Rakes Report #175: Case of the Ex (The Cincinnati Review)
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~optional musical accompaniment~ If you were forwarded this email and would like to sign up to receive future editions, you can do so here. 1) If you want to live on the knife’s edge with a rickety offense and defense that hasn’t totally patched up the passing explosiveness holes from last year, you absolutely can’t turn it over three times in the first half and stake your more-than-capable opponent to a lead. If you’re going to try and rotate quarterbacks, you can’t misread the situation this badly, waiting until the second half to play the guy who was best last week (and then pulling him for one play in the middle of his first successful drive for some reason?). A profoundly frustrating game in which the Irish had a chance to notch another win over a Top 10 team, where you can point to a dozen different coaching decisions and player miscues as reasons for the loss. It’s tough to swallow and…actually kind of how this works a lot of the time when you lose, albeit on the extreme end of number of obvious things going wrong.
Rakes Report #175: Case of the Ex (The Cincinnati Review)
Rakes Report #175: Case of the Ex (The…
Rakes Report #175: Case of the Ex (The Cincinnati Review)
~optional musical accompaniment~ If you were forwarded this email and would like to sign up to receive future editions, you can do so here. 1) If you want to live on the knife’s edge with a rickety offense and defense that hasn’t totally patched up the passing explosiveness holes from last year, you absolutely can’t turn it over three times in the first half and stake your more-than-capable opponent to a lead. If you’re going to try and rotate quarterbacks, you can’t misread the situation this badly, waiting until the second half to play the guy who was best last week (and then pulling him for one play in the middle of his first successful drive for some reason?). A profoundly frustrating game in which the Irish had a chance to notch another win over a Top 10 team, where you can point to a dozen different coaching decisions and player miscues as reasons for the loss. It’s tough to swallow and…actually kind of how this works a lot of the time when you lose, albeit on the extreme end of number of obvious things going wrong.