Game Thread: Charlotte vs. Marshall
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That's a relief, I was distracted by candy seeking ghoules. When I came back it was a Twilight Zone episode.
Not enough Green Koolaid to wash down that half. Still we won!!! 8-1 Baby!!! Go Herd !!! Fear us Blue Raiders!!!
I guess the answer is No. Being held to just 3 points against a team as bad as Charlotte is pretty sad. Its nice to get the win but we are not going to beat WKU playing like that. We may be able to beat Middle Tennessee and FIU but those games will end up being a battle.
No. FIU and MT should be simple W's. We weren't outplayed 2nd half, we just turned down.
Think Doc would embarrass Charlotte in a game where Ratliff was honored coached by Lambert? No chance.
I'm only mad cause I'd like to see 4 full quarters played not just one good quarter.
WKU gave up 30 to ODU, that game looks more winnable than ever before. Our offense looked amazing 1st half and Litton almost threw for 500. Lots of improvements. Hope we are all healthy for WKU and I'm pretty sure Doc has this young squad focused for the conference title run.
So what do you find funny? Middle Tennessee and FIU will be battles if we dont play better? If we dont play two complete halves I promise it will happen. We can't play one good half and have a letdown in the other half. I do agree neither of those games should be close with MTU and FIU both having losing records but we cant sleepwalk half the game against either of them.
We didnt turn it down. Litton was still throwing the ball all over the place into the 4th quarter and we were trying to run the ball but we couldnt get the ball in the endzone in the second half. Same thing as last week. This idea that we were somehow not trying to score in the second half is nonsense.
That was us trying!? Now I'm depressed. I know that we continued to go for it on 4th down, but that is the problem. We shouldn't have been in that situation. These 49ers aren't in the NFL, but by the way their D held against us, and their impressive TD drive in the 4th, they were playing at that level or we were not playing at our level. I know it was the latter. Trying is not doing. We were getting it done in the first quarter, did good in the second also, but it was like we flipped a switch and became a different team in the third. In the fourth well......3 points to their 7. We have to score every quarter if we are to win out the rest of our season.
Are you really comparing a game we knew we could win by 60 all along and decided to just let off the gas and cruise to games we know we'll have to go 100% all game long? Come on now.
We lost the second half 7 - 3.
Doesn't matter. The game was over. Both teams knew it. No reason to worry. Obviously, we could have put up 60-70.
It seems that the opposing team went into halftime, made adjustments, and then came out in the 2nd half ready to play. We on the other hand did not.
We did not stop trying. How can you even say that when we were going for it on 4th downs? This game was eerily similar to last week as far as halftime adjustments are concerned.
I do think sloppy and inexcusable penalties committed in the 2nd half caused our offense to lose momentum and stall drives, but this was still Charlotte we played, not exactly an established I-A team.
We did not stop trying. How can you even say that when we were going for it on 4th downs? This game was eerily similar to last week as far as halftime adjustments are concerned.
I do think sloppy and inexcusable penalties committed in the 2nd half caused our offense to lose momentum and stall drives, but this was still Charlotte we played, not exactly an established I-A team.
Going to 4th downs doesn't mean there's any intensity there. It just means the coaches wanted to go for it. The players knew the game was over. It was basically over in the 1st quarter. Hard to stay on your toes when you're already planning for the ride back home.
I like the fact we play 100% as a team. Every player who played on the O Line contributed to stalling drives with at least one penalty. That is spreading it around.
Not so much a comparison as a premonition. We are developing some bad 2nd half habits. Laying off after halftime seems to be our signature move. So much so that an amateur like myself can predict it.
Like I said above... the players and coaches obviously know that. Just as we, and they, knew they absolutely did NOT have to play hard for 60 minutes at Charlotte. We could spot them 25 points and win 9/10 times. When they NEED to play 60, they will.
While you may be right that we didn't play hard the second half because we didn't need to, I don't think that's a compliment of our team.
What I think happened is when we got in the red zone in the third quarter, Charlotte adjusted and started bringing the house on our young qb, who then struggled to finish the drives.
As usual, we did nothing play calling to help him out. The running game never not going, and we continued to refuse to do anything with Foster but run him between the tackles. We didn't move the pocket. I've been begging for some kind of screen game since Kent.
I think what actually hapoened was Legg got outmaneuverd in the third quarter, it was exacerbated by our missed FGs, then we pulled the plug early in the 4th. The defense certainly never stopped playing hard.
Legg doesn't have any quick hitters in his "page and a half play book to back 'em off when they start bringing the house. Offense is too complicated for a Don Nehlan Deciple that played center in the "everybody block straight ahead" era.
The plays you're talking about, they seem like they would work, correct? That's probably the exact reason they weren't being used against Charlotte. Why give WKU something to practice and plan for? We're better off keeping that kind of stuff at practice and letting it be a surprise when we actually need it.
So do you still think its funny? As I was saying. You can play sloppy and not fully execute against bad teams like Charlotte and still win but when you dont execute against better teams like Middle Tennessee you're going to be in trouble. FIU could end up with the same outcome. And again there is no way we beat WKU playing like this. WKU beat Middle Tennessee by 30
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