mountain_man wrote:After the ECU game, bench and I stopped in Durham to watch the UR-Duke game. Looking back at that game, a couple things stand out. Duke was unable to get much of a run game going. That allowed the Spiders to pin their ears back and get after the QB. If AE does not have the "green light", or is inaffective in the run game it could be a sad day for the Mountaineers. The zone play turns into a dive play with one back, which is super easy to read. If AE isn't wide open throttle, App would be wise to run more two back sets with a little misdirection, or some motion run plays out of the single back and empty sets. We have to get the run game going if we want to go to the semis.
Offensively, UR missed several opportunities when they were in scoring posistion. The Spider O looked unstoppable between the 20's, and clumsy inside the red zone. Duke was able to hang on a little bit there because the Spiders couldn't finish them off. Duke had absolutly no fight in them that night, UR kept hitting the big play button, was in control of every aspect of the game, but didn't quite put the Dukies away until late.
I was very impressed with Ricmond's team speed on D, and their special teams. The Spider O is a little suspect IMHO, and may not be able to keep up in a shoot out. A high scoring, up tempo game is in our favor, while a ball control slow down type game would be to our disadvantage.
Here's to safe travels to all, and a hell of a good ballgame!
DOCTOR LOU DOCTOR LOU DOCTOR LOU
bench wrote:On the plus side, Bench's Traveling Circus will be making the trip from Hickville to Tickville, and we're bringing our efficacious road game rituals with us, those dark methods and evil superstitions of yore. The occult isn't something for amateurs to trifle with carelessly, but I assure you we are professionals, and to lessen the risk it places on our mortal souls we merely dabble
Obviously I'm going to claim my ridiculous superstitious bullshit worked, but there's no voodoo quite like bringing a damn strong football team with you.
