Georgia Tech 38 Duke 31: We Won, Need To Focus Better. Moving On...
by Winfield Featherston on Nov 20, 2011 7:01 AM EST
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Yesterday was a great day to be a college football fan. What was supposed to be a boring football weekend was exactly the opposite. We all watched the SEC mail it in except LSU and Arkansas, we saw the most-ACC game EVAR, and then there were also those games in Waco, Eugene, and Austin. Then we also did our thing against Duke.
Before kickoff, Wes Durham made a comment about one of the players showing up with a briefcase because the Blue Devil trip was a business trip. Unfortunately, that's kind of how we looked. Offensively we played alright, wasn't too sure about the defense. Hats off to David Cutcliffe for making Duke better.
My biggest concern was the penalties, especially the personal fouls. The lack of discipline was pretty apparent. After the way we lost to Virginia Tech last week, with Jeremiah Attaochu's punch to David Wilson's face, you'd think the Yellow Jackets would be aware of what not to do. Instead, we kept on doing stupid things at stupid times. I can think of three personal fouls that were handed to us, two of them were on 3rd down and both led to eventual Duke touchdowns.
Stats-wise, the game was very 2009-ish. When we score 38 points, we expect to win, regardless of margin. A good goal for this week is to clean up the team's situational awareness for the big game this weekend against georgie.
Go Jackets! To Hell with Georgia!
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Missed 4th Quarter
Did we go 2nd string-hence 14 Dook points?
Had to run out to see GSU hang 21 on the best Defense in the last 20 years. Jaybo looked good.
You'd do it for Randolph Scott!
RANDOLPH SCOTT!
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Nov 20, 2011 7:08 AM EST reply actions
Best defense in the last 20 years?
No, not even this year. LSU has a better defense. Alabama hasn’t played near as tough of a schedule as LSU.
by RamblinWreck7 on Nov 20, 2011 5:23 PM EST up reply actions
Which band played "Rock Lobster"?
I was watching on ESPN360/ESPN3/WatchESPN/Whatever, and they were showing graphics while a band was playing that song, so I couldn’t see who it was.
Originally,
B52’s
You'd do it for Randolph Scott!
RANDOLPH SCOTT!
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Nov 20, 2011 12:06 PM EST up reply actions
They're from Athens...
So fuck em…
"Reach down in there...TURN THAT DAMN THING UP!" - Coach Paul Johnson
by TBuzz on Nov 20, 2011 3:28 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
They played Atlanta, too, in the early days
before they got popular in New York and started spending a lot of time there.
Yes, but I mean
which school’s marching band played the song yesterday.
What does it say to the rest of CFB...
…that we only beat these DERPwads by a touchdown? Here’s hoping we can come back from this and explode all over georgie like we did on Clemson. (problynotgonnahappen)
Ah well…it’s Hate Week! THWG!
This past weekend...
there were lots of FCS and lesser teams making games out of the higher ranked team…
"Reach down in there...TURN THAT DAMN THING UP!" - Coach Paul Johnson
by TBuzz on Nov 20, 2011 3:36 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Who cares about what we looked like to other people...
by RamblinWreck7 on Nov 20, 2011 5:26 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Some of those people vote in polls....
or use thinkin’-machine supercomputers to compile stats to rank us.
All we can do is go out there and play our game,
We can’t worry about what other people think.
by RamblinWreck7 on Nov 22, 2011 7:24 PM EST up reply actions
14-10
Better to have died a small boy than to drop this football - John Heisman FromTheRumbleSeat
by Winfield Featherston on Nov 21, 2011 10:14 AM EST up reply actions
Good news is that lightbulb has turned on with Washington
Offensively, I thought we were strong… after the first couple of 3-and-outs. It seems like Washington has been playing consistently well since the Clemson game. He was unstoppable yesterday. He’s been making good decisions.
The penalties were infuriating. Our defense needs to focus. But still… I said at the beginning of the season that an 8-win season would be a successful season. I’m not going back on that. I’ll take a 9- or 10-win season, too!
The good news is that we can only play spoiler against UGA. I’d LOVE to reverse that 2009 game—and crown ourselves SEC East champs. We have a shot. To hell with Georgia!
by Brent L. White on Nov 20, 2011 11:22 AM EST reply actions
Well to be fair,
Those two late hit’s on the quarterback and that one late hit “out of bounds” were absolute horse shit. Those refs couldn’t call a fucking bingo game.
JohnHeisman angry.
Go Jackets, go America.
THWG.
Absolutely
The personal fouls were total BS. Those aren’t the mental mistakes that concern me.
Fouls...
One late hit on the QB is because the blitzer wasn’t aware the QB had already thrown the football. Once again the ACC officiating shows why they are the worst. Duke called for holding one time in the entire game…
It could be worse…we could be FSU. The officiating stuck it to them all game last night.
Not quite sure what the issue is...
but GT sure seems to get the big penalties on marginal calls. A personal foul flag should be something that is so obvious it cannot be refuted. In the Duke game a QB barely gets bumped by a defender’s shoulder who was not trying to level anything close to a late hit kill shot after throwing the ball. On the other one the back had just stepped on the line out of bounds and was still running when he got bumped 2 yards later. Very marginal calls on both plays.
What wasn’t called were a couple of early hits on our receivers that were blatant pass interference penalties. But in any game penalties are something out of our control and we just have to accept the fact that we will never get any close calls. We can be certain that anything marginal will always go against us in a game.
Tech gets the calls because we're "dirty"
Note the scare quotes. Don’t you think that this is a perception—mostly because of people’s misunderstanding of cut blocking and partly because of CPJ’s demeanor? Remember what that UNC alum and former NFL player said earlier in the season: we’re the “dirtiest” team in the college football? Remember what crybaby Frank Beamer said a couple years ago: not that Tech was cheating, per se, but that officials should review the rules because of how dangerous cut blocking is.
You’d think we’d sent dozens of defenders to the hospital!
I think that reputation is at play here.
by Brent L. White on Nov 20, 2011 6:02 PM EST up reply actions
Duke-DERP
BOINK! Refs should have penalized them – wasn’t that helmet to helmet contact?
by twojackets on Nov 20, 2011 10:24 PM EST via mobile reply actions
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