Let's chronicle our possessions
1) 26 yard FG - 10 plays 74 yards. 1st and goal from 2 yard line, two stoned runs then false start pushes to the 8 where BW throws incomplete. Don't act like BW didn't have red zone opportunities
2) TD - BW scrambles for TD(claimed as only non-designed run by CBK) 15 plays 94 yards - easy to forget Book coming in on the fourth play (3rd and 1 from the 29) and converting on a 9 yard pass to Brock Wright. FOUR third down conversions on this drive
3) Punt - 3 & Out - started with a substitution infraction on first down (wtf) followed by three run plays
4) Punt - 3 & Out - run BW for -1 then two BW incompletions
5) 33 yard FG - first play 20 yard TJ run plus 15 yard penalty followed by TJ 10 yard run - then BW 4 yard run and two incompletions to stall inside the 20. 6 Plays 49 yards (15 off of penalty)
6) 46 yard FG - 10 plays 51 yards (15 on roughing passer to bring us to the 35), stalls on 35 after two failed TJ runs but Wimbush picking up 6 yards and 3rd and 10 creates a much easier FG attempt. 1:15 left in the half allows time for Vandy to get a FG on a 72 yard drive to end the half on a positive when we really should have been able to grind out the half
2nd Half
7) punt - 7 plays 16 yards. Two first downs, Book relieves BW after BW picked up a first down on the ground. -3 three scrambling and BW comes in to throw incomplete 2nd &13 and -6 completion to Finke on 3rd down and 13. Bit of a cluster - why not leave Book in for obvious passing situations? Also love throwing the ball behind the LOS when you need 13
8) Punt - 3&Out off the 1 after the endzone pick - three runs net 9 yards
9) TD - 11 Plays 75 yards - 0 incomplete passes in this series - BW passes for 14, 32, 3 and 10 yards make up half his passing yardage for the day (61). Book in on 3rd&3 from the 5 comes short, BW gets 1 yard first down, Book floats it to Weishar for 2 yard TD - amazing how much better an offense works when you can eat up yards in the air but the inside the five QB carousel sure felt sub-optimal despite positive results.
9) Missed 32 yard FG - 7 plays 37 yards set up by Young's 50 yard KO return. All on the ground not even a pass attempt with a 5 point lead and coming off an exiting KR. Series started at 7:22 mark so could not have really expected to run the clock out. Give Vandy 3:39 to work down 5 - even if we get the FG it is a one score game.
10) Punt 3 plays -4 - Victory formation - oh wait, we were actually trying to get positive yardage here but obviously too chicken shit to even dream of passing the ball with our RBQB. 1:07 on the clock and we can't get a single first down to put it away. BW loses 10 yards on 3rd&4 to set up an epic 63 yard punt to give Vandy 12 seconds to go 90 yards.
10 running plays in a row to finish the game by the good guys. Literally half of BW's passing yardage was in drive #9 of the day after which we did not throw again. 61 yards passing going in to the 4th quarter!!!!! THAT IS PATHETIC.
Big penalties also moved us in to FG position twice where we immediately stalled out (#5 and #6 both in first half). Go for the damn jugular there and throw it down field - instead we run, run, run. After a penalty the defense is going to be less handsy - DBs less likely to PI (unless your are MSU). Take advantage! Oh wait - we don't have anyone we "trust" to put the ball in the air consistently - STFU and put a QB in the game then you nippleheads.
Frustrating to see so much potential out there be wasted playing around with a wannabe QB. Look at Bama and OSU - they could get away with RB/QBs in the past and dominate based all of their other talent but when you put a guy back there that can actually throw the ball - LOOK OUT. I feel like CBK has tried to be a poor man's Bama/OSU playing the zero TO, running QB, out athlete your opposition game. We don't have THAT much of a talent advantage to pull it off. We need to develop a real QB if we are going to reach the promised land. To that end - BW isn't going to get us there.
