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Message: [QUOTE="Crusty, post: 1469348, member: 2265"] I used to share the view of my buddy [USER=297]OttoinGrotto[/USER] that rock fights had become the default SU offesnsive philosophy. We are so accustomed to crap offensive football at SU that it is hard to think that anything has changed. I do not share that view anymore. Here is my thinking. Shafer burned 14 redshirts. That does not sound like a guy playing it close to the vest. No one was ecstatic about the improvement that Hunt had made, which means that we were going to do exactly what OIG suggests. However, Dungey changed all that. Lester planned to play Dungey in game one anyway. I really believe that they viewed it as an open competition between Hunt and Dungey for the whole season. Now they know that Dungey is not only our future, but our present as well. They will go as fast as he can take us. [B]We saw absolutely nothing of the Lester offense[/B]. 90% of the plays we lined up in a double wing formation. It looked to me like line blocking practice all the way. We ran outside the tackles almost every time - left one time, right the next. Shafer mentioned there would be wham blocking (nose tackle sucked in and then, wham - blocked by the RB or HB) and I didn't see that one time. They ran just about every type of play (not every play in the playbook, but every type of play) - and Dungey handled them all well. (Please stop with the "it was only RI" - everyone knows this!) What I did see was: [LIST=1] [*]Dungey has a strong accurate arm. [*]Dungey can throw very well on the run. [*]Runners understood the plays and were patient behind their blockers. [*]Wide receivers actually held their blocks for more than a nanosecond. [*]Linemen did not jump!!!! [*]Dungey threw right, left, up the middle, long, short(for TD). [*]He ran play action very well. (Had Phillips turned he would have had another TD.) [*]Dungey didn't throw any long completions (AC dropped a TD that hit both hands) - BUT he did throw it where only our guy could catch it. [*]While Dungey did stare down receives and he did not see open guys (a lot) he did not throw into a crowd (as AJ is wont to do). [/LIST] We have weapons for the first time in a great long while and I don't think the staff cares if they are freshmen or not - the best players are going to play. They recruited guys with the promise of early playing time if they earned it. Looks like they earned it. There is the added plus that they weren't here last for last year's debacle. IF the O Line plays well, we are going to score a lot of points. We are going to be better in the red zone and on ST. We're headed upwards towards the magic 30+. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! [/QUOTE]

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