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MovingZen said:
Stanford is not good and in no way should have held us to no ******* points in the first quarter. Somebody is too ******* stubborn to keep running the same **** over and over when teams are clearly geared up for whatever the **** is our offensive game plan. Yea we overpowered a weak opponent. The stubbornness of the offense is depressing. The sad part is, some asshat will say look.. we scored 40 points doing it that way. That bull**** is a recipe for more losses. I am not impressed with the game plan at all but I will thank the football gods for Toney and Fletcher.

Oh yeah, those mother ****ers better start calling the clear holds on our DL (Bain). It's getting waaaay to obvious to ignore. Even the announcer was calling it out. The acc is ******* stupid if they continue to let teams hold Bain all game. The guy would be getting so much more press and Miami is really the only threat from the acc in the playoffs.
I'm ******* ****ed, don't ask me if I'm alright.
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Stanford missed 25 tackles in the field of play last night, and we still only averaged 5.5 yards per play. That’s atrocious.

That 1H was the worst half of football we’ve played all year, and yet we’ve seen signs the last three weeks that shouldn’t leave anyone surprised.

The 2H was a direct result of atrociously thrown INTs and Malachi Toney being a stud.
 
So we have 2 game changers in Pringle and Lyle but we insist on having them run in a bully ball scheme. An OC making what Dawson is making should be able to scheme up runs to take advantage of their skill sets. And we wonder why we whiff on some of these 5* talents.

Schott and Gilbert both look considerably quicker than Lofton and Baumann. Granted it was in garbage time but why not get them some reps.

Same at WR. What you see is what you get with Marion. To me Moore and Trader have a higher ceiling. Same with T Johnson. No reason those 3 shouldn’t be getting more snaps.
 
Our fans hate talking about execution, but if we don't botch a FG and drop a 4th diwn conversion deep in Stanford territory, we are up at halftime, probably by 10 points. The 4th and 1 failure in the 2md half was dumb. Stanford was doing nothing on offense. Take the points.

This game should have been done and dusted. You can't have 3 trips inside the 30 and come away with nothing. This team leaves a TON of points on the field.

All in all, the 2nd half was excellent, but the game should have been a blowout much earlier.
 
QuattroCane said:
The slow start was frustrating, but not surprising. We needed to get the "wiggles" out (IYKYK), had we not rolled them I'd be more concerned.
When the announcer is basically calling the refs out, that's a problem.
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Luckily it was Stanford, wasting plays and wasting time for entire quarters is the recipe for what happened with louisville. Somebody really really needs to learn from that. Make the defense think and stop making the field so small. Why make it harder for the offense?
 
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rascon said:
Wish we would call out Mirabel. The triple I formation is all him and the run game had success in 2nd half because it was Stanford. It don’t work in the 2nd half against Louisville and it won’t work against teams that are even moderately stout up the middle like Pitt or teams that commit to that moving forward.

I will believe how good our tackles are when we run more off tackle, our supposed strength.
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Carson is a game manager, give him the scheme and establish the tempo and he will manage that. Last night once we got in tempo things started to fall in place. Yes, it was Stanford, but moving the pieces around and changing those pieces all established a tempo and momentum. Beck thrives as a manager in that environment. Let’s keep it going and build on it. And you’re right about Mirabel. Appreciate him, but WTF, open up the running game.
 
RPO needs to be a staple of offense moving forward.

It holds the LB's and S from crashing down on run game.

Have a built in bubble on some, and traditional slant/digs on majority. Just need defenders a half step slow.

Listen we don't have to go 4 wide trmpo all game, BUT fo it one drive to mix it in.

Also I know he is a true freshmsn, but we have a 5 game season, and Toney needs as many touches as possible. I'm not opposed to some Wildcat either, with Marion coming in jet sweep motion. Toney can throw out of that look also.
 
Brains said:
Our fans hate talking about execution, but if we don't botch a FG and drop a 4th diwn conversion deep in Stanford territory, we are up at halftime, probably by 10 points. The 4th and 1 failure in the 2md half was dumb. Stanford was doing nothing on offense. Take the points.

This game should have been done and dusted. You can't have 3 trips inside the 30 and come away with nothing. This team leaves a TON of points on the field.

All in all, the 2nd half was excellent, but the game should have been a blowout much earlier.
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This.
 
Call me negative, but if any ten decides to follow the Louisville game plan and run quick passes we will get beaten again.

I think Beck is broken or exposed. Whatever you want to call it. He’s unathletic when he runs and right now is definitely not confident. He needs a boost for sure.

I don’t see a dominant OL. And I think it’s on the OC. Stanford was regularly beating us to our own spot because we are so bland and obvious in our playcalling.

TEs are terrible. Period, end of story.

We played with fire for a long time with a bad team. That QB sucks, and at times we made him look ok, honestly the drops they had helped us a ton.
 
What are the odds that we'd figure out how to play again as soon as the rain started to fall.
 
Brains said:
Our fans hate talking about execution, but if we don't botch a FG and drop a 4th diwn conversion deep in Stanford territory, we are up at halftime, probably by 10 points. The 4th and 1 failure in the 2md half was dumb. Stanford was doing nothing on offense. Take the points.

This game should have been done and dusted. You can't have 3 trips inside the 30 and come away with nothing. This team leaves a TON of points on the field.

All in all, the 2nd half was excellent, but the game should have been a blowout much earlier.
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It should have started with the first offensive series. Execution is a problem no doubt but the occasional **** up wouldn't have such an effect if it weren't for all the other wasted plays. The offense could be so much better if it weren't so schematically ******* boring.
 
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frostycane said:
Call me negative, but if any ten decides to follow the Louisville game plan and run quick passes we will get beaten again.

I think Beck is broken or exposed. Whatever you want to call it. He’s unathletic when he runs and right now is definitely not confident. He needs a boost for sure.

I don’t see a dominant OL. And I think it’s on the OC. Stanford was regularly beating us to our own spot because we are so bland and obvious in our playcalling.

TEs are terrible. Period, end of story.

We played with fire for a long time with a bad team. That QB sucks, and at times we made him look ok, honestly the drops they had helped us a ton.
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If only he could have built some confidence back against a poor pass defense somewhere on our schedule.
 
If the shoe was on the other foot MOSTLY all of you would be compalining about the classless act Mario pulled last night. He scores a meaningless TD right at the end of the game. Maybe some of his buddies bet the game who knows. Whatever you guys think its fine but not only is he clueless on coaching day game situations, his clock management is the worst in the history of fooball, and he is a POS trying to score right at the end of the game. THAT WAS CLASSLESS AND FRANK WAS NOT HAPPY!
 
nickster said:
If the shoe was on the other foot MOSTLY all of you would be compalining about the classless act Mario pulled last night. He scores a meaningless TD right at the end of the game. Maybe some of his buddies bet the game who knows. Whatever you guys think its fine but not only is he clueless on coaching day game situations, his clock management is the worst in the history of fooball, and he is a POS trying to score right at the end of the game. THAT WAS CLASSLESS AND FRANK WAS NOT HAPPY!
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Who cares if Frank is happy? He’s an old millionaire who will be retired next year.

The young guys work hard and deserve to get real snaps. I’m glad we kept running our offense with the backups.
 
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