by Cujo » Sun Sep 09, 2018 2:07 pm
Well, I got what I imagined, but I never imagined we’d be up with less than 5 minutes left or that we’d have 5 turnovers and still be in the game. Hodges looked brilliant at times even drawing comparisons to Aaron Rogers and Brett Farvre, but he also looked very human at times. We have to clean up the picks and do a better job of managing the game. We missed a couple of TDs and we just can’t turn the ball over in the redzone like that. Sometimes the gunslinger has to become the officer managing partner. Notwithstanding, Hodges impressed a lot of people last night.
Gooden was a beast in the ACC. We aren’t talking a guy who is good at the FCS level, he was dominating the FSU line. Our whole defensive line was in beast mode. I thought the linebackers looked good too, although it drives me crazy that our MO is to cover receivers with linebackers. It is what we do and we get exposed. They played like beasts against the run. Looking at the bright side, when Gooden got ejected (and it was the right call) it meant he was not going to get hurt the rest of the game and we’d have him in the second half against Mercer. Hate that we won’t have him for the first half, but Granger is capable and did a good job. I thought our defensive tackles played outstanding—FSU got no push against them. Re safeties, I hope Freeman is ok and we get him back (by the way, his hit on the FSU return man was sick—i mean when I saw that leg flopping as the player rolled to a stop I almost got sick).
We have found a place kicker! I’m going to have to learn his name, but dude is an answer to a decade or more long prayer.
Kelvin McKnight was the best player on the field. FSU couldn’t defend him. We were a couple of throws on the money away from McKnight having 4 TDs.
20 is running hard and looked good, but two fumbles in two games . . . that has to stop.
I assume Hodges punting was a strategy to avoid FSU setting up a punt return. Right? I trust we have a punter and we do not plan to rely on Hodges for that in FCS games. Anyway, I thought it was a brilliant strategy and he did a really good job.
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