as I ponder here at the hospital.
1. I'd like to see more run game, however, this general thought is not aimed at play selection today. Pretty much any pundit outside of the program has noted that any team who is capable of doing so, will take away NU's run game and make TA beat you with his arm. *In the past* NU got around this general strategy by having a bad ass OL and physically dominating people (see 1995 or any of the golden years), however *presently* NU does not have that capability. Do I prefer to run just to say we did when NWU was eating our lunch? Not me personally, we do have inefficiency in the passing game, but we are also seemingly always in position for TA to throw for 5 TD's a game if there was *this much | |* more execution.
2. To answer people's questions, no I don't think we have another D1 QB on the roster. We're going to live and die by TA. Darlington might be the closest to what skillset we'd need, but I'm not sure if Darlington, Bush or Fyfe have the in-game experience/awareness to be the escape artist they'd need to have to have a passing game. Fyfe came into the game against Southern Miss and his first or second pass in garbage time was picked after he threw it right to a defender, and hes *#2*.
3. Really would like to find a way to scrap for 3 more wins for a bowl game, hard to predict, with this team, we could roll MSU and lose to Purdue. Every game is a dog fight.
Curious what other folks think.
1. I'd like to see more run game, however, this general thought is not aimed at play selection today. Pretty much any pundit outside of the program has noted that any team who is capable of doing so, will take away NU's run game and make TA beat you with his arm. *In the past* NU got around this general strategy by having a bad ass OL and physically dominating people (see 1995 or any of the golden years), however *presently* NU does not have that capability. Do I prefer to run just to say we did when NWU was eating our lunch? Not me personally, we do have inefficiency in the passing game, but we are also seemingly always in position for TA to throw for 5 TD's a game if there was *this much | |* more execution.
2. To answer people's questions, no I don't think we have another D1 QB on the roster. We're going to live and die by TA. Darlington might be the closest to what skillset we'd need, but I'm not sure if Darlington, Bush or Fyfe have the in-game experience/awareness to be the escape artist they'd need to have to have a passing game. Fyfe came into the game against Southern Miss and his first or second pass in garbage time was picked after he threw it right to a defender, and hes *#2*.
3. Really would like to find a way to scrap for 3 more wins for a bowl game, hard to predict, with this team, we could roll MSU and lose to Purdue. Every game is a dog fight.
Curious what other folks think.
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