[NU Sports] At the end

[Beamsley, Jeff]

Amen!

Other teams have seen our challenges with run exploited by eastern and  
are going to make us stop the run.

On offense, we're living through the first year of a new qb. He  
happens to be a senior, but this is new territory for him and it  
shows. I have hopes that we will see his decision making improve, but  
I'm not sure that life is going to get a lot better on D. We may have  
to live with high scoring as our gameplan for the rest of the season.

Jeff

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On Sep 27, 2009, at 10:14 AM, "Tom Maycock" <tkmaycock at yahoo.com> wrote:

> My 2 cents:
>
> For the second week in a row, if a couple of plays had turned out  
> differently, we'd be talking about one of the great QB performances  
> in NU history. Unfortunately, the plays Kafka didn't make  
> overshadowed those he did again this week. Same for the receivers-- 
> huge games from Fields, Markshausen, Dunsmore, etc. But a couple of  
> drops really hurt.
>
> But those few misconnections shouldn't have been the difference.  
> Kafka and the gang didn't play championship football, but what they  
> did should have been enough.
>
> The big problem was our inability to stop the run up the middle,  
> poor tackling, and a lack of...something (energy? focus?  
> enthusiasm?) on a couple of key drives.
>
> Ultimately, I suspect we miss Mims and Gill way more than I thought  
> we would. I really think that if you plugged those two back into  
> this defense, we'd be in a very different situation.
>
> The reality is that we are now talented enough to hang with most  
> teams, but we have a very small margin for error. Last year was no  
> different in that respect, but the 2008 Cats made just enough plays  
> to put Ws on the board.
>
> I'm certainly not jumping off the bowl bandwagon yet, but a bunch of  
> things need to improve. The Cats really need to shore up that  
> interior defense, work on both ends of the kickoff game, and start  
> making those one or two extra plays on offense.
>
> Oh, and play Arby Fields more. Wow, he's got a huge upside.
>
> Tom
>
> 
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