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Quick Notes on the FSU game

we also need to control clock, which we are completely 100% incapable of doing

prediction: GT and ND will wear us down, and gash us in the 4th quarter

regarding the short punt at the end of the game, we had lost the game when we went 3 and out; Aguayo's 51-yarder would have been good from 60
If you go back and re-watch the first fg, the 51 yarder - Bates is unblocked and standing directly in front of the kick - where he was, it was almost impossible to NOT block the kick. You can see Glenn/Bates flipping out that it wasn't blocked as the kick sails through the uprights - that would have been 6 more points right there for the good guys.
 
For the record Aguayo was 15 for 22 FG prior to going 4 for 4 against us. Plus, similar to BBall where some guy who is not a threat torches us for a career high 20+ points, FG kickers seem to hit career long FG against us... 52 yd was his career long by 5 or 6 yards.

What amazed me is on several occasions we caught the FSU from behind! Can't remember having guys faster than them..,
 
Take out Wolford's scrambles and the 32 carries for 37 total yards tells the story.

We caught FSU from behind because we have better talent and players.

Bates not blocking kick and missing INT...gotta make plays to win, ugh.
 
Sig,

You are not taking into account the strength of the FSU defense.

Do you think Bama has a good offense?

FSU's defense held Bama to 269 yards and 24 points (10 of which were scored simply because of fumbled KO return and a fumble deep in FSU territory). FSU defense is really strong. Not sure how you can walk away from that game thinking the offense isn't much improved. WF will have a lot of close games down the stretch; WF will win their share.

344 total yards and 20 pts against App. 367 total yards and 19 points against FSU. 3 drives of over 50 yards against FSU.

I understand that FSU is a good (maybe great) defense. But our offense the past 2 weeks has looked uninspired and ineffective. I will believe the offense is good enough to win 7-8 games when it gets good enough to score about 28 per game. It is going to take at least that to win more than 2 of the next 6.
 
For the record Aguayo was 15 for 22 FG prior to going 4 for 4 against us. Plus, similar to BBall where some guy who is not a threat torches us for a career high 20+ points, FG kickers seem to hit career long FG against us... 52 yd was his career long by 5 or 6 yards.

What amazed me is on several occasions we caught the FSU from behind! Can't remember having guys faster than them..,

And getting lit up by backup QBs.
 
Blackman certainly didn't light us up, but he did make a really good throw when it counted most.

Much like Dominique Davis did for BC in 2008. He made two big throws on the game winning drive.
 
If you go back and re-watch the first fg, the 51 yarder - Bates is unblocked and standing directly in front of the kick - where he was, it was almost impossible to NOT block the kick. You can see Glenn/Bates flipping out that it wasn't blocked as the kick sails through the uprights - that would have been 6 more points right there for the good guys.

On that same kick, the play clock displayed on the TV hit 0 at least 2 seconds before FSU snapped it. I'm not sure how well it is synched up with the official play clock, but if it really should have been delay of game, you have to wonder if FSU would have even tried a 56 yarder.
 
Take out Wolford's scrambles and the 32 carries for 37 total yards tells the story.

We caught FSU from behind because we have better talent and players.

Bates not blocking kick and missing INT...gotta make plays to win, ugh.

This is the game of football in a nutshell. Players have to step up and make plays. The stat-heads seem to think that stats decide the game, but they don't. They don't identify the critical plays either. When the game is on the line, whichever unit is on the field, someone has to step up and make a play. That's what we didn't have in the final 5-6 minutes. We had mistakes, or anti-plays. That's not conducive to winning. Nevertheless, we still managed to throw an accurate pass into the endzone on the last play that would have tied it.
 
This is the game of football in a nutshell. Players have to step up and make plays. The stat-heads seem to think that stats decide the game, but they don't. They don't identify the critical plays either. When the game is on the line, whichever unit is on the field, someone has to step up and make a play. That's what we didn't have in the final 5-6 minutes. We had mistakes, or anti-plays. That's not conducive to winning. Nevertheless, we still managed to throw an accurate pass into the endzone on the last play that would have tied it.

"Stat-heads". Whatever.

Guess WF made plays against App when WF blocked the FG at the end of the game. WF is 4-1. Better than most projected. Feel like WF will gut out 3 more. Like our team.
 
"Stat-heads". Whatever.

Guess WF made plays against App when WF blocked the FG at the end of the game. WF is 4-1. Better than most projected. Feel like WF will gut out 3 more. Like our team.

Yeah. Blocking a FG is making a play. You can either get first downs and run out the clock or rely on the defense to get stops and if necessary, block a FG.
 
Wake is up to 31 in the S&P ratings (up four spots after the FSU game). I suspect when the numbers are updated Wake's win expectancy overall for the FSU game is around 60-65% based on the five factors.

Odds of Wake making a bowl game are still somewhere 80-85% I believe (was at 90% before the FSU game).
 
We need to figure out special teams. We play FSU even on special teams on Saturday, we win, IMO
 
We need to figure out special teams. We play FSU even on special teams on Saturday, we win, IMO

Absolutely we need to be better on special teams. Programs like FSU, even in what looks to be a down year for them are able to field really good special teams, especially on the kick return/coverage units because they have so many athletes on their 2 and 3 deep. They usually have a really good kicker that can kick it high and those athletes get down the field in a hurry. Our kick coverage team always looks like it gets down the field a step slow.
 
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