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Luke Decock calling out Rhule


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The article is spot on.

We had an offensive game plan out of the chute that was somewhere between curious and stupid, a defense that knew the opponent was going to run and proudly held them to 217 yards and 5.6 ypc. It's like the entire team took last week off, coaches and all.

And, once again we forced zero turnovers.  The good news is we only turned it over once, ourselves.

Then there was the final drive where we played for the lead instead of the win.  With our defense, a 2 point lead with a buck 15 left is far from secure, regardless of time outs.  If we had our 2015 defense, the answer would be different.  We needed to focus on the first down, not simply draining their time outs.

There were a lot of teams that looked rusty today.  We looked completely unprepared for the entire first half.  Of the teams I saw, we won the title for most unprepared, although Arizona is getting their heads handed to them at home against KC (with another college coach who may be destined to head back).

The bright side is they made some adjustments and warmed to the task.  But honestly, our best offensive plays were two blown coverages that led to a 75 yard bomb to RA and a 50 yard gain to Thomas.  Aside from those two plays I think we had a total of 111 yards.  Our other big play did not enter the stat sheet because it was CMC advancing a fumble 30+ yards.

As for Rhule, Notre Dame just lost to Marshall in South Bend and looked flat doing it.  Their fans already want a change (not that they will get it), and Rhule's name was mentioned with that job last year.  Kingsbury and Rhule may be competing for some of the open jobs.

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My wife ain't doing nothing but cleaning house, washing clothes, cooking three meals a day, taking care of me, spending money shopping, planting flowers, going to church on Sunday, 75 years old etc.

She can do better them Rhule in coaching this team!

Wait, maybe they can do better coaching themselves!!!!!!!

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Just now, top dawg said:

Rhule was chicken sh¡t. I fully believe that we should've played for a TD as opposed to settling for a FG. I don't believe that Brissett could've taken them down the field. That was my main problem with Rhule today.

A saw a thing on him punting last year from like our 35 against the Jets I think, and it was ranked as the number 1 most chicken poo play in 50 years or something. Rhule brings absolutely nothing to the table as a head coach. 

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17 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Nah. You're getting caught up in the end result. They got bailed out with a gift of a roughing call and a baffling no call on intentional grounding in a game they should've ran away with. Quite literally.

No, I got all of that, but I have just changed a lot since 2015-16.  Those experiences taught me no one will ever care about officials jobbing us, and thus, I should prepare for the worst possible outcomes with officials...  and blaming the officials accomplishes nothing, because I'm convinced they are doing it for the league, not because they're bad at their job...  they just step in for specific outcomes and to influence games in specific ways, and we just always seem to be the team between them and the trams they're trying to prop up.  So complaining about it or blaming our shortcomings on them does nothing, because they will keep doing what they've been doing and why would the league change something they are intending to do?  They won't.

So, I go back to ehat can we control?  And that brings me back to the point of the game should've never, ever been to that point where those calls decided it.  And had our coach not been the usual buffoon we've all come to know him to be, we wouldnt have been.  Rhule, once again, coached to lose instead of coaching to win, and everything we saw today, from struggling OL, to inability to stop the run, from guys just looking lost and going through the motions  - all those symptoms are earmarks of a Rhule tram and the ultimate outcome was manifest destiny.  Stefanski could've decided to punt it on first down the entire second half, and the outcome still would've been the same.

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