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I thought Nix called some good plays. I think the difference is that Weis went for it all on 4th and 1. Gailey punts in the same situation.
 
I wouldn't say it was a crappy offense. They showed flashes of brilliance, and made no turnovers. I think what beat us was that we went too conservative in the second half. Even worse, we didn't get the ball to Calvin. I really believe that if we had continued to take some risks and throw to our stud, we would have won. The defense played its heart out, it just ran out of gas because it was on the field most of the second half.
 
The special teams coach should follow Nix out the door! Kick coverage was horrible, returns were non-existant. ND constantly had good field position and combined with huge time of possession in 2nd half and some questionable calls, we were doomed?

BTW - Would someone please get rid of that ND suck-up Musberger? Is he trying to become the Dick Vitale of college FB?
 
10 points versus Notre Dame's defense is crappy offense.

That was a game we should have won, but our offensive ineptitude cost us. It's right there with the past two UGAy games.
 
beej1953 said:
The special teams coach should follow Nix out the door! Kick coverage was horrible, returns were non-existant. ND constantly had good field position and combined with huge time of possession in 2nd half and some questionable calls, we were doomed?

BTW - Would someone please shoot that ND suck-up Musberger? Is he trying to become the Dick Vitale of college FB?
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Our lack of depth is showing itself in our lousy special teams.

Musberger is losing it upstairs.
 
Good point on the O-line's inability to blow people out - We must have had a least a half-dozen 2nd and 3rd-and-one plays that we didn't convert that ended up killing drives.
 
The O did some good things - but, bottom line 10 points, 0 in 2nd half, an L, and an 0-1 record. We are losing two or three games a year because of an offense that gets stymied. Looked so much like UGA last year.

I do think our line can do better if we will run from under center, with a lead blocker more. Three second and one situations in the first half we lined up in shot gun and either lost yards or threw incomplete. On second and 1, line up in the I, go straight ahead and get a first down. Lines gain confidence then.
 
non-gineer said:
I wouldn't say it was a crappy offense. They showed flashes of brilliance, and made no turnovers. I think what beat us was that we went too conservative in the second half. Even worse, we didn't get the ball to Calvin. I really believe that if we had continued to take some risks and throw to our stud, we would have won. The defense played its heart out, it just ran out of gas because it was on the field most of the second half.
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If I remember correctly, CJ touched the ball 3 times in the 2nd half. It doesn't matter who you're playing...if you don't give your stud a chance to make a difference, then the outcome is what it is. I think everyone agrees that the play calling showed some flashes, but way too conservative in the 2nd half. Answer me this; The QB draw worked all night long, so why wouldn't we wear that play out if we're not going to throw to our star wide out?
 
I agree. And, by the way, that is one scary picture under your name!
 
non-gineer said:
I agree. And, by the way, that is one scary picture under your name!
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It's the result of the inbreeding that took place tonight during the ND lovefest between Musburger, Davie, Corso, the leprechaun and Rudy.
 
I told y'all we need another quarterback! Reggie completely lost his focus and composure from the middle of the 2nd quarter to the end of the game. He started mouthing with Irish defensive players after he was driven backward on a quarterback draw and he berated the backfield official constantly after the end of plays. He is no more accurate with his passes, he drops back 20 yards and throws off his back foot. His mere presence on the field results in defenses not even having to give a token effort to cover the middle because we won't go there! There is no excuse for any of it.

The offense was pure vanilla as in the scrimmages! And what audibles? Not once did I see us audible out of a bad play into a good one.

Scrimmages don't lie people! Total shit. Nothing changed in philosophy or execution. Getting the ball to C. Johnson is one thing, getting it to him downfield where we need to is another. He dropped one after a big hit but held onto the only other one I can recall. Where did Tashard Choice disappear to in the second half? Where was Jamaal Evans period? Coach Gailey said he would play.

Quarterback draws are a gimmick play for an offense that doesn't have a damn clue. Pure and simple.

Pat Clark, he will be lost in the criticism coming to Nix, Reggie, special team's tackling, but he needs to be sat down and keep him there. He let a couple of punts roll for huge chunks of lost yardage and he dropped a certain interception that would have killed the Irish's first touchdown drive.

Special teams? Nothing special about their ragged tackling efforts and their return efforts only a little better.

Defense? Spectacular except for their inability to get to Brady Quinn in the second half. That dropped interception by Clark was the biggest individual mistake of the game in my opnion.

Pat Nix and Chan Gailey: WTF, nothing has changed. Poorly disguised if it is suppose to be a new offense. Sure looks like last years, the year before, and the year before that, to me. Y'all and Reggie lost another highly winnable game with a 2nd rate effort. 2nd rate because it appears y'all didn't do one damn thing to improve the offense. Y'all just trucked out the same ole same ole one that ranked 103 in the nation last year.

Give me a freaking break!
 
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Your avatar makes me afraid to discuss this topic with you.:eek: Ido agree w/ you about conservative. I TRULY feel that one or two calls decided whether our conservative play w/ work or not. Awful officiating for about 10m.
 
We had better take Samford, Troy, and UVA to the woodshed.
 
Special teams can be fixed. They were losing their lanes and getting stacked on each other, giving the returner a place to run. Our gunners were getting to the spot late except for the time that the ND player pushed our guy in the back.

The offense will be much better if the OL develops. For an experienced group, they were disappointing and led to several incompletions.
 
State, you blamed everyone possible except the real culprit: the play of the offensive line in the second half.

Yeah, that's Gailey's responsiblilty.
 
GEETEELEE said:
State, you blamed everyone possible except the real culprit: the play of the offensive line in the second half.

Yeah, that's Gailey's responsiblilty.
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Who recruited this O-Line?
 
GEETEELEE said:
State, you blamed everyone possible except the real culprit: the play of the offensive line in the second half.

Yeah, that's Gailey's responsiblilty.
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Lee, are you kidding me? Is the offensive line responsible for Tech not using the middle of the field to throw intermidiate passes, keeping defenses honest.

What happen to this new offense that was underwraps?

I was darn right about the scrimmages being a tell all to what we would see against the Irish. Y'all told me not to worry, Reggie and the offense are keeping the offense vanilla and not calling audibles......oh and did the Irish have the 'snap count' too?

Don't blame the line. Notre Dame plugged every gap with their 'backers because they had nothing to fear from Tech using the open space behind them to get the ball to a tightend, runningback in motion, slotback, just any number of ways.....

Television cameras caught Reggie making an ass of himself to the ref in the backfield throughout the second half. By contrast Brady Quinn didn't utter a word when Tech was beating the devil out of him in the first two quarters.

Special teams still can't tackle. Pat Clark's dropped interception and poor job of returning punts.....he's alright as long as he isn't playing the football. These hurt us but no way do they compare with the job Nix did with the offense.

Reggie should have been pulled! If he can't make all the intermdiate throws and some of the longer ones he needs to be on the bench. No wonder the backup quarterbacks don't develop as we want. Hell our offense is designed around Reggie and his percieved inability to see the middle of the field.

If Jonathan Garner was in there we could be using the entire field.....the full playbook.....too late now though.

If I was Rad this display of how to lose a winnable game is an eye opener and I would review the 5 year extention if a long discussion with Gailey about Nix. Reggie, and the special teams coach Charles Kelly doesn't do the trick.
 
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