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re: Post game thoughts.

Posted on 10/21/12 at 1:28 pm to
Posted by daboman of Aggieland
Columbia, MO
Member since Aug 2011
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Posted on 10/21/12 at 1:28 pm to
My fear going into this game was that our D-Line would be physically dominated by LSU's O-Line. With the exception of LSU's last TD, I never saw any evidence of that. Our four turnovers didn't help at all in that manner.

I liked JFF. I thought that he showed great restraint. He looked like a freshman on the two interceptions (the middle one being entirely on the receiver), but when you start a freshman, that is going to happen.

What I don't like. Our 3rd offensive play of the game, it's 3rd down and 1, and we have an empty backfield. There are few universal truths in football, but one is that on 3rd and 1, you get into an I formation, and you run the ball down their fricking throat. I was going to complain about the lack of offensive balance, but we actually ran 38 times... more than I would have guessed. I still think that with our offensive line, we should have a physical running game, and we don't.

I am not going to pile on Bertolet. Him missing the XP and a 32 yard attempt were ugly, but to say he cost us the game, you're saying that the 50 yarder he did make and the 52 that he missed were sure things, when in college football, both of those kicks are under 50%.

Turnovers cost us this game.
Posted by tmc94
Member since Sep 2012
11559 posts
Posted on 10/21/12 at 3:16 pm to
I think this is some of the disconnect. Power running is not our forte really and the last two games, two teams that do play that style have tried to do exactly that vs LSU.

SC - 25 rushes, 34 yards, 1.4 ypc
UF - 58 rushes, 175 yards, 3.0 ypc

A&M - 38 rushes, 134 yards, 3.5 ypc

We really had pretty decent success running the ball (comparatively). And yet all we're hearing is we should have done what SC and UF did and line up and run right at them.

Btw, dabo, I know what you are saying. Lining up wide on 3rd and short is different for sure. Different leads to criticism, especially when it isn't successful. But here are all our 3rd and 3 and shorter from yesterday

3-1-TXAM34 (13:57) Johnny Manziel passed to Nehemiah Hicks for 7 yards.
3-3-TXAM32 (1:30) LSU was penalized 10 yards.
3-3-LSU47 (12:56) Johnny Manziel rushed for 4 yards.
3-3-TXAM44 (11:10) Johnny Manziel lost 1 yard.
3-2-TXAM29 (8:35) Ben Malena rushed for 16 yards.
3-3-TXAM43 (2:11) Johnny Manziel passed incomplete to Kenric McNeal.

We converted 4 of 6 which isn't too shabby. So, at least yesterday, unconventional or not, it worked.
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