Am I the only one that doesn't think we'd beat BC

Re: Am I the only one that doesn't think we'd beat BC again

I'm of the mindset that this team has enough talent and depth that they can go out on any given Saturday --or Thursday night-- and defeat anyone on their schedule. Although I can say right now the secondary is more susceptible than I thought going into the season.

I was of the mindset that if Tech were to beat BC and Clemson that we had a decent chance of being 12-0 going into the ACCCG.

The flip side to that I also feel that GT is not one of those teams that can just show up and defeat the mid-to-lesser teams in the conference. If we're not ready to play this weekend then UVA will be 3-0 in conference while we're sitting at 0-2 --and that would be all-she-wrote just four games into the season.

I'm not worried about BC right now --it's over and time to focus on Virginia.
 
I feel that BC pretty much played a "perfect game". I also feel like we were adjusting by the end, and there were really no changes that BC could have made.

I just cannot believe that their O-Line is THAT good.

I also cannot not believe that their backup tackles and lightweight ends can be that good either.

This is not to take away anything from BC's win. They are a great team, but I also feel like we really do have a good team that had things to learn. This was our first real game that we had to do a lot of new things. Coaches make adjustments throughout the season. UVA should be a good game that we can start to see these adjustments.
 
Did you notice how their O looked like the 72 Dolphins before the referees had the guts to call one holding call and that after that they scored more in line with what our D normally allows. Even then, the other TD they scored was due to pass interference BS.

IF we meet again ten times and they are allowed to tackle our D we would lose all ten.

IF we meet again and we are allowed to 'rattle' Matt, we could possibly win some.

No way we would win all 10 against these guys. Officiating aside, they are very good and match up well.
 
I'd say it'd be closer to 50/50 or 40/60 (in favor of BC). But to claim they'd beat us 10 times out of 10 is an extreme stretch of the imagination.
 
GTCrew said:
Did you notice how their O looked like the 72 Dolphins before the referees had the guts to call one holding call and that after that they scored more in line with what our D normally allows. Even then, the other TD they scored was due to pass interference BS.

IF we meet again ten times and they are allowed to tackle our D we would lose all ten.

IF we meet again and we are allowed to 'rattle' Matt, we could possibly win some.

No way we would win all 10 against these guys. Officiating aside, they are very good and match up well.
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I sit low in the end-zone, so I didn't notice this. However, every other person I've talked to has commented on how bad the holding was the whole game. If I can bring myself to do it (and this is a big IF), I'd like to watch the game again to check it out.
 
GTKyle said:
even if we played them another 10 times?
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Kyle, your perspective is badly flawed.......as is common coming from someone your age.

No team performs at the same level ever time it steps on the field. That is the difference between humans and machines.

Typically, teams improve throughout the season....and I certainly expect Tech to do that as our inexperienced players gain experience....in particular, our QB and receivers, but there are others also.
 
I honestly thought we would kick the crap out of them. I think I underestimated their D and was ignoring the fact that our Secondary is probably one of the worst in the country, which allowed BC to pick us apart.
 
I felt the same way coming into the game tg. I knew that Matt Ryan could pick our secondary apart given enough time to throw, but I seriously thought that we would make him hurry throughout the game. I was wrong about that, and so MR picked the secondary apart. I really didn't expect our DL to get dominated that way.
 
Leatherjacket said:
Kyle, your perspective is badly flawed.......as is common coming from someone your age.

No team performs at the same level ever time it steps on the field. That is the difference between humans and machines.

Typically, teams improve throughout the season....and I certainly expect Tech to do that as our inexperienced players gain experience....in particular, our QB and receivers, but there are others also.
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:ugh: Yes, let's just blame everything on age. First off we were playing at home under the lights so we had the advantage in this game and we still got our asses handed to us.

Obviously teams don't perform the same way every game, but we were just DOMINATED in key facets of the game. Our passing game and secondary have been crap the last couple of years and I don't see those things being fixed any time soon. I don't see our OL suddenly becoming bigger and more physical. I didn't really see adjustments being made throughout the game. Maybe if we make some personnel changes we can keep it closer next time...
 
GTROY said:
I sit low in the end-zone, so I didn't notice this. However, every other person I've talked to has commented on how bad the holding was the whole game. If I can bring myself to do it (and this is a big IF), I'd like to watch the game again to check it out.
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It's too easy to say they were holding on every play because our guys simply weren't getting to the QB the way they normally do. The obvious calls were made every time (the ones where #77, in particular, got owned on the edge and pulled MJ down).

I haven't had a chance to rewatch the game to see how bad the officiating was. I just know that sometimes I go back and see stuff that I thought looked bad during the game and find out the officials made the right call (or non-call, as it were). Of all the calls, I'm pretty sure that they blew it on the Guyton interference call.

I do know that it would've taken a large amount of favorable officiating to overcome how well BC played in all aspects.
 
I feel that if we face this team again, the result could be just as bad.
 
ContactBuzz said:
It's too easy to say they were holding on every play because our guys simply weren't getting to the QB the way they normally do. The obvious calls were made every time (the ones where #77, in particular, got owned on the edge and pulled MJ down).

I haven't had a chance to rewatch the game to see how bad the officiating was. I just know that sometimes I go back and see stuff that I thought looked bad during the game and find out the officials made the right call (or non-call, as it were). Of all the calls, I'm pretty sure that they blew it on the Guyton interference call.

I do know that it would've taken a large amount of favorable officiating to overcome how well BC played in all aspects.
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The "bad calls" were pretty bad and worse because they weren't reversed with replay (I don't think pass interference is reviewable.) The bad calls in question also all seemed to come at critical points. That doesn't mean we would have won if they had gone in our favor. But it would have been nice to have a shot. As someone else put it, it added insult to the injury of the loss.

I don't know about the non-calls on holding. THey always say refs could call holding on every play if they wanted. The ones that were called were extremely blatant when the QB would have been sacked without them. The BC OL absolutely did the right thing in those cases in taking a ten yard penalty to avoid a 15 yard sack and possible fumble. Ten yards and repeat the down didn't seem to be enough of a penalty.
 
We played really poorly Saturday. There were a ton of missed tackles and totally blown assignments in the secondary. Hopefully we'll get better as the season goes along in the passing game, especially. If we improve there and don't play a poor game tackling and being in the right places, we can definitely beat them if we play again. We may get the chance.
 
Kyle, you remind me of my nephew who said 'UGA beat the crap out of GT'.

We were not 'dominated'. Their offense had to grab our defense to allow Matt to pick us apart. No offense to a great QB, but a QB has to totally stink if he can't hit 70% with 8-10 seconds in the pocket each play.

They had 17 guys and won by two tds. Nice, but not 'domination'.
 
GTCrew said:
Kyle, you remind me of my nephew who said 'UGA beat the crap out of GT'.

We were not 'dominated'. Their offense had to grab our defense to allow Matt to pick us apart. No offense to a great QB, but a QB has to totally stink if he can't hit 70% with 8-10 seconds in the pocket each play.

They had 17 guys and won by two tds. Nice, but not 'domination'.
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That doesn't make any sense. The only reason UGA beat us last year is because of that BS fumble recovery. The score was 15-12. Obviously this game was quite different.

We were completely dominated by BC. How can you say holding TC to 31 yards (12 of which came on his last carry) and putting up 527 of TO on us isn't domination? This was AT HOME mind you.
 
GTKyle said:
That doesn't make any sense. The only reason UGA beat us last year is because of that BS fumble recovery. The score was 15-12. Obviously this game was quite different.

We were completely dominated by BC. How can you say holding TC to 31 yards (12 of which came on his last carry) and putting up 527 of TO on us isn't domination? This was AT HOME mind you.
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Because it was only 14-0 going into 3rd quarter, when Tech was starting to look much better offensively and defensively. The two REALLY bad calls in the third quarter hurt Tech significantly in both areas when it we could have made headway against BC.

You're also cherry-picking stats when you only mention TC's numbers after playing 2 and a half quarters. BC's weakness is their pass defense which TB partially exploited, with 200+ yards and about 100 yards or so of dropped passes and plays called back.

If they played 10 games, BC probably wins 6-7 of them. There were way too many opportunities Tech had Saturday to say BC wins 10 out of 10.
 
floridajacket said:
Because it was only 14-0 going into 3rd quarter, when Tech was starting to look much better offensively and defensively. The two REALLY bad calls in the third quarter hurt Tech significantly in both areas when it we could have made headway against BC.

You're also cherry-picking stats when you only mention TC's numbers after playing 2 and a half quarters. BC's weakness is their pass defense which TB partially exploited, with 200+ yards and about 100 yards or so of dropped passes and plays called back.

If they played 10 games, BC probably wins 6-7 of them. There were way too many opportunities Tech had Saturday to say BC wins 10 out of 10.
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Don't blame this game on the refs. BC had plays called back as well. They had a similar amount of penalty yards.

You say I'm cherry picking stats? 200 passing yards isn't that great. WF's backup put up more than TB and he didn't even play the whole game. Beck of NC State put up 321 yards in the air on BC's defense.

NC state put up 408 yards of TO on BC... NC state!
 
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