09-06-2014, 04:42 PM
I appreciate the optimism but talking about a NCG run is absurd. There was a lot more to dislike about this game than like. We put up 10 points. We moved the ball well, true, but it was against a depleted SC defense with pretty much zero depth, and despite losing one of their team captain LBs in the 3rd quarter, we actually got worse as the game went on. Hogan did not show me much in the way of growth in this game- he made some good throws downfield but missed a lot as well, and was inaccurate and slow on a lot of short and medium throws, which resulted in either incompletions, or decreasing the receivers ability to get YAC. The playcalling was all over the place, and at the end of the game just atrocious. And the number of mental errors was truly exceptional. 9 players on the field for a punt? Illegal formations out of timeouts? Maybe Les Miles can get away with that sort of stuff with the corruption of SEC refs and the fact that his players are pretty much all genetic freaks, but we can't.
Our defensive performance was heartening overall, but we were pretty soft against the run.
Our defensive performance was heartening overall, but we were pretty soft against the run.