This Loss was not about distractions

I don’t want to hear it. We played about as well as we did vs Navy, not nearly as bad as we played vs smu/Tulsa and nowhere as good as vs Louisville. This was not about distractions. It was about a complete new set of starters in secondary that have struggled vs pass happy teams. Didn’t help that Big Ed was not 100% and did not play all snaps. Everybody needs to chill out and wait to see what happens. Nothing we can do anything about it so why stress out. CTH has not done anything to disrespect us nor anything to be ashamed of. GO COOGS.

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I’d say the loss is about terrible click management on the last scoring drive. And the results of the first half show the team was not ready to play.

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I’d disagree with that pretty strongly. When you need a TD, you don’t concern yourself with leaving too much time on the clock.

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The loss was, indeed, about distractions. I will guarantee you that the team saw all the information on the bottom of the screen when they were showing the LSU-atm game; does anyone think that had no effect on them? GET SERIOUS!

How many times do we have to see this movie before people know the ending?

You’re right! Well said.

I didn’t see much of a chance to run time off until the play that got us inside the 10 (maybe after the Bonner catch to the 27, but that is a lot of yards left with only 2:20 to go when we snapped it). We could have run about 20 more seconds off after the Duke run, but I wouldn’t want to run plays just to run clock. Memphis went down the field in 1:10 without using any of their 3 timeouts. They would have scored in 30-35 seconds if they use their timeouts on that last drive.

Exactly what I said. Defense was on their heels. You have to score. If you dont, doesn’t matter how much time you leave.

This loss was not about distractions but was about piss poor defense. It’s just inexcusable to beat the hell out of the best player in college football as well as OU and to play like dog crap defensively against the likes of Navy, SMU, and Memphis. The defense got up against great teams and were hit and miss against the rest. That was the story of this season.

I disagree with this. It was 1st and goal. You only have 4 downs to score that TD. If you don’t get it, game over. Why not run the clock down there? The was nothing to gain from playing quickly.

Because going fast was working, and you don’t fix what ain’t broken. You slow down and give them time to regroup, and maybe the offense stalls out. Imagine how this board would have reacted had Applewhite slowed down and not gotten the TD.

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So let’s see. By that logic, these posters on here would bitch if we scored on first down and not third down, thus chewing up more clock. Ridiculous. Hindsight is 20/20. The fact is the defense played like crap. If I was to argue about clock management it would have been that joke of an end to the first half when we should have gone for 3 points rather than risk running out the clock and have a shot at nothing which is exactly what we got.

LOL.

Everyone in the USA plus the kitchen sink and a blind sow KNOWS this was about

DISTRACTIONS!!!

My own seat of the patootie guess is CTH is GWTW

And yes it was nice that we received all the attention with CTH around but in the end it wasn’t worth all the aggravation we wound up suffering starting with the Navy loss

I would agree if our defense wasn’t also on its heels. We don’t have to agree, but I would have slowed it down right there and trusted our offense more than our defense. At least in this game.

To be fair, 7 seconds should be more than enough for one more play, especially on what is probably a bit of a long Field Goal for Ty Cummings. Ward just took too much time.

The Defense had allowed 7 points the entire second half at that point. It was absolutely reasonable to trust them. It just didn’t work out.

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Their defense was gassed, so what do you do? Put pressure on them by going for it quickly.

Our defense, which had been pretty good all season, had been pretty good against them in the 2nd half, so you put the game on your defense. It didn’t work out. Shit happens.

The fact of the matter, we need a BETTER secondary coach than what we have
currently, even if CTH stays.

Fair enough. Agree to disagree. If our defense can’t protect a lead with 90 seconds to go and 75 yards to go then we don’t deserve to win. Simple as that. It was the story of the season. With all of the offensive problems we’ve had this year the fact of the matter is that we went the way of our defense. Our defense played great we won. Our defense played like crap (at least 3 times this year) then we lost. I’d put this loss on them and much less on clock management. It makes me wonder why we played like such crap at times on that side of the ball. Frustrating.

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You have to show up to the game and perform, but this absolutely was about distractions. ESPN pretty much got a full 24-hour news cycle of this crap with no substance. They used it to get through the LSU-A&M game and that’s what they made today’s game against Memphis. What should have been a routine post-Thanksgiving AAC West divisional game became a must-watch reality TV s***show and that’s the majority of this country wants to see.

I don’t think this is about the secondary coach. This is about Orlando’s defense as a whole. We’ve struggled against the past for the entirety of the last two years, almost by design. Our defensive gameplan would effectively be summed up as “we’re gonna stop the run, and if you want to beat us with the pass, go ahead.”

Quan, i totally agree…Anyone could see that Memphis’ D was worn out…Keeping ball on ground and using up valuable seconds vital to win, given how inconsistent we played on defense and how secondary couldnt cover any of their receivers. Instead, we get cute, throw that pass and hand them the ball with a minute 30 seconds left on the clock…an eternity for their passing game…and they fly right down the field and win…poor clock management…

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