Whether it was the complete moon or the vibe of Halloween end of the week, Charlotte’s scariest execution of the season came at its greatest spot — spiraling back to the turf of Richardson Stadium, where Florida Atlantic disassembled Biff Poggi’s 49ers, winning 38-16 and pushing Charlotte to the brink of bowl-elimination.
Florida Atlantic (4-4, 3-1 AAC) moved the ball for 347 yards of add up to offense on Friday, and wideout LaJohntay Wester reeled in a career-best 149 yards and two touchdowns, unmasking a Charlotte defense that had been great for two straight weeks.
Not at all like the Week 3 misfortune to Georgia State, Poggi’s dissatisfaction exceeded the outrage — putting the blowout misfortune on the defense.
“It was a baffling night. We thought we were aiming to play truly well, particularly after final week’s win. The as it were measurement that things is 38 to 16. Protectively, we were truly baffled. We fair made a part of mistakes.”
To include offended to damage, Charlotte misplaced quarterbacks Jalon Jones and Trexler Ivey within the misfortune. Poggi wouldn’t expound on either damage with the media, but told ESPN’s 730 the Diversion that both quarterbacks might “miss time.”
Charlotte played four quarterbacks within the misfortune, with the season debuts for Oklahoma exchange Micah Bowens and Dom Shoffner coming once the game was well out of reach.
What went off-base
Friday night’s amusement wasn’t special within the score, which marks Charlotte’s fifth sequential misfortune to the Owls. What was curiously were the measurements, which Poggi expressed are “for losers” after checking on the box score.
Charlotte won the turnover fight, had the ball for about twice as long as the Owls, ran 30 more plays than the Owls and scored on each trip to the ruddy zone. Florida Atlantic outgained Charlotte by fair 22 yards and permitted six changes on Charlotte’s eight fourth-down endeavors.
So, what went off-base? Poggi expounded taking after the misfortune.
“I think what went off-base is that we fair aren’t restrained however as a football team. We appear flashes of truly great things, and after that we exceptionally rapidly return back to a few undisciplined behaviors. You have got to need to dispense with those botches. The extracurricular stuff — that’s fair unpardonable. How do we settle it? Truly, we’re attempting everything. But we’ve need to keep trying.”
After committing nine punishments for 90 yards against East Carolina, Poggi playfully said that “torture” was his strategy for settling the self-inflicted blunders. Charlotte exceeded their season-high of nine penalties Friday night, totaling 12 banners for 104 yards, counting different individual foul punishments, highlighted by an unsportsmanlike conduct punishment on Eyabi Okie-Anoma taking after the conclusion of the primary half.
Lowering defense
After holding both Naval force and ECU scoreless within the to begin with half in successive weeks, Florida Atlantic squandered no time scoring the game’s first two touchdowns on drives of 75 and 59 yards within the to begin with quarter.
Everything was working for the Owls’ offense, which required fair six plays or less to discover the conclusion zone on four of five add up to landing drives. The solitary amplified drive was a back-breaker late within the to begin with half, traveling 94 yards on 10 plays with quarterback Daniel Richardson finding Wester, his favorite target, for a 26-yard score to provide the Owls a commanding 15-point lead into the break.
Richardson picked Ryan Osborn’s defense separated through three quarters, completing 18 of his 25 passes for 216 yards and three touchdowns. Richardson did hurl an interferences for the 6th straight diversion within the fourth quarter, when CJ Burton reeled in his to begin with interferences as a 49er off of a tip-drill.
Osborn, Charlotte’s protective facilitator, put the misfortune on himself taking after the diversion.
“I didn’t do agreat sufficient work planning these folks. They weren’t prepared to play, and that falls on me. You’ve seen through the primary seven diversions, for the foremost portion, our folks have played truly difficult and given awesome exertion. The execution falls on me. They had a few explosive receivers that we talked approximately prior in the week, and I didn’t do a great sufficient work putting them in position to execute. It falls on me. I’ll observe the tape and get back to work.”
Charlotte was without its best corner, Dontae Balfour, as well as security Wayne Jones. Wester and the Owls’ offense took advantage of numerous one-on-one matchups with Al-Ma’hi Ali and Maguire Neal in scope. Poggi expressed that the group managed with the flu all through the week, driving to numerous protectors lost the challenge.
The 6th misfortune of the season, and the third continuous at domestic, brought out the boo-birds from 10,857 in participation, taking off a half-empty Richardson Stadium as the clock dwindled. Charlotte fizzled to wrap up drives, settling for three Kyle Cunanan field objectives, interfacing from 36 on the game’s opening ownership and 44 yards out on two separate occasions — tying a school record for the foremost field goals in a amusement.
But it was the hesitation at quarterback that taken a toll Charlotte.
Coaching troubles
Charlotte was safeguarded out by a missed 48-yard field objective at ECU, permitting numerous vital coaching flubs to slide beneath the floor covering with a triumph over an in-state match sparkling through. But the uncertainty at quarterback and troublesome center eight of Friday night’s diversion demonstrated deadly.
After naming Jones the starter taking after his best execution as a 49er against ECU, Charlotte returned to the two-quarterback framework Friday night. On the 6th play of the diversion, Jones supported a brutal hit from Jaylen Wester, who driven with the crown of his protective cap to Jones’ stomach and was shot out from the amusement taking after a focusing on punishment. Jones would return on the following drive, taking after a trip to the restorative tent.
Hostile facilitator Mike Mill operator talked around the quarterback revolution taking after the amusement.
“Jalon got knicked early within the amusement — that was a huge portion of it. He was assessed at halftime and still required time to see on the off chance that he might (return),” Mill operator said. “We’ve had them both prepared to play, and they’re both competitors.”
Trailing 21-6 some time recently the break, Poggi embedded Ivey into the lineup to lead a two-minute bore. The drive comprised of two 4-yard passes and a disposable on a planned roll-out, sandwiched between two delay-of-game punishments to begin and conclusion the ownership — driving to the conclusion of the to begin with half. The Owls squandered fair 1:14 of amusement clock on the primary drive of the moment half, utilizing the extra punishment yardage from Okie-Anoma’s halftime punishment and moving 57 yards in fair three plays to put thediversion out of reach.
Poggi, the 63-year-old coach, made the decision not to speak to his team after the game.
They’re processing their own feelings, and I’m processing mine, so that’s the reason (for not addressing). I want to show them some decency, respect, and room. I have to see the movie. This will serve as a teaching scenario for us. Personally, I would really like to see the children learn how to better regulate their emotions when playing a game. You have to make an effort to learn these life lessons. You can’t just go crazy all the time, and things won’t always go smoothly. We will continue to work on it.
