Sad and disappointed. Hell of an entertaining game though. My thoughts:
1) OK let's get the obvious one out of the way. You let your ****ing MOP give the ball to your ****ing leading rusher MOC there. The guy was beasting that whole drive. Especially when you gave the D that look for the third time after the earlier Buckley roll out and the jet sweep a little later. And if Messam came up short I give it to him again for the win.
2) Bo-Levi really missed McDaniel. The guy looked lost trying the go downfield all game. Jorden tried to fill in but they just weren't on the same page. Didn't hate the shot he took on the first play of overtime. Perfect throw. Jorden just couldn't squeeze it.
3) Bo-Levi trying to score 10 points all at once in the first half with too terrible many deep balls. He was moving the sticks just fine when he kept it to basic 10-15 yard football. The resulting turnovers meant an already unprepared D spent too much time on the field in the first half and got gassed. Undisciplined forcing it allowed them to get too far ahead.
4) The face paint. As soon as I saw that I realized our defense came in cocky instead of focused. And they laid an egg in the first half. Credit to Burris for shredding them with some excellent precision but that wasn't the D we saw all season. They beat themselves in the first half and that's why we lost the game.
5) Deja vu from yesterday. Chance to win it from about 30 yards out and our boys kept trying to do it all in one play and failed disappointingly.
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