Rewatched the game. Here's what I took from it:
--The right side of our offensive line is a sieve. Christian Jones didn't block the right guy on numerous occasions, allowing a man to come through untouched. Okafor still doesn't know how to handle a stunt, and he holds half of the time when he blocks the correct man.
--You're not going to want to hear it, but Cosmi wasn't some stalwart, either. He got driven back on numerous occasions by significantly smaller guys. The offensive line is what's killing this offense. It's hard to start a drive on 1st and 20 because of holding on the first play of the series. BUT, it also didn't help when...
--Sam was horribly inaccurate on many important throws. This is two weeks in a row someone has gotten hurt (Whittington, Black) because of throwing behind or below them. Black wasn't hurt badly, but he still had to come out of the game. Consider the low throw on the double pass, throwing behind Moore numerous times (even the touchdown that Moore caught at the end), throwing behind Brewer. All day long he made either bad passes or bad decisions. Thankful he brought us back for the win, but he had a pretty bad game up until that point.
--Speaking of Whittington, we really miss him and Jake Smith. Kai Money is doing what he can, but there was at least one play where if Jake Smith catches that ball, he likely takes it to the house. Money got about 12 yards out of it. We really need he or Whittington in the game.
--It's really hurting us that Eagles hasn't become what we had hoped, because we don't have a receiver of that magnitude that teams have to respect. Moore is doing well and I like his game, but we're really missing a guy like Eagles who has the ability AND the mentality for the position.
--Lastly, I'm convinced that Sam could have run for 150 if he just pulls it down and takes off on numerous third downs where they abandon the middle of the field. Tech blitzed a ton, but Sam chose to force it into tight man coverage. There was so much room for him to run. He had a really bad game.
--It's already hard playing with this OL. If Sam doesn't improve his play quickly, we'll be in shootouts the whole year. He's had a good career here, and this may be unpopular, but I don't think he has the ability to take us where we want to go. He's almost out of time, as it is. He's simply not accurate enough. I'm looking forward to seeing what Card can do (if he starts) next year. I'm tired of seeing long balls underthrown and crossing patterns thrown inaccurately. Hit a man in stride, damnit.