Northern Illinois Week Pressers

Frost said he felt like we should tried to run more in the 3rd quarter and I agree.

You had a lot of people saying "We took our foot off the gas" but that's kind of simplistic. To me, that usually happens from from running up the gut over and over and having that not move the chains. But we actually tried to throw a lot in the third quarter...probably too much.

 
the comment martinez made about distributing the ball to more receivers makes wonder if he is holding onto the ball longer in an attempt to find someone who hasnt had a pass thrown to him.

 
Husker in WI said:
Well it's hard for them to do anything else at a press conference. I agree we have to see it on the field, but would you rather them just not answer questions?
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If you'll scroll up, you'll see that my comment was in response to another poster talking about the team's response and their psyche. 

 
desertshox said:
the comment martinez made about distributing the ball to more receivers makes wonder if he is holding onto the ball longer in an attempt to find someone who hasnt had a pass thrown to him.
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God I hope not, but he’s in the pocket too long. If nobody’s open in about two seconds, then scramble out of it. 

 
Mavric said:
 
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I'm not sure that this team is better than last year's. Defensively, probably, but we've regressed so much on offense. 

This season has started, essentially, exactly the same as last year's team. 

  • Last year's opener was cancelled -> This year's opener was too close for comfort (probably the way Akron would have gone)
  • Game 2 was a gut wrenching home loss to the Buffs -> This year, a gut wrenching road loss where we may have had more fans than CU in the stands. 

This team still has the mentality of a 4-8 team. 

 
Decoy73 said:
God I hope not, but he’s in the pocket too long. If nobody’s open in about two seconds, then scramble out of it. 
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Totally agree. And it's a vicious cycle; the less he tucks it and runs it, the more the other team's defense feels comfortable to just let their outside linebackers float back into coverage, compounding the whole problem of not being able to find an open guy quickly to throw to because there's no threat of him taking off for 20 yards like he did last year.

 
desertshox said:
the comment martinez made about distributing the ball to more receivers makes wonder if he is holding onto the ball longer in an attempt to find someone who hasnt had a pass thrown to him.
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I don't think Martinez is thinking to himself "Gee, I wonder who hasn't caught a pass today?" when he is making his reads. He's doing exactly what every other quarterback is trying to do when he drops back - find the read. And he's not doing a very good job of it right now. 

 
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