Open Thread: Louisville at West Virginia

Pissed.

Good job by the D there. I can't believe Palmer actually turned around to play the ball in the air. How many penalities have we seen on LBs on that play for pass interference for just putting their arms up with their backs to the ball.

Maybe because no matter what, on 3rd down we run a 6 yard play.

STOP HAVING ANYONE RUN UNDERNEATH SHORT OF THE FIRST DOWN.

Our offense sucks hard.

How does someone like Craig James get, and then keep, a job.

Maybe he didn't see them?

Seriously. Never.

B) he broke a tackle!!

Those are two positive developments.

Who is the 5th string DE?

Do we burn Patrick Grant's redshirt?

Line Malik up at DE?

WTF?

Stripling up the middle, with 4 WRs and no TEs? Seriously?

Honestly, what in the world are you thinking???

At least we'll be down enough so that Brian and the team will be able to do their own thing in the fourth quarter.

God I hate this.

inane play calling

greatest offensive players in Card history forced to play dink football

(George Costanza voice) I'M LOSIN' IT.

He looks like the stripling of old at times.

Craig James is awful.

Big East refs are worse.

great quick drive.

Hopefully we can keep it up.

should be shoot-out in the 40's by two amazing teams

should

Lets use those short passes over the middle and screen passes to Stripling and march back down the field!

Four 4th and 1's in 35 minutes of play.

And not only that, but continuing the story AFTER the call on the field broke it up.

He's awful.  Bring back Herbie.

Honestly the only time I've yelled out at the TV all night.  

We're averaging .8 yards per carry. And Powell isn't getting touches?

Finally we start throwing downfield, but it didn't quite work out (they didn't show a reply so no idea whether Harry should have had that catch.

The D is keeping us in it, the offense (and the playcalling) is not complying.  Does that sound familiar?

And we are FINALLY throwing downfield.

Fark.

But whatever.

Jesus

I hate myself.

Arghh.

Basketball season, 9 days away.

The just showed it again on sportscenter.

Those 15 yards were worth like 6 plays and 4 minutes in the stubbs playbook.

To end on a positive note, I will add that I liked how our team didn't give up. With all the crap that's happened this year, I wasn't sure even that was possible.  

How many yards did we give up in almost every other game (particuarly the first 4 games)?  Our defense really stepped it up last night and came up with some key stops.  

Was it perfect?  No.  But would most people have thought the defense that showed up at the Syracuse game could have ever done what the defense that showed up last night did (even with a pretty banged/injured squad)?

Have we arrived yet...No...but we are improving rapidly IMO.

Offense:

Minus a couple of turnovers and we were in the game.  The turnovers where "good" ones (like a helment on the ball when douglas foumbled).  Yeah I know no turnovers are good, but ours were not really from not protecting the ball, more about just great football plays by the defense and a little luck for WVU.

Is anyone else tired of this boring offensive strategy?  Yes Brohm is a great QB but we have to run the ball more IMO.  And this does not mean  a couple dive plays.  Teams have to respect that we can run, and it will also help keep us out of the 3rd and longs.  Bowlen and Stipling need a chance to open up more. Bowlen I think averaged almost 4 yards a carry.  I don't know about you all but I'll take 4 yard plays all day.  Make that defense come up and stop them and then do some play action. Make them honor Brohms arm, and our backfield. Run some more counters, WR sweeps, stretch the field. We have to get the defense's to come up and stop the run.

I also think we need to do some fakes every once in a while on special teams.  We came up close multiple times on 3rd down.  We have not shown a fake all year.  Coach K you have nothing to lose, go for it.  Teams like WVU will score it's just a matter of time, so you can't keep giving them the ball back.  You have to take a little risk sometimes, especially since you have nothing to lose (5-4 going into game).

Overall:

I think we played well for a team that lost.  Even though we lost I feel we had victories within our team.  By that I mean that our defense finally felt what it was like to play as a team and make some stops.  Like I said it was not perfect (couple missed tackles, misalignments, etc) but definatly a step up from when we began.  

I honestly think we can win against USF and RU.  Last night showed me that our team will not give up and will continue to grow as a team, and that is reassuring.

I'm still giving coach K a chance.  I hope he doesn't make me look like a fool.

Go cards.

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I don't think I have ever typed that much on a board/website before. haha