Sorry this is so late—one of those weeks I guess.
Well, just call us the Big Play Irish I guess. Six plays of 20 or more yards in the first half, including 5 that were over 30 yards. And three of them were TD passes. Pretty nice.
Given our special teams play, we’re going to need long gainers like that putting us in the end zone. Yikes those two field goal attempts were attempts in name only. And why can’t we just recruit a punter any more?? Glad to see Coach Kelly is spending more time with the special teams—yeah that’s helped. Not.
Oh well. All in all, a better than decent showing by the team as a whole. As Godfather mentioned, Tommy did miss a few open receivers, mostly on overthrows. Timing will come through the year. Overall he was solid, and his big plays allowed him to throw for over 200 yards in the first half alone, over 300 for the game. Good confidence builder.
And I was worried about the defense and the amount of yards they gave up. But as I’ve thought about it this week, I believe BK played a good game of Vanilla D on Saturday. I don’t think he wanted to show Michigan too much. Lots of three man rushes, very little blitzing. I think we’ll definitely see some (Irish) Chocolate and Strawberry tomorrow.
I think we will have a very able receiving corps. It was great to see Niklas go over the top at the end of the first half. That’ll get some D coordinators thinking. Running backs played well, too. Outside of special teams, I think this was a very good start. Of course, we have to consider the competition, and Temple is not a very good football team.
Several good things to note: NO TURNOVERS! Lots of second stringers got to play. No big injuries, although I don’t see DaVaris Daniels on the two-deep depth chart in the Trib, so maybe his groin injury is keeping him out tomorrow.
I’ll save previewing the Wolverines for tomorrow.
Positive first week.
One down, eleven to go.
GO IRISH!!!! BEAT WOLVERINES!!!
The Colonel
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I think Daniels is 100% but they may have to put him #2 because he did not practice enough. They have some weird rules on that. Really like the Chris Brown showed more than just the fly pattern. With Tommy's good reads and so many capable receivers we should have a heck of a passing attack.
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