Oh and your boy from NJ, Kamara, he needs to drop to 2nd team and Michael Floyd take his spot. He drops way to many passes and uses poor technique when he does catch the ball.
ND/SDSU <r>Unless I missed a post somewhere, let me be the first to say it, we are in deep shi* boys! The O-Line still looks like crap. After all that off-season talk about strength training.etc, etc, etc, they still got shoved around by a undersized, SDSU D-Line. Pound it, did he say pound it? Yeah right. They should have manhandled that D-line but instead they go beat for all but the last few minutes of the game. <br/> <br/> We're in serious trouble and I hate to say it but CW's job is on the line now. So far all I can tell you for sure is that he is a great recruiter but does not know how to develop talent at the college level. Maybe he will prove me wrong but we will be lucky to win even 3 games this season. <E>:?</E></r>
George.... <t>Nice shirt on your sig....... Wow !!<br/> <br/> Considering the quality of our kicking game year after year I doubt Weiss trusted them to even get the kick off. He would never say that but you have to wonder.<br/> <br/> As an Irish lifer I'm always happy to get a W ugly or not but to be realistic about where we are as a program yesterday was disturbing.<br/> <br/> I like the new defensive scheme but IMO here is the problem and will be until some young guys step up. We don't have the players to run it right now. When Tenuta ran roughshod over ND at GT he had fast linebackers and down linemen that got pressure. I watched our down guys get no pressure all day and the starting linebackers have average speed at best. This is why SDS had the ball all day dinking and finding holes in the zone coverages. It could get worse versus hated Michigan. I hope not. It took Ryan till the forth quarter yesterday to even show up and make a play. These type guys have to eventually be replaced with the Filers we have been signing and others. I wonder if "any" freshmen down guys played a snap yesterday?<br/> The offense was real average yesterday as well. Turnovers aside we did not run the football at liked Weis and all of us had hoped for. Considering what we faced and all the talk of the OL improving can we be happy at what we saw? Sorry I don't see it. The only change was Clausen not being on his back all day and the jury is still out on that till we face a quality defense. Kamara drives me nuts and Floyd needs to be in there all the time. Tate is a star in the making as well as Allen so that is encouraging. What to do about Aldridge getting some playing time?? <br/> One other thing that concerns me so far in this young season is obvious replays like the Hughes fumble not being called correctly. That is at least the fifth or sixth time so far this year officials have blown replays. It just amazes me how inept some of them are. As happy as I was to see TY go down again in Seattle yesterday that was as big a screwing as OU took in Lubbock a couple years ago. The BYU-UW ame should have goone to OT.<br/> <br/> Back to ND I pray for great improvement this week in practice and a top effort versus the ugly helments Saturday but color me worried.</t>
Tim While the running game is still weak, the pass protection is MUCH better. Last year in the first game we game up 9 sacks. We gave up an NCAA record 58 last year. Yesterday 0. Larry The new defense is designed to confuse and put pressure on the QB. SDSU went to a quick pass offense that relied almost exclusively on 5 yd. or less passes. It counters to some degree the blitzing defense. However we did have a number of deflections and knockdowns which stalled their drives. Michigan hasn't been running that type of offense so next week might be a better indication of how effective it is.
Congrats on the W....your kids showed a helluva lot of character to pull that ballgame out late. That has to be a boost to all - including or especially Charlie. The thing that was most striking to me was the difference - at least in my opinion based upon what I saw of him last year - in Clausen's arm strength. He appeared to have alot more juice on his throws this year and he displayed quite a gun in making several sideline throws from the far hash on a rope and showed good touch on several of the long balls. I just don't remember being as impressed by his arm last year as yesterday....the kid has the tools to be a good one.
I think <t>If you watch the replay you will see that our OLs won their one on one battles almost all night. Where we failed was breaking the secondary line of defense. Something that bothered me VERY much in this game was our plan of attack in the rushing game.<br/> <br/> We outweighed that SDSU DL badly. Most of those guys were converted LBs.. why in the hell were we attacking the perimeter and stretching horizontally???? That is absolutely the LAST thing you want to do when facing a DL that is light in the arse. A light DL has one positive attribute, horizontal pursuit along the LOS.. Why in God's name did we not pound them vertically and get straight up field? We made no attempt at this.<br/> <br/> Allen goes down too easily and I wonder what the story is behind Aldridge not being used?<br/> <br/> All in all, this game was a lot closer to us blowing them out then people realize. As I mentioned earlier, this team is afraid of itself. They haven't learned how to get out of their own way. We drove the ball and then committed mistakes that cost us possession and points... We didn't make small mistakes, we made big ones at the worst times. However, there were not a lot of them... Just very poorly timed. What troubled me was WHO was making those mistakes... Mr Kamara.. you know better.<br/> <br/> Our defense pitches a shut out in this game if our offense doesn't shoot itself in the head 5 or 6 times in that game.</t>