Yesterday's loss was embarrassing. There is simply no excuse for how poorly prepared the team was - and that is on the coaching staff.
We knew, going in, that we were going to be without a couple of our leaders on the o-line. Our opponent prepared for it and took advantage. We didn't. WTF? Absolutely no excuse. We should have been expecting a lot of blitzes and been using screen and swing passes to slow down the rush a bit.
On defense, we were just plain vanilla. Our third game and we don't have any blitzes in the package that we can use. WTF have they been working on? And seriously, who didn't see that QA draw coming from a mile away (other than, obviously, our coaches)?
Did LD manage to make a single decent block all day? He has no future in the pros if he can't figure out how to pick up the blitz.
Sure, there were some bullshit officiating calls (and non-calls), but the real problem was in the game prep. We got out-coached, out-hustled, and flat out out-played. KF and his staff should donate every cent that they were paid for that game because they damn sure didn't earn it.
That doesn't mean that all is lost, though. It's an embarrassing loss, but it is only 1 loss. There is a lot of season left, a fairly easy schedule, and a lot of good bowl games that we could end up in, even if our hopes for the playoffs are over.
We'll know a lot more about this team after the next couple of games. If they come out and play like they did yesterday, then we are in for a long season. This team needs to pull their collective heads out of there asses, get angry, and start dominating the field instead of getting their asses handed to them by a fucking FCS team.
