09-27-2014, 08:04 PM
LOL
I knew we had one in us. And now that it has happened, I can't say I feel that bad about it. Nothing seemed to work today. Lucy is still alive.
On offense, I never really felt the offense had any direction. We never found a rhythm. It looked like we would do something that worked, then we would try something different. The trial and error part of the season is over. We have to establish an identity. Starting with the two QB system. Briscoe seems to do very well throwing the deep ball. When he's throwing everything else, he's extremely shaky. Today, he threw the ball three time directly to the defender on short routes. He's lucky he only had two INTs. Clements seems to do the right things most of the time. He has a few things to work on, but nothing is a major problem that I can see. He should be playing every snap unless he's hurt.
Overall the defense still looked pretty good. I still don't think Farmer is a good DB. (One INT in two years) He's an accident waiting to happen, especially when you throw it deep on him. It looked real bad on the TD catch. He turned around to look for something, saw nothing, then stopped running. WTF That play confused the hell out of him. Other than that, it seems the players stepped up and filled the holes left open by injury.
Special teams did a decent job overall. We shutdown their return guy who was supposed to be dangerous. The trick plays we tried worked for the most part, we just did not execute. The fake punt should have been a TD. Too bad we wasted it on a failed attempt. That could have been a point to turn the momentum late. And you cannot fumble the kick return. That could have been a big turn for the worse, if our D did not step up and force a field goal. I saw an adjustment late by the coaches, when our return guys would line up in the middle and choose a side once the kicker lined up for the kick. I guess they thought the kicker was trying to kick away from JJ. I actually noticed that he was kicking to his left side no matter what.
Bottom Line: We just lost to a team who lost to Bethune Cookman. LOL
You can point fingers all you want. The coaches made some mistakes. The Players made some mistakes. At the end of the day, I saw an FIU team come into Historic Legion Field, and take a W. Make all the excuses you want, but you have to give them credit. Their defense is the reason our offense looked bad. Their D-Line was in our backfield in less than two seconds on every play. Maybe less than a second. They dominated. FIUs offense found our weaknesses just enough to get the points needed to stay ahead. They took what we gave them (TOs), and did what they needed to do to win.
What's next: Can we get better next week.
We still have a long season left. 6 wins is still possible. You can't turn a loser into a winner overnight. We still have things to learn. Can we get better. It starts next week. One thing we have not proven, is can we win a road game. We just lost one at home. Home is very important, but the good teams have to learn to win on the road. Next man up, next game up.
Go Blazers.
I knew we had one in us. And now that it has happened, I can't say I feel that bad about it. Nothing seemed to work today. Lucy is still alive.
On offense, I never really felt the offense had any direction. We never found a rhythm. It looked like we would do something that worked, then we would try something different. The trial and error part of the season is over. We have to establish an identity. Starting with the two QB system. Briscoe seems to do very well throwing the deep ball. When he's throwing everything else, he's extremely shaky. Today, he threw the ball three time directly to the defender on short routes. He's lucky he only had two INTs. Clements seems to do the right things most of the time. He has a few things to work on, but nothing is a major problem that I can see. He should be playing every snap unless he's hurt.
Overall the defense still looked pretty good. I still don't think Farmer is a good DB. (One INT in two years) He's an accident waiting to happen, especially when you throw it deep on him. It looked real bad on the TD catch. He turned around to look for something, saw nothing, then stopped running. WTF That play confused the hell out of him. Other than that, it seems the players stepped up and filled the holes left open by injury.
Special teams did a decent job overall. We shutdown their return guy who was supposed to be dangerous. The trick plays we tried worked for the most part, we just did not execute. The fake punt should have been a TD. Too bad we wasted it on a failed attempt. That could have been a point to turn the momentum late. And you cannot fumble the kick return. That could have been a big turn for the worse, if our D did not step up and force a field goal. I saw an adjustment late by the coaches, when our return guys would line up in the middle and choose a side once the kicker lined up for the kick. I guess they thought the kicker was trying to kick away from JJ. I actually noticed that he was kicking to his left side no matter what.
Bottom Line: We just lost to a team who lost to Bethune Cookman. LOL
You can point fingers all you want. The coaches made some mistakes. The Players made some mistakes. At the end of the day, I saw an FIU team come into Historic Legion Field, and take a W. Make all the excuses you want, but you have to give them credit. Their defense is the reason our offense looked bad. Their D-Line was in our backfield in less than two seconds on every play. Maybe less than a second. They dominated. FIUs offense found our weaknesses just enough to get the points needed to stay ahead. They took what we gave them (TOs), and did what they needed to do to win.
What's next: Can we get better next week.
We still have a long season left. 6 wins is still possible. You can't turn a loser into a winner overnight. We still have things to learn. Can we get better. It starts next week. One thing we have not proven, is can we win a road game. We just lost one at home. Home is very important, but the good teams have to learn to win on the road. Next man up, next game up.
Go Blazers.