Louisville offense can't find rhythm, Cards fall in Pitt 20-3
by UL is my hot hot sex on Oct 31, 2010 11:38 AM EDT
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PrintWell, at least Bilal Powell didn't get injured. Oh, right.
I read this morning that Powell de-planed in Louisville with the aid of crutches. Take that with a grain of "blog." With or without Bilal, this is a team that desperately needs to find its rhythm again after an offensive horror show in Pittsburgh this weekend.
This wasn't totally unexpected. We are who we thought we would be, right? Well, sort of. Many thought our defense would be the problem this season. Not against Pitt. 13 points allowed should've been enough (can't blame the defense for the post-Froman fumble touchdown).
Yes, Pitt played conservative in the 4th quarter but our defense has stepped it up late in games all season and looked up to the challenge on Saturday had the offense been worthy. Particularly Brandon Heath, who unleashed three quarters of frustration with a big hit on Ray Graham early in the 4th quarter. Heath had 4 1/2 tackles in the 4th quarter alone.
Is it time for a change at the quarterback position? I think we probably saw the answer on Burke's first throw. Granted, it's an unfairly snap judgment but I don't think there's an upgrade to be had at quarterback this year. All have weaknesses and the Sausage King should be allowed one bad game after putting together a pretty damn good season so far.
It's unfortunate timing that Froman's clunker happened the same game Vic is hurt and Powell gets injured. And Bellamy was apparently wearing his ghost costume a night early--where was #1 hiding? And why did our tight end, Emo-Cam Graham have twice as many tackles as receptions? Sanford's offense was painfully out-of-sync.
Helmet Stickers: Defense (Hakeem Smith gets 2)
Nightmare: Special Teams, Offense, Preparation/Coaching (Charlie Strong doesn't read this blog, right?)
On to New York next weekend, where Syracuse has their fans asking "Are we back?"--and rightfully so. Syracuse--motherfreaking Syracuse--now comfortably joins Pitt in the driver's seat to win our watered-down football conference and play in a BCS Bowl game. The Orange Bowl? Yeah, that could actually happen.
We need a Big East road win. Bad.
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Burke's INT
I know it’s tought to come in cold in a situation like that but worse than the pass to someone who was absolutely not open was why he wasn’t open. Burke never took his eyes off the intended receiver from the moment he got the snap until he threw the pass. I ran in back several times in SloMo to be sure. That pass was so telegraphed he must have stock in Western Union.
The 1860's called
They want their joke back
by Chris Redman is my hero on Oct 31, 2010 11:52 PM EDT up reply actions
The basketball team bear NKU by 17.
That has to mean something, right?
by CARD_G6 on Oct 31, 2010 6:37 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
underwhelmed
I was very underwhelmed by the basketball team today. It is early and they could improve quite a bit. I sure hope so because what I saw wasn’t pretty.
TJ had 3 inches on their biggest player and 5 or more on the rest and should have dominated. He got his first FG with a couple of minutes left.
If we can’t stop dribble penetration from a D-II team, even if it is a good one, how in the world will we stop it from BE teams.
And with 10 minutes to go our starting guards had more TO’s than points. Ouch.
There were some good things and hopefully we will see more of them and less of the bad,
It was a rough game for sure.
The rest are all winnable games. Dont have much else to say on this one.
-Dustin
Froman
I thought the game would rest on Froman’s performance, and it sure did. But honestly, we have to be objective in losses, too, and this was not as bad as first impressions made it. We played basically the entire 2nd Half without the best player on the team (by a wide margin). Froman was off the entire day, other than that first drive. And we still were within a couple of scores against the #1 team in our league on the road, if you chalk up the Froman fumble that led to a TD as one of those freak plays. The “real” score was 13-3 in terms of how both sides of the ball for Louisville played. I think it’s kind of amazing that the offense could be so inept and still we had a shot until pretty late in the game. Testament to a defense that simply does not give up, ever. I still have high hopes for the rest of the schedule and a bowl appearance. But I wait anxiously – along with everyone else – for word of BP’s injury and status. If he’s gone for the remainder, we probably go at best 6-6. If he’s back either this weekend or next at the latest, we still can muster up 7-5 and go bowling. This defense will see to that.
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