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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.

This loss stung more than 62-27 because this one actually meant something.

Losing your conference opener at home to a 1-3 team as horrible as fiu? Not good.

+1, cb. Excellent post.

Farmer has been a bad cb for years. He's routinely burned.

Listening to the coach after the game, one of two things will happen. If he has the players to make it happen, he will work to eliminate the mistakes and turn this thing around. If he doesn't have the players, he will recruit them, and try to avoid these mistakes in the future. We'll see. At least I know he thinks we're close.

Our O line got dominated PERIOD

No chance in hell this team wins 6 games.


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(09-27-2014 09:00 PM)Grammar-Nazi Wrote:  No chance in hell this team wins 6 games.


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There is always a chance albeit not a very good one.

This is where we see how good a coach Bill Clark is. We need improvement on the O Line and fast.

I still say we can win 6, untill its mathematically impossible. We see where we messed up. Suck it up, learn from it, and move on to the next foe. I think WKU is a winnable game.

(09-27-2014 09:00 PM)Grammar-Nazi Wrote:  No chance in hell this team wins 6 games.


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What
Don't tell me Memphis Blazer has recruited you to the dark side.
He is not your father.
Anything is possible.
Rice lost to ODU. Now there are beating USM.
LaTech beat UNT. Then they lost to Northwestern State.

Yeah, anything can happen so I don't believe the season is over after 1 game. We just turned the ball over SIX times and only lost a game by 2 TDs. We still put 20 points on a very good FIU defense and honestly we should have put up more. Penalties at the worst of times killed two good drives on their side of the field and turnovers destroyed us. It's not like we gave up 500 yds to FIU. We kept them about at their average by holding them to under 300.

We can't keep turning the ball over every game in our own 20. That is just ruining us.

edit: and honestly, FIU's D is going to keep them in A LOT of cusa games. People are trying to judge them based on their Bethune-Cookman loss way too much.

We need to talk some of our fans in off the ledge.

We are not a 10 win team any more are we a team that won't win another game. I'm sticking with my 6-6 prediction until proven wrong.

Man Everette is a beast.

What is most concerning about this game, is that it comes off a bye. It's one thing if you've played 8 straight games and get toasted, but to get blown out coming off a bye is troubling.

(09-27-2014 09:44 PM)Blazer4Life14 Wrote:  What is most concerning about this game, is that it comes off a bye. It's one thing if you've played 8 straight games and get toasted, but to get blown out coming off a bye is troubling.

Byes can also really hurt you. You become rusty.

FIU showed up and outplayed us in every phase. Kudos to them.

It may be harder to get the team member's attention after beating teams like A&M and Troy (who may turn out to be terrible) and being "up" for Miss State. Perhaps this loss will get the player's attention to make needed adjustments. The coaching staff certainly has work cut out for them.

(09-27-2014 10:52 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  It may be harder to get the team member's attention after beating teams like A&M and Troy (who may turn out to be terrible) ...

There's no "may" to it.

One thing we learned this weekend:

Troy is a terrible football team.

(09-27-2014 08:04 PM)cb4029 Wrote:  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.

Clements stares his receivers down and has funky mechanics on his deep ball its like he side arm it with his wrist bent. Truthfully im ready to see what Orth can do we just got beat by a true freshman backfield the RB we offered. Also I feel a couple of guys are playing out of position. Crumbley barely sees the field after ending last season third in sacks, wonder if he could help the Oline more and vice versa with Pickren.

With defense we are banged up Roberson in sweats K. Jack and Bake gone we have to keep our ones on the field and rotate less at some spots. Shaq has stepped up his play I wouldn't mind if the guy he replaced start in front of Slaughter. LB is our strength we need to shuffle some guys around. Farmer shouldn't ever play most of the defensive snaps again , but who do we have to compliment Jean? Can we put an abp out on Grissett, Fuller, and Brackett?

Wondering why the few three stars we have dont show or play much. Also we need some speed in the secondary.

Move Petty back to corner. Move Farmer to special teams and back to 5th DB. Draw straws to see who plays safety.