(11-04-2024, 09:54 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(11-04-2024, 09:22 AM)Mikey Wrote: I genuinely believe the fates do not favor us. I don't know who or what brought the wrath of the football gods upon Duval, but these close losses are EXHAUSTING. False hope worse than no hope, yadda yadda.

D was getting to Hurts, they were uncharacteristically sloppy, but we give them some freebies or can't figure out how to advance a pigskin for 2 and a half quarters of football. The week before, all the offensive heroics, but the D forgets how to cover or rush and blow the game. JUST ONE GAME, man, where we do well on both sides of the ball for a game...that too much to ask?

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When a team/ref tries to give you the game and you still cannot capitalize, that's bad.

At one point it was 22-0 and we had 30 total yards of offense. To finish that game as a five point loss is unfathomable. The fates dangle that carrot in front of our noses just long enough for a sniff, and then we run a 3rd string RB on a post. YOINK! no more carrot.

If we can manage to understand the basic tenets of offensive football AT ALL anywhere in the first half, that was a winnable game. Or at least another chance to let the D collapse in the final minute. Six in one hand, bucket of turds in the other.

It becomes fathomable when you know that the line was 5 and a half...

Surely you guys saw Sirriani shaving points yesterday, right? There's no other explanation for the bone head situational football that EVERYONE is suddenly engaging in except that the bookies have control of the Analytics guys and tactics are now driven by the money line.