[NU Sports] Whew!

[Beamsley, Jeff]

In some ways football is a simple game.

What Duke proved is if you can stop our running game, you can stop our
offense.  I listened to the game on XM and agree that the announcers
were poor, so I don't know what Duke's defensive allignment was, but I
suspect from the result that Duke had eight or more guys in the box.
It's up to CJ and the receiving crew to make teams pay for that and play
us honest.  Until we are able to do that, every team is going to dare us
to beat them through the air.

Same story with the bears yesterday.  Colts couldn't stop the run.  The
Bears could.  Manning couldn't make the passes he needed to get the
running game going.  Colts ended up in a lot of obvious passing
situations, so the Bears were able to ignore the play fake and rush the
passer.

Jeff




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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
On Behalf Of Jonathan Hodges
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 1:30 PM
To: Mike Nolan
Cc: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Whew!

Remember that Duke also ran a no-huddle on Saturday.  The NU offense
just couldn't get things clicking on offense - probably due to the lack
of an effective running game (less than 100 rushing yards on the night)
- Sutton had 66 yds on 16 carries + 2 TDs, but was apparently out during
the 2nd half with cramping.  The 'Cats had one drive lasting longer than
3 minutes (3:04) while Duke had 5 such drives.  One can definitely
attribute the win to the D, in the end, as they didn't allow any big
plays and held Duke to 2 TDs and
2 FGs in 5 red zone trips.  NU went 4/4 in the red zone, with 3 being
TDs.

It will be nice to put Duke behind NU after what happened last year.

Jonathan

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>
wrote:

> Cutcliffe has a good chance of turning Duke into a decent team, 
> especially on offense.  Whether they can compete for the ACC title in 
> a few years remains to be seen.  (And whether 'decent' will be enough 
> for their fans is another issue.)
>
> > Did anybody
> > notice that the time of possession was Duke 39:15 to NU's 20:45?
Ouch.
>  And
> > it felt that bad too. The D played a lot and held them! Good job.
>
> Dave Eanet kept pointing that out, I think Duke had over 90 plays on 
> offense to NU's 60 or so.
>
> That's the downside of the no-huddle offense.  Yes, it can wear out 
> the other team's defense (as it seemed to a week ago), but it can also

> cause your defense to get tired if there are a lot of 3-and-outs on
offense.
>
> Did anyone notice that we now have one vote in the coaches poll?
> --
> Mike Nolan
>
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