Yeah I can get on board with what you’re saying. I will say that on the first drive we got great push and the hold was not needed by Noel. Same with Simmons hold on the next play. Ball was out to Klotz right away. Who knows what that drive nets though.
We actually ran the ball okay. Our ypc was fine. The drive where we got stuffed isn’t as bad as you’re saying. I don’t like that Sanders was in there, but even so, we got 8 yards before getting stuffed on one play and then we got a small QB in on a sneak.
UNI is a well coached team. When it was clear we were not going to be aggressive, they stacked the box and sent run blitzes. If you look at the drives where we didn’t have JJ in, or we weren’t just running it to drain the clock, we were above average. We have been much much worse against UNI.
I do agree on the WRs. They didn’t show much, but we also didn’t throw the ball much. Gonna have to put a pin in that.
Agree on UNI being well coached and having been worse. I guess my grade is in part it felt like a very Tom Manning game plan.
Which is fine, but then, if you're going to have a Tom Manning game plan, why not have Tom Manning? I guess that was my biggest confusion.
I get protecting young quarterbacks and being vanilla. But it almost looked like at times in terms of play selection we got rid of Manning and then used his call sheet.
Our best drives were drives where we mixed in the outside zone or the buck sweep - that first run I literally leapt out of the chair with excitement when we hit on the perimeter and it looked like we pulled or did a wide reach. I was like, "yes!" then we preceeded to run inside zone 45 billion times Lol.
If we're going to win Saturday and I hope to high chickens we do - but we're going to have to probably pass for north of 150. Unless we are able to run effectively. And I don't know if 5-6 yard passes to the TE is going to cut it.
