Basebone1898
Well-Known Member
The bolded is true. I've seen most of the SWAC games in person thus far this year and it is noticeable but still there was something that looked like an adjustment against UAPB and maybe them a throwing team. Once we did that, we forced their QB into a couple of turnovers. UAPB was most effective running the read option so I was happy to see the QB drop back and pass every down lol. Even against Grambling (another physical team), it didn't feel as bad as it was yesterday because their QBs couldn't throw either and we played them well defensively for about 3 quarters before they started pounding the rock.
It seemed like the coaches were scared to put 8 in the box against the running game because they thought the WRs would burn them. As most who watched the game saw, there was no threat of that at all.
You are right about WRs dropping some big passes (although the biggest dropped pass was by a RB who dropped a WIDE OPEN TD on a 4th down wheel route) so we share some of the blame on the loss but as I said before, this is the worst JSU team we've played in over a decade and we let them do that to us. Casey's teams didn't do that to us.
Well whoever the next coach is won't have a bare cupboard but definitely need a real RB and beef on the interior DL
Damn.