Damarcus Smith is warming up on the sidelines

[Ben Gooding]

Was he warming up to play defense? We gave up 562 yards of total offense. Mcnulty threw for 303 yards and 2 TDs against 1 pick. Look at this situation rationally.

I knew garbage bs like this was going to be thrown around. He had garbage yards, pretty common in football. When it mattered most (which was right after halftime) he threw a quick pick paired with back to back 3 and outs immediately following. 

[MeanGreen13]

McNulty was average today- he actually looked above average on a few drives, but his overall play was very average.   The plays were definitely called to McNulty's skill set: quick 5-10 yard routes, and once Rice shut these down, McNulty struggled.  Remember, McNulty was playing against a below average Rice secondary.  The interception was not on McNulty, that one was on Harris.  I think Macs assessment of McNulty's performance today guarantees that he will start the next 4-6 games.  

It is going to be a long season- I only see 2-3 winnable games:  Portland State, UTSA, UTEP

he missed a wide open receiver by 3-4 yards on a short route... that was absolutely on McNulty.

[TheTastyGreek]

Umm . . . I've been a critic of McNulty, and McNulty was not great.  But I'm not sure why anyone would put this loss entirely on him.  He didn't fumble that punt.  He helped drive the team to the 5 yard line or so before someone else fumbled.  He threw a pick; but to be fair, he had thrown the ball where only his guy could get it until his guy bumped it to a DB.

And we knew our D would have to force some turnovers or special teams would have to have some big plays to have a real chance to win.  Neither happened.

This one is not all, or even mostly, on McNulty.

 

Agreed. McNulty wasn't the reason we lost this game. If this were his floor, not his (apparent) ceiling? We could legitimately be a pretty good team. 

If everyone had played at his level, this would have been a win. I'm not saying that glimmers of adequacy mean he ought to get a long leash... If you told me we were going another direction at QB next week, even after a decent performance? I wouldn't complain. But, that's not going to happen. As was pointed out to me before today's kickoff... It was probably insanity to think Coach Mac wouldn't give McNulty the chance to start a game in Iowa. 

After next week, though? Who knows what we see. 

[MeanGreen13]

McNulty played way better than he usually does but he will absolutely not make plays to win the game for you. the defense was on the field for 40-45 minutes today, that, couple with a rough game for the dbs and 3 more db injuries, lead to a bad 2nd half. this was a full team loss and Ivery has just as much to do with the loss as McNulty does, if not more. that being said, he was still not very good. But he is apparently the best we can do.

what I don't get is how short of a leash everyone else on the team is on except for Mcnulty. O-linemen got pulled in the SMU game last week... receivers are getting pulled. everyone is playing for their spot except the most important position... he can take his pants off and poop on the midfield SOW and be in the next play.

Edited September 19, 2015 by MeanGreen13

[BillySee58]

I knew garbage bs like this was going to be thrown around. He had garbage yards, pretty common in football. When it mattered most (which was right after halftime) he threw a quick pick paired with back to back 3 and outs immediately following. 

Do you think this program has been put in the situation where we are one Damarcus Smith away from being a good team? 

[GMG24]

Do you think this program has been put in the situation where we are one Damarcus Smith away from being a good team? 

hell no, I just want to see him sling the Rock. We looked like a good JV team playing a Varsity team this afternoon. Speed, size, and quickness 90 percent in their favor. They have some impressive looking young men.

[Ben Gooding]

Do you think this program has been put in the situation where we are one Damarcus Smith away from being a good team? 

I believe we are one decent (EFFICIENT) QB from being competitive in most of our games and making a run for a bowl. If that is a good team to you then yes I think we are. 

[Andrew]

I do hope our team and coaches learned something today. Rice went for it on fourth down and tried to push it al the way down the field with 42 seconds left till the half. We would have punted and taken a knee to get into the locker room. Rice took chances that we don't. 

[LongJim]

Mcnutly sets the tone. Offense; defense, and special teams feed off him. He is awful and only padded his stats with one lucky pass to Harris that was a wobbler. Carlos Harris made that play for McNulty. Otherwise he would have ad numbers. 

What a load of BS...

[GOMG2013]

yes corner, let's see Marshall and Preston let's see if they unlike Davis AND Whitfield can keep a WR in front of them and break on the ball.

secondary played bad.  Not really sure about the davis keeping the wr in front of him comment cause he hasn't been beat by a wr going by him.  He was beaten on the slant after the kidsy fumble.  Thats the only pass on him this year. Still a bad play. He lined up inside and still allowed parks to release inside.  Coverage was tight though.  Not sure why marshall can't see the field.  Our safeties had much more trouble than our corners.  Whit was beaten pretty good before the half.  Wasn't much time left, he shoulda just taken the PI penalty and tackled him.  Secondary looked bad. A lot of plays in the middle though.  Thats safety.

[Andrew]

What a load of BS...

how many games have we won where Mcnutly is the only QB to touch the field? 

[Christopher Walker]

McNulty playing "average" was much better than most of the team.   Turnovers and a porous defense lost this game.  

Time of possession stats:

Rice 41:50

UNT 18:10

 

Up-tempo is not going to work for us in this way and I guaran-damn-tee this will be used as a scapegoat of failures by McCarney come around game 6.

[EagleMBA]

Smith and Greer took off the red hats and sideline gear, put on their helmets, and started warming up. I asked my seat neighbor if he brought his jacket because Hell was about to freeze over.  But it was all a tease.

[BillySee58]

hell no, I just want to see him sling the Rock. We looked like a good JV team playing a Varsity team this afternoon. Speed, size, and quickness 90 percent in their favor. They have some impressive looking young men.

Yeah, I want to see him too. I just think people are being delusional focusing all their blame on a QB who should've been recruited over well before Smith, as if he is the problem we're sitting 0-2 in year 5 of Mccarney's tenure. It's a big-picture issue and starting at Mcnulty is starting way too low.

Edited September 20, 2015 by BillySee58

[Ben Gooding]

Time of possession stats:

Rice 41:50

UNT 18:10

 

Up-tempo is not going to work for us in this way and I guaran-damn-tee this will be used as a scapegoat of failures by McCarney come around game 6.

Yep. HE makes decisions and HE is quick to vomit up an excuse. I honestly believe he thinks we are abunch of small time football fans with small time football IQ's. 

[UNTEngr.#43]

Look at UT they took out swoops and put Denton native Heard in and now he is making UT look like a good team again. Let's do that with D.Smith hopefully he can make UNT look like a solid team in CUSA.

[UNT 90 Grad]

Was he warming up to play defense? We gave up 562 yards of total offense. Mcnulty threw for 303 yards and 2 TDs against 1 pick. Look at this situation rationally.

He was warming up when Rice was about to go up by 4 touchdowns, but when our defense stopped them on 4th down in the red zone, he took is helmet off and put his red cap back on.  That's when we had the 93 yard pass play from McNulty to Harris.  Looked like they were going to put Smith in for garbage time.

[Mean_Green09]

A lot of people's worst nightmare on here.  McNulty not playing well enough to win, but not bad enough to get pulled.  

Coming into this year I thought McNulty was going to have to play better than Thompson did his SR yr if we were going to go bowling. We all know that's impossible bc he is too inconsistent. 

Did he play better yes. Was it good enough no. Will he be worse next week probably. 

Again we are now 6-18 under Mac when we throw more than 30 passes. 

Todays loss was not all his fault, but he contributed. 

[GoMeanGreen1999]

Speaking of using other players, does anyone know why we pulled our star punter and put in a different one for the second half punt?

[Cr1028]

562 yards to Rice, and 31 points to an SMU team last week that hadn't scored 30 points in 16 games. We have problems at more positions than 1.

They scored 37 on TCU last night in TCU's house. Rice put up 28 on UT despite turning the ball over 5 times. Rice and SMU are much better than anyone would've expected. Let's be real though, before the season began more than half on this board penciled the rice game in as a loss anyway.

After we lose to Iowa, how we play against Southern Miss and Portland State will really tell how the season will unfold.

 

Edited September 20, 2015 by Cr1028

[UNT 90 Grad]

Speaking of using other players, does anyone know why we pulled our star punter and put in a different one for the second half punt?

We have situational punters.  One is used for distance and the other is used for accuracy.  

[GoMeanGreen1999]

We have situational punters.  One is used for distance and the other is used for accuracy.  

Well I guess that makes a little more sense.  So the second half we only needed an 18 yard punt and we needed it to be accurate?

[UNT 90 Grad]

Well I guess that makes a little more sense.  So the second half we only needed an 18 yard punt and we needed it to be accurate?

 

[greenit]

Well I guess that makes a little more sense.  So the second half we only needed an 18 yard punt and we needed it to be accurate?

Of course. Those national championships don't just win themselves. 

[Quoner]

Yep. HE makes decisions and HE is quick to vomit up an excuse. I honestly believe he thinks we are abunch of small time football fans with small time football IQ's. 

To be fair, you're giving him a ton of material to reach that conclusion.