[NU Sports] Moe Schwartz, where art thou?

[Jeff Beamsley]

As I've pointed out before, if you can't pass the ball, you're basically
toast in this league.

We can't pass the ball.  Until we can, I don't think that you will see much
different in terms of defensive game plans from our opponents.

As far as getting a win in the BT, Illinois looked plenty good enough to
beat us with or without Kafka.

Jeff
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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of DPENDERG at aol.com
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 9:39 AM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Moe Schwartz, where art thou?

 
D played "with heart" but gave up 500+ yards against an inexperienced,
mediocre PSU quarterback.  Can you imagine what UM or OSU would do against
the spirited Cat defense?  And, with just two starters back from last year,
the PSU defense stops the Cats. They don't use excuses and moan about
rebuilding  in Happy Valley.  They just reload.  Yes, MSU is a troubled
program,  but I think we have reason to be equally disappointed so far with
a Cat team  that should 
have offered much more than we have seen.   To those who dream  about 2007
or 
2008, how can you be so certain when a team loaded with returning  starters
has played so poorly?  It's so easy to live in the future, but I  expected
more this season, especially with a supposedly dominant offensive  line and
one of the best running backs in the country. 
 
 In a message dated 10/1/2006 6:44:13 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
tbng at comcast.net writes:

The NU  defense played with heart, and I can firmly state that there is
improvement over last season.  We got little in the way of pass rush,  but
the Cats D played well enough to win until they flat ran out of  gas.  That
said, I'm not sure there were as good defensively as the  Penn State offense
was weak at quarterback.

But oh!  Our  offense.  Or shall I say "inoffense?"   There is nothing wrong

with it that wouldn't be substantially cured by sneaking Brett Basanez  back
in as a freshman and calling him Moe Schwartz.  (Non one would  ever know. 
Right?)  Tyrell Sutton is now a wasted resource because we  cannot pass the
ball even a little bit.  We're neither talented  enough for a run only
offense nor does the spread lend itself to  that.  Nonetheless, we'd better
try.  Poor Andrew Brewer looked  wide-eyed lost out there against one of the
best defenses in the Big 10,  and it won't get much easier against
Wisconsin. 
I expected a drop-off this  season at quarterback, just not a plunge into
the Grand Canyon.  

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