[NU Sports] You are kidding. Right?

[Jonathan Hodges]

1. CJ was just what the doctor ordered.  Unfortunately we lost Rees in the
3rd quarter and it went downhill from there - the MSU DL got in his face and
the running game didn't go much of anywhere (outside of Tyrell's long run).
This was probably the only positive coming out of this game - the offense
finally knows how to move the ball.

2. Our pass rush has been virtually non existent and has hurt - big time.
Stanton had all day to throw to one of the WRs running free in the
secondary.

3. Coaching - NU was well prepared in the first half.  They were completely
out coached in the second.

Credit to MSU for playing for 60 minutes despite their notorious collapses
earlier this year.  The 'Cats looked like they were out of gas half way
through the 3rd quarter.

A quote I heard from someone behind me today when MSU scored a couple of TDs
"this feels like the '95 Miami game."

Jonathan


On 10/21/06, Dennis W. Brandt <tbng at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Was C. J. Bacher that much better today, or did Michigan State just not
> give a damn for a long while?  It was probably a little bit of the former
> and one whopping amount of the latter.  Once MSU started caring, Bacher
> vanished along with the offensive line.
>   Once again, the pass rush from the defensive line was
> nonexistent.  Someone no doubt will grouse that it was because we only
> rushed three for so long.  What difference did it make?  We rushed three,
> four, five six. . .  Hell, the entire student body could have charged the
> field, and we still would not have sacked Stanton.  WE HAVE NO TALENT ON THE
> DEFENSIVE LINE!  WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET SOME?  We don't have any great
> cover men in the secondary, but their problems began with the front four.
>
>   Once again - once too DAMN many times - our special teams SUCKED!  Year
> after mournful year we are forced to watch kickoffs go out of bounds, field
> goals get missed, punts get blocked or hardly go anywhere, and kick
> returners go nowhere.  Special teams was strong reason the '95 team
> succeeded, the Miami of Ohio debacle notwithstanding.
>
>   Once again, we blew opportunity after opportunity to put this game away,
> then just stood at the bottom of the mountain once the avalanche started and
> watched it to crash down on us.
>
>   A game that could have made this a worthwhile year has instead probably
> utterly destroyed it and no doubt will have a detrimental effect on
> recruiting.
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