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Last weekend, if you read my rambling, you know that I actually accomplished a few things. I've managed to carry that feeling over for the week (except for the diet thing, where I've been quite poor about avoiding temptation).
Yesterday, we had a bunch of folks over for Sunday Kickoff, wherein I got to watch my team get slaughtered, and I mean horribly terribly awfully pantsed. They looked terrible.
We decided to get some UT in between the afternoon games and the evening game, but we were short a computer. I had all the pieces for a guest PC that I'd collected last weekend, tho I didn't know if they all worked or worked together.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
strider13 helped me assemble the parts, and to my surprise, everything worked flawlessly, first time. We got it up and running from component parts (all the way down to the power supply being switched) to a working PC with WinXP and Unreal Tournament 2004 in about 2.5 hours. I'm pretty pleased with that.
I also got a good playtest of Heir Apparent in, it went very well. Things are looking good for my little game.
Yesterday, we had a bunch of folks over for Sunday Kickoff, wherein I got to watch my team get slaughtered, and I mean horribly terribly awfully pantsed. They looked terrible.
We decided to get some UT in between the afternoon games and the evening game, but we were short a computer. I had all the pieces for a guest PC that I'd collected last weekend, tho I didn't know if they all worked or worked together.
strider13 helped me assemble the parts, and to my surprise, everything worked flawlessly, first time. We got it up and running from component parts (all the way down to the power supply being switched) to a working PC with WinXP and Unreal Tournament 2004 in about 2.5 hours. I'm pretty pleased with that.I also got a good playtest of Heir Apparent in, it went very well. Things are looking good for my little game.
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Denver?
Date: 2005-09-13 02:59 am (UTC)They do not look good. Time to draft a replacement for Plummer!
Re: Denver?
Date: 2005-09-13 03:20 am (UTC)We looked really good in preseason.
There's a couple of reasons I won't take that game as normal, and will reserve judgement for the next couple of games.
1) We were expected to crush Miami. Denver has a long history of losing games were supposed to win.
2) Nobody knew what Nick Saban really had to offer. The team is substantially different than it's been.
3) Jake doesn't do humidity. We've seen it before. High humidity and he wilts. He won't say it, but I suspect that a moister ball has slightly different thrown properties. Also, it really takes it out of you.
4) Even with that, we are something stupid like 2-7 in Miami.
5) Defense looked great until Bailey got hurt. Then without Bailey, and with Walls and Williams (that's 3 cornerbacks if you're counting) sitting out in the 3rd quarter due to cramps...we were playing a safety in the cornerback position and our backup safety isn't even a great safety, let alone a cornerback. Frerotte has a fantastic arm and he was able to pick us apart deep.
Tatum Bell is not a power runner, and he was the wrong runner for that D-Line. But Ron Dayne wasn't dressed and Anderson went out on his 4th carry.
It was bad.
Still, I will allow the team to write this off as a bad day. They have the opportunity to make up for it next Sunday at home against the Chargers.
Re: Denver?
Date: 2005-09-19 06:23 am (UTC)Defense is better than advertised. And Plummer makes more good decisions than bad these days. He's still not worth his contract, but he's getting better.
Re: Denver?
Date: 2005-09-19 02:57 pm (UTC)The offense, on the other hand, lost that game to be honest. They were able to make a few good plays, and Plummer definitely has improved in his ability to not be impetuous, but we missed far, far too many standard plays to be playoff caliber.
My biggest concern is that one of our big strengths is supposed to be our O-Line, but I wasn't impressed. Our running game relies on the O-Line making the hole, an the runner having the chance to slip through it. When that happened? Good runs. But how often did that happen? Not as often as it seems like it should.
Yesterday, in the last quarter, our passing game opened up the run. That's the wrong order, and you can only win games that way if you have Barry Sanders. And, um. Even Barry Sanders didn't win games that way, so maybe you just can't win like that.
On the plus side: We held Tomlinson to 56 yards (and 2 scores, heh. But holy cow that first score of his was an amazing offensive play, making the defense bite the other way, and we bit hard).