[NU Sports] Dangit ...

[DPENDERG at aol.com]

The team that tackles and blocks better almost always wins.  Certainly  true 
today.  Despite PU handing opportunities through penalties, Cats were  
pathetic with the arm tackling and sloppy blocking on the front line.   Bacher, like 
any other QB, can't perform well if he's rushed, which happened  most of the 
day.  Cat offense had a sobering reality check playing a pretty  good defense 
(certainly better than Minny or Central Michigan).  The  coaches and players 
will have to turn things around to win any of the last three  games. This was 
not a great day for Northwestern football.  I  thought they'd play better after 
the stumbling W over EMU.  
 
 
In a message dated 10/27/2007 3:01:23 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
sjtruog at yahoo.com writes:

Barring  a miracle comeback, we really let one slip
away here in West Lafayette  ...

Two stops to start the half for the D and all we can
come up  with is a field goal to capitalize. That miss
on 3rd and goal really seemed  to be the turning point.

But even after that, Purdue went 3-and-out and  we had
the ball up three. It seemed like on all of our
offensive series  after that, we went for the home run
on the first play, backing ourselves  into 2nd and 3rd
and long. We also forgot about the balance and  the
run.

Just sickening because despite the turnovers and  poor
play early, we missed a big chance to get the W here
with Purdue  having an off day on O and needing a lot
of bounces and two fourth down  conversions on the goal
line to get it done.

The margin for error  gets smaller now and Iowa's
mounting a nice comeback. Gotta come out sharp  and not
let up next week.

GO CATS!!!
-SjT

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STEPHEN J. TRUOG
sjtruog at yahoo.com
GO  CATS!!!

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