Charlie

We play a lot of 2 LB sets and then move a LB out of the box or to the line. We need to be careful with that because it leaves a soft middle. Since that has been noticed and attacked, that needs to be used much less and only showed late in the snap count. We could disguise more on our defense pre snap.

There are two ways an offence prepares for a game. They may look at the defense and deal first with the strengths and weakness of that defense in the game plan. Or they may look first to what they prefer to do with only some consideration for the defense they will face. The latter figures in more when you are favored and expecting a win.
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I expect that NIU will do us a big favor. They have a DE that is a stud in the mid major world but good enough to move our tackles farther along in their learning curve. Huntley hopefully will be much better avoiding hits, if so, his risk of injury will be reasonable.

I was looking at could he play for us. To do so, he does not need to beat out the seniors that have left. I also think it is important to compare freshmen to freshmen not seniors. So looking at this year, I would compare him to our 2018 TEs. Several are ex walk-ons, nothing wrong with that but some have been here a while. Jake Jackson has…[Read more]

We should not get too carried away. Utah is much much deeper but they do have some players we could very much use. Takitaki was playing DE better that any 2018 option I have seen at Utah other than Anae. Butch was playing LB at a level there with that of our new guys. And Bushman, remember his is a freshman, can play with the folks we have set…[Read more]

And their only lie is this fact scorecard…?

Unfortunately, most folks in the discussion: solar vs oil and gas took only minutes to form an opinion. No idea how everything in their house got there, how their food get there, how everything is made, and how they leave home. Little understanding where all the electricity comes from and how. Little understanding how all that will change and…[Read more]