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Biggest problem with the team

DrunkPanda

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That I noticed from the post game interview. Is that nobody seems to care about winning anymore. Philip Lindsay at the podium says "if you don't like that we are losing, don't watch". Yeah, that's going to happen if losing continues, look what the stands looked like before last season. Nothing about "we need to get better" just "we are fine, we just haven't been getting breaks". No urgency at all. First thing MacIntyre tries to do once he gets up to the podium is crack jokes about Tate making the defense look stupid... I remember Tebow literally being in tears in the press conference after losing ONE game. I wish we had a player or coach like that.

I guarantee a lot of last year's seniors are pissed that the team keeps losing. They kept talking about wanting to build a winning culture, finally start to do it last season and now it's back to a losing culture where they are just happy to play the game
 
I mean they don't care ENOUGH about winning. Sure, everyone would rather win than lose at whatever they are doing. But successful teams have an obsessive desire to win, where they don't accept a loss. I saw that from the team last season, don't see it now. They are way too casual "nothing needs to change, we just need to get lucky breaks". They've been saying "we're fine" all season, despite noticeable flaws in the team that were getting masked by beating terrible teams. Now they are losing and the message is still "we're fine"
 
Somebody needs to peel the paint off the locker room wall in a speech today.
 
TSchekler said:
Oh good. Another thread created
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We just need to wait for Lindgren to open his secret playbook that he's been hiding so it doesn't show up on film and not play the greatest offense in the history of football like we did this week and we'll win the rest of our games, right?

LMAO. I like you, you make me laugh
 
DrunkPanda said:
We just need to wait for Lindgren to open his secret playbook that he's been hiding so it doesn't show up on film and not play the greatest offense in the history of football like we did this week and we'll win the rest of our games, right?

LMAO. I like you, you make me laugh
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You and other simpletons can continue to laugh at this notion of saving pieces of the offense for certain games or installing new things each week, but I have been proven correct each and every week in this regard. Just because it hasn’t always meant a more successful offensive output, doesn’t mean I was wrong. The offense last night looks nothing like it did in any of the OOC games.
 
DrunkPanda said:
I mean they don't care ENOUGH about winning. Sure, everyone would rather win than lose at whatever they are doing. But successful teams have an obsessive desire to win, where they don't accept a loss. I saw that from the team last season, don't see it now. They are way too casual "nothing needs to change, we just need to get lucky breaks". They've been saying "we're fine" all season, despite noticeable flaws in the team that were getting masked by beating terrible teams. Now they are losing and the message is still "we're fine"
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This is where playing those two cupcake games after CSU is hurting this team. Nothing about playing those teams got this team ready for conference play, and the team didn't respect either Texas State or UNC. That's on the coaching staff. As far as last night, MacIntyre's quotes afterward pissed me off. You did everything you could to try to stop him? No you didn't. You tried to play keep away. That was it. It wasn't like Arizona drastically changed what they were doing offensively when Tate came into the game, either. You stop that stuff just like you do the triple option-pursuit discipline, good open field tackling, etc. We flunked at all of that. If this season goes off the rails and we can't get to 6-6, MM goes right back on the hot seat going into 2018 as far as I'm concerned.
 
onealcd said:
I thought Phil wanted to climb over the podium and punch someone in that interview, he seemed pissed off.
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Phil continues to impress by walking the walk, the one player that I'm sure coach McCartney would've recruited, he actually cares enough to speak his mind. It didn't bode well when 2 Sr captains were suspended, they've pretty much taken themselves out of a leadership role.
 
The real difference in outcomes between this season and last season can be blamed squarely on the lack of “Real ****ty Previews.”
 
The defense had two major problems yesterday. 1. They were absolutely lifeless for some reason. I put that on the coaching staff. And 2. A running QB stunningly exposed our lack of quickness at D-Line and Linebacker. Meanwhile, out defensive backfield that is strong in coverage was discovered to be awful at open field tackling.

Positives are that I am seeing things from Montez that make me beleive he is going to be a big name star before his time at CU is over. Bad news is it won't be this year. We are just going to have to take each game as it comes, try to get young guys experience and not expect to go bowling this year. Bummer
 
Always BUFF said:
Phil continues to impress by walking the walk, the one player that I'm sure coach McCartney would've recruited, he actually cares enough to speak his mind. It didn't bode well when 2 Sr captains were suspended, they've pretty much taken themselves out of a leadership role.
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This team has very low character, and losing two captains to a suspension is indicative of bigger problems
 
ahoelsken said:
This is where playing those two cupcake games after CSU is hurting this team. Nothing about playing those teams got this team ready for conference play, and the team didn't respect either Texas State or UNC. That's on the coaching staff. As far as last night, MacIntyre's quotes afterward pissed me off. You did everything you could to try to stop him? No you didn't. You tried to play keep away. That was it. It wasn't like Arizona drastically changed what they were doing offensively when Tate came into the game, either. You stop that stuff just like you do the triple option-pursuit discipline, good open field tackling, etc. We flunked at all of that. If this season goes off the rails and we can't get to 6-6, MM goes right back on the hot seat going into 2018 as far as I'm concerned.
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I think the cupcake games were ok. All that would have happened with a more competitive opponent was a loss, and more rapid loss of confidence. It was a little unfortunate that UW was the first conference game, that sort of set the tone.
 
People can think it's ridiculous if they want, but I have to concur that the team was unacceptably flat coming out on Saturday. Literally no life to the team until the last Arizona drive, but it was too late.
 
I see no leadership on the sideline. If you watch there is no captains getting in the face of the other players. I do not see any captains on the field (except PLindsay) leading by example. I do see a couple of players "mailing it in". A couple on O and a couple on D. They seemed to have read the hype, and are already spending that NFL money in their heads. When our guys make a mistake, they seem to let it cause a second mistake, then snowballs.
 
I gotta be honest and realize I have a bias and probably shouldn't be commenting since I've got an injured son on the team. I won't trash anyone in particular but I will say this. (I'm going old guy on you here) In my day, I guarantee I would have been in 2-3 fights as an O - lineman during pass-pro and 9-7 against the 1 D-line. I would see it as my duty to beat the MAN into those guys. WE NEED NASTY, NASTY, DIRTY, SMART LINEMEN. Win or lose, you are going to have to prove you are worthy and step into the ring every friggin' day until you figure it out.
 
I would also nominate Arizona's 280 pound sophmore center as player of the game. He worked one-on-one big on big all night and flat out cleared the middle of the field almost by himself.
 
I don't want to see them pout. I want to see stark objectivity and focus, and evidence of resilience with the ups and downs of the game. I get just as invested in winning as any loyal Buff, but it is a game after all, I don't need them to bawl and open their veins to prove they're taking it seriously.
 
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