Month: October 2021

2021 Game Recap – The Winning Streak Ends (Brutally)

Duke went to Chapel Hill. The Blue Devils lost. Despite a good first quarter, it got ugly. The same problems that have been hovering around this Duke team all season cropped up and it cost them – big plays, the wheel route, penalties and questionable situational football. We all saw it, so I won’t spend a lot of time wondering why we used Moore in short yardage instead of giving the ball to Gunnar or Durant. I also won’t spend a lot of time trying to figure out why we didn’t throw down field. Let’s just get to the Five Things and skip over the fact that we didn’t run Gunnar despite him having four rushing TDs against Kansas.

Five things I liked:

  1. Let me see here … Not much on offense to like thanks to the lousy play calls discussed in Number 2 of what I didn’t like.
  2. Defense got a lot of sacks, that was good.
  3. We punted the ball pretty well.
  4. I didn’t break anything at the house during the game and I didn’t throw anything, either. Am I becoming an adult?
  5. My profanity was kept to a respectable minimum

Five things I didn’t like:

  1. We lost to Carolina, so let me just say … F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! MOTHER F*&^%#$!
  2. Jeff Faris called the worst game for a Blue Devils team in a long, long time. And that says a lot. Gunnar wasn’t allowed to run and Faris botched the Moore package. Maybe there was some truth to that joke I made about a walk-on safety being allowed to call the plays? I’m not sure what the offensive strategy was, but Carolina loaded up the box after Durant burned them a few times and we never got the ball consistently to a TE. Why not try a screen to a running back? I don’t get it. I just don’t get it
  3. We didn’t see a lot of Woods. He should have played a lot, lot more.
  4. Oh, and back to Number 1 – F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%! F*&^%!
  5. We’re 3-2 and 0-1 in conference. The rest of our schedule is BRUTAL. It’s going to be a long season for us if Faris keeps calling plays like this and we can’t figure out how to cover a wheel route.

Go Duke!