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  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    ↪Sailorgabe
    Totally fair. IIRC, the only other game he had more than 1 pick was the Cal game. But that also speaks to how good he was all year long to even help us get to this point.
  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    ↪Baku
    Don't hate just because I'm trying to educate you. I'm not the one who thinks Hastings had a turnover problem this year (and I mean the whole season, not today) when he threw 5 picks in 12 games against FCS teams before today. I'm not the one wondering if they should bench the QB who led the nation in passing yards and passing TDs.

    Like yeah, he didn't have a good game today. But again, how many of those picks were for sure on him? The last one absolutely. No one could possibly argue otherwise. Two were tipped. And only Hastings/Plough/the intended target know who was at fault for the other two. It's really easy to just blame the QB each time they throw a pick because hey, they threw the ball. Maybe the other two picks that weren't tipped were Hastings's fault. But unless Hastings or Plough comes out and says "hey, those two were on the QB, he made a bad throw/decision", we're never going to know either way. And how much was on the OLine and/or their DLine? We barely got any pressure on the QB. How many picks would Hastings have thrown had he gotten the protection their QB did.

    So sure, if you want to just say "Hastings threw 5 picks, he was awful today and this loss was almost all on him because of those picks", well that's on you. I prefer a more nuanced outlook on things.
  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    ↪fugawe09
    Likely wasn't their best game. They did throw a pick in the end zone on a ball that could have been caught and fumbled on a toss play at the 5. So they gave away 14 points too.
  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    This should have been on linear tv. — SoCalAggie

    Agreed. It was clearly likely to be the closest of the 4 games and yet it's only on streaming. Maybe they knew they'd get better ratings with the Dakotas or MSU (which could definitely be true for all I know).
  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    ↪Toke69
    North Dakota St too. Didn't play them.
  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    ↪Sailorgabe
    Yep. Who knows about how good some of these teams will be, but we'll likely need to rack up wins before at Idaho and at Montana St in games 9 and 10, right before Sac.

    Anyone know if we're trying to add a 12th game? Only having 11 makes me a little skiddish with potentially getting screwed over by the committee because we have one less FCS win.
  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    ↪Baku
    I mean, two of us (at least) had already said it was a bad throw. So yes, you're being a troll at this point. When you want to make a logical, thought out point, you're welcome to join the rest of us at the big boy table.
  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    Going to be interesting to see how they do next year with a new QB and RB. I'm sure there are other studs who are graduating but those two specifically are going to be really hard to replace. Was this just a 1 year fluke or can we adequately replace those guys (obviously, whoever the RB is won't be Lan and the QB likely won't throw for 4000 yards) and get back to the playoffs.
  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    ↪Baku
    LOL. Stop being a troll and maybe you'll learn something about football.
  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    ↪SoCalAggie
    Yeah, I'm not going to say the defense was great, but I think the couple blown coverages stand out and make the performance seem worse. The defense isn't the reason we lost. The turnovers were.
  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    Ok, that was a bad pass that he forced.
  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    Why are we substituting and allowing them to substitute and kill time? Come on, Plough. LIke we shouldn't have to substitute after 1 play when you're trying to run a 2-minute offense.
  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    Welp, that will pretty much do it. Sucks to play our worst game of the year in a very winnable playoff game. And get our star RB hurt in the 1st half.
  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    ↪Baku
    You said it's been an issue for multiple seasons implying that it's been an issue this year. It wasn't an issue this year.

    Two picks today were tipped. That's not necessarily on the QB. And the other two, do we know those were on the QB or maybe the intended target wasn't where they were supposed to be. That's something we're not likely to find out.
  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    Going to need a turnover or a missed FG at this point.

    Kudos to SD for now going uber conservative there also.
  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    ↪Baku
    He had 5 picks in 12 games this year against FCS teams. It wasn't a problem this year.
  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    Come on defense. One stop please.
  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    Touchdown! We're still alive!
  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    Wish we'd have taken an extra shot at the end zone on 2nd or 3rd down rather than running it twice.
  • Quarterfinals Week 16: UC Davis (11-2) @ South Dakota (10-2)
    Great effort to pick up the 1st down.
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