Do we all agree that this game will tell us all we need to know about this years team?
I think that if we are going to see guys like Omar Manning, Alante Brown, and Chris Hickman actually make a difference this year, it has to start to show itself on Saturday. They don’t need crazy stat lines but they will need to be involved.
I read all preseason about Mills getting a heavy workload. I would love nothing more than to lean on Northwestern this game. A guy like Mills seems like he gets better the more he’s used. I hope our offensive line plays a clean game because we have to stay on schedule for this offense to work. Northwestern won’t give up 3rd and long all game.
Defensively, I am very excited to see us play without being scared to death of getting beat deep. We played better against the run, we got to Fields, and we got off the field on 3rd down occasionally...but not nearly enough. We made it easy on Fields in the pass game.
My overall feeling is we have a reason to be optimistic. The team looked big up front, and fast on the back end and outside. We must show that wasn’t a fluke this week. Of course...the horrible horrible setbacks like Adrian fumbling because he is trying to do to much or the inexcusable delay of game penalties to start a drive can’t happen. Northwestern lives off of mistakes like that.
I think that if we are going to see guys like Omar Manning, Alante Brown, and Chris Hickman actually make a difference this year, it has to start to show itself on Saturday. They don’t need crazy stat lines but they will need to be involved.
I read all preseason about Mills getting a heavy workload. I would love nothing more than to lean on Northwestern this game. A guy like Mills seems like he gets better the more he’s used. I hope our offensive line plays a clean game because we have to stay on schedule for this offense to work. Northwestern won’t give up 3rd and long all game.
Defensively, I am very excited to see us play without being scared to death of getting beat deep. We played better against the run, we got to Fields, and we got off the field on 3rd down occasionally...but not nearly enough. We made it easy on Fields in the pass game.
My overall feeling is we have a reason to be optimistic. The team looked big up front, and fast on the back end and outside. We must show that wasn’t a fluke this week. Of course...the horrible horrible setbacks like Adrian fumbling because he is trying to do to much or the inexcusable delay of game penalties to start a drive can’t happen. Northwestern lives off of mistakes like that.
