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1. The offensive line was better today. The pass protection was still mediocre, but Whitmer occasionally had time to throw. The run blocking was decent, especially early. The wildcat was much more productive today.
2. The linebackers are all future NFLers. All of them. Jesus we are good there. Throw in Don Brown's blitzing schemes, and you have a fierce defense that is giving up less than 200 yards per game, despite no FCS team to beat up on.
3. Taylor Mack made some nice plays. He also had some horrible plays (including that late hit out of bounds). He's athletic, but teams will continue to target him because our other corners are just too good to go after. Mack isn't that bad, but is as close to a weak link as we have. If Blidi had played today, our defense would have absolutely humiliated Maryland.
4. Finally, a team ran the ball on us a bit. Maryland's freshman Wes Brown was a stud and will have a great career there. We still did a decent job against the run, though keep in mind we had 5-6 sacks today.
5. We had under 70 passing yards. Whitmer only turned the ball over once but is simply not a threat to hurt teams with his arm. He has to play better going forward and hopefully a mediocre WMU defense will provide an opportunity for him to shine.
6. Our receivers are disappointing. We haven't had many (if any) dropped passes this year but no one is a threat to take the ball to the house and people are struggling to get open on a consistent basis. Where'd Geremy Davis go?
7. Special teams are good. We need work on our coverage units but Diggs is a beast. Kenney needed to recognize the lack of a fair catch signal and bring him down on that big return! Cristen missed a long kick but hit an easy one and made his extra points. He has a great leg. The punting and return games are, as expected, big-time strengths for us.
8. DeLeone called a poor game today. I liked the lack of deep balls (which are wasted downs for us) and having McCummings drop back to throw twice, but hated everything else. There's too much run-run-pass.
9. Not impressed with McCombs. He's a far cry from the likes of Todman, Brown, Dixon, or even Brockington in my opinion. He had running room today but didn't hit the holes hard and didn't break tackles. The TD run was nice though.
10. We lost a close game to a good team at home and beat a bad team on the road. We're average right now. The good news is, Western Michigan isn't very good on either side of the ball and their QB Carder is struggling without White, Ravenall, and Arnaud. We should beat them. If we take care of business in Kalamazoo, we should be 4-1 going into Rutgers.
Wreh-Wilson, Wirth (who is a beast), and Joseph are all banged up. I would like at least two of them back for next week, especially Wreh-Wilson.
2. The linebackers are all future NFLers. All of them. Jesus we are good there. Throw in Don Brown's blitzing schemes, and you have a fierce defense that is giving up less than 200 yards per game, despite no FCS team to beat up on.
3. Taylor Mack made some nice plays. He also had some horrible plays (including that late hit out of bounds). He's athletic, but teams will continue to target him because our other corners are just too good to go after. Mack isn't that bad, but is as close to a weak link as we have. If Blidi had played today, our defense would have absolutely humiliated Maryland.
4. Finally, a team ran the ball on us a bit. Maryland's freshman Wes Brown was a stud and will have a great career there. We still did a decent job against the run, though keep in mind we had 5-6 sacks today.
5. We had under 70 passing yards. Whitmer only turned the ball over once but is simply not a threat to hurt teams with his arm. He has to play better going forward and hopefully a mediocre WMU defense will provide an opportunity for him to shine.
6. Our receivers are disappointing. We haven't had many (if any) dropped passes this year but no one is a threat to take the ball to the house and people are struggling to get open on a consistent basis. Where'd Geremy Davis go?
7. Special teams are good. We need work on our coverage units but Diggs is a beast. Kenney needed to recognize the lack of a fair catch signal and bring him down on that big return! Cristen missed a long kick but hit an easy one and made his extra points. He has a great leg. The punting and return games are, as expected, big-time strengths for us.
8. DeLeone called a poor game today. I liked the lack of deep balls (which are wasted downs for us) and having McCummings drop back to throw twice, but hated everything else. There's too much run-run-pass.
9. Not impressed with McCombs. He's a far cry from the likes of Todman, Brown, Dixon, or even Brockington in my opinion. He had running room today but didn't hit the holes hard and didn't break tackles. The TD run was nice though.
10. We lost a close game to a good team at home and beat a bad team on the road. We're average right now. The good news is, Western Michigan isn't very good on either side of the ball and their QB Carder is struggling without White, Ravenall, and Arnaud. We should beat them. If we take care of business in Kalamazoo, we should be 4-1 going into Rutgers.
Wreh-Wilson, Wirth (who is a beast), and Joseph are all banged up. I would like at least two of them back for next week, especially Wreh-Wilson.
