Solid Win!

ncyj said:
Thacker rolled pretty much every LB into action tonight. Saw white, efford, Oliver, and even the Rutgers kid. Good seeing all those guys out there.
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I noticed that too. Always had fresh legs on the field.
 
Defense gave up 382 yards of O to Wake. Don't forget the 142 penalty yards and you have the scope of the game as it played - or as it was called. Many of those penalties were Tech offensive penalties.
 
stinger78 said:
Defense gave up 382 yards of O to Wake. Don't forget the 142 penalty yards and you have the scope of the game as it played - or as it was called. Many of those penalties were Tech offensive penalties.
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-30 to -40 off of that for Wake getting some room and running out the clock on the first half.
 
Here's my thoughts from the game:

1) I'm trying to not get too upset about a 14 pt road ACC win where we were 7 pt underdogs, but that was sloppy and we have to get better about closing games out by increasing the margin coming out of the half.
2) I don't think I've ever seen a game so affected by the refs. That was egregiously one sided officiating and about half the penalties against us were BS calls. Nearly every spot of the ball was 1 yd to Wake's advantage. We were lining up effectively 1st and 13 every set of downs because of these bastards.
3) Thacker basically did to Wake what Clemson used to do to CPJ. Crash the mesh and recognize that, by doing so, you're still being disruptive enough to the rest of the offense. Wake's adjustment was to leave their tackles on an island with our DEs. Ha!!!
4) That interception from #10 for redemption was the best interception I've seen from our defense in a long time. I thought he played a hell of a game, staying in his guy's pocket, but the refs gifted their WR the match up by calling DPI, but not OPI.
5) Our OL was actually getting decent push (2-3 yds) on run plays, it was just a sloppy mess playside and we weren't sealing out the backside so holes would collapse.
6) What disease did our ball carriers catch this week where they went back to dancing around rather than getting upfield? That killed several drives for us. A bunch of Dollar Tree Barry Sanders out there sprinting to the point of contact then stopping to dance rather than just hit the lane and go. Gave time for help to arrive and without momentum, gained 0 yds after contact vs 2-3 yds positive after contact lean and maybe a few broken arm tackles for bigger gains if we didn't dance. Drives me insane.
7) I still think this team collectively lacks killer instinct and is prone to choking. We sure tried, Wake just wasn't good enough to take the opportunity.
 
Proud of how the team played. Just rewatched it again this morning, maybe still slightly drunk from the night before. I wasn't just hammered, those refs sucked ass.
 
I can’t decide how to feel. Happy about the win for sure but can’t decide if I should be even happier that such a sloppy game still resulted in a 2TD win that felt more dominate than that or if I should be upset about how sloppy we were. Or both. Or neither. This team confuses me but it feels COMPLETELY different than under clown.
 
Jo_Vision said:
I can’t decide how to feel. Happy about the win for sure but can’t decide if I should be even happier that such a sloppy game still resulted in a 2TD win that felt more dominate than that or if I should be upset about how sloppy we were. Or both. Or neither. This team confuses me but it feels COMPLETELY different than under clown.
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It makes me hate the Louisville game that much more
 
Jo_Vision said:
I can’t decide how to feel. Happy about the win for sure but can’t decide if I should be even happier that such a sloppy game still resulted in a 2TD win that felt more dominate than that or if I should be upset about how sloppy we were. Or both. Or neither. This team confuses me but it feels COMPLETELY different than under clown.
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The last time we played this sloppy we lost a real ugly game to UVA. So, yes, I am happy to walk out of that mess with the W. WFU is far better than that UVA team. You have to be able to win ugly to get better, IMPO.
 
Jo_Vision said:
I can’t decide how to feel. Happy about the win for sure but can’t decide if I should be even happier that such a sloppy game still resulted in a 2TD win that felt more dominate than that or if I should be upset about how sloppy we were. Or both. Or neither. This team confuses me but it feels COMPLETELY different than under clown.
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We are not close to the “not win good enough” stage.
 
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