The Book: 2007 Football

[CajunConnection]

Agree with all of your assessments especially the point of 3rd and long and giving it up too often. Reminded me of last year.

Overall game was very competitive. A break here or there and we could have got a W.

On to the Ohio Bobcats.

Ps- Wonder what the Michigan Boards are discussing this am.

CC

[MissingMandy]

_ Agree with all of your assessments especially the point of 3rd and long and giving it up too often. Reminded me of last year.

Overall game was very competitive. A break here or there and we could have got a W.

On to the Ohio Bobcats.

Ps- Wonder what the Michigan Boards are discussing this am.

CC _

I hope they are discussing how they will come back and squash the duckys next week.

[Just1More]

Anyone who comments on precisely what happened would be correct. As to an evaluation... for the first game of the season, away, at an SEC opponent... every single aspect of our performance was extremely good. I was overwhelmingly pleased. Overwhelmingly pleased. Any doubt about new coaches, new starting QB, only having a running game, so on and so forth, were completely dispelled. We even executed the short sure pass routes correctly and successfully. You do not make an assessment of a downfield passing game based on your first game, against an SEC defense, away, and with a QB that is just getting his hands on the controls.

Everything from here on out will be a challenge, but I see no reason for excuses or prognostications of doom. Overwhemingly pleased.

[TuffGuy84]

Anyone who comments on precisely what happened would be correct. As to an evaluation... for the first game of the season, away, at an SEC opponent... every single aspect of our performance was extremely good. I was overwhelmingly pleased. Overwhelmingly pleased. Any doubt about new coaches, new starting QB, only having a running game, so on and so forth, were completely dispelled. We even executed the short sure pass routes correctly and successfully. You do not make an assessment of a downfield passing game based on your first game, against an SEC defense, away, and with a QB that is just getting his hands on the controls.

Everything from here on out will be a challenge, but I see no reason for excuses or prognostications of doom. Overwhemingly pleased.

If my assessment of the game is taken as doom and gloom, dont. Its just observations at the game that we played very well in. If our "down and distance" and "Dline and Linebacker QB pressure" are some of our only negatives, then we're in MUCH better shape than anyone thought. The things I quoted are most likily the exact things that the coaches saw and will work on this week. I think next week we will see more down the field passes and I think they will work, I just think we could have done it yesterday as well.

Take it easy

[cajunmaniac]

Again, our DBs blow assignments. Our D line and LB's did a pretty good job of stopping the run. minus zanders and #47. We lost several big plays to them being out of position. I'd like to see our Dline get a little more pressure in passing situations. anywho, we gave them the first two touchdowns bc of field position. but the two blown assignments by db's cost us 14 points. as far as fenroy goes, he's a beast. mike d. is a warrior. however, the fact that we can drive the ball 70+ yards and get stuffed inside the 10 twice is humiliating. there is no one to blame here but the play callers. but, the fact that we could hang with one of the toughest teams on our schedule was impressive. I strongly believe we can pull out a conference title. Go UL

[sleepophile]

I'm sorry, but were you watching the same game I was??? I don't think they blew it out of the water, but the score should have been 21-28 with respect to the holding penalty....It doesn't seem to me that USC thought it was that easy...But yes I do think we need to fix a few things for next week and come out strong!

GEAUX CAJUNS!!!

Whoa there!! Check the timestamp on my post ..it was after their first TD drive . But a pretty good game by the Cajuns , i thought it would be a patented Spurrier run up the score game ...but we hung in there and couple of conversions in the end zone and things would've been really interesting .

[CajunCharlie]

_ Again, our DBs blow assignments. Our D line and LB's did a pretty good job of stopping the run. minus zanders and #47. We lost several big plays to them being out of position. I'd like to see our Dline get a little more pressure in passing situations. anywho, we gave them the first two touchdowns bc of field position. but the two blown assignments by db's cost us 14 points. as far as fenroy goes, he's a beast. mike d. is a warrior. however, the fact that we can drive the ball 70+ yards and get stuffed inside the 10 twice is humiliating. there is no one to blame here but the play callers. but, the fact that we could hang with one of the toughest teams on our schedule was impressive. I strongly believe we can pull out a conference title. Go UL _

Kudos to an Official(???) for one of those "stuffs".

[VObserver]

_ I watched the hold in slow motion; #67 held on the left side as Fenroy was crosing the goal line away from the call. A major B.S. call if you ask me and in no way did it change the out come of the play. Who knows; if we go into halftime forteen up things could be different. In all I'm very proud of how the boys played and hope the people of Lafayette can come out and support the Cajuns Saturday night. _

One problem, Bud. The ref didn't call holding on 67. He called holding on 59, who definitely did NOT hold.

[VObserver]

Guys, quit worrying about 'down the field passes'. I'll give you two reasons:
1. With the possible exception of Tennessee nobody else we play will have linebackers half as good as USC's. Those crossing patterns that got broken up or stopped for short gains will become big plays.
2. When we threw the ball downfield yesterday, we did so well. It just wasn't often that the opportunity presented itself to go downfield; plus, USC was never able to really slow down the running game, so why throw?

My one complaint with the passing game was the several times on third and intermediate [5-8 yards] situations that we ran routes short of the first down marker. Now I know that against most of our opponents, our WRs will be able to pick up that additional yardage more often than not, but why make them HAVE to?

[Pirogue]

When we threw the ball downfield yesterday...

How nice was it to see Jordan Jackson make a sweet grab?

I've been waiting to see that since we grabbed him out of Bunkie 10 years ago or so...

Most Cajun fans had given up on him... with him, Nevels, Chery Smith, Lee plus a bunch of freshmen...

I think this may be the deepest I've ever seen the Cajuns at wideout...

[nicajun]

Does anyone know what kind of injury Michael sustained last night? I know it wasn't serious
because he came back in the game & played well.Also I am not panicking about this,but I think
the the offense needs to go deep on at least 2 passes a game,just to stretch the defense out a little to open the short passes.PLEASE GOT OUR TIGHT ENDS INVOLVED IN THE OFFENSE,THEY ARE WEAPONS NOT BEING UTILIZED.

[RaginEsquire06]

...was overwhelmingly pleased. Overwhelmingly pleased. Any doubt about new coaches, new starting QB, only having a running game, so on and so forth, were completely dispelled.

Could not say it any better! "Overwhelmingly PLEASED!"