GoZips Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 Not even in jest ever mention firing Brookhart.JD got the Zips to where they are. Which Saturday was not very pretty. JD at least showed that he is NOT ready to move on to bigger and better programs. This one stillneeds a whole lot of fixing.Clock management was great. Too bad we were twice in need of clock management andfailed both times. This needs fixed.Who taught Luke to throw into triple coverage. Two INTs including and embarrassing,game changing TD. Thanks, Luke. Thanks QB coach, ooops, that's JD.The kicking game is a work in progress. Fortunately, STEC appears to have turned thecorner and is kicking like a senior.Pass rush? What pass rush? Was Lee Owens the honorary game coach Saturday? Didanyone see anything that resembled a blitz package? That little puke had all day topass or take off running (quite effectively I might add). The Zips made him look likea great QB (he isn't). Were we so afraid of Snead the RB that we decided to take ourchances on our flimsy reputation as a strong stop the run defense? Well, it did notwork. We looked awful.Well, we cured the holding calls. That only led to more sacks. CMU was holding onevery snap. Complaining only brought a sideline warning. When Akron startedholding and thus protecting Getsy the end result was a sideline warning against CMUfor complaining about the Zips holding. touche'JD got badly out coached. Not a little, a ton. CMU had a far better game plan andexecuted it. We paid the price.Lots of positives. First, hats off to Harvey and Arthur for great catches. They made Luke look half way decent. Walter did an outstanding job filling in for the injuredKennedy. Stec continues to improve. Great, fantastic hang time on his punts.The never quit spirit was with the Zips to the end. The onside kick was perfectlyexecuted. Unfortunately it bounced out of bounds off of a CMU player giving themthe ball. Our effort was excellent.Luke is a wuss. He took a fricking knee in the end zone when he ran in the two pointconversion. It sure wasn't to say a heartfelt, Hail Mary of thanks. He seems to havelearned to scramble to his left when in trouble. That resulted in a couple excellentbroken play recoveries. Good job there, Luke.The potential and the talent is outstanding. JD and staff just have to meld it into wins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valpo Zip Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 JD got badly out coached. Not a little, a ton. CMU had a far better game plan andexecuted it. We paid the price. I have to respectfully disagree with you here.The game plan was great, the final touch on execution is what was missing. The defense limited a very good team to 2 TDs and 1 FG, Luke gave them a 3rd easy TD. If it wasn't for that, we would have won.We kicked a horrible FG and an extra point, had we got them, we would have won.Luke overthrew wide open Tuzze in the end zone, had he got it, we would have won.JD and the game plan, put the team in the right place where they had all chances to grab the win, the players (mainly Luke) didn't.I agree that Harvey is the man ! he keeps impressing but i am not sure about Jabari, he drops way too many passes.We agree on everything else you said... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZipsCrazy Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 Luke needs to step up and play better, period. He has played poorly every game except for the end or the NC State game which we should have won handily. Unless he can turn it on here at some point soon he can kiss his chances of being drafted away.I'm sorry to call him out like that but all of this centers around the QB, and he needs to be better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Zip in Col Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 We should cut Getsy a break. By looking at the numbers the running game did not put any pressure on CMU's defense and our offense probably had to depend heavily on the pass to move the ball. Unfortunately I did not see the game except for gamecast on espn so perhaps I'm typing out of turn. But I have to assume CMU's defense was robbing Peter on the run and paying Paul on pass coverage giving Getsy even more pressure. Despite that he had nearly 400 yards in passing. To date Getsy is 14th in nation in yardage, more than much hyped Heisman trophy candidates Troy Smith (16th) and Brady Quinn (17th).Regardless, I feel much better waking up this morning a Zip than a Redhawk. Time for the road warriors to to circle the waggons and beat North Texas at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipsbandman Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 Getsy and the o-line lost this game. JD did not. The coaches cannot go out on the field and make the plays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Zip Posted September 18, 2006 Report Share Posted September 18, 2006 Getsy and the o-line lost this game. JD did not. The coaches cannot go out on the field and make the plays. We here this all the time in Cleveland. Why do we even have coaches if nobody is allowed to criticize them because they aren't on the field. Romeo Crennel gets a pass, Phil Savage, Eric Wedge, Mark Shapiro -- all because they don't play -- then what do they do if we can't point the finger at them sometime. Please understand I don't mean JD is the problem. I simply thinking some of this could have been game planning and the CMU coach winning the coaching game. Funny how people were blasting CMU's def coordinator here on Friday and nobody is saying a word now. Appartently it wasn't Tresey here either..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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