Welcome to last year

Submitted by SFBayAreaBlue on
So I'm writing this with about 10 minutes left in the 4th quarter and I can't bear to watch anymore.  If they can pull out a miracle down 22 points and looking like crap, I'll do Mgopostpenance.  But OMG, this game f'ing sucks. 

Why does it suck?  Because unlike the close losses to MSU and Iowa where the team showed progress, this is a major regression.  It's not even 'take one step forward, two steps back' this is moonwalking back to last year.

I feel sorry for Brandon Graham to be getting very little help from the rest of the team in this game.  Oh, and zoltan is doing ok.  oooooh boy.

This game sucks because all of the things that went wrong today are things we've seen before.  These are all lingering problems that just haven't been corrected.  Well at least we haven't fumbled a punt or a kickoff... ... YET.

Let's take stock.

  • Molk and Odoms get dinged up, so grady (19) promplty drops two passes to kill a drive
  • Denard throws a pick when we were running well, one play after he overthrew koger
  • Tate is throwing everything low and looks like a nancy boy out there in the cold.  Someone needs to take him to a fraternity and have the boys tie him up to the delta gamma anchor all night without any clothes on so he gets used to the cold.
  • Carlos fumbled
  • Denard fumbled
  • Tate holds the ball too long
  • Bad snap costs us a safety
  • Bad snap costs us a touchdown
  • Ezeh one on one is nearly = DEATH, and the safeties split and had no idea about staying as 'deep as the deepest'
  • Mike Williams missed a tackle
  • Mike Williams missed a tackle
  • Mike Williams missed a tackle
  • We're giving their receivers too much room on the goal line
  • They could run bubble screens and 0 yard hitches for 7-8 yard gains all day long.
  • We can't complete the fricken flare
Did I miss anything?  It's like every little negative thing we've been having here and there this season all decided to take one big dump on the field at the same time today. 

Oh yeah, and we had a ton of stupid penalties from the O-line, holding, misalignment, false start.  Today we looked undisciplined as a team. 

I'm completely disgusted.  I'm not saying the sky is falling, but damn, we can't be digging ourselves into holes and hope to win against good teams.  We'll probably win the next two weeks and be 7-3 with two tough games to finish the season.  Right now it's looking like 7-5 which is what people were saying before the season and represents a huge step forward from last year. 

But still.  This game sucks.  At least it's only one game.

Comments

hurricaneESQ

October 25th, 2009 at 11:11 AM ^

This was the first game all year where I thought we looked bad. Certainly could have performed better at Iowa and Michigan State but we were still competitive in those games and they could have gone either way. Saturday however there was no doubt who the best team on the field was and it wasn't big blue.

Michigan was very close to being 7-0 going into Penn State. I am as frustrated as the rest of you but I don't think that this one very poor game is enough to call the whole rest of the season a loss, call for a new coach, etc. You may end up being right but I still think we can compete with everyone on our schedule the rest of the way. 8-4 would be a success, 7-5 a disappointment, anything less would be a disaster.

Go Blue.

Blue Fan

October 25th, 2009 at 12:09 PM ^

Google says apart from Robinson there are three coaches on the defensive coaching staff: Bruce Tall (defensive line), Jay Hopson (linebackers), and Tony Gibson (Secondary). All but Robinson came from WV with RR.

How much responsibility for the defensive performance is theirs vs the players?

ND Sux

October 25th, 2009 at 1:07 PM ^

all you want, but his analysis of the game itself was pretty spot-on. Indeed one loss isn't the end of the world, but it's the regression that's so disturbing. All I see in his post is a little venting from a fan. Honestly, WTF did anyone see (besides BG) that was encouraging? Please do tell...I NEED something to hold on to besides this beer.