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Preparing For The Chris Crane Incident II: The Shinskieing

What Duke did Saturday was not new; rather, it was merely the latest instance of the Air That Sumbitch Out strategy being used to great effect against the NC State defense.  Before Lewis, there was Riley Skinner.  Before Skinner, Mike Teel.  And before Teel, of course, there was Chris Crane

Last season, Boston College took a cue from South Florida's game plan and decided that they too would make a point of exploiting the Pack through the air.  This seemed a great idea to me at the time, what with the way the Eagles appeared to be so openly inviting disaster.  To that point in the 2008 season, the Eagles had struggled to find any sort of passing game, even against the likes of Kent State, Central Florida, and Rhode Island.  Y'all bring that shit on, I thought.  (As it turned out, it was similar to that time in '04 when I screamed at Devin Hester to bring that shit on; his response was to teleport from one end zone to the other.)

True to their word, the Eagles fired away.  The surprising part was how incredibly successful they were.  Their impenetrable offensive line gave Crane all sorts of time and opportunities, and for the most part he did not miss.  And so: season-highs in attempts, completions, completion percentage, yards, yards per attempt, and passing efficiency were set.

Which is not to say the Eagles will throw the ball 50 times on Saturday, but just as they no doubt saw what Duke did last week, they no doubt remember what they themselves did last year. 

Their passing game has been up-and-down (to put it mildly) in conference play so far--good against bad defenses (Wake, FSU), terrible against good defenses (Clemson, VT).  Those performances against Clemson and Tech are evidence enough that if you can get Shinskie and his various backups out of their comfort zones, they will crack. I suppose we might manage to do that somehow.  But my money is on The Shinskieing.

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No way, no how!

No way we lose to BC. I’m calling it now. State bounces back this week out of pride, and our backs are against the wall. No way we lose to BC again this year. This is our year to end their streak against us. It is time, gentlemen!

You heard it here first!

by bradleyb123 on Oct 14, 2009 4:02 PM EDT reply actions  

Talent Or Coaching

We will see Saturday if our staff can make an adjustment after a game. They proved they couldn’t during the game against Duke so with a week to prepare even if a freshman starts the DB’s and LB’s should know how to cover the slants and other short passes. Then again if the coaches think their cover 2 crap works this should be the game where they have to make changes. Hopefully they talked to coaches that know how to blitz from different players and cover the empty space. TOB is not stupid so we should see a different result on defense this week. Then again I would not bet or say NCSU will win the game until we see the DC step up and prove he can coach.

by wuf238 on Oct 16, 2009 3:59 PM EDT reply actions  

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