Pros: defense played like their hair was on fire. Fast, aggressive, and decisive.
Casey Thompson is a stud. Everyone saying Palmer was the mvp, which I don’t disagree with, but Casey made some great throws knowing he was going to get lit up and if that doesn’t happen Palmer has no chance to make plays.
Grant will be a big time back in the big ten. Something we haven’t had in 5+ years
Palmer is our x factor. He makes a play when they need it. Maybe our most talented player on offense.
Coaching… MJ actively teaching those kids how to play football in real time was fun to watch. Some tough love and some energy/ emotion is what this program has been missing.
An AD that gives a s&@t: Seeing trev on the sidelines and giving the gameball to MJ in the locker room was the stuff of movies.
Mental toughness: after we let them hang in there and tie it up we didn’t s$@t the bed and they actually executed and finished.
Special teams came up big when they needed to.
Cons: Oline. Not that we didn’t know this before but it was cemented last night that #54 is a tomato can. Almost every time CT got hit or hurried was from the right side and usually they came untouched.
corcoran getting ejected didn’t hurt us at all. Makes you wonder how good the guys riding the bench all this time really are…
Special teams needs to learn how to get back and block for Palmer.
sometimes CT holds it too long. Sometimes you gotta pull it down and run it. lots of running lanes open in the middle while people are running circles around # 54 on the edge