Framing a Blowout

[Count 'Bility]

:rickjames

 

[The Dude]

I recall having a football conversation with an old-timer* who told me a blowout was anything more than 11 points. In his day, that was probably true. 20 seems like a good round number these days.

*not knapplc

 

[Mierin]

I recall having a football conversation with an old-timer*

*not knapplc

Knapp's great grandson?

 

[KJ.]

I chose "Defense can't stop the other team from scoring" Defense wins championships.

This guy.

 

[It'sNotAFakeID]

OSU was just flat out an a$$ kicking after the first quarter (IIRC Urban changed a blocking assignment on the ZR, and changed Braxton's read) and we never adjusted.

My goodness, no it wasn't. It was 35-31 halfway through the 3rd quarter.

How many times am I going to have to point this out?

We were chasing OSU the whole time. I don't know about you, but I felt we had no chance to win after the 1st.

You did?!? That's an amazing talent!

 

[Saunders]

21 points can't be a considered a blowout. too many teams have come from down 3 td's to win games. A blowout is a point in the game where the lead is large enough that the team with the lead would have to commit numerous turnover's to lose the game.

I think he was referring to the final score.

final scores can be misleading. years ago when we had a home and home with USC and they kicked our a$$ but the final score was 49-31. 18 point loss. the game was never as close as the final score made it to be.

Thats a good point, alot of times its a one or two score game and in the final minutes when the other team has pretty much checked out the winning team will get more or less a trash time td to close out the game.

The year before, at USC, we lost 28-10. We played that game to not get blown out, and it was no less embarrassing.

 

[tmfr15]

A blowout is not based on points IMO. A blow out is a term that refers to a game where fans give up hope. If the majority of the fans of a certain team give up hope, then its a blowout. So that could be that one team is scoring at will and the other team is struggling just to keep up and fans start to believe the game will eventually get out of hand. Or it could mean that one team goes on such an unanswered scoring run that fans feel like all hope is lost. Or maybe the offense shows again and again and again that it can't do much of anything but punt, punt, punt. In that case, the score could be 10-0 and be considered a blow out. I know those Huker games vs Miami where the Canes won 23-3 felt like 70-0 a$$ kickings because we never had ANY hope of scoring. And the option plays were getting DESTROYED.

As fans, I think the healthy standard might be to ask yourself.... are you having fun watching this or are you wanting to pull your hair out?

If the answer is the latter... you prolly need to step away.

If the team comes back in some grand fashion.... well, you can watch the replay of the game as it's likely to be an instant classic.

There is no great honor or award given to fans who put up with watching GARBAGE. We can watch it. That's for sure. But those moments of our lives won't be given back. I would rather do something enjoyable instead.

I was of the previous mind set in years past. I would watch a blow out win to the very end, even though it was boring because I felt, as a fan, that was when I should be watching. And I also had the thought that if we were losing I had to watch because a real fan would show some faith in his team.

Last year I left the stadium at half of the Minn game because the good vibes of the TO tribute were not going to be further enhanced by continuing to watch an A$$ kicking.

Also quit watching the CCG game at half because, well, we were screwed and I felt there was no hope. Yes..... it was a blow out.

 

[husker_99]

21 points can't be a considered a blowout. too many teams have come from down 3 td's to win games. A blowout is a point in the game where the lead is large enough that the team with the lead would have to commit numerous turnover's to lose the game.

I think he was referring to the final score.

final scores can be misleading. years ago when we had a home and home with USC and they kicked our a$$ but the final score was 49-31. 18 point loss. the game was never as close as the final score made it to be.

Thats a good point, alot of times its a one or two score game and in the final minutes when the other team has pretty much checked out the winning team will get more or less a trash time td to close out the game.

The year before, at USC, we lost 28-10. We played that game to not get blown out, and it was no less embarrassing.

But if you asked people which year was he better showing they would say 28-10. at the beginning the game for next year going into the 4th quarter the score was 42-10. the game was already over.

 

[Count 'Bility]

Something happened in the lockeroom at halftime of that 2007 USC game. It's obvious too me anyway. Even though they started to struggle, the team still played with some fire and swagger the rest of the 1st half. Them defensive players completely packed it in for the year at halftime of that game. You could just see the lack of desire from snap 1 of the third quarter. Them was some horrible times.

 

[Landlord]

21 points can't be a considered a blowout. too many teams have come from down 3 td's to win games. A blowout is a point in the game where the lead is large enough that the team with the lead would have to commit numerous turnover's to lose the game.

I think he was referring to the final score.

final scores can be misleading. years ago when we had a home and home with USC and they kicked our a$$ but the final score was 49-31. 18 point loss. the game was never as close as the final score made it to be.

Thats a good point, alot of times its a one or two score game and in the final minutes when the other team has pretty much checked out the winning team will get more or less a trash time td to close out the game.

The year before, at USC, we lost 28-10. We played that game to not get blown out, and it was no less embarrassing.

That's why we went for a fake punt pass from deep in our own territory in the first half.

 

[Saunders]

That's why we went for a fake punt pass from deep in our own territory in the first half.

And that one play was 20% of our total passing yards.

http://espn.go.com/ncf/recap?id=262590030

Zac Taylor threw 16 total passes. We ran right into the line over and over, and punted.

Hell, USC fans even made a shirt out of it.

 

[Saunders]

But if you asked people which year was he better showing they would say 28-10. at the beginning the game for next year going into the 4th quarter the score was 42-10. the game was already over.

Yeah, and it was 21-3 at beginning of the 4th in 2006. We had like 150 yards entering the 4th. You can't just look at the score, because both were blowouts.

 

[Count 'Bility]

But if you asked people which year was he better showing they would say 28-10. at the beginning the game for next year going into the 4th quarter the score was 42-10. the game was already over.

Yeah, and it was 21-3 at beginning of the 4th in 2006. We had like 150 yards entering the 4th. You can't just look at the score, because both were blowouts.

We also got a TD pretty quick in the 4th to make it 21-10. Defense just couldnt get a stop. I understand the gameplan of that game to try to keep is close till the 4th. Obviously when it was over, and lookin back we wish we'd a taken the "nothing to lose" approach and just let it fly, but at the time to me, it seemed like the right game plan. If we come up with stop there after that td, and get even a FG to be 21-13, we're back at the point that anything can happen. They just happened to put together a godly drive that chewed up most of the rest of the game for a TD. We have to remember that USC was today's Bama of that time. And, to me, the 2006 edition never felt a fraction as hopeless as the 2007 edition did once USC got rollin.

Speakin of gamechanging moments. Remember after taking a 10-7 lead in 2007, and on the ensuing kickoff, the USC returner coughs up the ball, and our guy couldnt quite get to it and a USC player picks it up and returns for extra chunk of yardage? Imagine if we get that ball.

 

[Saunders]

But if you asked people which year was he better showing they would say 28-10. at the beginning the game for next year going into the 4th quarter the score was 42-10. the game was already over.

Yeah, and it was 21-3 at beginning of the 4th in 2006. We had like 150 yards entering the 4th. You can't just look at the score, because both were blowouts.

We also got a TD pretty quick in the 4th to make it 21-10. Defense just couldnt get a stop. I understand the gameplan of that game to try to keep is close till the 4th. Obviously when it was over, and lookin back we wish we'd a taken the "nothing to lose" approach and just let it fly, but at the time to me, it seemed like the right game plan. If we come up with stop there after that td, and get even a FG to be 21-13, we're back at the point that anything can happen. They just happened to put together a godly drive that chewed up most of the rest of the game for a TD. We have to remember that USC was today's Bama of that time. And, to me, the 2006 edition never felt a fraction as hopeless as the 2007 edition did once USC got rollin.

Speakin of gamechanging moments. Remember after taking a 10-7 lead in 2007, and on the ensuing kickoff, the USC returner coughs up the ball, and our guy couldnt quite get to it and a USC player picks it up and returns for extra chunk of yardage? Imagine if we get that ball.

Wouldn't have mattered....

You could drive an 18-wheeler through that.

 

[Landlord]

But if you asked people which year was he better showing they would say 28-10. at the beginning the game for next year going into the 4th quarter the score was 42-10. the game was already over.

Yeah, and it was 21-3 at beginning of the 4th in 2006. We had like 150 yards entering the 4th. You can't just look at the score, because both were blowouts.

We also got a TD pretty quick in the 4th to make it 21-10. Defense just couldnt get a stop. I understand the gameplan of that game to try to keep is close till the 4th. Obviously when it was over, and lookin back we wish we'd a taken the "nothing to lose" approach and just let it fly, but at the time to me, it seemed like the right game plan. If we come up with stop there after that td, and get even a FG to be 21-13, we're back at the point that anything can happen. They just happened to put together a godly drive that chewed up most of the rest of the game for a TD. We have to remember that USC was today's Bama of that time. And, to me, the 2006 edition never felt a fraction as hopeless as the 2007 edition did once USC got rollin.

Speakin of gamechanging moments. Remember after taking a 10-7 lead in 2007, and on the ensuing kickoff, the USC returner coughs up the ball, and our guy couldnt quite get to it and a USC player picks it up and returns for extra chunk of yardage? Imagine if we get that ball.

It was the right game plan. If Marlon Lucky doesn't cough up a fumble at the beginning of the 3rd, that game might easily have been 14-10 instead of 21-3.