2016 Spring Football

[claver2010]

http://bceagles.com/watch/?Live=213

[twballgame9]

Any one know what the parking situation is up there today? Can we park in commave or beacon? By the plex?

[ILikeBC]

Poor Myles Willis aged about 50 years

[ILikeBC]

Video working for anyone?

[twballgame9]

Davon Jones is listed at rb and is playing back. Wade looks good. Towles has a cannon.

[StratEagle]

Leave it on the main camera angle you mickey mouse idiots.

[NJM89]

Davon Jones is listed at rb and is playing back. Wade looks good. Towles has a cannon.

Chris Garrison making the switch from WR to tight end. Could be a great pass catcher at that position that we havent had in awhile.

[kobenhavn]

video is better quality than my usual espn player

[claver2010]

Davon Jones is listed at rb and is playing back. Wade looks good. Towles has a cannon.

agreed on both

wade looks accurate

think we've completed more passes to the TE than we did all of last year

edit: i thought it was no touch on the qbs? on first drive strahan absolutely smoked wade

[ILikeBC]

Wade looks like the better QB today. But its just today, so we don't really know.

[ILikeBC]

Are our only red zone plays passes to the corner of the endzone?

[eagle9903]

I only got to watch the second half so I barely saw towles or wade.

Anthony brown could be a good one later on. He had two really nice throws including one on the run, but had a really dumb pick in between.

Jeff smith appears to be able to catch the ball which is cool.

Glines will be good.

Oline isn't obviously horrendous.

[StratEagle]

Looks like after two seasons of place kicking hell we may have figured it out.

[twballgame9]

WRs had a very good day including smith Robinson and Barksdale

[dtwalrus]

So, having not watched myself, but just based purely on what people here are saying:
- OLine looks better.
- QB's look better.
- WR's look better.
- Kicking looks better.

So...um...10-2?

[hansen]

My observations.

-windy as hell, not as easy day to throw the ball
-Wade looked liked the better QB today on his throws although Towles showed a lot of poise in the pocket. He was forced several times to throw the ball away several times when nobody was open.
-Thadd smith was disaster at PR. Catches 1 ball at the 2 yard line and tries to catch another one about the same spot which led to a safety.
-Contrary to what people,are saying on TOS, Jeff Smith showed off some great hands. Caught 4 balls by my count, dropped none, and had another batted away by a defender.
-Run defense was stout
-Jeff Smith lined up as a PR. Both attempts led to fair catches.
-Wyatt Ray and Harold Landry had big games. Seemed like they were both constantly in the backfield.
-Mickey mouse production. The video taken through the closed window was a nice tough as were the constant BC propaganda that was flashed on the screen that led to missed plays being show. Or the pictures of players being interviewed albeit with no sound so it led to missed action on the field. Smh

[MF73-Eleazar]

video is better quality than my usual espn player

fairly easy to see the player numbers on jerseys.

[DomingoOrtiz]

My observations.

-Mickey mouse production. The video taken through the closed window was a nice tough as were the constant BC propaganda that was flashed on the screen that led to missed plays being show. Or the pictures of players being interviewed albeit with no sound so it led to missed action on the field. Smh

Cronin's interviews were brutal. Did he think Giacone's speaks from his stomach?

[eagle33]

My observations.

-Mickey mouse production. The video taken through the closed window was a nice tough as were the constant BC propaganda that was flashed on the screen that led to missed plays being show. Or the pictures of players being interviewed albeit with no sound so it led to missed action on the field. Smh

Cronin's interviews were brutal. Did he think Giacone's speaks from his stomach?

Meter drove me away after about 15 minutes. The part I watched Wade looked good and Sweeney had a number of catches, one of them fairly deep for a TE on a Daz coached team.

[DomingoOrtiz]

Observations:
- Looks like we could have a real passing game in 2016. Towles has all the tools: big, tall, ran very well on one play and has a strong arm. Our WRs look so much better; really liked what I saw from Smith. Sweeney looked good at TE.
- DT will be the weakness of our D. We could really use a transfer. Not much there after Gutapfel. Not sure why they moved Vietello.
- Willis and Jones ran the ball well. We could be fine at RB as long as Hiliman and Willis and/or Jones stay healthy.
- The players were really having fun and really got into the Maroon v GoldWhite thing.
- Players that did not dress (that I noticed): Hiliman, Burt, Nosovich, Giacone, Kavalec and Callinan. Callinan was on crutches with a huge brace on his right leg; I could not tell if it was a break (as rumored) or a knee. None of the other guys had visible injuries. It was great to see Cam Moore back on the field so soon.

[basselope]

- Callinan was on crutches with a huge brace on his right leg;

Maybe it was just the Ifeanyi / Billy hand me down?

[ILikeBC]

This is the worst BC football take I've seen in a while...and there's been some pretty shitty takes lately.

http://bcheights.com/sports/football/20 ... -football/

There is Still Cause for Concern with BC Football
by Annabel Steele

Maybe it was the glint of the sun coming out after a long winter in Chestnut Hill. Maybe it was a weird spin on the ball. Whatever it was, it’s safe to say it distracted Thadd Smith. After he waved for a fair catch on a punt return, he failed to actually catch the ball. It bounced off Smith’s helmet and into the endzone, where a mad scramble for the ball ended with a safety and the first points of Boston College football’s Jay McGillis Memorial Spring Game.


There was no more fitting way to open scoring in the game. BC, coming off of a season full of ineptitude and painfully bad losses, couldn’t even score on itself. Instead, the first points were scored on the biggest fluke play ever, a miffed fair catch punt return safety. What’s more, it wasn’t even clear at first which team—the Maroon team or Gold team, the latter of which wore white jerseys for some reason—got the safety. The scoreboard flashed that the two points were going to Maroon, but 12 minutes later changed to show that Gold led 2-0. It didn’t matter in the long run, as Colton Lichtenberg would go on to make two field goals for Maroon, allowing them to come back for a 6-2 victory.

In today’s game, the Eagles picked up where they left off last fall. Each side’s defense looked solid, continuing last year’s successful defensive campaign. Jimmy Martin, Wyatt Ray, Harold Landry, and John Johnson each recorded a sack. Defensive lineman Landry in particular stood out, exploding past both Anthony Palazzolo and Aaron Monteiro to wreak havoc on the Maroon team.

Martin also picked off an Anthony Brown pass in the game. Connor Strachan added four tackles and a forced fumble, while Atem Ntantang’s fumble recovery joined his game-high six tackles. Overall, the defense looked good—a relief, given that the offense looked downright sloppy at times.

And all four of the quarterbacks got playing time today, but none were able to set up drives finishing in touchdowns.


Although the teams managed to reach the red zone, mistakes and miscues ensured that they did not score any touchdowns. Penalties pushed both teams back on multiple occasions. Meanwhile, Wade fumbled (and recovered) the ball in the red zone, wasting a down for the Maroon team. Maroon and Gold could only score in the second quarter, coming up short throughout the first, third, and fourth quarters.

Given that last season, BC’s offense was disastrous and struggled to convert in the red zone, it didn’t look hopeful that the Eagles could not score a touchdown today either. Wade addressed these troubles after the game, assuring that BC would work until it got everything down.

“We haven’t really put too much emphasis on it yet, but we’ll make sure to get it right,” he said.

Yup. Let’s leave it at that.

The defense looked sharp, and the offense looked sloppy. So how about special teams? Well, Lichtenberg made both of his attempted field goals. Both were within 40 yards, but a perfect outing for the kicker is a good sign. Other than that, there wasn’t much to be hopeful about with special teams. Thadd Smith’s miffed fair catch led to that safety. Jeff Smith, meanwhile, who is making the transition from quarterback to wide receiver, didn’t look comfortable as a punt returner.


He was sent out to return the opening kickoff of the second half and waved for a fair catch, evidently unaware that it’s against the rules to fair catch a kickoff. Though it’s early in his transition to wide receiver and he still has time to improve, it wasn’t a good sign in a game full of blunders.

Following the game’s conclusion, players milled around on the field, talking to family and signing autographs for fans. Despite the sloppiness of the contest, there was a carefree atmosphere on the turf, as players laughed and posed for photos, looking unperturbed at the performance that had just been given. This seemingly careless attitude, however, can be attributed to the coaching staff. Head coach Steve Addazio explained that the game was never meant to be overly competitive and that he saw progress regardless of the outcome.

“Today was a day to have some fun,” he said.

[ILikeBC]

I think I should be the editor-in-chief of Yahoo Sports

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr- ... 58631.html

Boston College's spring game ends 6-2 with traditional scoring
By Graham Watson
Dr. Saturday

Any hopes that Boston College’s offense might be better in 2016 were dashed during the Eagles’ spring game on Saturday.

And before you ask, no, this wasn’t one of those weird spring game modified scoring systems. Touchdowns weren’t worth a point apiece. This was a regular football game where first and second-team offenses played against first and second-team defenses and yet neither side was able to score a touchdown.

In fact, for a portion of the contest, the score resembled something from the baseball diamond.

OK, it’s probably too early for Boston College faithful to start panicking. After all, it is only April and the Eagles have some new pieces on offense that probably need a little more work, including Kentucky quarterback transfer Patrick Towles.

And — brightside — it looks like the defense that allowed just 15.3 point per game a year ago seems to be in season form.

However, this is a Boston College team that ranked 121st nationally with just 17.2 points per game. It failed to win a conference game despite many valiant efforts from the defense. So for the offense to continue to look ragged a half-a-year later has to be disheartening.

[eagle33]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2631 ... mes/page/3

Boston College's offense became a punch line last season en route to a 3-9 record and winless mark in ACC play, with the Eagles averaging 17.2 points and 275.6 yards per game. It was even worse when you took out the numbers against two FCS opponents, which put them down to 10.6 points and 246.5 yards against FBS competition.

Based on what we saw in the spring game, the jokes will keep on coming in 2016.

Using a standard scoring system—unlike the modified ones that some schools use, awarding points for defensive stops and takeaways—neither BC's Maroon or White squad could manage a touchdown. The final score was 6-2, which was the result of two field goals and a muffed punt that resulted in a safety, and that was the score at halftime.

While it should be noted that BC's defense was darn good last year (it ranked first in FBS, allowing 254.3 yards per game), that doesn't take away from the fact there's still a lot of work to do on the offensive side.

[twballgame9]

Given that last season, BC’s offense was disastrous and struggled to convert in the red zone, it didn’t look hopeful that the Eagles could not score a touchdown today either.

What does that even mean? Had to read it four times.

[hansen]

Given that last season, BC’s offense was disastrous and struggled to convert in the red zone, it didn’t look hopeful that the Eagles could not score a touchdown today either.

What does that even mean? Had to read it four times.

Comma splice

[angrychicken]

Were the end zones painted black yesterday?

[Iggle]

the only "concerning" thing coming out of the spring game was this fun quote

http://bceagles.com/news/2016/4/16/football-spring-game-player-quotes.aspx

Like you said, pretty much just passing attempts. The offense, like I said, it has different wrinkles. We have a new offensive coordinator but at the end of the day, it's Addazio's offense. We're trying to keep everything pretty base and vanilla today and we're just happy that we're able to connect and make some plays.

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

who is the bigger thief; buttcut or slaughter?

[HJS]

The worst part of the chick-who's-trying-way-too-hard-to-be-relevant-by-being-critical-so-she-too-can-join-Sully-and-work-for-Mike-Farrell was this quote...

Following the game’s conclusion, players milled around on the field, talking to family and signing autographs for fans. Despite the sloppiness of the contest, there was a carefree atmosphere on the turf, as players laughed and posed for photos, looking unperturbed at the performance that had just been given. This seemingly careless attitude, however, can be attributed to the coaching staff. Head coach Steve Addazio explained that the game was never meant to be overly competitive and that he saw progress regardless of the outcome.

First of all... get a fucking Thesaurus. There are a few more adjectives in the English language than sloppy. Further, it is poorly chosen for someone who is trying to be outrageous. Sloppy is a term used to describe an otherwise capable entity providing a subpar performance due to inattentiveness.

Second of all... no Spring Game has ever had anything but a light-hearted tone. It is the final scrimmage of the Spring and is so unimportant that Dazoo didn't have one the past 2 years. That said, EagleWings and Nate Funk agree with her as to the critical importance of the game.

Though I didn't quote it, it is outrageous to snidely mention "haven't practice redzone much" without pointing out that this is a brand new OC.

Finally, I don't expect a 20-year-old chaser to provide much of anything. Nor do I expect national bloggers to treat the joke that is BC athletics fairly. Accordingly, I have not been disappointed by either. It really speaks to how reviled BC has become by purposely trying to race Wake and Vandy to the bottom.