Breazell's play
How big was WR Brandon Breazell's 69-yard TD where he broke a tackle and raced for the go-head score in the fourth quarter?
"Brandon's play was huge,'' TB Chris Markey said. "They weren't stopping us all night. We were stopping ourselves with stupid penalties. We needed a score, and Brandon made a play. He's been making plays all year, and that play was huge for us. I think it really put the dagger in them.''
Comments
Markey's comment that "We were stopping ourselves with stupid penalties." is not accurate. We did not have first down for the first 22 minutes of the game and during that time we had one penalty, pass interference on Joe Cowan. Most of our penalties came in the second half. One of the signatures of the Dorrell era is the endless excuse making. I would like to hear players and coaches take more responsibility.
Posted by: MarcoTheBruin | September 30, 2007 10:25 AM
He's half right... He meant stupidity (not just penalities)... I can't recall two fumbles by the same person on consecutive plays. How can that not be detrimental to getting things going? How about the offensive miscues that led to an interception instead of a field goal or touchdown? Yes, the offense didn't help at all.
Posted by: Biz | September 30, 2007 04:02 PM
The first 6 possessions of the game for the UCLA offense looked like this (fumble, fumble, punt, punt, punt, punt; no drive more than 3 plays) and in the second half UCLA had 5 short scoring drives set up by Oregon State turnovers or terrible punting (5, 21, 21, 39, 69 yards). When I compare those 2 pieces of data it looks like they stopped us cold in the first half and gave us the game in the second half. We did not have 1 long, time-consuming drive for a TD during the game.
Posted by: MarcoTheBruin | September 30, 2007 06:45 PM