Observations

Nov 25, 2018, 7:45 AM

Like many on this board I am a bit upset with the way the secondary played last night. I watched the game again and made note of the crazy plays and questionable calls by the refs throughout the game.

I normally do not say much about the refs in games as the calls largely even out throughout the game. Not sure the calls went both ways last night.

The offensive pass interference call in the 1st half was an absolute joke. Took a TD off the board for us. The pass interference call on Turner in the 2nd half was a joke as well. Been watching football for 30 years and never heard of disconcerting signals.

Not at all sure what Muse was doing on their 3rd TD. He saw the ball going to the streaking receiver and he arrived in time to make a play on the man but tried to swat at the ball. If he plays the man he would have made the tackle at the 30.

Another blown coverage on deebo for his long TD. Nothing spectacular by deebo, we just did not press him at the line of scrimmage. We didn't press hard enough at the line all night IMO.

Safeties need to look in the mirror and realize they are the problem. I thought for the most part the DBs played fair throughout the night. If they had help from the safeties it would have looked even better.

Our scheme is going to have to be adjusted going forward. The passes over the middle reminded me of the shuttle pass from Pitt 2 years ago as we were not prepared for it and did not adjust to it very well during the game.

I for one and glad that we have arrived to the point where we are upset by a poor performance because we have come to expect so much more. We are 12-0 and just beat our rival for the 5th straight time. We didn't play well defensively which will really help us going down the stretch. We needed the defense to get exposed a bit so we know where we stand going into the playoffs. Safe bet the defensive coaches were watching tape last night and planning for the next game and that there will be some scheme changes and personnel changes going forward.

In the end, if you take away the bogus calls and total blown coverages we would have beaten the coots 63-21.

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Observations

Agree with everything you said. This is the

Re: Observations

Their offensive game plan was no secret

Well, although you let me down with your failure

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