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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 13, 2021 18:29:09 GMT -5
'Pards win. First victory over Colgate in five or six years.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Mar 13, 2021 18:32:38 GMT -5
I guess the vaunted Colgate rushing attack is no more under Dan Hunt.
27 rushes for 55 yards today.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Mar 13, 2021 19:46:07 GMT -5
I think the defense will even get better. Offense needs to get the ball NORTH and SOUTH. To much East and West. Don't be afraid to pound the rock! Get ahead of the chains. Qb needs to be way better or I would make a change. Except at Fitton Field, where the offense needs to get the ball East and West. 😅 Unlike a lot of stadiums, Fitton’s orientation due to topography is East and West, but I fully understand your point and agree. Frustrating watching many of the plays today. Maybe they did not want to expose many of the wrinkles of the new offense during the first game. Next week we may need to show more elaboration and creativity to win. With a stout defense, HC can ride on the leg of Derek.
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Post by rgs318 on Mar 13, 2021 19:48:50 GMT -5
I remember Colgate always having a power RB who would get them yards almost at will. I didn't see him there today.
I thought HC defense was good today and it will be getting better. The passing game is (to say the least) erratic. We have good receivers but they have to have a chance of getting to the ball and many times today they did not. I am sure Fordham will be ready for receivers running crossing routes over the middle about 10 yards downfield.
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 13, 2021 20:14:46 GMT -5
Interesting that the Freshman QB got in briefly ahead of the veteran reserve QBs.
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Post by lehighowl on Mar 13, 2021 20:18:14 GMT -5
I remember Colgate always having a power RB who would get them yards all at will. I didn't see him there today. I thought HC defense was good today and it will be getting better. The passing game is (to say the least) erratic. We have good receivers but they have to have a chance of getting to the ball and many times today they did not. I am sure Fordham will be ready for receivers running across the middle about 10 yards downfield. Hunt is turning into a bit of an enigma at Colgate imo. Way too much feast or famine. "Mr. Steady" Dick Biddle he is not. They lost two OL early which obviously was a factor. Still, their defense did not come to play in the first half given the circumstances. I expected WAY more from the Raiders vs a Lafayette team/program that hasn't had a winning record since 2009. Holy Cross is very fortunate to have a coach like Chesney. He's the best coach in the league imo and I don't think it's close. The guys simply knows how to accomplish the #1 priority, win games. He's this eras Clawson, Higgins, Moorhead imo. Cecchini might be pretty good too but the ceiling at Bucknell is only so high imo. Conlin is 6-17 in his first two years at Fordham. The Rams have legit talent.... Given the circumstances everything needs to be taken with context obviously. With that said, what we see here in the spring will matter significantly when it comes to each program's trajectory moving forward.
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Post by efg72 on Mar 13, 2021 22:15:40 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2021 22:32:40 GMT -5
Serious question, has a QB ever been the main highlight in a game summary for throwing for under 100 yards? The leading passer for Lehigh threw for 56 yards?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2021 22:36:03 GMT -5
Announcers at the Lafayette-Colgate game are NOT at the stadium. Calling the game from remote site. Lafayette gets another TD, 21-10, with 6:44 to go. How brave. haha
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Post by HC92 on Mar 14, 2021 5:01:03 GMT -5
I saw that only Division games matter for determining who represents the North and the South in the PL Championship so yesterday’s Colgate loss doesn’t help us. If anything, it could hurt us if Laf winds up winning the South Division as all games count for purposes of deciding who hosts the title game.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 14, 2021 6:29:25 GMT -5
Interesting that the Freshman QB got in briefly ahead of the veteran reserve QBs. But it was only for one play, and a designed run.
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Post by rgs318 on Mar 14, 2021 7:07:45 GMT -5
Still, getting in and running a play designed for him in particular is a plus I would think.
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 14, 2021 9:44:39 GMT -5
Still, getting in and running a play designed for him in particular is a plus I would think. John Madden used to say if you have two quarterbacks you have none. But because CD is a second year starter and his performance level is established, I don't see a big downside to giving the other QBs a shot when game situations favor their individual strengths or CD is struggling. CD didn't light up the stat sheet but it's a meritocracy and he must be the best overall performer in practice because he has been the starter through two different Offensive Coordinators.
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Post by rgs318 on Mar 14, 2021 10:05:43 GMT -5
Once you have the support off Coach Chesney, he sticks with you...even after one poor start. I would not have expected him to pull CD once HC took the lead. It will be interesting to see if he waits to pick this week's starting QB based on this week's workouts. I can't remember ever seeing CD throw so poorly with that many overthrows and underthrows in one game.
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Post by hc6774 on Mar 14, 2021 10:06:30 GMT -5
Still, getting in and running a play designed for him in particular is a plus I would think. John Madden used to say if you have two quarterbacks you have none. But because CD is a second year starter and his performance level is established, I don't see a big downside to giving the other QBs a shot when game situations favor their individual strengths or CD is struggling. CD didn't light up the stat sheet but it's a meritocracy and he must be the best overall performer in practice because he has been the starter through two different Offensive Coordinators. Coach's post game description of the play calling with out the OC explains some of the erratic/no tempo offense
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Post by rgs318 on Mar 14, 2021 10:08:18 GMT -5
Where can one see the coach's post-game comments?
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Post by Ignutz on Mar 14, 2021 10:23:51 GMT -5
I agree with an earlier comment by Crucis - While I’m sure that the coaches and players would like every play to be successful, I’d wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of yesterday’s game plan was deliberately plain vanilla. The staff likely knew that we probably wouldn’t need our full arsenal to beat LU, so they looked at the game as an opportunity to try some stuff, and keep other options in the back pocket for when those options might truly be needed.
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Post by timholycross on Mar 14, 2021 10:39:42 GMT -5
Through 3 quarters, the total was 22 pass, 23 run. And some of the "runs" were sacks. That's about right.
Q4, was 13-2 rushing; certainly influenced by the score and, also, that a lot of the runs were successful. Not great, mind you, but good enough to move the chains and keep the clock running.
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Post by hc80 on Mar 14, 2021 10:40:46 GMT -5
Maybe it was vanilla on purpose... but QB play was certainly lacking. Passes were overthrown, then under thrown. While There were a few on target - hard to believe that we don’t have a more accurate passer on the roster.
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Post by HC13 on Mar 14, 2021 10:50:51 GMT -5
Where can one see the coach's post-game comments?
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Post by hc2020 on Mar 14, 2021 11:05:00 GMT -5
This was posted by the NE Football Journal:
“The Crusaders were also short handed from a coaching standpoint as offensive coordinator Justin Roper could not attend the game. Instead, pass game coordinator and wide receivers coach Todd Gilchrist and run game coordinator and offensive line coach Chris Smith called the plays. Chesney praised the two coaches for stepping up on short notice.”
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 14, 2021 11:12:24 GMT -5
Yesterday, there were plain vanilla plays with miscues on handoffs between a seasoned QB and and a seasoned RB, --it was if this was the first week of practice. The team was back on campus January 18th, nearly eight weeks ago.
CD was chosen a team captain by the team, so that counts for something. But too many throws became an adventure; two of his completions were scooped off the turf by an athletic receiver. Others sailed high, as if his mechanics weren't right. Whatever happened to muscle memory (e.g., JG sinking 35 threes in a row at a shootaround on the Buckeye's court)? I can't remember whether I made this comment about him last year, or another QB, but he tended to stare down a receiver. Very little progression that I saw.
At the annual State of the Union, one member of the Cabinet is always absent; to take over the reins of government if a calamity were to occur during the President's address. Does the absent OC represent a similar COVID-era protocol; i.e., if the coaches had to go into isolation / quarantine, the OC takes over?
An alternative explanation is that the OC was in quarantine. If he had been infected, then he goes into isolation, and as a Tier One case, news of that could not be hidden. I think there were situations in both men's and women's hockey this season where it seems a coach was probably in quarantine.
Absence explained by BC.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Mar 14, 2021 13:44:16 GMT -5
Did poor snaps (too high?) contribute to the miscues on handoffs?
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 14, 2021 14:49:50 GMT -5
Did poor snaps (too high?) contribute to the miscues on handoffs? Went to the replay. On the first miscue, snap went to CD's upper chest, he was hunched over, began to straighten up and was raising the ball up to his face, when the running back comes by and knocks the ball out of his hands. HC recovered for an eight yard loss. It appeared to be either a mis-timed fake handoff, or the running back was simply crossing in front of CD on a route, but the play was a passing play.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Mar 14, 2021 14:55:20 GMT -5
I saw that only Division games matter for determining who represents the North and the South in the PL Championship so yesterday’s Colgate loss doesn’t help us. If anything, it could hurt us if Laf winds up winning the South Division as all games count for purposes of deciding who hosts the title game. PL format is absolutely ridiculous. It's a six-team league. How hard would it be to just play a 5-game round robin schedule? And the winner of the conference....well...wins the conference. Maybe I'm not thinking of the possibility of cancelled games...
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