I’m sure Chuck will be waiting for you to coronate him.
24 carries, 40 yards. 1.7ypc. Maybe the “46 year old QB” could have used a little help he clearly didn’t get.
Dude, relax. I’m not mad. I’m disappointed. Everything is still in front of us.
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No idea. Brunson and Downing should be getting all the carries IMO.
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To me the biggest disappointment is the offense completely sputtering against a team, albeit a power 4 team, that we appeared to match up well with size wise and talent wise. That’s not on any individual player….
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100% agree
Seems to me Kevin Davis got hurt on a first quarter KO return and didn’t return. Am I right?
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Play calling is always disjointed. When Brett would be on a roll in passing and moving the ball, they’d call for a running or trick play. If it keeps working keep going to it until they stop it
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Needed a lot more quick passes/RPOs with the lack of time he was getting
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2015 Presbyterian: “Am I a joke to you?”
Anyways, Northwestern has a good defense but man our offense was just lousy. Gabbert was not 100%, backs looked slow, receivers had a few bad drops, and line felt overmatched. Really missed Amos and Larvadain out there.
Defense executed the bend-but-don’t-break approach well. The goal-line fumble recovery kept things closer than it probably should’ve been, but they certainly weren’t the reason we lost.
ST was disappointing. It’s almost impossible to replicate last season with our losses, but with our issues on offense we couldn’t afford the missed field goal, shanked punt, and meh returns.
It’s a long season. We laid an egg in last year’s opener and then went on a roll, we can do it again. But with all the hype coming into the season it’s a damn shame we couldn’t find a way to make it happen.
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I think Brett’s new lack of mobility and speed is going to inhibit our ability to run the RPO. Seems like they were mostly trying to protect him in the pocket today. He used to step up into the pocket and run. I didn’t see that today.
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Hopefully that’s just how he played against a big physical Northwestern teams to avoid risk of injury and he moves around a little more against MAC opponents
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I doubt it. And he’s got UC, Notre Dame and UMass before we get to the MAC.
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Chuck mentioned that he didn’t even want to start Brett today as he thought it was too soon against a too physical team, he could’ve had instructions to not take any risks
What was most disappointing to me today was the OL play. Besides losing of course. I know we were playing a B10 school but our OL and LB groups are the most experienced on the team. LB did fine. OL didn’t. 4 of 5 starters returned. Holskey seemed like he was being pushed around all day. Hopefully it was just opening game jitters.
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Agree, but why opening day jitters? The O line is very good and experienced in early big games. It was a disappointing day for sure.
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I do not believe Miami was over matched in any position group. Crappy playcalling and overall strategy was the reason we lost today
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Isn’t UMass in the Mac?
Next year
Oh😂
Yep, 100% agree. It was a different story against the other Miami; they were faster, stronger, and more talented. It didn’t feel like that today.
Sometimes I truly believe there is a deliberate random component in our offensive calls, almost as if we are trying to confuse the opponents.
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