Kansas vs. Baylor Recap
by Owen on Oct 3, 2010 9:33 AM CDT
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Brutal. The only word to describe the amount of long scoring drives put together by the Bears. Yesterday actually represented about the best the Jayhawks have done on special teams and we forced Baylor into a long field early and often. But, it sure doesn't matter if you can't get a stop or sustain any offense of your own.
It was downhill week on the Kansas Jayhawk rollercoaster. Now we just need to hope that the lose one, win one pattern continues or this thing could snowball on this group in a hurry.
And for the sake of putting last week in perspective: Boise State 59 NMSU 0. Quotes and thoughts from the postgame after the jump.
Kansas Head Coach Turner Gill
Opening statement...
"I am disappointed. Obviously not a very good job by us as a coaching staff. Great job by Baylor, their staff and their players. They played an outstanding football game and we just could never get anything going. We just didn't play very well. You can't turn the ball over and we missed too many tackles."
I don't think I'm alone when i say that I'm ready to see some fire and a little anger from Gill. I understand that's not entirely his personality, but there were times in the second Gridiron where he showed that. I just wish I saw it on gameday.
On if the mistakes are due to youth...
"A little bit of that. This is the fourth game with Jordan (Webb) and this is probably the one game he didn't quite play as well with reads and things of that nature, but again we have to get better. There are some other people that didn't play well either and we just couldn't ever get any rhythm going. Every time we got some going, we either made some unforced errors, jumping offsides or we turned the ball over."
On the problems of the pass defense...
"Missed tackles. Missed execution of where they needed to be, what they needed to do. They (Baylor) did a great job executing their game plan, so I give the credit all of the way to Baylor."
On the game...
"I think they just played better than we did and we got out-coached. They played very well on that side of the ball. We just couldn't get anything going. I don't think our guys totally quit, but we will look at that some more on tape. Obviously we were a step too slow on a lot of things both offensively and defensively."
Out-coached? If 55-7 was entirely coaching then I'm extremely concerned.
Senior Safety Olaitan Oguntodu
On the game...
"Overall, it was an embarrassing game. It was just embarrassing all the way around. We have to watch film and figure out where we are lacking, but we played a good team today."
"It is embarrassing, very embarrassing, very surprising. When you play defense you have to play as a team. You have play as a team and everybody understands their job and you go from there. And today from the look of the score, from the look of things, we didn't do that. We will regroup and I believe we will get that together."
I'm not going to lie this is a guy I feel for. He was good enough to be on the field during the Orange Bowl year, the Insight Bowl year and now that he's finally getting a shot the team just isn't there.
Redshirt Freshman Quarterback Jordan Webb
On if the game was different because it was conference play...
"No, it was the same, we just didn't execute. We beat ourselves, but you have to give credit to the other team. They made big plays when they needed to and we just didn't."
I believe there are better days ahead for you Jordan, but nobody beats themselves 55-7.
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watching film?
rocket science says if you play corners 10 yds off receivers that teams will throw that screen til you defend it.
yep,
the ghost of Clint Bowen visited us. What’s weird is that probably have our best athletes on the team in our secodary yet we still give them the cushion. How is giving up 7 9-yard passes worse than a 63 yard bomb on occasion? The defensive philosophy makes no sense. If we know that we’re not going to get pressure up front then we MUST at least disrupt receivers’ routes, otherwise, it’s just practice for the opposing offense. Someone needs to get pissed. It doesn’t have to be Gill, but this team must have expectations. This team was more or less expected to beat NDSU and Baylor, when expectations aren’t meant there should be consequences. When you don’t execute (as Gil says) there should be consequences, not just obvious bland statements in a presser. Yeah, no shit Gill, we didn’t execute. We know, we saw, what we want to here is why, and what will be done to address it? Otherwise, Gill, you will see that there are consequences for not having consequences.
There is no red like Chiefs red.
Did you notice on the first long pass play that Gordon was adding distance on Barfield as he ran downfield? Isn’t Barfield one of the fastest kids on the team? I guess if Baylor’s receivers were just that much faster than our DBs that would explain the 10 yd cushion, but I find it hard to believe. Either way, that defensive performance reminded me a LOT of the Tx Tech game in ’08
by PenguinHawk on Oct 3, 2010 3:32 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Barfield bit on a fake
that’s why he was burned. Maybe if Barfield jammed him at the LOS he wouldn’t have seen a green a gold streak run past him…
There is no red like Chiefs red.
My problem wasn't that he got beat
it was that Gordon was continuing to gain separation between him and Barfield as he ran downfield. As in, Josh Gordon was significantly faster than he was. At least that’s how it looked to me.
On Webb:
They didn’t make big plays when needed, they made them all day.
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball...Rock Chalk Talk
It is at least encouraging to me that Gill didn't start with a positive thought for the game.
One of the things that stuck out to me when going back to the play by play (ESPN) was the consistency in getting penalties and turnovers to short circuit the first drives. I think that is part of what Webb was referring to. The other part may have been what the announcers continually referred to as missing open receivers. Those are a matter of beating yourself.
None of that makes any difference though, if you can’t stop the opposition, but it does add to the snowball.
Humiliate,Embarrassed, Shellacking
all words used by sports writers to describe Kansas.
I am
waiting for this new “aggressive” defense that was foretold in the preseason. I could not belive the 94 yard screen pass where only 1, just 1 freakin defender actually touched him and missed the tackle. Where the heck is the pursuit??? I am still shocked and numb from yesterday.
How many young guys do you have playing?
Was the cubboard that bare when Mangino left? Or is it the new system and it’s taking a time to get adjusted? Their has been flashes of success you did beat Ga Tech. So what gives. I can’t believe Baylor is that good.
I think it's a combination...
Baylor is a big mismatch for us, as is any spread team. Our LB’s just aren’t built for defending that system and we don’t have the ability to do much of anything in the way of pressure with the front four.
As to the cupboard being bare, it appears it was much more than we thought. Skilled player wise I think we have some talent but it’s young, and then we’ve been painfully thin on both lines recently and we’re really paying the price this year.
I do think there is some adjusting going on, but at this point it’s difficult to tell where the problems AREN’T after a loss like yesterday. A team that is relatively well coached, with decent talent shouldn’t lose 55-7. I could have lived with 35-24 or something similar, but the reality is 55-7 actually makes things look better than they were.
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this was just flat out embarrassing
which has been said ad nauseum, but this team was not prepared to play on saturday…i don’t want to hear that they got out-coached, that shit needs to stop.
like i said before the game, they should have pressed and blitzed with a corner off the blind side, but the defensive front is just not getting ANY pressure at all.
we’ve got 5 games under our belts, and gill’s performance thus far has been underwhelming, to say the least…one great job for GT, I was happy with our 2nd half against SoMiss, and we took care of business against NMSU.
that being said, i still feel somewhat good about the KSU game…if form holds and we play better at home, against a team that primarily runs the ball, I think we show up and have a chance to win.
i have stated previously that my main requirement as a KU football fan is that I not be embarrassed…well it’s happened twice now, and it needs to stop…god only knows what’s going to happen when we go to lincoln.
BOOM YOSTED!
by Home Run Tony Cogan on Oct 3, 2010 9:35 PM CDT reply actions
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