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Wick250:
After some time to reflect, here are my thoughts.

We forced Michigan State to play their starters basically for the entire game.  When the game ended, the Spartan sideline was filled with bitterly disappointed second and third stringers who surely expected significant playing time.  Realistically, that marks a very good performance for us.

We might play against an individual qb, back, or receiver who is better than what we faced last night, but we will certainly not face a set of skilled talent of that caliber.  As Pride noted, the defense has indeed made great strides.

If the Vindicator stats are correct, we made 20 first downs.  I'll bet we did not have 20 first downs total in our first four money games.   Sure, we could not finish against the MSU defensive skill set, but I feel very good about this offense against FCS opponents.

Recruiting the juco kicker from California instead of A. J. Fox from Mooney was a terrible mistake.  I noticed that Paul McFadden's kid kicked a 40 yard field goal against Fitch last night.  Well?

penguinpower:
I had to sleep on this....but my thoughts:

We forced MSU to play our game of FB.  The game was a lot closer that the score would indicate.  We moved the ball well but we were not able to score in the red zone.  That was the difference.  WE probably should not have had to settle for the FG, we should have scored there.  I taped the game and watched it again.  There were several "no calls" for defensive pass interference that we should have had.  One of the plays was early in the game where Pat White beat the corner up the sideline and the MSU defender held him.  That was a TD.  I thought that the BTN game hosts were not giving us credit, neither did any re[porter in the post game press conference.

The defense is much improved, but we need to get better at defending the pass over the middle.  They had something like 10.4 yards per attempt in passing and most of that average came from a handful of big pass plays made on our secondary.  We got caught guessing on at least two running plays in the red zone where the defense was completely playing the inside run and they bounced it out, but understandable given the level of talent we were up against.

At the end of the day, our inability to stop them in the red zone and our inability to score in the red zone was the difference in the game.  We controlled the pace of most of the game, utilized the clock really well and kept them off of the field.  WE had something like 43 offensive plays to their 23 in the first half.  we moved the ball up and down the field but could not score.  The defense held their potent offense in check for most of the day and gave our offense some opportunities.  The interception the 4th put the game away for MSU.

Pizza:
I thought we did just fine. We are a better team than last year.

As far as the Db's and Delesio......we don't know what coverages they are in for any particular play. Sometimes it looks like someone gets beat when actually someone else had the primary responsibility. The fact is we just don't know. Now if someone is just getting beat physically on the line of scrimmage for example, that is much easier to determine.

guinpen:

--- Quote from: Pizza on September 04, 2011, 10:31:17 AM ---I thought we did just fine. We are a better team than last year.



--- End quote ---

Ditto

penguinpower:
sis anyone see Narduzzi's bitter statements about YSU.   Jeeze man let it go.

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