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What changed during the Pitt and Rutgers game that tipped things away from the Orange?

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What changed during the Pitt and Rutgers game that tipped things away from the Orange?

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Syracuse seems to be playing actual football the way you play video game football when the game console decides it’s going to beat you no matter what. The game always allows you one or two drives to try and score as much as you can before flipping that internal switch. All of a sudden, all of your passes are intercepted, the opponent is throwing 50-yard bombs to wide-open receivers and your running game goes completely nowhere. Before you know it, that 10-0 lead is a 28-10 deficit. It’s been clear all season that two areas the Orange have been lacking in are tackling and conditioning. If you can’t tackle well, a good running back will eventually tear you up, like we saw with UConn’s Brown or Pitt’s McCoy. And if you’re not conditioned, you’re going to break down late in the game, which has happened over and over this season. It’s past the point of being appalling that they haven’t fixed this yet because now we just expect it. The shame of it all is that, believe it or not, we’re one of

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