Pack vs. Deacs – Raging Semi-Live Blog

This week, we have an interesting matchup (bad league foe on the road is a good acid test for a team likely to be on the bowl qualification fence), combined with a dearth of channel flipping options. Thus, you good people get to suffer through at least sort of a live blogging.

The early slate is quite meh (living up to my expectations), so I have nothing clever to say pre-kickoff. See you in 90-ish minutes.

3:07 – I assume (and am prepared to be furious when said assumption is wrong) that FSCR will break away from the Ball State/WaHooWa thriller for our kickoff. Third quarter just ended in HooVille.

3:18 – The Holes are officially dead in the water. Huzzah!

3:33 – Time to switch feeds, fuckwits.

3:38 – Fury has begun, full force.

3:40 – I have seen FSCR cut away to the Holes and Devils on numerous occasions. But not for NC State, when they can show the end of an uncompetitive MAC blowout of an out-of-state team. Total f-ing bullshit.

3:43 – This is how one gets treated in Swoffy’s ACC. One set of rules for the blues, one for everyone else.

3:48 – Per GameTracker, teams have traded touchback punts.

3:52 – 4th and 2 from Wake 35 – we should have gone for it or kicked a FG. QB pooch punt was a weak call.

3:54 – Ball State can run out the clock now. Thank God. But count on a coach interview and a long commercial break. Because we aren’t one of the blues.

3:56 – Oh goodie. We get Wes Durham too.

3:57 – Ridiculous spot and Wake will have a first down inside our 15. Punting is a bad idea in any close situation. Exhibit A.

4:01 – First score of the game is a Wake TD. FFS. Same shit, different year.

4:02 – Do remember that Wake’s defense has struggled even more than its offense. We should score plenty. SHOULD.

4:05 – Possible kickoff return fumble. Nobody saying anything, though I think down by contact. Not looking like our day.

4:09 – Offense on the move. Need to finish this drive. LiveBlog will take a cooking break now.

4:47 – Cooking completed, and Wake has bled a shitton of clock. 7-3, nearing the two minute non-warning.

4:50 – Wake with a silly 14 yard punt. Stupid, now we need to capitalize.

4:52 – Wide open deep throw, perfect by Thomas…and it’s dropped. Flat out dropped. Wake’s front seven is so slow that Thomas is killing them with his LEGS. It’s the only thing that’s working for us.

5:01 – It’s a half full of coaching Karma – we also punish Grobe’s weak punt decision with seven, and it’s 10-7 Pack.

5:02 – Was feeling good until the secondary shat the bed. Ugh.

5:04 – Aaaaaannnnd the game feed goes kaput. Mickey Mouse crap.

5:06 – Per GameTracker…TD pass to Campanaro on 3rd and goal. 6 seconds left. Good Lord.

Your Halftime Score – Wake 14, State 10.

5:26 – In case you were wondering, Clemson murdering Cuse even worse than they did Wake. Miami on the march to take the lead. I think they are really just a rich man’s Maryland – good enough to win 7-8 games against an ACC schedule, but no threat to Clemson or FSU.

5:29 – Now that I can see the replay…Campanaro WAS double covered, but each guy foolishly bit on the double move. Duh, it was third and goal FFS.

5:31 – Smith’s injury is huge – this kind of front seven would be sliced and diced by the jet sweep.

5:35 – What would have been a 60-yard TD to Underwood is just a yard or two overthrown. Ramos’ circus catch is wasted and State will punt.

5:39 – Empty backfield, somehow NOBODY diagnoses the OBVIOUS QB draw.

5:41 – Better late than never I guess.

5:43 – FG is good, lead is seven. But no…we ROUGHED THE FUCKING KICKER.

5:48 – Immediate TD and State is in deep wolfshit.

5:53 – Offense is on the move again. Gonna need at least two TDs.

6:00 – The toss sweep is ineffective, 4th and goal. Kicking the FG, ugh.

6:11 – Now the defense steps up, and the offense fades. Very frustrating. And my kids are fighting over shoes. Fucking shoes. This is my life.

6:13 – ACC football. Still a dumpster fire. 3rd quarter is kaput, 21-13 Wake.

6:17 – Three and out redux. On the bright side…terrific punt.

6:21 – That was NOT a horsecollar. But Campanaro convinces the gullible ref anyway. Again…God, how I hate the ACC.

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332 Responses to Pack vs. Deacs – Raging Semi-Live Blog

  1. ancsu87 10/06/2013 at 5:54 PM #

    Exactly Cowdog. It was unfortunate that the first road game for this team and staff was at WF. We have NEVER played well there. On top of that they had 4 straight home games. Not surprising the result. You also can’t expect a Jim Groebe team to play shitty all year.

  2. Wulfpack 10/06/2013 at 7:26 PM #

    Interesting note re: our schedule:

    • Here’s an unforeseen complication to what seemingly looks like a favorable schedule for N.C. State: Wake Forest was the first of three ACC opponents that plays Clemson the week before facing N.C. State.

    The problem there, as Wake Forest showed, is after getting racked by the Tigers, most teams are naturally going to play better – at least by comparison – the next week against N.C. State.

    Wake lost 56-7 to Clemson and looked like a different team in a 28-13 win over N.C. State. Syracuse lost 49-14 at home to the Tigers on Saturday. The Orange come to Raleigh this week. Of course, the same principle applies to N.C. State after its subpar performance against Wake Forest.

  3. 1time 10/06/2013 at 8:28 PM #

    All I’m saying, is do not jump, all in, on anything or anybody right now.

    It’s simply too early to tell. That goes for Doeren and Staff as it relates to the current roster, on the Mitchell vs Thomas deal, or on anything else for that matter. Let them prove themselves out on the football field before shifting into all-out defense mode for one over the other. And, when regarding what are actually a whole bunch of unknowns for all of us, coaches and players included, at this particular point in time.

    Patience people, patience.

  4. Big Dog 10/06/2013 at 8:34 PM #

    I am not down on DD, the staff or the players. Grobe and WF needed a win and they got it at our expense. He is a talented coach who put together a winning game plan; my hat is off to him. We have a below average offensive line and a QB that is a square peg in a round hole. Without a running game or a mobile quarterback in Canada’s scheme, we will be ineffective as we demonstrated Saturday. Throw in a poor defensive performance and Campanaro’s excellent day, and it went down the crap shoot rather quickly.

    I’ve been a player on a team making these transitions before and it is a complicated formula. It’s a huge effort to get all to buy into the “system” and become one. This year, I have taken all expectations off the table with respect to wins and losses and have chosen to focus on the program as a whole after coming to loathe TOB and his style. I see a lot of coaching and teaching going on during the game that never happened before. It’s so refreshing to see emotion coming from both the players and the staff during a game. How about the hug of Avent by Doeren during the baseball team presentation; honest passion and respect given in the moment. It is obvious the staff and the players have come a long way in the time they have been here on campus, while knowing we all have a long way to go as well. No one knows this more than the staff that lives with these players each day.

    I want to win as much an anyone, but this will be a slip and slide season. Recruiting seems to be going well, some young guys are getting quality time while making freshman mistakes on the field. Hopefully, we will be getting another dimension to the offense in a couple of weeks. The team will get back to it this week, put the WF film in the can and focus on ‘Cuse.

    Let’s hang with these guys and support them in every way possible. I guarantee it will turn around and make us all proud; Doeren and his staff are talented and working hard to get it done with few weapons and some strategic, untimely injuries to key players.

    Go Pack!

  5. GAWolf 10/07/2013 at 7:28 AM #

    Wulfpack: That’s a very interesting fact. It could become much more obvious as these games unfold. Essentially, we run the same offense as Clemson. Unfortunately, our athletes are half as talented as most of Clemson’s. So… these three teams get whipped by the same offense the week before they play a team half as talented. That’s a recipe for disaster for sure.

  6. Classof89 10/07/2013 at 9:19 AM #

    The best way I found to put this game in perspective: Rivers went 1-1 there, and lost as a senior. Russell Wilson lost there. Glennon lost there. Why in the @#$% are we surprised a journeyman like Thomas would perform poorly against a well coached team that circles the visit from NC State every two years in, well, red, on their calendar?

    Don’t think I’ve ever seen a series between two long time rivals where one team performs so dominantly at home, and so poorly on the road. 10 points worse, home vs. away I can understand. But 46 point turnaround? (37-6 win to 28-13 loss) WTF?

  7. RedandWhite97 10/07/2013 at 12:11 PM #

    11-17-2007 => 18-38 (WS)
    11-15-2008 => 21-17 (Ral)
    10-03-2009 => 24-30 (WS)
    11-13-2010 => 38-3, Raleigh, NC
    09-10-2011 => 27-34, Winston-Salem, NC
    11-10-2012 => 37-6, Raleigh, NC
    10-05-2013 => 13-28, Winston-Salem, NC

    ^Yes, the last 7 games have had us winning in Raleigh and WF winning in WS. I know circumstances change (roster, etc.), but the last two times in W-S, I’ve been sucked into thinking we will win based on the previous year’s dominating win.

    I didn’t get to watch the game on Saturday, but I’m in the camp that we have too many key players out right now, in addition to what others have said regarding depth (we are thin) and this is year one of the DD era. PT has done admirably, but I think there will be a fairly significant change in output from the QB position when Mitchell comes back and is up to speed.

    Even if Mitchell is back this weekend, it will be interesting to see what impact he has. If I understand correctly, he just started throwing……..how about running? It could be a couple more weeks before he can have the impact we all hope he can have.

    After seeing the score of the FSU/UMd game, I think I’d rather BM not do too much running around until November.

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