Without the benefit of replay, which I have, but have to admit I checked out other games tonight during the lightning delay, when I wasn't reading some pretty panicked posts. In the first half, like anybody else with eye balls, I was also seeing a team that looked complacent & disinterested. I was seeing a team get beaten to the punch on both sides of the ball at first. Then the defense started to come around & I felt like they could keep the offense in it for a while.
But even I was calling for the back up QB to come in by the time the Cajuns got going & going they got. Once they started going, they became a runaway train. The thing that was starting to scare me was them not trying a big play. The Cajuns could never get anything going in the first half because EMU was playing tight & low on us. They kept the box stacked. And this made it appear as though Des didn't look like he knew what he was doing. But the way I'm starting to see it is he knew exactly what he was doing. But he knew it was gonna take a process of time to work. And that is the chess game of football. Anybody can call a few plays if they have an offensive mind & understand a playbook. But to create a masterpiece out of stone, you have to keep chipping away, little pieces at a time.
And as those pieces crumble You begin to see cracks show & pretty soon you have started to break bigger pieces off as the stone becomes brittle from the beating. What we saw tonight was a work of art in stone. It was a masterpiece of domination. But master pieces some times take time. When Des had gotten them committed to stopping the run & the short pass enough, he let the cannon balls fly. And fly they did. We can cuss & discuss who should be the starter going forward & which guy looks the best to each one of us & I don't see anything wrong with that. It is our right as fans. I know I have my personal favorite. But I have no reason not to like the other guy either. All I'm gonna say about that here & now is I'm gonna trust Mike's judgement. He sure as hell earned it tonight.
I don't think any fan can ask for a greater performance by a football team than what we saw in the 2nd half of this game. That is the kind of game that defines a championship team. It shows patience & strength of character, complete belief in one's self & their team mates & it shows great preparation & coaching. They say the best coaches make the right adjustments to make their team successful. I don't know, but that kind of sounds like what we saw tonight, doesn't it? That's my take.