Originally Posted by
BrunswickDawg
That's a real interesting breakdown. It also emphasizes the impacts that the stupid penalties had.
In some ways, this game reminded me a lot of Jackie's games. Just flat out slobber-knocker games by 2 solid teams that resulted in ugly stats, ugly play, and general ineffectiveness. It was 14-7 with 8 minutes left and neither team had been that successful offensively. Snell was still under 100 yards at that point. If the game had ended 14-7 - I think as frustrated as people are about the game - they would be a little more tethered to reality.
And we had games like that under Jackie regularly - some times against Bama, and sometimes against Memphis, or Ark. State. Sometimes in sports, everything goes wrong. Jackie was very good at getting his teams to rebound from that. Hopefully, Joe is too.