CalallenStang wrote:Every team will just go no-huddle to beat us
That would be a smart move, we can't handle the no-huddle at all. McD is going to have to step up his play even more because we might be in a quite a few shootouts.
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Never expected to be 4-1 at this point in the season. 3-2 would a=have ben expected and accepted. But beating a top 20 team and going into our conference schedule at 2-0 is really great. Maybe this team really is as good as its pre season hype.
PoconoPony wrote:JJ's play calling and the total lack of any changes in the defensive strategy in the 4th quarter drove me nuts. 3 times in the last 10 minutes we went 3 passes and out. Defense used 3 man rush 95% of the time when the key was pressure on the QB. How can you give up 23 points in the 4th quarter and not make any defensive adjustments?????
You'd think Mason would have figured out by now that dropping 8 back in coverage doesn't work against teams that aren't terrible. As for Jones, his teams have never known how to eat up clock sans the Tulsa game last year.
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security
PoconoPony wrote:JJ's play calling and the total lack of any changes in the defensive strategy in the 4th quarter drove me nuts. 3 times in the last 10 minutes we went 3 passes and out. Defense used 3 man rush 95% of the time when the key was pressure on the QB. How can you give up 23 points in the 4th quarter and not make any defensive adjustments?????
Agreed. That comeback by TCU isn't our players' faults. That's all on playcalling.
Not every team will run a no huddle. Had TCU huddled on 4th down in OT they might have executed better than rushing their play. It can hurt you if you do not do it all the time. But yes, we do have to learn to play better against it.
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Considering we do not have a ball control offense (TCU had much longer possession than we), and the 4th quarter aside, I think if our defense can improve in hurry up situations it is as good as anything I have seen in CUSA. That might put us at the front of the pack.
A three man rush and not pressure on the QB makes any yahoo QB a Heisman candidate. The 4th quarter we just didn't pressure the QB and hopefully lesson learned.