SWC75
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- After watching my Mets blow a 9-0 lead in the afternoon, (they won, anyway), I was getting nervous when it was 9-0. We won anyway, too. But I couldn’t figure out why we were being so conservative. Grinding it out for 60 minutes isn’t Dino Babers football. It’s also not Sterlin Gilbert ball. The game reminded me of the 1996 Liberty Bowl against Houston, where we rushed for 396 yards and passed for 76 and won 30-17: but why did we do it that way? Couldn’t we have used the passing game to get some big plays and take the inferior team out of the contest early?
- When I saw That we could put two wide-outs who were 6-6 and 6-, a 6-2 slot and a 6-4 tight end out there and that Ohio’s defensive backs were 5-10, 5-11, 5-10 and 5-10, I thought that would be a big deal. But we never really used that physical advent age. We had 5-11 Sharod Johnson out there and DeVito only tested them deep once. He hit one 21 yarder and one 17 yarder, (to Rob Hanna, according to the box scores). I don’t think the passes actually traveled that far. Meanwhile the Bobcats did throw deep, completing passes of 32, 38 and 39 yards. Ohio rushed 32 times and passed 31 times. They outgained us through the air, 100-212. Why?
- The defense played well overall, but they gave up a 74% completion percentage. At one point, they said Ohio had completed 13 of 14 passes.
- Penalties: we were called for 4 for 39 yards - not bad but they mattered. They weren't called for a penalty the whole game, which doesn't mean they didn't commit any. A no call when Stefon Thompson got strangled on one play deep in our territory comes to mind.
- We kept plays in front of us and tackled well but we didn't put much pressure on their backfield.
- Bear Williams didn’t play due to his mysterious illness and Kingsley Jonathan limped off the field with what may have been an ankle injury. That’s 2/3 of our ‘super senior’ defensive line. Garrett Williams, our ace cornerback, (and what a pair he and Chestnut are!), also left the game and didn’t return.
- When I saw That we could put two wide-outs who were 6-6 and 6-, a 6-2 slot and a 6-4 tight end out there and that Ohio’s defensive backs were 5-10, 5-11, 5-10 and 5-10, I thought that would be a big deal. But we never really used that physical advent age. We had 5-11 Sharod Johnson out there and DeVito only tested them deep once. He hit one 21 yarder and one 17 yarder, (to Rob Hanna, according to the box scores). I don’t think the passes actually traveled that far. Meanwhile the Bobcats did throw deep, completing passes of 32, 38 and 39 yards. Ohio rushed 32 times and passed 31 times. They outgained us through the air, 100-212. Why?
- The defense played well overall, but they gave up a 74% completion percentage. At one point, they said Ohio had completed 13 of 14 passes.
- Penalties: we were called for 4 for 39 yards - not bad but they mattered. They weren't called for a penalty the whole game, which doesn't mean they didn't commit any. A no call when Stefon Thompson got strangled on one play deep in our territory comes to mind.
- We kept plays in front of us and tackled well but we didn't put much pressure on their backfield.
- Bear Williams didn’t play due to his mysterious illness and Kingsley Jonathan limped off the field with what may have been an ankle injury. That’s 2/3 of our ‘super senior’ defensive line. Garrett Williams, our ace cornerback, (and what a pair he and Chestnut are!), also left the game and didn’t return.
