Complacent Deac
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I watched the two kickoffs on the condensed replay and noticed the same thing. I didn’t play high school football and don’t know anything about kick coverage schemes, but their fast returner was going about 22mph (according to Cutcliffe) at the 20 while our guys were looking for a blocker to hit. When our focus got on the returner, it was too late. Our guys took bad angles because he was flying past them at high speed and he wasn’t touched on either return. If we are this bad, we need to keep a couple of safeties back to protect against a TD return. The sky kick looks like our only option for Syracuse. Lineburg is a good Va area recruiter so it would hurt to lose him over this crap. Shier was a good recruiter as well. Btw, did he land on his feet?
The Condensed Replay also highlighted several cheap shots by weak ass Duke during the game.
- Carney held down after a run; he basically kicked the guy off of him.
- Second most eggregious was Newman running, scoring, about 1 yard in the end zone, and K Walker III is running at the 5 yard line to go celebrate with Newman...and the Duke DE just decks K Walker III.
Condensed replay did not show the most obvious leg/knee twist on Newman - FU Cutcliffe. Lose again next year to WFU.