Day after thoughts. The sky is not falling, but it kills knowing we lost a heart breaker to a team we were clearly better than and should have beat by 2 scores or more. This also makes Penn State a must win...
I didn't watch a replay so some of my comments could be off, but here were some of my takeaways:
Lavino 23-29, 200, 1/1. It was his FIRST career start. Almost 80% completion. I saw he made 3 bonehead plays. The "fumble" which killed a 50+ yard drive as we were about to head in for points. The INT in the first play of 2nd quarter (this only led to 3 points though), and the pass he threw to absolutely no one but wash state guys towards the end of the end zone, which was 1 foot away from being an INT (he apparently was throwing that away - came a foot away from losing the points there). We kicked the field goal next play..
Laviano did some good things. He's very elusive and can pick up yards and scramble. He also seems to throw pretty well rolling out. He also seems to not get happy feet and stays composed. Again, first career start, home, nail biter, lot of pressure. He didn't cave or lose us the game.
The only other issue I see is I don't see him being a threat to stretch the field. I don't recall 1 deep ball thrown. He also seems to float a lot of passes, leaving our WRs in bad spots to make catches and either take hits or limited YAC.
We all know Rettig has the bigger arm, so there is obviously stuff the staff sees and knows as to why they think Laviano is clearly the #1.
What killed us? The 3 drives in the 4th. The Laviano "fumble" when we were at the Wash St 23 --- that's 7 points. The holding call negating the TD, which ultimately lead to Hicks fumble --- that's 7 points. The TD negated by Goodwin's PI that ultimately led to us punting --- that's 7 points. There's a 21 point swing folks....
All that aside, WE STILL should've iced the game on Jacob's near (should've gotten) pick before they drove to score.
Aside from that, we all know the D was atrocious. I guess the no blitzing was by design. Seemingly didn't work very well. I don't know about other folks, but watching them gash us up and down the field, I wish we would've taken more chances blitzing. If we gave up some big plays, so be it. We were virtually doing that anyway playing the 2013 Dave Cohen defensive scheme...
I didn't watch a replay so some of my comments could be off, but here were some of my takeaways:
Lavino 23-29, 200, 1/1. It was his FIRST career start. Almost 80% completion. I saw he made 3 bonehead plays. The "fumble" which killed a 50+ yard drive as we were about to head in for points. The INT in the first play of 2nd quarter (this only led to 3 points though), and the pass he threw to absolutely no one but wash state guys towards the end of the end zone, which was 1 foot away from being an INT (he apparently was throwing that away - came a foot away from losing the points there). We kicked the field goal next play..
Laviano did some good things. He's very elusive and can pick up yards and scramble. He also seems to throw pretty well rolling out. He also seems to not get happy feet and stays composed. Again, first career start, home, nail biter, lot of pressure. He didn't cave or lose us the game.
The only other issue I see is I don't see him being a threat to stretch the field. I don't recall 1 deep ball thrown. He also seems to float a lot of passes, leaving our WRs in bad spots to make catches and either take hits or limited YAC.
We all know Rettig has the bigger arm, so there is obviously stuff the staff sees and knows as to why they think Laviano is clearly the #1.
What killed us? The 3 drives in the 4th. The Laviano "fumble" when we were at the Wash St 23 --- that's 7 points. The holding call negating the TD, which ultimately lead to Hicks fumble --- that's 7 points. The TD negated by Goodwin's PI that ultimately led to us punting --- that's 7 points. There's a 21 point swing folks....
All that aside, WE STILL should've iced the game on Jacob's near (should've gotten) pick before they drove to score.
Aside from that, we all know the D was atrocious. I guess the no blitzing was by design. Seemingly didn't work very well. I don't know about other folks, but watching them gash us up and down the field, I wish we would've taken more chances blitzing. If we gave up some big plays, so be it. We were virtually doing that anyway playing the 2013 Dave Cohen defensive scheme...
