[NU Sports] Wow ...

[Roy Lamberton]

FWIW - NU has always played a rather basic D in their openers under Walker/Fitz.
Its usually good enuff to win while the coaches figure out who really deserves
to play a lot. I'm sure the film sessions were both painful and exciting Sunday,
and the Cats will be that much improved to exact some revenge on Nevada.

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Jonathan Hodges
> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 11:09 AM
> To: WildElk2 at aol.com
> Cc: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Wow ...
> 
> The backups played well enough to preserve the shutout and not have any
> mistakes - which is somewhat encouraging.
> 
> Also, in the post-game press conference the coaches confirmed NU was
> playing
> a "vanilla" defense and didn't blitz much - and I hope some different
> packages moving forward would make the DL look better because yesterday
> they
> didn't get much pressure on their QB at all - and had no sacks.  Plus,
> whenever someone did break free from a block the QB eluded the pressure
> every time.
> 
> On offense the return of Rees should help immensely, but 3 sacks allowed
> plus holding penalties, plus little running room are not encouraging
> (although the passing game was running very well).
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> On 9/2/07, WildElk2 at aol.com <WildElk2 at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >     FWIW, Phil Steele's pre-season magazine said that Michigan's defense
> > was going to be a problem this season, but I doubt PS thought it would
> kill
> > 'em in the first game...
> >    NU: I was surprised by the "average" performance on both sides of our
> > linemen, particularly on defense.  With that said, our linebackers were
> > filling holes and getting a lot of tackles; I'm sure PF was pleased about
> > that.  And Rees will be back next week; good thing mon!
> >
> >    I missed the 4th quarter due to prior arrangements.  Did our back-ups
> > play well?
> >
> >     GO CATS!!!!                 Eric
> >
> >
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