Thankfully a W tonight! We need to overcome these poor 4th Quarters! NO excuses with the FBS talent we have!!
14jacks said:
I think this is a great win. We just beat a ranked team. Honestly, we dominated a ranked team and had a few drives we didn't finish, and some stupid penalties.
I didn't have an issue with coaching this week. Was there a couple bad play calls? Were there a few bad penalties? Did we miss a touchdown? Sure. But, obviously we aren't coaching for penalties and missing touchdowns. It's hard to win in college football. Even some of the best teams in CFB have had close games with unranked/trash teams over the past few weeks.
I thought play calling was aggressive when it needed to be and conservative when it needed to be. We got the job done and it was a job well done. Onto the next.
I am feeling optimistic.
Ljacks&Longnecks said:
Now you are just sounding upset and mad that we won the game. Disappointed much.
MasterAxe2 said:14jacks said:
I think this is a great win. We just beat a ranked team. Honestly, we dominated a ranked team and had a few drives we didn't finish, and some stupid penalties.
I didn't have an issue with coaching this week. Was there a couple bad play calls? Were there a few bad penalties? Did we miss a touchdown? Sure. But, obviously we aren't coaching for penalties and missing touchdowns. It's hard to win in college football. Even some of the best teams in CFB have had close games with unranked/trash teams over the past few weeks.
I thought play calling was aggressive when it needed to be and conservative when it needed to be. We got the job done and it was a job well done. Onto the next.
I am feeling optimistic.
Lamar had more 1st downs, more total yards, more rushing yards, and fewer penalties.
I may stop short of calling our performance "dominating."
It was enough, and that's what counts.
MasterAxe2 said:Ljacks&Longnecks said:
Now you are just sounding upset and mad that we won the game. Disappointed much.
I'm glad we won, for sure.
Very disappointed we didn't close that game out in a way I thought we shout/could.
Both things can be true.
Ljacks&Longnecks said:
"This is when having a purely spread offense beats us. You need to line up under center and power that in. Not wildcat. Even the pistol would've been good."
Regardless of what style offense we run, there is nothing to prevent us from running an I formation, taking the snap under center and having extra blockers lined up when we have 3rd and 1 or 4th and 1 since we like to go for it.
BigJack85 said:
I don't know how to define this win.
Ljacks&Longnecks said:
"This is when having a purely spread offense beats us. You need to line up under center and power that in. Not wildcat. Even the pistol would've been good."
Regardless of what style offense we run, there is nothing to prevent us from running an I formation, taking the snap under center and having extra blockers lined up when we have 3rd and 1 or 4th and 1 since we like to go for it.
SFASawmillGuy said:Ljacks&Longnecks said:
"This is when having a purely spread offense beats us. You need to line up under center and power that in. Not wildcat. Even the pistol would've been good."
Regardless of what style offense we run, there is nothing to prevent us from running an I formation, taking the snap under center and having extra blockers lined up when we have 3rd and 1 or 4th and 1 since we like to go for it.
I agree with you, but there is a reason most college spread teams don't even have a formation where the QB lines up under center.
If you have one formation where you need that QB center exchange it probably isn't practiced much. The QB center exchange under center is much harder than out of the pistol or shotgun, so practice with it is normally needed to make it fast and clean.
And with how high school offenses are now, there's a very good chance a lot of these QBs haven't taken a snap under center in a game since maybe peewee.
We're still installing and getting used to the new offense. It won't be perfect for a while. Once they're comfortable enough, I'd like to see a true goal line package added, but it's gonna take practice I'm sure for Vidlak and the center to be able to smoothly get the snap down.
Ljacks&Longnecks said:
"I'm glad we won, for sure.
Very disappointed we didn't close that game out in a way I thought we shout/could.
Both things can be true."
Yes both things can be true. The way we started I was hoping to see us close the game out early but didn't happen. Funny how our opponents don't drop over and play dead just to please us on this Forum.
I get disappointed every time we have a 3 and out or commit penalties that allow opponents to continue a drive.
All part of the game and no coach or player can script every play and outcome.
Let's see if this team can continue to improve and keep the wins coming.
BigJack85 said:Ljacks&Longnecks said:
"I'm glad we won, for sure.
Very disappointed we didn't close that game out in a way I thought we shout/could.
Both things can be true."
Yes both things can be true. The way we started I was hoping to see us close the game out early but didn't happen. Funny how our opponents don't drop over and play dead just to please us on this Forum.
I get disappointed every time we have a 3 and out or commit penalties that allow opponents to continue a drive.
All part of the game and no coach or player can script every play and outcome.
Let's see if this team can continue to improve and keep the wins coming.
I dare approach the next game but SELA is very Jekyll and Hyde. We look more talented than most of the teams we play.
14jacks said:MasterAxe2 said:14jacks said:
I think this is a great win. We just beat a ranked team. Honestly, we dominated a ranked team and had a few drives we didn't finish, and some stupid penalties.
I didn't have an issue with coaching this week. Was there a couple bad play calls? Were there a few bad penalties? Did we miss a touchdown? Sure. But, obviously we aren't coaching for penalties and missing touchdowns. It's hard to win in college football. Even some of the best teams in CFB have had close games with unranked/trash teams over the past few weeks.
I thought play calling was aggressive when it needed to be and conservative when it needed to be. We got the job done and it was a job well done. Onto the next.
I am feeling optimistic.
Lamar had more 1st downs, more total yards, more rushing yards, and fewer penalties.
I may stop short of calling our performance "dominating."
It was enough, and that's what counts.
Lamar had 13 more total yards. 1 more first down. And 4 less penalty yards than us.
We had 30 more passing yards. We're damn near 50% from 3rd down compared to Lamar's 2/14 attempts. And we had less turnovers.
Stat pick however you want, call it for what you want, but we beat a ranked team and looked plenty good enough to be a ranked team. Can we clean things up? Sure. But I wonder what Lamar fans are thinking now.
djsfw57 said:
Glad we won this game. Looking much better than the past few years.
Don't want to beat a dead horse (too much), but holy crap the broadcast quality is worse than horrible. I'm wondering if there is ANYONE involved who has even rudimentary knowledge of the equipment. Seemed tonight like they were playing with the camera for a large chunk of time in the middle part of the game. It's ridiculous, it's maddening, and I believe SFA deserves better.
djsfw57 said:
Glad we won this game. Looking much better than the past few years.
Don't want to beat a dead horse (too much), but holy crap the broadcast quality is worse than horrible. I'm wondering if there is ANYONE involved who has even rudimentary knowledge of the equipment. Seemed tonight like they were playing with the camera for a large chunk of time in the middle part of the game. It's ridiculous, it's maddening, and I believe SFA deserves better.
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djsfw57 said:
Glad we won this game. Looking much better than the past few years.
Don't want to beat a dead horse (too much), but holy crap the broadcast quality is worse than horrible. I'm wondering if there is ANYONE involved who has even rudimentary knowledge of the equipment. Seemed tonight like they were playing with the camera for a large chunk of time in the middle part of the game. It's ridiculous, it's maddening, and I believe SFA deserves better.
I'd define it as a tough win against a not-bad opponent. These kinds of victories are needed to demonstrate the team's ability to pass a tough test even when they may not be at their best at the end of the game. My view anyway.BigJack85 said:
I don't know how to define this win.
I think you are spot on, L&L. I honestly saw in August that the season outcome would be 7-5 at best. That was before Vidlak and Jones came on the scene. Defense backfield needs work for sure but defensive front looked good, especially in final Lamar drive. Just got to shore up secondary weaknesses. And continue Carthel's cognitive decision-making therapy (don't fire that therapist, we're making progress)...OK, that's a bad joke...Ljacks&Longnecks said:
I would venture to say that talent wise we are surely on par with SELA, Nicholls, UIW. That in itself does not equal wins but certainly we have the potential to win each game. or not. SELA and Nicholls are on the road so no easy task. Nicholls was respectable (final scores) in their FBS losses. They have UIW tonight so that will be an interesting result. Louisiana road games are not easy. Many of us long time Jacks would question the accuracy of Louisiana refs in those games FWIW. Wins will have to be earned, play for 60, make less mistakes than opponent and take advantage of their blunders.
I predicted 8-4 before season. Lamar, Nicholls and UIW were some of the possible 4. Obviously I want SFA to beat my guesstimate and I'll be disappointed if they don't. We still have to learn to become a winning program and culture. I like a lot of what I have been seeing but there is still plenty of work to do to get there.
Today's game was another step.