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<blockquote data-quote="Lotta Booze" data-source="post: 618952" data-attributes="member: 4471"><p>I'll dub this post "An optimist's view of the 1st half":</p><p></p><p> Ok, we all know how the game started. With a friggin 3 and out. The defending national champions had all preseason to prepare for us with their presumptive Heisman winning QB and we shut. them. down. out of the gate.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://media.giphy.com/media/U8MDaxwZNBgPrap32m/giphy.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>That looked really good for a 1st snap of the new season. SWARMING the ball.</p><p></p><p>Then we know what happened. Punt was muffed, they scored, we got the ball and were sacked some and put into 3rd and 21. </p><p></p><p>And we ran it with Oliver. On 3rd and 21. That's a choice I do not like. If our coach is going to talk about the brand of a football team and also talk about how we're going to be a spread option team that throws the ball then I feel like you gotta throw the ball. The biggest influence of brand is what's put on the field and running on 3rd and 21 makes the "brand" look like you're scared to throw it. </p><p></p><p>But anyways...the game continues. We punt, they fumble, we recover, we get sacked and punt to put them deep in their own territory and then they bust loose a 90+ yard ETN run. 0-14</p><p></p><p>Let's remember this play for a second as a great reminder as to why Tobias Oliver played so much last year and is why he was named the starter for this game. He can play.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://media.giphy.com/media/ghIeh8P3EcxSdvrzGr/giphy.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>That's a badass run.</p><p>But that drive didn't go anywhere unfortunately. We give it back to Clemson and what happens? THEY DON'T SCORE. We get the ball back AND...fumble.</p><p>Give them a short field again and they score. 0-21</p><p></p><p>We get the ball back and don't do much but here's another cool run by TO.</p><p><img src="https://media.giphy.com/media/jSKHY9msgu1hjnx6Kw/giphy.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>That drive was ended by a 3rd&1 and then a 4th&1. Neither of which was converted. </p><p>We give the ball back to Clemson and then we intercept their presumptive Heisman winning QB and return it to the 3. Beautiful play by Swilling</p><p></p><p>And we can't punch it in. That was very disappointing. The 4th&Goal play was there. </p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/tqenX5v.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>It was wide open and TO just needed to float it more. Instead it got batted and intercepted.</p><p></p><p>They score on a bomb to Higgins. 0-28.</p><p>We can't move it, they can't move it. That continues and we intercept them again to end the half.</p><p></p><p>That's not how you want a half to go but all things considered I see good things on this team. 2 of the TD's were gifted with extremely short fields and the other 2 are incredible plays by 2 players that may be the best in their position in the country. Take away 1 of the TD's with short fields and then GT converts on 1 of the 4 downs at the goal line and it's a 21-7 game going into half. Likely still a loss but a very different feeling than 28-0. </p><p></p><p>I look forward to seeing what we can do against USF. Hopefully more stuff like this...</p><p></p><p><img src="https://media.giphy.com/media/UueAcB8DDkqSyMtnsY/giphy.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>And if we can do that against Clemson then we can definitely do that against USF. Temple. The Coastal. Etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lotta Booze, post: 618952, member: 4471"] I'll dub this post "An optimist's view of the 1st half": Ok, we all know how the game started. With a friggin 3 and out. The defending national champions had all preseason to prepare for us with their presumptive Heisman winning QB and we shut. them. down. out of the gate. [IMG]https://media.giphy.com/media/U8MDaxwZNBgPrap32m/giphy.gif[/IMG] That looked really good for a 1st snap of the new season. SWARMING the ball. Then we know what happened. Punt was muffed, they scored, we got the ball and were sacked some and put into 3rd and 21. And we ran it with Oliver. On 3rd and 21. That's a choice I do not like. If our coach is going to talk about the brand of a football team and also talk about how we're going to be a spread option team that throws the ball then I feel like you gotta throw the ball. The biggest influence of brand is what's put on the field and running on 3rd and 21 makes the "brand" look like you're scared to throw it. But anyways...the game continues. We punt, they fumble, we recover, we get sacked and punt to put them deep in their own territory and then they bust loose a 90+ yard ETN run. 0-14 Let's remember this play for a second as a great reminder as to why Tobias Oliver played so much last year and is why he was named the starter for this game. He can play. [IMG]https://media.giphy.com/media/ghIeh8P3EcxSdvrzGr/giphy.gif[/IMG] That's a badass run. But that drive didn't go anywhere unfortunately. We give it back to Clemson and what happens? THEY DON'T SCORE. We get the ball back AND...fumble. Give them a short field again and they score. 0-21 We get the ball back and don't do much but here's another cool run by TO. [IMG]https://media.giphy.com/media/jSKHY9msgu1hjnx6Kw/giphy.gif[/IMG] That drive was ended by a 3rd&1 and then a 4th&1. Neither of which was converted. We give the ball back to Clemson and then we intercept their presumptive Heisman winning QB and return it to the 3. Beautiful play by Swilling And we can't punch it in. That was very disappointing. The 4th&Goal play was there. [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/tqenX5v.png[/IMG] It was wide open and TO just needed to float it more. Instead it got batted and intercepted. They score on a bomb to Higgins. 0-28. We can't move it, they can't move it. That continues and we intercept them again to end the half. That's not how you want a half to go but all things considered I see good things on this team. 2 of the TD's were gifted with extremely short fields and the other 2 are incredible plays by 2 players that may be the best in their position in the country. Take away 1 of the TD's with short fields and then GT converts on 1 of the 4 downs at the goal line and it's a 21-7 game going into half. Likely still a loss but a very different feeling than 28-0. I look forward to seeing what we can do against USF. Hopefully more stuff like this... [IMG]https://media.giphy.com/media/UueAcB8DDkqSyMtnsY/giphy.gif[/IMG] And if we can do that against Clemson then we can definitely do that against USF. Temple. The Coastal. Etc. [/QUOTE]
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