GaTech4ever
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Curry graded out as our best pass rusher last night, but was also graded as our worst tackler. Both his grades were significant outliers in terms of the rest of the defense.
Call me crazy but i think we win 1-2 of those next 5, this IS the ACC afterall....More than that, they entered this game 14th out of 15 ACC teams in 3rd down conversion rate at 34% and they got 53% against us (even with the late stops). Our interior D line and our LB play did not impress, and the secondary left many guys wide open. Thank goodness they produced the TO's...that was a saving grace! (And they DID manufacture them, those weren't poor choices by L'ville, we stripped the ball out.)
Without the +3 TO differential, they would have clearly scored mid 30's against us. And that from a team whose offense is fair at best. If the middling' teams in the league can score mid 30's against our D without those TO problems, it put enormous pressure on our young QB to score on every possession.
If we can't find some answers on D, we are likely to lose the next 5 games (Clemson, @BC, Notre Dame, Pitt, @Miami), leaving us with two reasonable chances for wins at the end of the season (vs Duke and N C State) in our quest to improve on 3-8.
I surely hope I am wrong and this team makes me eat my words.
this was totally inexcusable by espn. they completely ignored our game to broadcast her worthless blather.
that was an excellent play, and they ignored it because we had to listen to some chick who's hot for the cu and um qb's given them verbal foreplay.Agreed. I don’t know if I’ve ever been that frustrated watching a broadcast in my life. I literally muted the tv for like 5 minutes after she had been going for at least 5 minutes.
What made me the most angry was the Harvin seemingly pinned them inside the 5. One of our guys looked like he made a great play to keep the ball from going in the endzone and then two other guys downed it.
We got not replay, no comment, just some woman chatting about a game like it was the most I lost any thing she’s ever talked about without taking a breath. Did anyone else think the Vall should’ve been downed inside the 5 there or am I crazy?
At least you got to see the game. In Wisconsin , I could not watch it at all.Agreed. I don’t know if I’ve ever been that frustrated watching a broadcast in my life. I literally muted the tv for like 5 minutes after she had been going for at least 5 minutes.
What made me the most angry was the Harvin seemingly pinned them inside the 5. One of our guys looked like he made a great play to keep the ball from going in the endzone and then two other guys downed it.
We got not replay, no comment, just some woman chatting about a game like it was the most I lost any thing she’s ever talked about without taking a breath. Did anyone else think the Vall should’ve been downed inside the 5 there or am I crazy?
Dook and .......???Call me crazy but i think we win 1-2 of those next 5, this IS the ACC afterall....
Unfortunately there is a slight difference in the nfl and college on that rule. In college if it crosses the end line it’s a touchback where in the nfl you can toss it back if your feet or the ball doesn't touch the end zone. It seemed to me the ball crosses the line and it was a touchback as ruled on the field. I hate that rule.Agreed. I don’t know if I’ve ever been that frustrated watching a broadcast in my life. I literally muted the tv for like 5 minutes after she had been going for at least 5 minutes.
What made me the most angry was the Harvin seemingly pinned them inside the 5. One of our guys looked like he made a great play to keep the ball from going in the endzone and then two other guys downed it.
We got not replay, no comment, just some woman chatting about a game like it was the most I lost any thing she’s ever talked about without taking a breath. Did anyone else think the Vall should’ve been downed inside the 5 there or am I crazy?
Dook and .......???
This is what I saw too.Unfortunately there is a slight difference in the nfl and college on that rule. In college if it crosses the end line it’s a touchback where in the nfl you can toss it back if your feet or the ball doesn't touch the end zone. It seemed to me the ball crosses the line and it was a touchback as ruled on the field. I hate that rule.
Duke is not one of the next 5.....Dook and .......???
I thought maybe Pitt, too. BC away less so sure. Just looking for continued progress against CU at this point.He is talking about the next 5. I would think we beat BC and I think people are way too scared of Pitt.
I watched the Spanish broadcast on espn3. I couldn't understand the audio but at least I got to see the game.At least you got to see the game. In Wisconsin , I could not watch it at all.
Yeah, I see that now.Duke is not one of the next 5.....
This is what happened. He spotted the ball at the point where it appeared he stepped out (which after replay it was clear he did not). The odd thing to me is that there was clear and definitive proof that he was not down short of the endzone but it was impossible to determine with the camera angles on if the ball crossed the plane of the endzone before he fumbled. So basically they can prove the call on the field was wrong but can't determine what the right call would be.It's really the only possibility. The ball went through the EZ, so either he stepped out, he broke the plane, or he fumbled for a touchback. The flag doesn't stop you from having to call one of those 3 things. He called the play dead short of the goal. Obviously there was no forward progress stopped or runner down possibility, so that means he thought he stepped out. He didn't as per the replay, but the foot was razor close to the chalk so it's not an unreasonable call in full speed. He's the only guy to make the call, needing to observe both the goal and the sideline at the same time. Not easy. Wish we had an overhead camera for plays like this and some technology to correct for perspective distortion and time link with different cameras frame by frame so we could combine events visible in one view but not another and know exactly when one happens relative to each other.
I was sitting on about the north 20 in the lower east, and it sure looked to me like it should have been downed on the one yard line. Somebody in chat said that once a ball crosses the goal line in the air, whether it is slapped back by a man off his feet or not, it's a touchback. First time I ever heard that. Someone else just posted that above. Like I said, that's the first time I have ever heard that rule.Agreed. I don’t know if I’ve ever been that frustrated watching a broadcast in my life. I literally muted the tv for like 5 minutes after she had been going for at least 5 minutes.
What made me the most angry was the Harvin seemingly pinned them inside the 5. One of our guys looked like he made a great play to keep the ball from going in the endzone and then two other guys downed it.
We got not replay, no comment, just some woman chatting about a game like it was the most I lost any thing she’s ever talked about without taking a breath. Did anyone else think the Vall should’ve been downed inside the 5 there or am I crazy?