From the Trenches: Louisville recap

Photo by Gregory Fisher/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesI’m going to lead this one off with one thing and one thing alone. There’s an excuse for a number of things that happened to the Syracuse Orange offensive line on Saturday. Accounting for about 80+ percent of the 107 penalty yards that the Orange racked up on the day is not one of those things. I’m sure Mike Schmidt is giving the entire unit a talking to. Every lineman that wasn’t named Matthew Bergeron had at least a false start on the day. That in itself is hard to fathom, and I can chalk some of that up to the scheme change and the feel for cadence against live personnel. Hell, even Coach Dino Babers insinuated in his press conference that there was some shady dealings from the Louisville defensive line (most likely call mimicking by what Dino mentioned). But even with all those things, that was a rough look at it.

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