Good win for the team tonight, specially since we had a lousy record on the road last year against Big12 competition. On the other hand, i think we played down to the level of our competition. It's either that, or we just played one hell of a sloppy, inexcusable, disgusting game offensively and defensively. 4th and inches and we don't go for it and decide to kick the field goal? Sorry but unlike the rest of you, i think that was a stupid call by Callahan. We were perfect on 4th down conversions, and there was no reason we could not get a couple of inches. Hell, even cody glenn when he's not trying hard enough got a couple of yards on the last 4th and 1 play.
The offensive line is still getting off to a slow start. As the game progresses and the defenses get worn down, it works for us. There's going to come a time when a defense we face will not be pushed back 3, 4 yards in the 4th quarter, let alone stop blitzing all together (Baylor cut down its blitzing in the second half dramatically). Kansas is one team that comes to mind that if we do not establish that we are the ones who are going to dominate up front and not their defensive line, we will struggle against them trying to move the ball.
Yet again, the blocking of the tight ends is the reason for so many QB scrambles. It's sad to see our TE's 6 games into the season still NOT doing their job. I know i might come off as bitching, but these are all going to pop up in a couple of games against Kansas and Oklahoma.
Speaking of which. I thought our offense last year was the most pathetic offense i have ever seen from a DIV-A school. Kansas and Oklahoma's offenses this year make our 2004 offense look like USC's 2004 offense. Holy crap, those 2 team are the most pathetic offenses i have ever seen, specially Kansas. How the hell does Kansas only score 3 points in this game when they got 2 interceptions inside the OU 30 yard lines and missed a field goal from 25 yards out. This is the second game in a row Kansas has managed less then 85 yards of total offense in a half. What's even more sad about Kansas's offense is their starting field position was their own 45 yard line.
Anyways back to the NU game. Good to see our DB's actually managed to get interceptions. To bad it was against their second string QB who was throwing passes all over the place. We need to do a better job of reading the QB's eyes and figure out where passes are going. Baylor completed to many pass that went over 10 yards (6 plays in particular). Baylor got a 10 yard completion, a 16 yard completion, a 15 yard, a 12 yard, a 20 yard, and a 51 yard completion. That's 124 yards of Baylor's 202 passing yards, all coming on long passes. That shows one thing and that's that the DB's are not doing their jobs.
Anyways, i will stop ranting for now. I just hope the coaches fix these problems before our next game, otherwise we could lose that game.
