- September 3rd, 2022, 11:08 pm
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100% pure entertainment. A bad movie you almost wanted to turn off, then came the twist and turns and character development. Love CFB.
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JK37 wrote: ↑September 3rd, 2022, 11:03 pmOh, he definitely missed some throws, but there were a couple absolute bullets, including the game winner. I think he’s got the strength, just needs to clean up his mechanics when he’s throwing on the run.stokesjokes wrote: ↑September 3rd, 2022, 10:59 pm Salter has a rocketI disagree. He’s been accurate mostly. But he underthrew several tonight. Malik and Buckshot had way stronger arms.
But he’s clearly our best option. Love his moxie.
rmiller1959 wrote: ↑September 3rd, 2022, 11:05 pm Well, with Brewer hurt and Bennett being inconsistent, it looks like the Kayden Salter era has begun. This will put Hugh Freeze's coaching skills to the test. It doesn't get any easier with UAB coming to town.If we play next Saturday like we played tonight.........it will be ugly. UAB is solid. But I will say this, the kids showed tenacity. 4 OTs is tough. Glad they had the experience. Let's learn from it...and be better!
LibertyD wrote: ↑September 3rd, 2022, 11:03 pm 4OT to beat a team with literally no QB. It’s going to be a long long season…Maybe, tonight certainly didn’t look great but teams always improve from week 1 to 2. I trust Freeze to correct the issues that need to be addressed.
JK37 wrote: ↑September 3rd, 2022, 11:03 pmIs the word Moxie making a come back? I swear I’ve heard it 25 times this week. Which is 22 more times then I have heard it the last decadestokesjokes wrote: ↑September 3rd, 2022, 10:59 pm Salter has a rocketI disagree. He’s been accurate mostly. But he underthrew several tonight. Malik and Buckshot had way stronger arms.
But he’s clearly our best option. Love his moxie.
ballcoach15 wrote: ↑September 3rd, 2022, 11:07 pm Our defense has me worried. S. Miss was one dimensional, basically Gore running ball, and we had trouble stopping him.Our D was fine. We didn’t know what to do with it when they first brought it out, but we figured it out. It’s a junk offense that they’ve had success running in the past and we played it pretty well after the first series.
I hope defensive coaching staff watches film of this game, on the plane back to Lynchburg.
flameshaw wrote: ↑September 3rd, 2022, 11:26 pm 4 things tonight:FIFY
Good to play bad and still win
Our OL is still BAD
Our D played pretty darn good
Salter will be our QB. JB has never had it. The starter is no better than Salter. Salter has 3 more years.
Not bad considering our first game of the year and on the road.
stokesjokes wrote: ↑September 4th, 2022, 10:48 am One thing we did when Salter was in that we weren’t doing before was getting the right people involved. I don’t know if that’s on JB or Freeze, but it was a noticeable change.I was very excited that an LU QB discovered the TE!
Demario Douglas had one catch before Salter came in. Salter hit him 4 times, including 2 TDs. We had a couple big plays by TEs- how long has everyone here been saying we need to use TEs more? We even called a play for the FB to catch one out of the backfield.
Seemed like every JB pass play before the INT was a low percentage bomb against a very good and big secondary. Either Freeze was calling stinkers or JB was making bad decisions, but it was night and day.
stokesjokes wrote: ↑September 4th, 2022, 10:48 am One thing we did when Salter was in that we weren’t doing before was getting the right people involved. I don’t know if that’s on JB or Freeze, but it was a noticeable change.Practically each of those plays by Salter was him scrambling and rolling right. I think it was more Salter buying time than play calls.
Demario Douglas had one catch before Salter came in. Salter hit him 4 times, including 2 TDs. We had a couple big plays by TEs- how long has everyone here been saying we need to use TEs more? We even called a play for the FB to catch one out of the backfield.
Seemed like every JB pass play before the INT was a low percentage bomb against a very good and big secondary. Either Freeze was calling stinkers or JB was making bad decisions, but it was night and day.
JK37 wrote: ↑September 4th, 2022, 11:20 am In addition to everyone’s due praise of Salter, the D stepped up. USM isn’t as bad as last year, but obviously still not great. Their D is tough. They have an offense full of holes, but credit to their coaches for being willing to go waaaay outside the box last year, and then go back there this year. Both their QB’s sucked.Lots of positives to take away. But for starters I feel awful for Brewer. He got back to where he wanted and then right back to square one. Sisyphus has nothing on him
I have a feeling this win will loook a little better as season goes on.
The questioning of the LU coaches and their work ethic is laughable to me. film? Work late? That’s sophomoric and ignorant. We can all be better. Season opener, on the road, starting QB looked solid then broke his hand, backup struggled, third stringer came in and led us to W while showing us the QB of our now and future. Defense stepped up against a weird offense they may have prepared for, but in a season opener they couldn’t prepare for EVERY possibility. So they made adjustments, and good ones.
Yeah, OL looks bad.
All in all, a LOT to be happy about. Just happy we could get a W doing it. Easily could’ve had to swallow an L to learn all we did in Week 1.
Purple Haize wrote: ↑September 3rd, 2022, 10:44 pm Salter has a little Kyler Murray to himThis is a pretty good comparison.
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