Richardson Sick

[Karsten21]

[QUOTE=CyRp2013;3235132]

Our seats were in row 2 right behind the bench. I did not know he had the flu at the time, but Sam R was the only player that put on a coat when he was not on the field. He looked miserably cold on the sidelines which makes sense now that we know he had the flu.

On the same note I was amazed how cold all our players looked on the sidelines. They went through two cases of handwarmers the first half.[G

They may have gone through the handwarmers because those gloves make your hands sweat profusely and when they went to the sidelines that sweat was probably freezing inside their gloves.

unfortunately they weren't sweating from catching so many balls, maybe Brun was but not anyone else.

[DirtyDanchez]

We don't really have a indoor practice facility, we have a old gym that has had turf put down on the basketball court, its like 30 yards long, its super ghetto.

[bos]

We don't really have a indoor practice facility, we have a old gym that has had turf put down on the basketball court, its like 30 yards long, its super ghetto.

That sounds amazing.

[Sammy11]

Excuses? Please. You try doing something all day with the flu other than being curled up in bed under the covers.


No question changes need to be made, but holy crap, reasonable explanations are not excuses

I agree but then it falls to Rhoads to get him out of there if he's not 100%. Jantz or Barnett at 100% are probably better than SR at 60%.

[CycloneErik]

I agree but then it falls to Rhoads to get him out of there if he's not 100%. Jantz or Barnett at 100% are probably better than SR at 60%.

Well, we saw Steele do what Steele does. That amazing turnover machine struck quickly and often.

[bos]

Well, we saw Steele do what Steele does. That amazing turnover machine struck quickly and often.

Will miss his name but not his game.

[CycloneErik]

Will miss his name but not his game.

He would have turned into such a cool story if he'd worked out.
Cool name, cool story, just couldn't put it all together.

[Rhoadhoused]

Well, we saw Steele do what Steele does. That amazing turnover machine struck quickly and often.

I've seen this opinion a lot on here, but I think Steele was screwed from this start in this game. Lots of pressure to score and not a ton of time. I like SR more than Steele at equal strength but I think putting the healthy player in was a good call.

[Wesley]

We don't really have a indoor practice facility, we have a old gym that has had turf put down on the basketball court, its like 30 yards long, its super ghetto.

So, if you did not expect any big plays, you only practice 30 yards?

[Wesley]

He would have turned into such a cool story if he'd worked out.
Cool name, cool story, just couldn't put it all together.

Even Superman was tripped up by kryptonite.

[clonedude]

Here's what really ticks me off about Sam Richardson being sick for the game. If your QB is sick, doesn't that make you want to run the ball even more?

Here's what the pre-game meetings should have sounded like... "Ok guys... Sam is sick. He's going to give it a shot though. So here's what we're going to do.... WE ARE GOING TO RUN IT RIGHT DOWN THEIR MOTHER F***ING THROATS!!!!".

But yet, we get it absolutely pounded on us to the tune of 300+ yds rushing to our 98 yds. I just still don't get it, and probably never will? Why doesn't a Big 12 team just come out and impose it's will on the ground against a Conference USA school with 4,000 students? ESPECIALLY knowing your QB is sick.

[Cyclophile1]

Here's what really ticks me off about Sam Richardson being sick for the game. If your QB is sick, doesn't that make you want to run the ball even more?

Here's what the pre-game meetings should have sounded like... "Ok guys... Sam is sick. He's going to give it a shot though. So here's what we're going to do.... WE ARE GOING TO RUN IT RIGHT DOWN THEIR MOTHER F***ING THROATS!!!!".

But yet, we get it absolutely pounded on us to the tune of 300+ yds rushing to our 98 yds. I just still don't get it, and probably never will? Why doesn't a Big 12 team just come out and impose it's will on the ground against a Conference USA school with 4,000 students? ESPECIALLY knowing your QB is sick.

We don't have road graders on the OL really at all at this point. This was much more of a finesse, pass protection group from what I can tell and coached to that strength. It's why you see using doing more outside zone than a lot of other teams. Ostensibly, that should mean that we're better in space and moving the pocket but it doesn't work when we can't make them pay with a hot read for blitzing a LB or flooding a zone. We couldn't seem to handle a straight pass rush versus a 4-3 much less when we had a LB walk-up blitz or an outside blitz from a S or CB. The better teams have been able to just exploit this in a nearly unprecedented manner. Our inability to pick these up with any consistency is just stupefying to me.

[clonedude]

We don't have road graders on the OL really at all at this point. This was much more of a finesse, pass protection group from what I can tell and coached to that strength. It's why you see using doing more outside zone than a lot of other teams. Ostensibly, that should mean that we're better in space and moving the pocket but it doesn't work when we can't make them pay with a hot read for blitzing a LB or flooding a zone. We couldn't seem to handle a straight pass rush versus a 4-3 much less when we had a LB walk-up blitz or an outside blitz from a S or CB. The better teams have been able to just exploit this in a nearly unprecedented manner. Our inability to pick these up with any consistency is just stupefying to me.

Exactly my point. We are a soft, finesse, wimpy football team.... period. And it showed most of the year and definately in the bowl game. We were physically manhandled by Tulsa... and it wasn't even close. They looked bigger and stronger, and they were... on both sides of the ball. Pathetic.

[swarthmoreCY]

We always get mad noone gives us credit by doing research, but we seldom do any of our own.

How does that "research" change anything? All C-USA? BFD

[Cycsk]

So, if you did not expect any big plays, you only practice 30 yards?

Apparently, they have been practicing their running game.