Coach34
09-10-2023, 11:45 AM
1. Another glorious Saturday of college football. Thank goodness Little Wool is a year older so I dont have to attend those hard to watch 6th grade games on Saturdays this year. We cooked a great batch of shrimp creole to enjoy with the games yesterday. A profitable Saturday at that. This season has been the opposite of recent seasons. Win that green Week 1- lose it all back in Week 2. This year was lose badly in Week 1- get it back and more in Week 2. Thank you to Colorado, Utah, Notre Dame, Mississippi, and our beloved Bulldogs for making my teasers shine yesterday.
2. I think we all saw the mind googgling gameplan that we had offensively last night. We certainly appear to be a team that doesnt know who their #2 playmaker after Marks is. Been a long damn time since I've watched us and thought "we are running the ball too much". The playcalling last night was awful. The situational use of Wright was terrible. It makes zero sense to be that run heavy with Rogers at QB. We only ran 56 plays last night and includes some OT. Just extremely puzzling. But #RTGDF we did. 1st and 20? Hand that baby off to make it 2nd and 20. I can speak for everybody that wanted to run the ball more- this is NOT what we had in mind.
3. Rogers played ok. Yeah there were some bad misses early that cost us points but he was 13/17. He just wasnt used. I'm a "get the ball to your best players" guy. We didnt do that last night near enough. 39 runs to 17 passes. We went from one extreme to another. The extreme conservatism of the offense damn near got us beat. Wright wasnt used enough or correctly. 1 carry for him is not enough
4. OL looked better than last week but still has work to do. They better get their ass ready for next week. Jones with a couple of costly penalties- one changing 3rd and 1 into 3rd and 6. Allow too much penetration in short yardage. Struggling too much on 3rd and short. 3rd and short is supposed to be a good thing for a team that wants to #RTGDF but right now it's not the best of situations for us. Smith missed the LB on the screen ( yeahhhhh baby....love those screens) that won it for us and it almost cost us. Smith also got a bad penalty on a hold that cost us points- turning a TD into a missed FG.
5. Marks is the guy obviously but our entire RB room got it done. 33 carries for 169 from our 4 RB's. Nice job by Pittman running thru the LB on the screen that Smith didnt block. Great playcall just not enough of them last night
6. Good job of blocking and hustle by the guys on Griffin's TD on the Now Pass. Give Rogers some credit for getting the ball out of his hands quick so Tulu could make the move needed. Also a good job of running thru the arm tackles and housing it. Just not getting the ball enough to the WR's. Period.
7. Defense forced 5 TO's and got a stop on downs in OT. 9 TFL's. 8 passes defensed. Lots of good out there defensively. We were knocking their ass off. The long pass before half was bad tho. Shit like that makes coaches (and fans) want to run into a brick wall. Stuff like that just cant happen. 23 seconds left in the half and we give up a 55 yard pass. Ridiculous. Our problem covering backs out of the backfield needs to get fixed immediately. That's just not sound defense. We do struggle getting pressure with the DL but we knew that coming in. Their QB hurt us with his legs and he is not as fast as Daniels. We certainly have our work cut out for us this coming Saturday.
8. Why go for it on 4th and 4 to start the game? Bad decision. Get the 3 there and some momentum. 4th and 2? Ok I can support that. Not 4th and 4. Then having Rogers out there in space on the call was just gross. He got it to the WR immediately- as he should have- but it also allowed the D to close on him quickly because the whole stadium knew the QB wasnt going to do anything else with it.
9. Net punting remains good and we still havent allowed a return in 2 games. Love that. Missed a FG and made one. A miss is going to happen here and there. It is what it is.
10. A win is a win but it was anything but pretty. Left us with alot more questions than answers. But we know one thing for sure- we plan to #RTGDF
2. I think we all saw the mind googgling gameplan that we had offensively last night. We certainly appear to be a team that doesnt know who their #2 playmaker after Marks is. Been a long damn time since I've watched us and thought "we are running the ball too much". The playcalling last night was awful. The situational use of Wright was terrible. It makes zero sense to be that run heavy with Rogers at QB. We only ran 56 plays last night and includes some OT. Just extremely puzzling. But #RTGDF we did. 1st and 20? Hand that baby off to make it 2nd and 20. I can speak for everybody that wanted to run the ball more- this is NOT what we had in mind.
3. Rogers played ok. Yeah there were some bad misses early that cost us points but he was 13/17. He just wasnt used. I'm a "get the ball to your best players" guy. We didnt do that last night near enough. 39 runs to 17 passes. We went from one extreme to another. The extreme conservatism of the offense damn near got us beat. Wright wasnt used enough or correctly. 1 carry for him is not enough
4. OL looked better than last week but still has work to do. They better get their ass ready for next week. Jones with a couple of costly penalties- one changing 3rd and 1 into 3rd and 6. Allow too much penetration in short yardage. Struggling too much on 3rd and short. 3rd and short is supposed to be a good thing for a team that wants to #RTGDF but right now it's not the best of situations for us. Smith missed the LB on the screen ( yeahhhhh baby....love those screens) that won it for us and it almost cost us. Smith also got a bad penalty on a hold that cost us points- turning a TD into a missed FG.
5. Marks is the guy obviously but our entire RB room got it done. 33 carries for 169 from our 4 RB's. Nice job by Pittman running thru the LB on the screen that Smith didnt block. Great playcall just not enough of them last night
6. Good job of blocking and hustle by the guys on Griffin's TD on the Now Pass. Give Rogers some credit for getting the ball out of his hands quick so Tulu could make the move needed. Also a good job of running thru the arm tackles and housing it. Just not getting the ball enough to the WR's. Period.
7. Defense forced 5 TO's and got a stop on downs in OT. 9 TFL's. 8 passes defensed. Lots of good out there defensively. We were knocking their ass off. The long pass before half was bad tho. Shit like that makes coaches (and fans) want to run into a brick wall. Stuff like that just cant happen. 23 seconds left in the half and we give up a 55 yard pass. Ridiculous. Our problem covering backs out of the backfield needs to get fixed immediately. That's just not sound defense. We do struggle getting pressure with the DL but we knew that coming in. Their QB hurt us with his legs and he is not as fast as Daniels. We certainly have our work cut out for us this coming Saturday.
8. Why go for it on 4th and 4 to start the game? Bad decision. Get the 3 there and some momentum. 4th and 2? Ok I can support that. Not 4th and 4. Then having Rogers out there in space on the call was just gross. He got it to the WR immediately- as he should have- but it also allowed the D to close on him quickly because the whole stadium knew the QB wasnt going to do anything else with it.
9. Net punting remains good and we still havent allowed a return in 2 games. Love that. Missed a FG and made one. A miss is going to happen here and there. It is what it is.
10. A win is a win but it was anything but pretty. Left us with alot more questions than answers. But we know one thing for sure- we plan to #RTGDF