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A very strange game
Auburndawg
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I just re-watched the game again with special attention to the defense. My thoughts:
The offense was great. Miles makes an enormous difference. He's not a great passer, but he's good enough. And the rest of the offense looks very potent.
Vernon Adams is fantastic. We will not face a better QB all year.
Our pass coverage was awful. Our young DBs must improve or we are going to continue to get torched.
Even with all that, were it not for a couple of fluke plays we would have pulled away in the 4th quarter and won by 14 to 21 points.
Let's look at each of their scores and determine what happened:
TD 1: A great scramble by Adams and a late hit got them to mid-field. Then Adams made a perfect throw for a 41 yard TD. Kevn King was late getting there.
TD 2.: Another long pass. We blitzed, Adams avoided the hit and made a perfect throw. Kelly got beat 1 on 1, but it was a great throw.
TD 3: 4th and 3. Budda Baker just got torched by Kupp 1 on 1. Another great throw.
TD 4: Adams makes an amazing throw scrambling to left. Beaver and Gardenhire were in the area, but neither committed to the receiver.
FG: We had them stopped on 3rd and 12 but Timu left his man when Adams scrambled and Adams threw it to him. Another great play.
TD 5: Just bad coverage the whole drive. King particularly looked out of position.
TD 6: We had them stopped and Peters' ridiculous penalty lets them off the hook, and then they make an amazing catch on 4th and 3 for the TD.
TD 7: Adams converts on 4th and 12. They catch that deflected pass on another 4th down. King drops a pick in the end zone.
So....yes our DBs were bad. Yes Adams was tremendous. But it took some very unusual plays to make that game that close at the end.
Going forward I feel good about the offense.
I think the run D is OK.
Pass D is a big concern. We knew the young DBs were a big concern. Well, they are a BIG concern.
The offense was great. Miles makes an enormous difference. He's not a great passer, but he's good enough. And the rest of the offense looks very potent.
Vernon Adams is fantastic. We will not face a better QB all year.
Our pass coverage was awful. Our young DBs must improve or we are going to continue to get torched.
Even with all that, were it not for a couple of fluke plays we would have pulled away in the 4th quarter and won by 14 to 21 points.
Let's look at each of their scores and determine what happened:
TD 1: A great scramble by Adams and a late hit got them to mid-field. Then Adams made a perfect throw for a 41 yard TD. Kevn King was late getting there.
TD 2.: Another long pass. We blitzed, Adams avoided the hit and made a perfect throw. Kelly got beat 1 on 1, but it was a great throw.
TD 3: 4th and 3. Budda Baker just got torched by Kupp 1 on 1. Another great throw.
TD 4: Adams makes an amazing throw scrambling to left. Beaver and Gardenhire were in the area, but neither committed to the receiver.
FG: We had them stopped on 3rd and 12 but Timu left his man when Adams scrambled and Adams threw it to him. Another great play.
TD 5: Just bad coverage the whole drive. King particularly looked out of position.
TD 6: We had them stopped and Peters' ridiculous penalty lets them off the hook, and then they make an amazing catch on 4th and 3 for the TD.
TD 7: Adams converts on 4th and 12. They catch that deflected pass on another 4th down. King drops a pick in the end zone.
So....yes our DBs were bad. Yes Adams was tremendous. But it took some very unusual plays to make that game that close at the end.
Going forward I feel good about the offense.
I think the run D is OK.
Pass D is a big concern. We knew the young DBs were a big concern. Well, they are a BIG concern.
Comments
Old what's his name in Oregon had a good laugh at this ...
Terrible defense, the coaching was suspect, and the secondary was terrible. They should have had 14-21 points less though. Nothing was good, but Eastern was getting lucky on some of those TD's and very few QB's make some of those throws. Adams deserves a lot of credit. We should get better, but the 3 man rush against a QB like Adams is terrible coaching and so is how we use Kikaha. That worries me.
Peterson may figure it out. But it' sure looks like tsifo.
Two times is a concern
Three times and your defense sucks shit
It smelled like a Holt D. DB's played like a Holt D. Score Looked like a Holt D.
No amount of lipstick will clean up that pig.
This team loses to a better Stanford team @ home...
Goes to Cal and gets a shit-ass win before getting ass-raped @ oregon in eugene with a shit-ass secondary vs the #1 QB in the conference...
After that, home game vs ASU for another ass-pounding secondary beatdown. 50/50 game there only because of ASU wanting to piss that game away.
They get Colorado as a BYE but then UCLA comes to town...Another beatdown on D then they go AT Arizona to have fun with Rich-Rod.
The season ends with Oregon State @ home then a gay trip to Wazzu for a coin-flip after a defeated season...
After all that Peterman is lucky as fuck to get to 5-4.
Eastern is good at what they do and their QB for the most part played a pretty good game ... sometimes you have to give a little credit.
That being said, there's going to be plenty of examples on film of opportunities for the DBs to make plays and get off the field. We knew that they were going to take their lumps and need to grow up during the course of the season ... they are and they will.
Most important thing that happened today defensively was Peters taking a selfish penalty and Petersen benching his ass as a result. There's a whole lot of Norman Dale in Petersen right now ... I don't have a problem with that at all.
I'm not sure how I feel about the Peters situation. It was a soft call, and he was pissed off about how we were playing. He broke up a pass a few plays prior and got really, really fired up and tried to get the defense going. I love Peters' fire, but I also understand Petersen needing to send a message that he won't tolerate throwing tantrums and unnecessary penalties.
One of the biggest themes that is in play after 2 games is that the offense has exactly ZERO turnovers at this point. You could argue that the difference in the game today were the 2 turnovers that we created.
But then think about all the opportunities that we gave Eastern today:
Peters penalty to extend a drive - led to a TD
How many dropped INTs that led to TDs?
4th down pass that we got a hand on after a deflection that we deflected right back to the WR for a conversion - led to another TD
One of the biggest things that I'm seeing out of Petersen as he tears this team apart to build them back up is how important the little details of the game are. Having opportunities to get turnovers gets your team off the field and takes away opportunities to give up points ... often it puts you in a great position to score for yourself. However, you let those plays go through your fingertips and they often lead to points for the opposition.
Look at the Stanford/SC game today. Stanford makes a living out of doing the small details better than their opponents. Today they shot themselves in the foot and lost a game that they probably win 81% of the time (or more) given the stat line.
It's one thing if the other team beats you ... but the reason that you're 94-12 as a head coach is because to beat you, you force the other team to actually have to beat you by outplaying you. The biggest criticism so many of us had on Sark was that his teams continually found ways to beat themselves by shooting themselves in the foot, taking stupid penalties, etc. What Peters did today would have barely registered on the radar of Sark from the standpoint of sending a message.
And yes, Eastern's QB played a great game today. He's clearly got a lot of skills and he's got more talent around him than many would care to admit. However, I also saw a guy who when faced with pressure threw a number of balls that a more seasoned secondary would have capitalized on forcing more turnovers off of.
So... add that to your gimmes against Illinois and GA State-
9-2-2
Other than the ugly product Peterman is putting on the field in the preseason, he is meeting expectations. So chill.
A Div 1AA school hung 52 on UW at home and it is bullshit
Do you actually make an effort to come up with really stupid comments?
Are you krisvashon going by 2 handles?
Jesus fucking Christ