He jumped and was fully extended to get his fingers on it.  He may have mistimed his jump, but that wasn't an easy catch.  McCoy didn't need to float that one so much.  The fumble was all Charles.  He doesn't seem to focus on protecting the ball unless someone is coming at him from the front.  

There is no way you can blame that tipped ball on him.  It hit his outstretched fingertips.

jamaal is not a WR and he cant grow two inches on demand, a GOOD WR would've pulled that down, the throw was too high.

however, that fumble was a huge momentum changer and since he was cruising into the end zone cost us 7 points in my opinion. this was a sure score as opposed to the INT and is something that could have been helped since we've seen JC fumble time and time again and not adjust to correct the problem. this is especially terrible given his disregard for the problem (publicly stating "i can't lose my starting job b/c of fumbles" after the ucf game).

"Gentlemen, it would have been better for you to have died as small children than to put my football on the ground."  

We need more of this attitude from the running backs coaches.  Fumblitis has persited way too long, and it needs to go away.  At this point, only an extremly regimented treatment will begin to make this terrible disease start to go away.  

but, I think he's played himself out of the starting spot.

way too tentative and way too casual with the ball.

he needs to realize that you only get credited with rushing yards when you're making progress toward the endzone.

have the numbers on his fumbles???  i mean, like how many does he have???

it says he's never had a fumble in his career....

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/player...

"I just saw the end zone and was trying to do too much," Charles said of his critical fumble. "I had a good hold on it."

Hopefully the film study shows him how wrong he is, although he has always denied that he has a problem.  

"Good hold on it"?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?...

I haven't looked at the tape but I have a thought. Is Jaamal's track training hurting his ability to hold onto the football?

I would think that track athletes swing their arms out farther back then football players. When Jaamal gets going full speed, that natural track instinct might kick in and his arm swings back farther, exposing the football. I don't know.

I think all of the talk of lack of coaching, track training hurting him, etc is just dancing around the obvious point.

Jamaal Charles has a fumbling problem and if all of us know it, he must know it too.  The bottom line is if you recognize you have that problem, inside the five yard line you should have both hands securing the ball at all times.

I seriously doubt the coaches haven't worked themselves to exhaustion trying to fix this.  Despite whatever they're doing, whenever he breaks for a big run or gets close to scoring he seems to lose concentration on anything other than running.  Has anyone else noticed that he usually fumbles either a) when he's broken free for a big run or b) when he's close to scoring.

He's just not focusing and that's something that should be penalized until corrected.  If McGee doesn't start getting significantly more carries immediately, I think our coaches are sending Charles the wrong message.

Not replacing the LB's for their questionable play is surprising, not replacing a guy with a track record (no pun intended) for putting the ball on the ground in the most critical of situations is suicidal.  

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