. Hopefully he does lead us to the promised land because the schedule is very favorable for us.
Agreed. Rosier was equally crappy on first and second downs.
Well, I happen to think that when you have a crappy QB, you don’t help matters much with run for no gain, run for 2, run for -1, run for 10, run for no gain.
Poor QB play compounds the issues with the run, in my opinion. When teams have no fear of your passing game, it's darn near impossible to impose your will in the run game. We need better QB play, and I don't care who we get it from.
You run the ball to set up the pass. That is the way football is played. That is why defenses are always built around, and very much live and die by their ability to stop the run. People love to bring up the UNC games and the Pitt games as examples of poor play from Rosier, and I'll give you the Pitt game, but no team wins when they only get 16 yards from their running backs. Yes. Opportunities were there and Rosier missed them, but it takes a buffoon to think that Rosier was the only problem we had that game. Pitt was horrible defending the run all year, but shut us down with **** near comical efficiency. UNC was the 117th ranked run defense playing with more injuries than the 1970 Thundering Herd, and they held us to 59 yards on 32 carries.
God, give it a rest Mr. Rosier.
So Pitt was not spying for the run? Even when they blitzed the corner and Rosier tried to run the 3 LB’s would be playing zone and came up to stop him
Correct. Pitt played Cover 4/Quarters every single snap. Yes, they mixed in about a half dozen blitzes, but not on a single down, not even 3rd and 1s did they ever send more than 6–they blitzed with 2 on one play: every other blitz brought only 5–and there safeties were never less than 8 or 9 yards off the LOS.
