A Sea Of Red

LUconn wrote:welp, not what I wanted. I would feel good about where we're at playing toe to toe with the #3 team, but then again, you never know what team is going to come to play on any given night.

SuperJon wrote:Rocco said Mike didn't practice all week. That makes his play tonight look a lot more impressive.

01LUGrad wrote:-Defense looked great.
-There were a ton of "what if" moments out there: Dropped pass in the endzone, 4th and 1 call which led to their only TD, and the blocked FG.
-Summers is going to go nuts vs. the Big South.
-I liked how Rocco didn't sound happy about keeping it close.

LUconn wrote:I don't see any problems with Mike as QB. He's accurate, makes good decisions, and his legs gives the defense something else to think about, even if they do keep his scrambling in check. I'm not really a huge fan of how often we're calling plays for him to run it or really our run game in general.

01LUGrad wrote:My prediction: All of the JMU people will say that they played like crap and we aren't that good. They will ramble on and on about how they beat VT and they were just getting ready for the Delaware game next week, so they didn't try anything offensively that would tip their hand to the rest of the CAA. We also aren't good enough to make the playoffs and would be a bottom 3 team in the CAA.

Now I'm going to head over to CAAZone to see if I am right.

ToTheLeft wrote:We got beat by a better team. We lost because of the little things that make good teams into great, national title contending teams. Converting key plays (3rd and 4th down), keeping contain against the other team's athletes, being consistent in your coverage, and dominating the line of scrimmage.

Definite props to Mike for his effort, I think it could have been a different game if he was able to do everything he normally does. But our line isn't good enough to open things up for our running backs at this point. So we need to be creative here, and not just bash into the same wall.

We did show a lot of guts and heart, and the defense, while it was the reason we lost on the scoreboard, really did all it could. A couple broken plays were the difference, but the offense should be able to overcome that (and it didn't). The defense eventually just got beaten up and couldn't stop them the last drive, and that was it.

Let's build from this, learn how to be more than just a good team, and let's earn a playoff spot!

01LUGrad wrote:My prediction: All of the JMU people will say that they played like crap and we aren't that good. They will ramble on and on about how they beat VT and they were just getting ready for the Delaware game next week, so they didn't try anything offensively that would tip their hand to the rest of the CAA. We also aren't good enough to make the playoffs and would be a bottom 3 team in the CAA.

Now I'm going to head over to CAAZone to see if I am right.

01LUGrad wrote:My prediction: All of the JMU people will say that they played like crap and we aren't that good. They will ramble on and on about how they beat VT and they were just getting ready for the Delaware game next week, so they didn't try anything offensively that would tip their hand to the rest of the CAA. We also aren't good enough to make the playoffs and would be a bottom 3 team in the CAA.

Now I'm going to head over to CAAZone to see if I am right.

LUconn wrote:Not to mention JMU threw the kitchen sink to win in Blacksburg. Would playing vanilla erase game tapes from 3 weeks ago? This game DID mean something to JMU. No way they'd risk losing it.