We beat a bad team...

[S.CarolinaCane]

...is what many are saying tonight. The pundits rightly picked VA to win the coastal. And we (A Carter) punched them in the mouth tonight. They are a well-coached team full of upper-classmen, with a nice sprinkling of talent on both sides of the ball. Our D held Perkins to under 60% with zero TDs and 1.6 yards per rush. UVA's receivers caught some dime passes from Perkins that were actually well defended to keep drives alive... but we pushed their **** in inside the redzone. Manny back in the D gives me hope for the rest of the season. Our OLine and redzone play calling still leaves me pessimistic, but this was a good win for these kids tonight.

Enjoy it FFS.

LOL, pretty sure we were favored to win the Coastal by far more 'pundits'

 

[Ammok]

Manny is coaching with training wheels on, at $3m/yr +
His D "involvement" should have been in the offseason prior to the Gators game.

James Blake is still a F'ing idiot

 

[Deleted member 13422]

thanks for reading my mind

that UVA OC is god awful... they really try and put lipstick on bryce but hes an awfulQB whose best pass was a complete busted coverage by ivey

Their OC looks like Charles Bronson

 

[canefan96]

There is a reason why we were favored by 2.

 

[mcnaire2004]

Every team in the coastal is bad. Everyone is probably about the same level.

 

[Home Slice]

"Bad" is relative

 

[section9]

"Bad" is relative

Well, until you realize that Clemson would run train on every team in this division.

 

[Suhrthing]

Well, until you realize that Clemson would run train on every team in this division.

Except UNC?

 

[CaneinBroward]

Geez, can we at least go 24 hours before we officially s*&t on a win?

 

[dirtyred786]

Manny is coaching with training wheels on, at $3m/yr +
His D "involvement" should have been in the offseason prior to the Gators game.

James Blake is still a F'ing idiot

Manny gets a major L for letting his buddy come in and change the defense. Now he has to sit back and think about what could have been.

 

[561Cane]

Solid win. UVA is a good team who plays smarter than Canes. Hopefully Canes football IQ gets much better!

 

[Tit-e-skr]

The UVA OC is a hero. He has to design a game plan around a kid who can’t throw.

 

[Silver King]

That's a very poorly designed Virginia offense. It could not have been more glaring from the stands. I had to laugh that anyone would complain about Enos, when the other side was like a tinkerbell offense that somehow managed to not have the slightest threat of a power running game combined with virtually no threat of sophisticated route trees.

Miami was exponentially more versatile and dangerous than the other side. Take away that Virginia quarterback and some glue finger receivers and they have next to nothing. Central Michigan created spacing yet dropped the ball. Virginia created no spacing all game long yet their receivers kept drives alive and made the statistics considerably more robust that rightful by snagging the contested throws.

Virginia was like a Power 5 version of a Bethune Cookman offense but not much more than that. Absurdly condensed. They were so scared to actually run the football that when it switched from 3rd quarter to 4th quarter with Virginia 3rd and goal at the 1 yard line the one thing I did not fear at all was that Virginia would actually succeed on an aggressive running play. No chance. It was going to be a finesse play. Sure enough, they tried to slip the receiver (maybe tight end) into the far right flat -- we covered it -- and the quarterback had nothing. Then he was too stupid go actually throw the ball away, leaving 4th and goal from the 1. The 3 yard loss meant settling for a field goal.

Great victory but I knew darn well the defense was going to be overhyped here. Some of the sharp posters realized the Central Michigan defensive tally meant nothing given all the opportunities they missed. This is somewhat more significant...but barely. I mentioned this past week that Virginia was dead last in the ACC in rushing attempts per game, and had only 1 game above 129 yards rushing. I never had to ask why tonight. The Canes attacked on defense because Virginia essentially invited it by not even pretending to attack physically with the running game.

Combine the very limited opposing offense with the situational benefit of a home short week and we looked better than we are.

They were converting 3rd and 5 or better at a pretty hefty rate, but I'll take the W.

 

[pacusmc]

We should be 5-0 or 4-1 it is what it is tho. 3-3 and we beat a top 25 team. Hopefully we can use this momentum and run the table. #GoCanes

In my years of watching football you don’t want to be a an undefeated team where most of your wins could’ve gone either way.
Our record is what we say we are. A talented team that has issues in all 3 phases that needs to be worked the fck out. I’ll take a W against a decent team any day of the week. But if we were 5-0 it wouldn’t say that things are a lot different than they are now no matter how good it would feel.
Even elite teams sometimes squeak out a win against shty teams. But our ten win season under cmr made us feel good and over shadowed weaknesses. Bad punting and special teams exposed it last year.

 

[section9]

Except UNC?

Touché. Which makes our inability to beat them all the more frustrating.

 

[CountDookoo]

Isn't that what they're supposed to do?

 

[Garnacho]

This thread made my morning.

 

[ItsAUThing.com]

...is what many are saying tonight. The pundits rightly picked VA to win the coastal. And we (A Carter) punched them in the mouth tonight. They are a well-coached team full of upper-classmen, with a nice sprinkling of talent on both sides of the ball. Our D held Perkins to under 60% with zero TDs and 1.6 yards per rush. UVA's receivers caught some dime passes from Perkins that were actually well defended to keep drives alive... but we pushed their **** in inside the redzone. Manny back in the D gives me hope for the rest of the season. Our OLine and redzone play calling still leaves me pessimistic, but this was a good win for these kids tonight.

Enjoy it FFS.

Fully agree. Anyone that isn't content with a win tonight, as well as the defense just crushing them in the red zone, is a mook that need to just give up already.

 

[Pearson704]

That's a very poorly designed Virginia offense. It could not have been more glaring from the stands. I had to laugh that anyone would complain about Enos, when the other side was like a tinkerbell offense that somehow managed to not have the slightest threat of a power running game combined with virtually no threat of sophisticated route trees.

Miami was exponentially more versatile and dangerous than the other side. Take away that Virginia quarterback and some glue finger receivers and they have next to nothing. Central Michigan created spacing yet dropped the ball. Virginia created no spacing all game long yet their receivers kept drives alive and made the statistics considerably more robust that rightful by snagging the contested throws.

Virginia was like a Power 5 version of a Bethune Cookman offense but not much more than that. Absurdly condensed. They were so scared to actually run the football that when it switched from 3rd quarter to 4th quarter with Virginia 3rd and goal at the 1 yard line the one thing I did not fear at all was that Virginia would actually succeed on an aggressive running play. No chance. It was going to be a finesse play. Sure enough, they tried to slip the receiver (maybe tight end) into the far right flat -- we covered it -- and the quarterback had nothing. Then he was too stupid go actually throw the ball away, leaving 4th and goal from the 1. The 3 yard loss meant settling for a field goal.

Great victory but I knew darn well the defense was going to be overhyped here. Some of the sharp posters realized the Central Michigan defensive tally meant nothing given all the opportunities they missed. This is somewhat more significant...but barely. I mentioned this past week that Virginia was dead last in the ACC in rushing attempts per game, and had only 1 game above 129 yards rushing. I never had to ask why tonight. The Canes attacked on defense because Virginia essentially invited it by not even pretending to attack physically with the running game.

Combine the very limited opposing offense with the situational benefit of a home short week and we looked better than we are.

Ducks looked good last night. I'd take Mario in a heartbeat and optimistically hold hope we'd go after him, but knowing nepotism[]__[] Manny will do enough to underachieve some more next season.

 

[LoungeLord]

...is what many are saying tonight. The pundits rightly picked VA to win the coastal. And we (A Carter) punched them in the mouth tonight. They are a well-coached team full of upper-classmen, with a nice sprinkling of talent on both sides of the ball. Our D held Perkins to under 60% with zero TDs and 1.6 yards per rush. UVA's receivers caught some dime passes from Perkins that were actually well defended to keep drives alive... but we pushed their **** in inside the redzone. Manny back in the D gives me hope for the rest of the season. Our OLine and redzone play calling still leaves me pessimistic, but this was a good win for these kids tonight.

Enjoy it FFS.

LOLAT PUNCHING THEM IN THE FACE. They ran up and down the field on us, converting every freaking 3rd and long. Just so happens they were awful in the red zone and we squeaked out a win. That was terrible football. Our Oline is a turnstile. Perry either missed or we dropped almost every dep ball. Enos may be the worst red zone play caller in history. People in the bar I was in were laughing at both sides. I have no idea what game you watched?