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Message: [QUOTE="ImperialOrange, post: 1127729, member: 362"] The reason I'm optimistic that we will get better is we had multiple big plays avail where our QB was 1/2 second slow diagnosing. I'm sure some (most) of this may have been discussed but I hadn't had a chance to watch the game on TV until this week. After rewatching the Nova game until Hunt got booted we weren't as far off as the production totals would lead you to believe. I'm not sure if it was being overly amped, nerves, or not being mentally prepared but I feel with 2 weeks of practice and the film from Nova that Hunt will get this cleaned up. Nova gambled a lot on defense (likely based off past tendencies) and it worked well except when PTG ran untouched straight up the middle for a 65 yard TD. In addition to the one big play though we had Hunt keep on the read option on the third down prior and run into 3 defenders. Had he made the correct read Gulley would've ran off left tackle for a big gain but I feel that was a case of Hunt trying to do too much himself. There were 3-4 times where Hunt got the read incorrect. Another time he handed it to Morris on a sweep who ran into 3 defenders because Nova had gambled correctly again. Had Hunt kept it there was a ton of daylight. If you look at our bubble screens we took exponentially longer to get the ball to the WR vs Nova running the same play on the other side. These plays will be more effective if we aren't giving the defense a head start on the WR. In addition, we got too cute with the play calling and pump faked to a bubble screen before we had even run it. Perhaps that same pump fake play would be better served after we had already run bubble twice? Kind of hard to run play action before youve proven you can run and that looked the same in theory. Lastly was the incomplete deep pass to Estime to the left side of the end zone. Hunt seemed to lock in and stop his progressions a split second too soon otherwise he had Moore (?) breaking open over the middle with no safety over the top. End game I don't think we were as far off in that game as it looked like from the stands after seeing the video. It's coachable stuff and I think we'll perform much better vs CMU who will play us straight up vs gambling on overloads like the Nova defense did. On defense just needs to tackle better and swarm the ball though our DB's looked too hesitant as well. With a less mobile QB we will hopefully be able to get pressure and allow the DB's to jump certain routes. [/QUOTE]

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