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Message: [QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 4426365, member: 55"] Back home after a flight with no internet — God forbid — so let me make one comment on a discussion I saw elsewhere, and then comment on our offense and defensive performances. I’ve seen some harsh criticism of Charlton. I didn’t like the two gimmick plays that blew up in our face either, and I’m fine thinking they were bad calls. But you can’t judge an OC by bad calls. None of us know where the play should have worked and a player didnt’ execute, or where the D happens to be keying on something against the odds, or even where you took a risk of something going wrong to set something up later. So fine, criticize the call, but recognize you have to judge an OC by the offensive game as a whole. And the interception was totally on Zion. He didn’t see the CB sitting there and threw a ball that never should have been thrown. O.K., offense and defense. Offensive player of the game was clearly Robert Burns on his senior day. I can argue that he made the two biggest plays of the game — the opening kickoff return off the short squib, which instead of starting us in a hole turned into a big play leading to a short field TD drive that set the tone for the game, and the run in the 2d Q when we were pinned deep and he broke the long 50 yarder leading to our 3d TD. But others had strong games as well. Rosa was outstanding, and the two TDs were both outstanding efforts. Aaron Turner had a big game. ZT, other than the pick, I thought played very well within the offense and his limits. And a shout out to Kevin Clercius. I think it’s fair to say he failed to take advantage of a huge opportunity this year, between his play and the conservativeness of the passing offense, but as we sit here at 6-5 he has made the two decisive plays of the season — yesterday’s TD post pattern and the long sideline reception on the decisive drive against Fresno, which changed the whole season. And the OL, even with all the RB injuries (and Houston did not have any success yesterday beyond his early 15 yard carry, much like the UMass game), they just keep doing their job as we successfully continued running against a D that has shown itself to be very disruptive. On D, player of the game to me was Eric Watts. We didn’t do a lot of blitzing and gave the QB a lot of time on a lot of possessions, but most of the pressure we got all day was coming from Watt’s efforts and persistence. Not taking anything away from the secondary, which gave up a lot of yards but kept all passes in front of them, Swenson (on his senior day) and MItchell being everywhere, and everyone making plays. This was nowhere near the D’s best effort, but after having been pushed around for a while (we gave up 24 points on 4 consecutive possessions), after the long end around they settled down and said no more. I’m truly floored our rise up the computer rankings is as slow as it is. We’ve now beaten a Fresno State team headed to the Mountain West championship game and that played two PAC 12 teams tough, a Liberty win that almost beat Wake at Wake and just beat Arkansas at Arkansas, and a BC team that, while not good, just won at NC State. But whether that’s because of how badly we lost the three BCS games early on or something I don’t get, it doesn’t matter. We are a much, much improved football team, not just from last year but from the first five games of this year. Let’s show it against a non good Army team Saturday and make sure we get a chance to show it to someone else in a bowl game. [/QUOTE]

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