The Book: 2007 Football

[DestinCajun]

_ If we get 120 rushing; we'll lose by two TD's.

Now the 250 passing to go with 250 rushing.... THAT I can live with. _

LOL! Now that is balance in your offense!

[Zeebart21]

all I care about is the win. but I think that you've got a point. they'll be looking for the run, and so mixing in the pass would be a good idea. I think that unless they've got some superstars in their secondary, we'll be able to be much more successful in the passing game. so I certainly would look to see a little more passing. However, if we get up a TD or two early, I also think there is a good chance we'll start rushing the ball exclusively to keep that clock moving.

those guys on the Ohio message boards are rather confident that they can stop the option becasue they see it from other teams they play, and their DC has a scheme that's pretty good against the option, and that their pretty good about covering the QB and the pitch man and so on. But this isn't any regular option where every play is a sweep. this is much more complex than that.

I gotta believe those big "midwestern hawgs" will be sucking wind about midway thru the second qtr, too.

Run that hurry up offense, RUN IT!!

POOOOOOOOOOH!

Z

[BurninCayenne]

I found this http://www.bobcatattack.com/messageb...D=6&PID=115665

[Just1More]

_ I'll take 370 yards of offense any way I can get it. I'm expressing a hope that we can exploit a team that over prepares for the run. _

Agree. We have weapons all over our offense. I hope we run all over them, score at will, and pick up 1 special team and 2 defensive touchdowns to boot. But, if I were Ohio, I would not count on shutting down a "simple" running game and "force" us into a passing game. It will be a beautiful thing if they, as others will, toss out a balanced defense to attempt to shut down our running game.

[gridiron]

I can't believe yall have been so womanized that you get hung up on pc terms and moral victories is now a banned term. I was trying to talk about the game instead you want to talk about what is and isn't a moral victory. It is sad I am drawn in. No matter there are still moral victories. Moral victories are parts of the game the coaches are not panicking over.

[Cajunsmike]

_ Even if it is an accepted phrase, I don't like using it. Trust me, the football team is after flat out wins, not moral victories. The fans and foes can chatter infinitum about the upside/downside of a game.

You want to know the flipside of our playing a "good game"... South Carolina got the win, but probably have fans saying it was a "moral failure". Well, Bubba actually said "hey man, em cocks batter stap it up cum SEC play er weer gonna be inna worl da hurt".

No matter how that game gets sliced, I had many posititve take-aways from the game. I'm not going to remove the significant achievements that happened in that game, by some really tough whiner blabbing about accepting nothing but complete victory. I've never found a person that talked about "failure is not an option" that had a winning record in their own life. They always superimpose that requirement on something or someone else.

On to the Bobcats... _

You learn much more in life from failures than success. Let's hope we learned enough last week to win this week.

[VObserver]

Ever since Babb's injury in 2005, teams have been putting 8 and 9 in the box to stop our running game. So far, no one has. I don't think Ohio will, either.

So many of you guys want to go to the pass WAY too much. Make them stop the run first.

[4LSU]

"...but there are times when they can hold their heads high in a losing cause..."

College and high school kids can almost always hold their head high no matter the outcome of any game. They might get whipped, but it's not cause they didn't try. I never knew a kid to say, "to hell with it, I'm gonna let the guy abuse in front of my family or friends." Might happen, but not due to lack of effort.

I don't buy into the "they gave up" thought. What happened is they got beat up to the point where the effort dropped off cause they were so dang tired.

When that whistle blows you gonna give it all you have, most of these guys know no other way.

[Just1More]

_ Ever since Babb's injury in 2005, teams have been putting 8 and 9 in the box to stop our running game. So far, no one has. I don't think Ohio will, either.

So many of you guys want to go to the pass WAY too much. Make them stop the run first. _

I don't find that too many people post on here that they "want us to pass". It is simply ridiculous to take that element out of an offense. You cannot always run, run, run and succeed. What do you do, start passing only when you're down by 2 touchdowns with 6 minutes left in the game? Or, do you run for 1 yard, run again for 2 yards, and now run another play to pick up 7 that you could not total in your prior 2 run attempts. You have to have a passing game worked into your offensive arsenal. The good news is (for me) that our coaching staff does not listen to us and they are going to do just that.

You have to have some level of passing attack to assist the success of a running attack. Now, are we more gifted as runners... aaaaaa.... yes. So, we are going to make you stop our run before we drop back and chunk the ball. But, don't get too content with focusing on Fenroy/Wallace or MD's feet... oops... there went a toss to a streaking Smith/Chery.

I will not be complaining when we are 1st and 5 (due to a aggressive defense anticipating that fast snap) and we decide to pull the trigger on a deep ball to scare Mr. Opponent's DC out of his panties. You have to keep the defense guessing (and guessing wrong).

[NewsCopy]

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