Duke @ Northwestern Open Thread
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Complete garbage on the last drive. If I am Pat, I tell our guys to clamp down instead of bending on that last drive.
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I hate how the defense played on that last drive. They played soft. I don't care what the score is, have some pride and play to hold them to 7 points. Not a good sign for the rest of the year.
Playing soft in the last couple minutes. Seems like he got after Hank a touch about that last TD.
Could not agree more It should have been 24-7 or better if we hadn't just played like that last drive. Why let your defense feel like that?
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I will say the D was much better in the second half. So why not hold them scoreless for the full second half.
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Man we needed that. Thanks for bringing the Moose. Clearly we are lost without them!
He was talking into the headset. He would still be on the defensive channel for the XP, so believe it was some frustration for the D giving up a late TD playing soft.
Do the coaches actually intend this? I think you're referring to Hance, but Olson.... sheesh.
I wouldn't have burned his shirt to begin with. He was rushed into action out of pure desperation. When has that worked for us?
Disagree.
He was starting to play well right before the injury. You play your best players regardless of age. Flynn was one of those in the receiving core. I have a hard time imagining he wouldn't want to see the field either.
Both of our OTs are about as deep as the QB when they engage the DE. It's unlike anything else I see watching other college or pro teams. At this point, it is either how they are being coached or the players not bringing the right technique to game situations (both of which are BIG problems).
Based on what I heard, he had been establishing a rhythm with Thorson and performing well in practice only to suffer a pretty tough injury. Hard to use a magic 8-ball in criticizing our program, but guess I shouldn't be surprised by much nowadays.
If it's obvious enough to be repeatedly criticized on this board, it has to be coaching.
Tough to tell without actually being in the position meetings. Whether it is the staff's inability to see the problem or their inability to get the players to do anything about it, it's a problem either way.
If that's the case, then fine. It just seems that we have burned some shirts unnecessarily, like Warren Long's.
Burning JJTBC's? Started and contributed from day one. Burning Matthew Harris's? Again, contributed in a major way. Burning Dean Lowry's? He played from day one and contributed big from day one. Nagel, however, I really think that they are going to want that one back later.
Hindsight is always 20/20, but if they could have seen "well, he will suffer a nagging ankle injury just about the time he's ready to become a bigger part of the team," then Fitz had better negotiate a Nostradomaus clause.
I think even the InsideNU people have repeatedly harped about it and I know at least two assistants read them.
It's the age-old redshirt-burn the shirt argument. Let's say Nagel didn't get hurt. How much would his presence have mattered? Not to slight him, but his appearances in the remaining games would not have swung the outcome whatsoever. I'd rather have had his RS senior year down the road.
It's also projection at the time and I don't know what they projected for him but it was unrealistic.
Other than at ND, he did nothing more than any scholie kicker is expected to do and in some games he's done less.
Agreed, and really not an unfair statement at all.
He's been bad overall. At best, mediocre.
Is Nagel eligible for a medical redshirt? Can't remember when exactly he got hurt last year.
Inside NU people...Now that's ironclad evidence!
Oh, and it was definitely the right thing to burn Nagel's shirt because he would have helped us and seen a lot of playing time last year. Tough break he was injured.
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