[NU Sports] My wish

[Roy Lamberton]

  Over-all, I'm a little worried about the "crispness" 
> of our play the 
> past 3 weeks, but I, like most of us were spoiled by the 
> Wisky/MSU/Purdue run we 
> made. 

The loss of "crispness" could also be caused by several other defensive
coordinators [Michigan for one] watching us roll out for several weeks and
figuring that if you can tie our unning game up with a 4 or 5 man rush, you can
cover all those spread receivers and maybe force Baz to throw to the 3rd or even
4th choice.

The one thing that stood out at Michigan was that they were able to keep our
running game bottled up with 4 men, sometimes 5. I'm sure the other DC's saw
that, and ran the same kind of stunts up front that Michigan did, along with a
few of their own.

It's a shame we don't have the luxury of watching the actual game films, which
would bear out speculation. TV follows the ball which doesn't always allow the
analysis of what the linemen are doing.

rsl

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