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- The defense is back! That looked like last year’s group- a pack of pitbulls straining at their leashes until the ball is snapped. And to play like that with nearly everybody in the backfield wearing casts was amazing, since it put a lot of pressure on the backfield not to let anybody get free on a “hot route”.
- Mohammed Sanu was held to 7 catches for 65 yards. In his previous two games he had 29 catches for 295 yards.
- Deon Goggins couldn’t cover Sanu but he did everything else. I saw one play where he blitzed into he backfield, saw a runner running by him on the draw, got blocked, fought off the block and ran down the back a couple yards past the line of scrimmage. He’s going to be a very good one.
- Dyshawn Davis’ hit to force the fumble at the beginning of the game was the biggest hit I’ve ever seen in 30+ years of going to the Dome. He had 6 tackles, 3 for losses.
- SU had 11 tackles for losses in this game and forced 4 turnovers, the most since the Cincinnati game last year, We’d forced 9 turnovers in our previous 9 games. Anderson’s run with the fumble was our first defensive touchdown in five years. Now if we could only block a kick….
- I sensed in the post game player comments a sense of embarrassment more than anything else and a determination to get back on track. Ryan Nassib called it a humbling experience: “We weren’t as good as we thought we were. We discovered there are no shortcuts”. I have a feeling that this team- especially the offense- will come back strong next week. And Tulane is very very beatable- Army just handled them 45-6. 4-2 isn’t 5-1 but it’s a good first half.
- The offense has got to get it’s act together but if we can play defense like this the rest of the way, (and Coach Marrone says we’ll start getting people back next week), we can still claw our way to a bowl game and keep the rebuilding going strong. This is a very young team. We’ll basically be rooting for the same guys next year, with some reinforcements to further increase the depth. The key is to watch them grow up and the defense did a lot of that today.
3-2 with 7 to do
LET’S GO ORANGE!!!
- Mohammed Sanu was held to 7 catches for 65 yards. In his previous two games he had 29 catches for 295 yards.
- Deon Goggins couldn’t cover Sanu but he did everything else. I saw one play where he blitzed into he backfield, saw a runner running by him on the draw, got blocked, fought off the block and ran down the back a couple yards past the line of scrimmage. He’s going to be a very good one.
- Dyshawn Davis’ hit to force the fumble at the beginning of the game was the biggest hit I’ve ever seen in 30+ years of going to the Dome. He had 6 tackles, 3 for losses.
- SU had 11 tackles for losses in this game and forced 4 turnovers, the most since the Cincinnati game last year, We’d forced 9 turnovers in our previous 9 games. Anderson’s run with the fumble was our first defensive touchdown in five years. Now if we could only block a kick….
- I sensed in the post game player comments a sense of embarrassment more than anything else and a determination to get back on track. Ryan Nassib called it a humbling experience: “We weren’t as good as we thought we were. We discovered there are no shortcuts”. I have a feeling that this team- especially the offense- will come back strong next week. And Tulane is very very beatable- Army just handled them 45-6. 4-2 isn’t 5-1 but it’s a good first half.
- The offense has got to get it’s act together but if we can play defense like this the rest of the way, (and Coach Marrone says we’ll start getting people back next week), we can still claw our way to a bowl game and keep the rebuilding going strong. This is a very young team. We’ll basically be rooting for the same guys next year, with some reinforcements to further increase the depth. The key is to watch them grow up and the defense did a lot of that today.
3-2 with 7 to do
LET’S GO ORANGE!!!
