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Missouri State
goodnews:
Good to hear a Penguin win!
guinpen:
Great to win but I wish we had gone for that FG on 4th and 5 or so.
Penquin68:
Great win for us. We will have trouble getting more unless we make big improvements. I liked the play calling and some deeper passes to keep their defense somewhat honest. I also liked some the blocking with 9. Against us teams put people in motion and overload a side of the field and have the motion man block on the edge at the snap. We don't do that, but today on the last Crenshaw td, 9 was in motion and blocked the edge which got Crenshaw out before MSU could react. Same thing other teams have been doing to us. Maybe we can learn from them finally. And using 8 as a decoy sure worked today. Would like more passing in non passing downs to keep the defense honest. Also liked our man coverage today, especially 21. Recievers are not wide open. Our zone is another story. We just stand there and leave the reciever find an opening and they are mostly wide open. How many times are our linebackers 12 yards down field, spread apart 10 yards, and the tight end stands between them, they don't move, and it is a wide open reception. Need to cover the reciever in your zone, not just stand there.
There is hope
penguinpower:
As I have stated before, have patience. I would like to host some considerations for the critics (like me).
1. We've seen this movie before. The coach doesn't yet have the talant depth he needs to beat everyone in the conference. It is going to take time both in the development of the kids that are still here and the kids that he will recruit.
2. The coaches are fighting the inconsistency of a very inexperienced "young" team. We also know that when you have a young QB and inexperienced line......what happens in games. Remember Heacock teams in 2003-2004? How about Wolford's teams in the first few years after he did the ma$$ purge of Heacock recruits? We had games where we showed out and we had games where we clearly underperformed. How different is that right now?
3. What would a Pelini team have done at this point in the season after that loss to UNI? What would a Pelini team have done when Missouri State tied it up in the 4th quarter?
4. Doug Phillips knows what games are super important to win. Yesterday was one of them. I heard (could be incorrect on the precise number) that there were 184 recruits at that game. That's not a typo. What I heard was 184. 184! That's why that game was exceptionally important.
5. There was clear improvement in terms of performance over other games. While Missouri State had a lot of self inflicted issues, some of them were unlucky, but some of them were forced. The 2 interceptions were forced. The big runs were forced. Missouri State struggled with the option. This QB reminds me of a young Demond Tidwell in a lot of ways.
6. It looks to me like he's trying to build this thing into a hybrid of the 1990's YSU teams and the current version of Cincinnati. It's based off of the OL and DL. Phillips references the "current" or "today's" game as requiring explosive plays. He said it's too difficult to have 15 play drives in a game. And this isn't the first time he's said it. I think he knows he needs a team that has the ability to grind it out on the ground but also have explosive plays. The play calling tells us more about where he's at when it comes to grinding it out on 15 play drives. When you are 80% run it tells us we are going to be a run first team and we will force 15 play drives if we don't executie explosive plays. Well, we had explosive plays last night. They did a great job on the game plan.
There's a lot more to this that that. But I've written enough for now.
YSUGO:
Heres a view from Missouri St paper
https://www.news-leader.com/story/sports/college/msu/2021/10/09/missouri-state-university-football-vs-youngstown-state-oct-9-2021-score-results-ncaa/6005005001/
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