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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 5231342, member: 289"] - Woody Hayes used to say that teams that run for 300 yards beat teams that pass for 300 yards. He was right. Running the ball gives you the ability to hold onto the ball and complete drives. It also wears down the other team’s defense. The offense gets to attack the defense on a running play: the defense attacks the offense on a passing play. You can physically control the game with your running game. Your passing game can win a shoot-out. - #57 is 6-7 330 pound Da'Metrius Weatherspoon. Coach Brown likes to say that “big people dominate little people”. But that only happens when the big people keep the little people in front of them and ‘Spoon’ doesn’t seem to be able to do that. Particularly bad was a play when he got shoved into Kyle McCord as he was passing and the ball went right into the ground, (fortunately). He was also the guy who let his man go past him on the strip-sack safety play that was the key to the game. A somewhat smaller guy, (like Dave Wohlabaugh) who can get the job done is preferable to a real big guy who can’t. - The O-line as a whole seemed to have been improving against Virginia Tech but the ball rolled back down the hill and out of the end zone today. A team that came in with 13 sacks in 8 games had 4 sacks in this one game. The two teams rushing averages were a palindrome: We averaged 1.6 yards per carry. They averaged 6.1. - BC, with two quarterbacks, was only 7 for 13 for 65 yards. But they threw for 2 scores. Kyle McCord threw 48 passes, completed 31 for 392 yards – and 2 touchdowns. We are back to dink and dunk with only short to intermediate passes, most of them along the sidelines. The other team knows what to defend. - Why we would try to stop a run-heavy team with a 3 man line, I have no idea. With a minimal passing threat to deal with, we should have committed to stopping, or at least delaying their running attack and forcing them to go to the air, which is not what they do well. - Wasn’t Fadil Diggs supposed to be a force of nature? He’s made some plays this year but also been AWOL much of the time. Today he had 2 tackles, one a sack. - After 4 catches for 88 yards and 2 touchdowns vs. Va Tech, Justis Ross-Simmons came back down to earth with 2 catches for 19 yards. I assume after last week’s game he got special attention which allowed Oronde Gadsden to face single coverage. Maybe JRS will be the one to have a big game next week. - It seemed early on that Coach Brown, with DART had given us a team that would avoid penalties, compared to Coach Babers’ teams but that impression has evaporated. We got called for 10 infractions for 81 yards, including Diggs’ ‘block’ on the apparently successful on-sides kick. I would think it would be OK to throw a block of the ball goes 10 yards. - We keep facing teams that have to go to their back-up quarterback and/or running back they seem to do very well against us. How would we do if we had to go to our back-up QB and RB? We don’t yet have the depth the teams we face are able to use. [/QUOTE]

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