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WFU @ Louisville – Sat 10/29 – 3:30 ACCN

BacktoBack said:
Well yeah. O Line play was the bigger issue. But. I assume sometimes the other team has better horses. So you adjust. You don't just keep dropping back and your QB repeatedly being pressured/flattened. we seemed to do very little to counter their good line play.
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I agree completely, just I can’t imagine their “horses” were better than we’ve already faced.
 
NewBernDeac said:
So our third qtr collapse happens in college?? How bout finding equivalents Has to be very very rare.
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Lol I literally gave you another one from a top 10 program that happened today

I’ve already said today sucked. But I’m not gonna forecast doom and gloom on rest of the season until I see who shows up next week. We played a terrible game. Teams don’t show up sometimes in college football, even great teams.
 
Most of the snarky self serving comments about this game, Sam Hartman and Dave Clawson are pretty criminal. We ran into a very bad matchup that crushed our weakest link ( the O-line) and our strength ( our fearless QB and great receivers ). Our defense wasn't great, but it certainly didn't allow Louisville to drive up and down the field at will. The defense was on the field far too long because of the turnovers and if you think the mentality and physicality stayed strong into the 4th quarter that's not reasonable. When one team grabs momentum and a big lead it frees up their defense to take risks and attack. Louisville's D-line and secondary dominated our o-line and receivers all game. That's good coaching on their part and a clear athletic advantage that they used super effectively. We made mistakes on all the turnovers but they were ALL forced by Louisville's defense and the game situation. Our team this year is still pretty damn good for who we really are. But we're not as lucky as we were ly. This was a good game by Louisville and a very bad game by Wake Forest. Nothing more. Anybody who thinks this is a stain on Sam Hartman or Dave Clawson is a fucking idiot. The pressure is gone now. Flush this game, bounce back and finish the season in statement fashion, and we'll hopefully have a chance at the Orange Bowl. 10-2 should definitely put us back in the top 10-15 for the year. Another historic season.
 
Oh well. There is this

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Every bursted bubble has a glory!
Each abysmal failure makes a point!
Every glowing path that goes astray,
Shows you how to find a better way.
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Next time you'll bumble even less!
For up from the ashes, up from the ashes, grow the roses of success!
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DeacdeTejas said:
Lol I literally gave you another one from a top 10 program that happened today

I’ve already said today sucked. But I’m not gonna forecast doom and gloom on rest of the season until I see who shows up next week. We played a terrible game. Teams don’t show up sometimes in college football, even great teams.
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Which top 10 had a 35 - 0 deficit in one quarter
 
Brendan207 said:
If we finish the regular season 4-0, beat all of our in-State rivals, and represent the ACC well in the Orange Bowl against a blueblood nobody is gonna care about this lopsided loss to a dickhead Louisville team.
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This is TRUTH and this is what is gonna happen… something something Vicky valencourt
 
I’m a little worried about Sam. He’s probably thinking ‘all this mental training and I did it again.’

If we can bounce back and close out the season with a good bowl win, he’ll still go down as one of the best, if not the best, QB Wake has ever had. I hope he knows that.
 
SkyDivingDeacon said:
I’m a little worried about Sam. He’s probably thinking ‘all this mental training and I did it again.’

If we can bounce back and close out the season with a good bowl win, he’ll still go down as one of the best, if not the best, QB Wake has ever had. I hope he knows that.
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Not sure he should be beating himself up for blind side strip sacks or hitting DG in the hands. Had some TOs but I don’t put this in the same category as Wisconsin or Pitt.
 
I’m not worried about Sam whatsoever. Burn this day. We’re fine guys trust me
 
PaddyWF said:
@CONeill please consider asking about clock management in the end of the first half. Curious what the coaching staff is wanting to do in those situations. I am not trying to slam them, I just genuinely don't understand it.
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I wasn't there and they never gave those of us on Zoom opportunity to ask Clawson questions. As I think I saw somebody else say toward the end of the game -- hardly a pertinent issue in the immediacy of the game, anyway.

Maybe I'll ask about it on Tuesday.

What I know is: Clawson always prefers to get a first down before going tempo in 2-3-minute offense. When you have the "take what the defense gives you" offense against a defense that's usually dropping LBs and safeties back, that winds up in handoffs. Against Louisville, their guys get off blocks a lot faster than most defenses Wake plays (the whole "they have athletes" aspect at work, no matter how bad they are), so that's why Wake wasn't able to break either of those first two runs. The other principle of Wake's hurry-up offense is to not take sacks, which is what Hartman did on third down.

I think the timeouts when Wake was on defense were to set the defense instead of get the ball back with time left to do anything. That's just guessing and trying to get inside of Clawson's head.

Now, as far as the last possession and what Wake was trying to do ... I've got nothing, man. They drained time and then took a shot and didn't have enough time to do as much as they needed to.
 
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