When Tulane got the ball back with 51 seconds after we couldn't get a first down, I got very worried. Thank goodness that Tulane burned their time outs so they'd have that much clock.
In that situation, the memory of SMU going 80 yards in 27 seconds (with no timeouts) rises from the grave and haunts me.
Good win. If we'd lost after two interceptions in the end zone, things would have gotten very ugly here.
(09-15-2018 06:27 PM)BlazinBham Wrote: I imagine we lost some bandwagon fans after last week. Since we like excuses. 12 o clock game, 100 degrees, not a weekday for students(less than half returned for game 2 compared to game 1.) Knew that’d be the case seeing the crowd for their tailgate upon arrival. We did have 2 extra folks with us.
Much respect to the stubborn ‘fully capable of walking up 100 steps’ people who stuck it out at the bottom of the stadium in the sun. Y’all are insane.
I moved down to my seat, 2 rows below the press box at kickoff and still got toasted sitting in the sun for roughly 20 minutes. Sweat rag came in handy though. Rest of the gang sat in the shade during the whole game.
Are you (and others like you - see above) really going to like that open air BJCC stadium we are getting one day? There are going to be many such hot days in the next decade too.
I’m there majority of the time, no matter the weather. We’re sitting in the nosebleeds because it’s more beneficial to my grandparents to ride the elevator and walk down 10-12 steps than to do all the extra walking. I’d like to sit with the die hards and sensitive parents of players down below but there’s less alcohol, more space, shade, and a cooler breeze up top. Just common sense to make the most out of the opportunity. Likely when we can’t fill up the new stadium and it’s hot, i/we will try to find the shade where there’s room there, too.
As someone said, schedule the games when it’s most beneficial to “your” fans who’ll likely bring extra people with them. Instead of scheduling around Bama and Auburn in hopes of getting 50 to a couple hundred sec fans to the game
You schedule around Alabama and Auburn, not so you can hope to get 50-100 SEC fans, but so you don’t lose several 1000 of your own so called fans
Guess we got a few of those today as they left when we went up 24-14 and at the beginning of the 4th qtr.
Just calling out my complaints of Koenning ran offense from last season, not scoring in second half’s. We scored 3 points last week and 10 this week. can’t afford that lack of production in the second half now that we enter CUSA play.
(This post was last modified: 09-15-2018 09:18 PM by BlazinBham.)
AJ Erdely started out 5-5 hitting guys in the numbers. After Tulane started blitzing him he started getting erratic as hell, throwing behind players, throwing over players, just missing a lot of open receivers.
He was bad vs the blitz against Coastal too, so you bet we are going to be seeing a lot more of it going forward.
(09-15-2018 09:26 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote: AJ Erdely started out 5-5 hitting guys in the numbers. After Tulane started blitzing him he started getting erratic as hell, throwing behind players, throwing over players, just missing a lot of open receivers.
He was bad vs the blitz against Coastal too, so you bet we are going to be seeing a lot more of it going forward.
(09-15-2018 09:26 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote: AJ Erdely started out 5-5 hitting guys in the numbers. After Tulane started blitzing him he started getting erratic as hell, throwing behind players, throwing over players, just missing a lot of open receivers.
He was bad vs the blitz against Coastal too, so you bet we are going to be seeing a lot more of it going forward.
I want to see more of Johnston.
(This post was last modified: 09-15-2018 11:21 PM by BlazerPhil.)
AJ made a couple of bad throws yesterday. To get picked off in the end zone is bad, but twice in one game. Jeepers. He threw behind Lisa twice. Lisa was able to catch one of them.
The game winning TD pass to the wide open TE was a thing of beauty.
However, my voice is rough this morning mainly from one play yesterday - Marino’s fumble recovery and TD run, with a flip into the end zone.
Moll caused the fumble with a classic tackle of the Tulane QB.
Everything has to be perfect for Erdely to have a good game. We need a QB who can make big plays under pressure. This was a good bounce back game, but many things need to change before I believe this is a championship team. One moment we are doing things with ease, then you turn around and we're shooting ourselves in the foot again. I like how Erdely has realized (or has been told), he can put the ball up and allow the receivers to make plays. Just don't do it in the red zone. Should of had some pass interference penalties on a couple jump balls.
(09-15-2018 06:27 PM)BlazinBham Wrote: I imagine we lost some bandwagon fans after last week. Since we like excuses. 12 o clock game, 100 degrees, not a weekday for students(less than half returned for game 2 compared to game 1.) Knew that’d be the case seeing the crowd for their tailgate upon arrival. We did have 2 extra folks with us.
Much respect to the stubborn ‘fully capable of walking up 100 steps’ people who stuck it out at the bottom of the stadium in the sun. Y’all are insane.
I moved down to my seat, 2 rows below the press box at kickoff and still got toasted sitting in the sun for roughly 20 minutes. Sweat rag came in handy though. Rest of the gang sat in the shade during the whole game.
Are you (and others like you - see above) really going to like that open air BJCC stadium we are getting one day? There are going to be many such hot days in the next decade too.
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Game Thread: Tulane
