Just getting home. Angry. I was going to wait to write this until tomorrow when I calmed down and had a chance to watch the game back on record but found out Spectrum went out for the first two hours of the game so I only have the ass end of the game recorded. Of course watching the game in a stadium with no replays and no cell phone connectivity makes it really hard to do an accurate write up especially if you cannot watch the game back so everything below is what is saw from my seats outside of the 30 minute dippin dots run so take it with a grain of salt. I may have missed some detail but we certainly didn’t pass the eye test tonight…

UCF SLOW: Lots to go around tonight…

• Gus (Play Calling): I love me some Gus but I thought he was off tonight on the play calling. We got into an incredibly shitty rut of like 8 out of 9 drives ending in punts. We couldn’t do anything. I get there is blame to go around but play calling is a big part of it. How the hell does Richardson only touch the ball 6 times!!!!!!!!!!!! 4 rushes and 2 catches for a total of 70 yards. He averaged 11+ yards a touch and we only get it in his hands 6 times? One of the other touches that didn’t get counted went for like 60 yards and a TD. This is becoming a habit for Gus. I don’t get it. Get our athletes in space, get some slants or quick hits going, make them respect the pass. They got 15 guys in the box.
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• Offensive Line: They were blitzing more guys then we had to block so a lot of the pressure wasn't on the line but even with that said i thought we struggled with the Dline pre snap movement, couldn’t pick up all the stunts, blitz pick ups were missed. Also didn’t get that much push on any of the running plays. It is hard to judge them with out having the game to watch back plus the stacking the box and bringing so many blitzers but they still didn't pass the eye test to me, could have done better
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• Wide Receivers: Clearly the Okeefe injury hurt and that was on top of Hudson being out but the WR need to make some plays and help out their QB. Too many drops, two really bad ones on that last drive. I get that was a tough catch at the end there with Towsend but you got both hands on the ball. Baker a bit earlier then that. Other times throughout the game we almost made an incredible play but just didn’t.
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• Punter: I was livid every time we punted. It wasn’t like we punted once or twice in the game, we punted 8 times. Only 1 was inside the 20 (shorter range punt) the rest were ones we punted from deep in our territory and desperately needed to flip the field and our punter didn’t flip the field once. Avg 38 yards a punt on 8 punts. They also were low, shit for hang time. Awful. This absolutely impacted the offensive starting field position which didn’t help at all.
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• Kicker: Obarski missed another very makeable fg. No reason to miss that one, would have put us up by two scores and salvaged that drive. Would have helped put more pressure on Louisville and most importantly would have put us in a position where we could have tied the game with a FG at the end vs. having to score a TD. Obarski isn’t some freshman anymore. He is a veteran on this team. He must kick like a God in practice because if I was coaching him at this point someone else would be kicking those FG
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• Penalties: I know UL had a bunch of penalties too but it just seemed like we were stuck in this pattern where we would get the ball and basically go backwards for a quick 3 and out and then we would kick a worthless punt failing to flip the field and then in short order commit some 15 yard penalty that put UL inside our 40 to start every drive. We had the roughing the passer, unsportsmanlike conduct, multiple holding calls, literally TWO touchdowns called back and we ended up with 0 points on both of those drives. Our penalties were just more impactful
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• JRP: I do NOT blame JRP for the loss. We still should have won this game but obviously he had a tough game. We all knew he was going to struggle picking up the hot reads and likely wasn’t going to Payton Manning it down the field but he didn’t get much help to complement his game from any of the bullets noted above. The play calling, the offensive line play, the injuries, the special teams shit show, the lack of anyone other then Jrich (the man that isnt allowed to touch the ball) making a big time play is hard to overcome at this stage of JRP’s development. Anyone calling for Keene I personally do NOT think if every other part of the team played as poorly as they did tonight that we would have won with Keene either.
• Stadium In Game Experience (Replay & Connectivity): Can someone tell me why our in-game fan experience for replay is so horrible? Why can we not get a replay on the jumbo tron? Every now and then there is one but every play outside of a no huddle really should be on the jumbo tron. Very frustrating. Also, not sure how they can fix the cell phone connection issue but I wish we would try. It is completely lights out for me when I am in there. Can’t communicate, cant follow plays or stats or anything. Really makes writing these reports difficult.
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• Dipping Dots: I got my two boys with me, no wife, they start whining for dippin dots. No big deal, I plan a good time to run down, maybe I should miss one or two plays. NOOOOO the vendor running the dippin dots has to share the credit card machine with the pizza vendor next door. It takes them 30 minutes to fill 5 dippin dots orders, I miss what felt like 20 plays including the fumble play. The vendor does NOT allow cash but has one working cc machine shared between two booths with two separate lines? Something aint right there.

UCF Fast:

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• Defense: Defense played a solid game, certainly good enough for us to win that game. Outside of the first drive, which was just a head scratcher, the defense really shut Louisville down. If you break it down they had that first drive of the game and that damn 47yard QB run. That was literally it. They had tons of other chances, great field position and they got nothing. The defense kept us in the game.
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• Montalvo: The play he had on that 3rd and 1 early in the game (2nd Louisville drive), he collapsed the entire line himself and stopped them short on what seemed like it was going to be an easy pick up and continued drive. That play was huge at the time and he had a bunch more solid plays. He may have played the best game of his career. Good revenge for him because the last UL game last year they put him out of position and he didn’t look good so great to see him rebound.

Conclusion: Losing this game feels like we just let out a long hot fart that turned into shit mid way and our pants are now ****ed. It was UL which we wanted revenge on, it was a home game killing our home winning %, it was an early season momentum game, it was a team that just got their asses killed by Syracuse on the road, our defense played really solid, asdl;jasfl;jasdfl;kajsdfl;jasdfl;kasdf just so damn disappointing. Asljadsl;jasd;ljasdfl;asdl;jasd faaaack. At least we have the AAC. I truly think with JRP’s development and all the new faces on the team we do have a chance to get significantly better as the season goes on, I was just hoping we could avoid losing games like this until we could find our footing and really take off. I will hold out hope to see that improvement. At least I can book that New Years Montreal trip now. Go Knights.

Because there is nothing to be impressed about. They forgot the UCF/Penn State game.

There's a media availability coming up at 12 noon. Some things are obvious to be asked, but what do you got?

Gerry Bohanon and Timmy McClaim have thrown for the same number of TD’s so far this season. Coincidence?

Enjoyed watching our old rival take down Notre Dame! Way to go Herd!

Did your people not study his time at Auburn?

Pathetic

We are not :
Florida,
Notre Dame ,
Nebraska, or
Texas A&M ! 😆

My vote is oline. They were supposed to be a strength and have been the exact opposite

Football. Is. Back.

Good luck to everyone, may the best man win-- last chance for you to take free money on Nebraska +7.5; thank me later.

LET'S WORK.

LOL

Now that everyone had about 18 hours to digest what we witnessed last night, gonna take this in another direction. SPECIAL TEAMS - the obvious is the missed FG's and penalties. Can live somewhat with the penalties as that is someone just tying to make a block and effort on special teams is half the battle. Think its time to give Boomer a shot.

But what is up with Osteen. When we trade 3 and outs we lose 10 - 20 yards of field position every time. Do we have another Punter? Plus he takes forever to get off the punt. Guaranteed we will get at least one more punt blocked this season.

1. Bowser‘s lack of foot speed ensures he will not be an NFL RB. That said, he AND
Mark Antony Richards can be effective short yardage and red zone thumpers for us.
Otherwise, JR and RJ Harvey should be our featured backs and on the field for the
majority of snaps.

2. If Gus continues to trot out Osteen and Obarski to handle our kicking, he is either
signaling acceptance of mediocrity or acknowledging a failure to recruit to meet
the need.

3. So disappointing to see teams like Marshall and App State go on the road and beat Norte Dame
and Texas A &M while we wet the bed at home against a mediocre Louisville. Hey, maybe we
are mediocre, guess we’ll see in the weeks ahead.

4. Hey coach Lindsey, I don’t care if Holler has a better grasp of the offense right now. We need
our most athletic playmakers on the field, that means Kemore Gamble. It’s the coaches job
to get them prepared, so get him up to speed AND ON THE FIELD.

5. Finally boys and girls, watching some of our future Big XII brethren playing this weekend,
it is very evident that we do not have BIG caliber O Line. Maybe good enough for AAC
level but Gus better be recruiting some big nasties for the step up in competition.

Probably better than the American now.

they're letting so much of these bums off the hook because they have history tradition money and recruits. that you hand them automatic Ws over no name poor startup programs because theres "no way they could possibly beat these guys so the games dont even need to be played.

Its a cop out and would never result in a true playoffs because look at how fraudulent these guys are.

Nm

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Play 1 - KZ forces the pass to Akins, who catches it. I miss TE's doing that, it was cool.
Play 2 - Watch Jordan Franks seal the DE, Trequan Smith slow his route to get under the somewhat under thrown ball
Play 3 - KZ runs up the middle, great hole. Watch Smith catch up to KZ and block down field
Play 4 - Akins catches the ball. Our TE's used to do that.
Play 5 - KZ never takes his eyes off Snelson, who's wide open on queue and scores
Play 6 - KZ being KZ with a perfectly thrown ball to Smith, who catches it in stride. Pure QB talent that I'm not sure we have here in 2022. Akins wasn't needed, but was there ready to block, WR downfield blocking in 2017 was simply insane.
Play 7 - KZ throws a pass to Colubiale in double coverage, who goes up and gets it. We drop these now.
Play 8 - KZ to Smith, but watch McGowan pick up the rusher to give him time.
Play 9 - KZ run, no real comment here
Play 10 - KZ to Snelson in tight coverage, Snelson makes an amazing catch. McCrae saves KZ from getting absolutely DESTROYED by the blitz.
Play 11 - KZ to Gabe Davis, beautiful pass. KZ definitely made his read here.
Play 12 - KZ to Smith, KZ never once looked away from Smith here. Snelson downfield blocking as always.
Play 13/14 - KZ doing KZ magic.
Play 15 - KZ to Snelson, I don't see KZ look anywhere else after scrambling. Snelson stretches out to get this ball, easily considered overthrown.
Play 16 - KZ to Snelson, I don't see a read here. Just a elite WR and perfectly thrown ball.

I stopped at 4:03 as there was no need to torture myself further after last night.

Watching the time KZ has, the blocks picked up by RB's, the downfield blocking by WR's, the elite catches...does anyone think a QB change will really get the current team where they need to be? KZ is a few time in a lifetime QB, but sometimes I think we forget just what he was working with on that team.

What say you?

Mrs. Z is always thinking of me.
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T-Will said Lee Hunter and Ja’Cari Henderson will see their first action this year after missing the game last week.

UCF wins this one 31-17.

I couldn’t find the cardinal emoji, so I figured the chicken would do.

Formal application and acceptance one year ago today.