One would require a very fine sieve to find anything positive to take away from yesterday. "Flashes of competence," is not a qualifier in my book. The D looking respectable for 20 minutes is not a positive when the game is 60 minutes long and you give up 45 and the scrubs were put in early. For the last two seasons opponents scored at will be throwing 10-15 routes. It took Fresno 20 minutes to figure that out. I chalk that up to the Fresno staff wanting to stick to a script for the 1st Quarter. Nothing has really changed on D. The line looked a bit better but with so many holes, it doesn't really matter.
The offense might be the worst in FBS history. 35 yds rushing and 72 yds passing isn't offense, it's a rounding error. Beating Holy Cross and Yale isn't what we signed up for, assuming we do. Same goes for Army, Wyoming, and UMass. These are gimmies for any legitimate program, even one that can be considered rebuilding. The clock is officially ticking on RE 2.0. Win 4 of the above 5 if you want to shut everyone up. Anything less is a failure because yesterday was a festival of ineptness.
The D pressure was not in the thought process, he also did not shake off the faux fumble or the coaches failed to talk to him. You could easily tell on the next two terrible plays it was still in his head.
