Duke postgame

[HurricaneJacket]

Heard on the Radio post game that Haynes King is playing hurt with some sort of leg injury. That might explain the play calling from Buster.

 

[MonroeJacket]

I keep seeing words like sloppy and sluggish. It may have felt sluggish because we slowed to pace waaay down a few times. 74% completions, 5 ypc, 245 on the ground, zero turnovers, doubled their TOP…I mean Malik Murphy barely broke a sweat. Defense allowed 274 and 14 points, some of the penalties were bogus. If that’s sloppy, sign me up because those stats win most games.

I will say when we get in 3rd and short, we sh*t the bed most times and are real predictable.

 

[AUFC]

Anyone writing off UNC is nuts because we’ve seen our defense struggle every game where the other team has a passing QB. The Duke QB was horrible tonight yet they still had a lead in the 2nd half. The UNC game will be a track meet. I expect us to win but I’m also not expecting them to rollover. I also expected us to win at Syracuse and we stunk it up.

Nobody should take that game for granted. ACC road games are hard, doesn’t matter if you’re in Palo Alto, Berkeley, or Death Valley. Just ask Miami.

 

[apatriot1776]

Heard on the Radio post game that Haynes King is playing hurt with some sort of leg injury. That might explain the play calling from Buster.

If he’s hurt then we are doing an awful lot of running him up the gut into the heart of the DL

 

[cpf2001]

I will say when we get in 3rd and short, we sh*t the bed most times and are real predictable.

I thought we mixed it up a bit better this time. If Haynes catches that first outside pass for a TD we would all have been breathing a bit easier.

 

[apatriot1776]

Do we know the official attendance?

 

[JacketOff]

With ND @ the Benz, Miami, and NC State Thursday night left, I bet the season average will get over 40k. A big ND crowd of 50k+ will offset the poor showing against VMI with bad weather

 

[78pike]

Can we please start throwing the ball down the field? Glad we won but damn it hard watching us run QB draws and wr screens 50% of the plays

I don't understand. The wide receiver screen is one of our most consistent and successful plays and you want us to stop calling that play so much? Would you also prefer that we stop scoring touchdowns?

 

[WreckinGT]

I keep seeing words like sloppy and sluggish. It may have felt sluggish because we slowed to pace waaay down a few times. 74% completions, 5 ypc, 245 on the ground, zero turnovers, doubled their TOP…I mean Malik Murphy barely broke a sweat. Defense allowed 274 and 14 points, some of the penalties were bogus. If that’s sloppy, sign me up because those stats win most games.

I will say when we get in 3rd and short, we sh*t the bed most times and are real predictable.

Here is why I say sluggish. Between 6 minutes left in the first quarter to 11 minutes left in the 4th quarter, we had more punts than points. We were also pretty fortunate to get a roughing the passer call to allow us to score our last TD. They had one drive that ended deep in our territory because their RB just fell down, and they missed an easy FG on another drive. It just wasn't a very clean game. Good result but the road there was rocky.

 

[Jerry the Jacket]

All of our roads have been and will be rocky. That is just who we are this year. We should be better but we just can’t get our s*it together.

Go Jackets!

 

[Southern psu fan]

How sweet it is baby. We beat a 5-0 good football team last night. It was a must win game imo for us to have a good season and the team stepped up and made plays to get the win. 4-2 I’ll take it.

 

[stinger78]

I won’t gloat, because I will be the first to admit that we have plenty to work on. However, to those of those that are negative Nancie’s and wanted to crown dook the dynasty of the ACC for beating absolutely nobody, I will take your apology graciously.

Who wanted to do that?

 

[Northeast Stinger]

Some of the screens are actually rpos and the screen is the pitch read.

I confess I did not know that.

 

[iceeater1969]

That was on purpose. Duke pins their ears back and goes. We made them defend sideline to sideline. They have a very good defense.

That was a good win. They're more solid than I thought.

Brady Stockton had 16% of yards on 4% of receptions.

The qb , rb, wr were perfect WITH ZERO INT OR FUMBLES.

Imo, on our remaining schedule the dink and dunk offense will not keep us close in big games. We will punt a lot more.

Actually, on one called deep pass, Duke got wide open rush on delayed lb blitz. Gt in max (7) protect with TE helping the Left Tackle.

Duke has had weakvfirstchalf schedule. They will lose several more acc games. They play FSU, Vt, SMU, and and Mia iirc.

 

[gtee91]

I don't understand. The wide receiver screen is one of our most consistent and successful plays and you want us to stop calling that play so much? Would you also prefer that we stop scoring touchdowns?

Gotta see some data for that...for every one time MR breaks for 50 there are about 10 where we lose 3-5 yards and get saddled with third and long

 

[Mattmc10]

Great to get a win against a team who had won 7 games in a row. I’m not sure the last time we have done that, so props to Duke, I don’t care who they played to get there.

The defense looked solid. Outside the first 20 minutes of the Syracuse game, this unit had been good.

The offense did just enough. The roughing the passer was a godsend and pushed the momentum in the 4th quarter. King didn’t look comfortable in the pocket most the night. There were some guys open down field, we just didn’t throw them.

 

[4shotB]

I just wanted to say

Jordan Van den berg

^ Agree 100%. we haven't had such a disruptive force in the interior since Gotsis left. I thought Zeek was going to be such a player. seeing a DT chase down a screen pass? outside toss sweep? (can't remember) was a highlight of the game for me.

 

[stinger78]

Their PI call was a make up call, IMO. The PI on us that set up their first TD was garbage and they knew it. However, our most egregious PI wasn’t called. That said, our DBs have got to be taught to turn on the ball or we’ll see more of that. D played bend don’t break and did it well. Part of it was Murphy missing throws. Still, DL made a lot of tackles tonight. That’s a good thing.

 

[Southern psu fan]

Great to get a win against a team who had won 7 games in a row. I’m not sure the last time we have done that, so props to Duke, I don’t care who they played to get there.

The defense looked solid. Outside the first 20 minutes of the Syracuse game, this unit had been good.

The offense did just enough. The roughing the passer was a godsend and pushed the momentum in the 4th quarter. King didn’t look comfortable in the pocket most the night. There were some guys open down field, we just didn’t throw them.

Strength of Duke is their defense and we put 24 on ‘em and got the win. Just win!

 

[Techwood Relict]

Yeah, UNC is looking real FSU-ey.

They have the talent to beat us. But if we make them face any adversity, most of them'll probably start looking for soft places to lie down.

Fsu-ey is difficult to quantify, but it feels spot on for both teams.