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Some Bowl Thoughts

Pils86

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Shouldn't they have reviewed KSU's last (I think) first down, when the qb dived forward? It was close and a critical juncture. I at least expected the broadcast to show some different angles of the play. I thought they would review to see if any part of his body touched earlier. The announcer mentioned one judge had it marked backed further.

The first half I was thrilled with lots of 4 WR sets as I always feel offenses should stretch the field. We scored a lot. Don't remember many of those formations this year. 2nd half we seemed to drop to 3 WR or less, not sure why, keep doing what was successful until the other team adjusts. Maybe part of going more conservative which backfired.

On the 4th down pass that was short, they rushed 6 or 7 and there were three defenders in the vicinity of the ball, so there must have been WR's wide open. I guess the qb did the mechanical dump off when blitzed and they were ready for it, probably was a TD for the taking if the field is scanned more quickly.

qb plays was rough. I was surprised as it had been very good to end the season. 43.8% completion rate hurts. Some here mentioning drops but my recollection is more inaccurate passes or tight coverage. I also thought were some opportunities to run that were missed. It was a mismatch on qb runs helping them vs us.

Liked throwing to Dremel on 4th down, sure handed and precise routes, he will always catch it if it is near. What did we leave on the table this year not allowing him to run punts back?

Raymond and Benjamin started season not on two deep but both played well and are legit, if they stay and the transfer comes we will be deep at rb.

Patel has been great, i thought we would give him an opportunity to tie it up but no dice. He had me worried during the year with makes that looked shakey but seems more solid now. Be nice if he is goof all next year, one less thing to worry about.
 
Saw something last night that I don’t recall seeing all season. When KSU was 3rd Down long ( 7 or 8 yards etc.) Greg pulled off all the DL and had the LB’s on the line of scrimmage and extra D Backs in. Assume for additional speed. Didn’t seem to work however.
 
The biggest thing to me is how the offense was so badly shut down in the 2nd half after being a scoring machine in the 1st half. If RU could have at least sustained drives Kansas St wouldn't have enough time to get 20 points, or how ever many points they got late.
 
The biggest thing to me is how the offense was so badly shut down in the 2nd half after being a scoring machine in the 1st half. If RU could have at least sustained drives Kansas St wouldn't have enough time to get 20 points, or how ever many points they got late.
Got very predictable. Ran so many times on first down KSU just started overplaying the run on that down and RU had 3 or 4 straight drives that began with a stuffed run, followed by 2nd and 10 or worse.
 
The biggest thing to me is how the offense was so badly shut down in the 2nd half after being a scoring machine in the 1st half. If RU could have at least sustained drives Kansas St wouldn't have enough time to get 20 points, or how ever many points they got late.

KSU was known for good pass rush/sacks.
They got more active with the rush and RU OL was flummoxed with all the action - they were lost..
Then AK went into frantic mode
 
Feels like KST coaches made no adjustments the whole game. Schiano and co just adjusted ourselves right out of it. We passed all over the field on their terrible zone coverage in H1, and then decided to run up the middle every single first down in the second half so KSU just blitzed every 1st down. Epic collapse of coaching, similar to UCLA, Virginia Tech, Washington, and Illinois games.
 
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I think their QB made it on that 4th but there were two possible issues

1) a KSU player PULLED HIM.. keeping him up... iirc pulling a player is illegal but pushing is no longer prohibited. Pulling him is a 5-yard penalty.

2) we all focussed on his lunge.. which looked kinda clean with the assist.. but he hand non-ball hand did keep him off the gound.. did his wrist hit? We could see the elbow did not.. but the wrist is down also.
 
The last eight drives before our final possession, we ran on 1st down and passed on 2nd down. AK was sacked on 3 of those 2nd downs and threw an INT on another 2nd down.

KSU quickly got to AK on the last 4th down. In contrast, we didn't get to the Illinois QB when we blitzed and they scored the go ahead TD on 4th down.
 
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