Jackal, the problem is not this game. What you state above is great! Though to be fully honest you would need to include our inability to rush vs the worst FCS team (i’ll be liberal - bottom 15 FCS at best). WITHOUT THEIR STUD QB. which definitely could affect score or at least some first downs for them. Surprised that hasn’t been mentioned more. This is a PFL team without their starting QB.The Jackal wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 8:15 pmWhat if I told you Furman would score on 5 of their first 8 drives, including four touchdowns? Oh, what if I also told you that during those first 8 drives, the other team wouldn't score at all?
And we rushed for 99 yards on 29 carries vs a PFL team without their starting QB (to at least eat clock and get a few more first downs for them) through roughly three quarters. . Then Gavin Hall etc added 72 more or so. Which is great! Hope he’s a stud !! But 29 carries for 99 yards through about 3 Quarters vs PFL is hard for me to swallow as a Furman fan bred on RUN RUN RUN ( play tough !) and then hit the play action. I would have thought we could get a total of 250 rushing minimum vs a Stetson. Even with pass to set up the run I think we need more rushing ability at some time to help Hedden. A QBs best friend is the good run game. As we hit the meat of our SoCon we could really use 150 -200 a game on the ground to deflect pressure from Hedden
Anyway, What’s disturbing To me - and others who send PMs but also a few have posted publicly on occasion - is you tend to “have your cake and eat it too”. Please listen. I’m not trying to anger you. But I distinctly recall you posting about how close we were in late Q3 or something to App State when people were so mad that App completed 26 or 28 or however many consecutive passes or whatever ridiculous.. but BEAT US. And many posts like this. IE you were saying we were doing well despite losing in the end. Ok. I get that take. Especially vs an FBS. But then in other posts - should it help us look better - you flip and state only the final score matters. When we don’t play well but win. Well then the App State and similar posts lose credibility. Because if only final score matters then how we played doesn’t matter.
Anyway. I generally REALLY like your posts. And we agree more than you may think. I posted some the other day where just the DAY BEFORE or so I literally had agreed with you. You know more than me - Love the analysis. I’m just very literal and hard to take some of the above.
No worries. Whatever. GoFurman. These next 2 or 3 games will be very telling. Regardless even then just keep improving. Beat rivals. Please beat Citadel and or Wofford. Winning season would be great as young as we are
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