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The if, ands and but of it all…

DrNovaCane

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First what an amazing win last night and kudos to the team, coaches and staff for having us on the brink of yet another historic season. There’s a lot that can be said about our Fiesta Bowl game and victory so I’ll just jump right in…

This game was filled with a lot of ifs…
What if we had actually came up those 4 Ints; count them 1, 2, 3, 4 ints that were right in their hands (Dylan Day, J Thomas, Wes B—great play by “Mr. Touch it n***a himself”-EOC on the PBU, and then the gift to EOC) that I have no doubt would’ve impacted the trajectory of this game. I actually knew when D Day missed the first one this was going to be a different game because up until this point; the Defense had came up with all of those plays…ALL of them. I was like oh boy something feels off and well it was…

This game was rife with ands…
Discipline has been great and then the freaking penalties raised their ugly heads and I was like oh boy not SMU all over again. 9 penalties and known more egregious than D Blay’s offside and then late hit. I was like Cotdammit here we go coupled with A Coop’s back-to-back false starts that were absolute potential back breakers…Throw in the call on X Lucas and the non-targeting call on Mali and this game started to tilt…

However this game was also characterized by a lot of buts…
Life is about results and fighting through adversity and rolling with the ebbs and flows that each day and moment brings and this game was no different. This game actually did resemble the SMU debacle in so many way’s however I keep saying it; this team is built different! We’re dominating the game but Ole Miss is still hanging around. We’re moving the ball but not scoring points. We’re holding this high octane offense in check but we can’t shake them and on and on…Despite all that this game brought and the consternation, frustration, angst and disappointment; it brought ifs AND ands and yet the but that really matters…

BUT WE STILL WON!!!
SEE YOU IN MIAMI BABY…
 
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I said it all night. We didn’t even play well and still won.

4 dropped picks, 10 penalties, we snapped the ball at least once maybe twice before everyone was ready, we threw a pick, we missed a field goal, we made a horrible decision to run Malicat on 3rd and 1….and we found a way to win.

We didn’t execute nearly as well as we did last week, and we still won. It’s because this team has a ton of good football players on it.
 
Yeah, we exercised some deamons last night of Canes play past (the last 23 years);
Defense taken horrendous peronsal fouls, OL taking procedure penalties killing drives, missed TDs to wide open recievers, blown coverages and momentum swings only going by us without out us being able to swing it back. But they kept plugging away and refused to be denied in a clash of Cinderella stories.
 
The post game breakdowns I watched/listened to echoed the same thing. Miami was the better team and it would have been a travesty if they hadn’t won.

This playoff is a freaking gauntlet, each of these players and coaches are at the end of the longest season of their lives. We have had the toughest schedule of anyone still remaining, had no bye or cupcake. Now we learn half the team had the flu? My lord, have mercy.

Thank god we have so many dogs on this squad. I said it five times last night.

Marty’s catch in the flat that he was 6 yards behind the LOS and out of position AND SOMEHOW GAINED POSITIVE YARDAGE?

Marion, BYU’s own, all freaking night coming in clutch. Biggest game of his career, biggest performance of his career. @JHallCanes one shot one killed that call from distance this week.

Mali’s return to being the worm inside of every DC’s brain, just chewing on their grey matter til there’s nothing left.

Wes and Chase combining on a huge 3rd down stop, I squealed like a girl seeing her favorite indie band to get on the big stage. Carson playing the exact role he’s needed every single night, every single play.

Anez looking like he’d cost us the game after the second false start, then holding firm the last drive. There’s always a moment in this games where the human shines through, you see how disappointed they are in themselves — and yet the game must go on, and you are required to be great.

This team is built like some of the Pistons squads that won championships. Always had a guy who would do the thing you needed to do. Ben Wallace, Sheed, Rip. They played the style they needed, but at the end of the day just played a bit harder than the guy across from them.
 
QuattroCane said:
Someone needs to sit Blay down, two offside penalties as of late, and the dumb PF.
It was the most beautiful "ugly" win in a while.
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He's good for 1 or 2 of those a game it seems like. He's trying to jump the snap count but he has to know everyone is going with a hard count against us to try to slow down 3 and 4.
 
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QuattroCane said:
Someone needs to sit Blay down, two offside penalties as of late, and the dumb PF.
It was the most beautiful "ugly" win in a while.
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I've seen him jump offsides at least 3 times this season. Being lined up over the ball, he is the LAST person on the team who should ever jump offsides, as he has a direct, closeup view of when the ball is being snapped. Then with that stupid PF, it just seems that while he is talented he is also undisciplined and not very bright.
 
IndayArtHauz said:
The post game breakdowns I watched/listened to echoed the same thing. Miami was the better team and it would have been a travesty if they hadn’t won.

This playoff is a freaking gauntlet, each of these players and coaches are at the end of the longest season of their lives. We have had the toughest schedule of anyone still remaining, had no bye or cupcake. Now we learn half the team had the flu? My lord, have mercy.

Thank god we have so many dogs on this squad. I said it five times last night.

Marty’s catch in the flat that he was 6 yards behind the LOS and out of position AND SOMEHOW GAINED POSITIVE YARDAGE?

Marion, BYU’s own, all freaking night coming in clutch. Biggest game of his career, biggest performance of his career. @JHallCanes one shot one killed that call from distance this week.

Mali’s return to being the worm inside of every DC’s brain, just chewing on their grey matter til there’s nothing left.

Wes and Chase combining on a huge 3rd down stop, I squealed like a girl seeing her favorite indie band to get on the big stage. Carson playing the exact role he’s needed every single night, every single play.

Anez looking like he’d cost us the game after the second false start, then holding firm the last drive. There’s always a moment in this games where the human shines through, you see how disappointed they are in themselves — and yet the game must go on, and you are required to be great.

This team is built like some of the Pistons squads that won championships. Always had a guy who would do the thing you needed to do. Ben Wallace, Sheed, Rip. They played the style they needed, but at the end of the day just played a bit harder than the guy across from them.
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Don't forget the human victory cigar, Chuck Nevitt
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
I said it all night. We didn’t even play well and still won.

4 dropped picks, 10 penalties, we snapped the ball at least once maybe twice before everyone was ready, we threw a pick, we missed a field goal, we made a horrible decision to run Malicat on 3rd and 1….and we found a way to win.

We didn’t execute nearly as well as we did last week, and we still won. It’s because this team has a ton of good football players on it.
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I said it multiple times in the game thread…

We played our absolute worse game and still won…

There’s no where to go but up from last night man…
 
IndayArtHauz said:
The post game breakdowns I watched/listened to echoed the same thing. Miami was the better team and it would have been a travesty if they hadn’t won.

This playoff is a freaking gauntlet, each of these players and coaches are at the end of the longest season of their lives. We have had the toughest schedule of anyone still remaining, had no bye or cupcake. Now we learn half the team had the flu? My lord, have mercy.

Thank god we have so many dogs on this squad. I said it five times last night.

Marty’s catch in the flat that he was 6 yards behind the LOS and out of position AND SOMEHOW GAINED POSITIVE YARDAGE?

Marion, BYU’s own, all freaking night coming in clutch. Biggest game of his career, biggest performance of his career. @JHallCanes one shot one killed that call from distance this week.

Mali’s return to being the worm inside of every DC’s brain, just chewing on their grey matter til there’s nothing left.

Wes and Chase combining on a huge 3rd down stop, I squealed like a girl seeing her favorite indie band to get on the big stage. Carson playing the exact role he’s needed every single night, every single play.

Anez looking like he’d cost us the game after the second false start, then holding firm the last drive. There’s always a moment in this games where the human shines through, you see how disappointed they are in themselves — and yet the game must go on, and you are required to be great.

This team is built like some of the Pistons squads that won championships. Always had a guy who would do the thing you needed to do. Ben Wallace, Sheed, Rip. They played the style they needed, but at the end of the day just played a bit harder than the guy across from them.
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Exactly! Man this was a strange game but we won and that’s all that matters now…
 
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There is a symmetry to the circumstances last night that was hard to miss. For weeks Mario has been talking about 'the decision' after the SMU game being a turning point. Last night looked a lot like that SMU game, albeit against a much better version, for the first 3 quarters.

Penalties, INT, missed FG, dropped passes, dropped INTs, Dawson malfunctioning at times...

To be in the same position and come out with a different result shows how much this team has grown. The depth that was sketchy vs SMU really showed favorably last night.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
I said it all night. We didn’t even play well and still won.

4 dropped picks, 10 penalties, we snapped the ball at least once maybe twice before everyone was ready, we threw a pick, we missed a field goal, we made a horrible decision to run Malicat on 3rd and 1….and we found a way to win.

We didn’t execute nearly as well as we did last week, and we still won. It’s because this team has a ton of good football players on it.
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the sign of a great team is to be able to win a semi-final playoff game while self-sabotaging. if we put a complete game together and score almost on all easy opportunities like we did at Pitt we win these games with much larger margins.
 
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