grandpasknee
All-Conference
I got to thinking I wanted to post a few thoughts and / or comments about tomorrow's game, but couldn't find a suitable thread, so thought I'd start this one. Kind of like the "Official Game Thread" only prior. Surely I"m not the only one that just wants to talk about the game without restricting it to a certain topic?
Heard this morning you could get three tickets for $9, but they are now up to around $10 each. Even at that, if I were still a young sprout I'd grab two buddies and pull an all night road trip to go see the game. How fun would that be?
There has been a lot of talk about MSU's defense and how good they are, and I don't argue that...they have been good. But I'm thinking even good units have bad days, and tomorrow is going to be one of those bad days for the MSU defense. Some have posted that their D has been talking about revenge for last year and coming out all fired up, yada, yada, yada. My belief is that will be their downfall. They are going to be coming with their "ears pinned back" and we will burn them early going down the field to Mr Bell and Mr Enunwa, etc. At that point, the air will go out of the MSU D, they'll be confused and broken the rest of the game.
Our D will play well with good, basic football along the line and superior play in the defensive backfield. MSU will not score more than 16 points.
On the other side of the ball, we will have a good, solid game with minimum mistakes, both in terms of turnovers and penalties. With the MSU D deflated, we score 20+ points before half time and coast in around 42 points for the day.
Downside of the day is...we still won't have a punt / kick off return for more than 10 yards....and we will still have to burn at least one Time Out that will make us all scratch our heads...
Heard this morning you could get three tickets for $9, but they are now up to around $10 each. Even at that, if I were still a young sprout I'd grab two buddies and pull an all night road trip to go see the game. How fun would that be?
There has been a lot of talk about MSU's defense and how good they are, and I don't argue that...they have been good. But I'm thinking even good units have bad days, and tomorrow is going to be one of those bad days for the MSU defense. Some have posted that their D has been talking about revenge for last year and coming out all fired up, yada, yada, yada. My belief is that will be their downfall. They are going to be coming with their "ears pinned back" and we will burn them early going down the field to Mr Bell and Mr Enunwa, etc. At that point, the air will go out of the MSU D, they'll be confused and broken the rest of the game.
Our D will play well with good, basic football along the line and superior play in the defensive backfield. MSU will not score more than 16 points.
On the other side of the ball, we will have a good, solid game with minimum mistakes, both in terms of turnovers and penalties. With the MSU D deflated, we score 20+ points before half time and coast in around 42 points for the day.
Downside of the day is...we still won't have a punt / kick off return for more than 10 yards....and we will still have to burn at least one Time Out that will make us all scratch our heads...
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO BIG RED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!