Texas Hawk 10 said:
FarmerJayhawk said:
Texas Hawk 10 said:
@stoptheflop Bottom line is KU shouldn't have needed to kick a game winning FG last night. KU should have already been winning at that point.
KU has had 4 blocked FG's the past 2 games (I'm including the two PAT's in this). I don't care if that blocked PAT last night was a penalty or not, 4 blocked kicks in two games should be unacceptable and shows a major schematic flaw with the FG unit.
And I will say KU was very damn lucky last night to win. Blocked kicks are huge momentum plays and had KU not been lucky that the Tech player made an extremely dumb play, Tech goes into OT with all of the momentum and probably wins at that point.
Oh well! We had more points at 0:00. There are some issues but this team is frankly well ahead of where I thought they’d be.
KU is in the exact same position as last season. 3-5 overall and 1-4 in league play with self inflicted mistakes costing themselves multiple games each season. KU has winnable games the rest of the way this year, but they had winnable games last year as well and lost because of self inflicted errors.
That "Oh well!" is exactly why KU lost last Saturday. It's an issue that's cost KU at least one win this year.
If KU wants to win another game the rest of the way, they are going to have to fix the issues in the kicking game because they've left 10 points on the field the past two games. These are the kind of mistakes that have a huge impact on the field. KU absolutely has the schedule to try and get to 6 wins, but KU has to clean up their FG unit to maximize those chances.
By record, that's technically correct. But, let's take a little deeper look. Scoring? Up 4 PPG. Average game margin? Games are 2 points closer. Total offense is up 50 yards per game. Averaging a yard per play more on offense. Defense has regressed a bit, but that's to be expected given they lost half the tackling production from last season, including the entire front 7. And all this against a better schedule.
You're misreading oh well. Not that I don't care we made mistakes (like I said above, it wasn't pretty and we need to fix some things). I'm just going to take some time and enjoy a win. Sorry if you can't.
This team is significantly improved and getting better, especially since Dearmon was promoted. My goal coming into the year was 4 wins, and we've got a good shot at that. Any more is gravy. We've got enough to hang with KSU, though our lack of depth up front will be exposed by their really good line. We're going to have to hang another 40 on them to stay in it.