Quick hitters after getting to watch ND game

[DeadPoets]

Next time we have a cold weather game, they need to bring a big freezer full of footballs onto Greentree and make those mofos catch frozen balls or something. This cold weather business is what bothers me most. Maybe we do need an indoor practice facility and hook it up like a meat locker so we can make these kids practice in freezing conditions. I am halfway kidding but kinda not. Maybe we can recruit one white boy reciever like Hartline from up north just in case. IDK.


I'm not saying we win if Dorsett doesn't drop that early TD, but if he catches that it could've been huge and maybe the game would at least have been close. The energy it could've brought the team could've been big. One thing I have noticed about this team is that it's one of the most momentum driven teams I've seen. When things are going well they're going really well and we have great momentum. But when they start going bad it's like, here we go.


In ATL, when Malcolm went down, it sucked the life out of the team. 36 un-answered points later, finally we get a good break and we get our flow back. Same scenario vs. NCST. Seems like the good break never came in Chicago.

I knew Dorsett wasn't ready when I saw his long sleeves on.

Duke is the only bad a$$ who wasn't sporting long sleeve ****. I respect #8

 

[Biscuits]

I think it's very difficult to know what we have with our young CBs.

I'm very confident any college secondary would look similar playng this scheme behind this DL.

 

[OrangeCane]

As to your post re: Fisch, I agree. I think part of the reason is that Fisch isn't patient at all and does not want to establish a running game. If WR's aren't playing well and you're having a tough time moving the ball through the air, you're going to need to run the ball. And that doesn't always come the first few times you do it. For Fisch, running the ball is nothing more than setting up a better passing down, e.g., 2nd and 5 rather than 2nd and 10. It's not a way to tire the defense out and dominate the game. Look at UF against LSU, they couldn't move the ball for **** against LSU running the ball at first, but kept at it, wore them down, and ended up dominating them because of it. We've got a huge OL with a future first round pick, a RB having an excellent senior season, and a talented freshman RB. Yet there's NO commitment to running the ball, so the second things go awry, it's chuck city. I can't explain how much I dislike Fisch when he does that, and I think overall he's a good OC. I just hope Golden beats it into his head that we are going to be a physical, tough team that can run the ball and dominate you through the air, as well. That's the team Golden wanted when he took over but right now we're a soft team that can't run the ball because our OC doesn't have the patience.

I would agree with you, except that I don't think Fisch and the offense really have the time to be patient with the way our defense has played. If we commit to running the ball when it isn't working at first, we're going to end up down 21-0 very quickly. I definitely would like to see more of a focus on the running game, but it almost feels like the offense needs to score points every time it touches the ball. So far, airing it out has worked pretty well this season; it would have worked some against Notre Dame, too, if our entire WR corps hadn't come down with butterfingers at the same time. There were plays to be made, guys running wide open, and we simply choked over and over again.

 

[DeadPoets]

As to your post re: Fisch, I agree. I think part of the reason is that Fisch isn't patient at all and does not want to establish a running game. If WR's aren't playing well and you're having a tough time moving the ball through the air, you're going to need to run the ball. And that doesn't always come the first few times you do it. For Fisch, running the ball is nothing more than setting up a better passing down, e.g., 2nd and 5 rather than 2nd and 10. It's not a way to tire the defense out and dominate the game. Look at UF against LSU, they couldn't move the ball for **** against LSU running the ball at first, but kept at it, wore them down, and ended up dominating them because of it. We've got a huge OL with a future first round pick, a RB having an excellent senior season, and a talented freshman RB. Yet there's NO commitment to running the ball, so the second things go awry, it's chuck city. I can't explain how much I dislike Fisch when he does that, and I think overall he's a good OC. I just hope Golden beats it into his head that we are going to be a physical, tough team that can run the ball and dominate you through the air, as well. That's the team Golden wanted when he took over but right now we're a soft team that can't run the ball because our OC doesn't have the patience.

I would agree with you, except that I don't think Fisch and the offense really have the time to be patient with the way our defense has played. If we commit to running the ball when it isn't working at first, we're going to end up down 21-0 very quickly. I definitely would like to see more of a focus on the running game, but it almost feels like the offense needs to score points every time it touches the ball. So far, airing it out has worked pretty well this season; it would have worked some against Notre Dame, too, if our entire WR corps didn't come down with butterfingers at the same time. There were plays to be made, guys running wide open, and we simply choked over and over again.

Exactly - despite what Golden was saying about "we didn't get enough 1st downs on offense in 3rd quarter to give them a break."

WHAT? Golden is usually dead on... but the offense didn't touch the ball for the 2nd time in the 3rd quarter until their were 2:30 left lol

C'mon Al - don't have to defend your boy to the death. The offense and Fisch is the only reason we're not 1-5

 

[AllAboutThe[]_[]]

Not sure why we dont try Finnie at Safety the way FSU does with Joyner.

Interdasting

 

[OkieCane]

Not sure why we dont try Finnie at Safety the way FSU does with Joyner.

Interdasting

Joyner is way faster than Finnie, not even close speed wise

 

[Notsince1985]

As to your post re: Fisch, I agree. I think part of the reason is that Fisch isn't patient at all and does not want to establish a running game. If WR's aren't playing well and you're having a tough time moving the ball through the air, you're going to need to run the ball. And that doesn't always come the first few times you do it. For Fisch, running the ball is nothing more than setting up a better passing down, e.g., 2nd and 5 rather than 2nd and 10. It's not a way to tire the defense out and dominate the game. Look at UF against LSU, they couldn't move the ball for **** against LSU running the ball at first, but kept at it, wore them down, and ended up dominating them because of it. We've got a huge OL with a future first round pick, a RB having an excellent senior season, and a talented freshman RB. Yet there's NO commitment to running the ball, so the second things go awry, it's chuck city. I can't explain how much I dislike Fisch when he does that, and I think overall he's a good OC. I just hope Golden beats it into his head that we are going to be a physical, tough team that can run the ball and dominate you through the air, as well. That's the team Golden wanted when he took over but right now we're a soft team that can't run the ball because our OC doesn't have the patience.

I would agree with you, except that I don't think Fisch and the offense really have the time to be patient with the way our defense has played. If we commit to running the ball when it isn't working at first, we're going to end up down 21-0 very quickly. I definitely would like to see more of a focus on the running game, but it almost feels like the offense needs to score points every time it touches the ball. So far, airing it out has worked pretty well this season; it would have worked some against Notre Dame, too, if our entire WR corps hadn't come down with butterfingers at the same time. There were plays to be made, guys running wide open, and we simply choked over and over again.

I love how Fisch has been airing it out at the beginning of games, and as Orange said, we need to score first or score a lot at first. It worked (going deep) against GT, NC State and ND, though Dorsett dropped 3 passes, 2 of which were TDs.