1) The offense played well enough to win. Card had a decent game. The pick was frustrating because everyone knows he can't make that throw.
2) OL is what it is. I tried to warn everyone going into the season it wasn't going to look pretty with all these young guys. Junior being out sucks balls, but he's not coming back.
3) Our LBs lost us the game. They were all abused in coverage. Little dinks over the middle and crossers with LBs no where to be found. Tech's offense is set up nicely to expose this.
4) We are the only team to ever get called for DPI on balls underthrown 10 yards with the WR trying to run directly through the DB to get to the errant pass.
5) All that being said, Tech needed 6/8 4th down conversions. If that number is 4/8, this game isn't close. Connelly's model had us at a 98% win postmortem. We actually moved up this week in my model.
6) It sucks to lose games that we should win. That's been this team's calling card for the last few seasons. On one hand this is better than Strong, where we definitely were not competitive in games. On the other hand, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory feels like ass. We need to finish. We need that star player on defense who gets the critical sack/int/PBU when it matters most. I don't think we have that.