flwolverine

October 1st, 2012 at 1:32 PM ^

"Sometimes a punt is a good play..." "...Sticking your foot in the ground and going north and south is a good play.."

Clearly, the coaches, coach Hoke at least, are encouraging Denard to do the basic things required to be a competent senior quaterback. Throw it away, take a sack, tuck and run, etc.. Denard just isn't doing that.

flwolverine

October 1st, 2012 at 1:53 PM ^

Lewan: "..there are things coach Borges called that didn't get into the game." Wow, there we have it. Are we still going to berate Borges for that game?

Mr. Yost

October 1st, 2012 at 3:16 PM ^

If he gets praised for calling a GREAT game...why can't people talk about the horrible game he called.

No one will ever be able to defend the trickeration and "cute" stuff he called (not just the Smith play) when we were in the Red Zone vs. a ranked rival on the road. Up 21 late in the 2nd half? Sure, KILL THEM. But get the points if they're handing them out like candy on Halloween.

I thought he called a BRILLIANT game vs. UMass. And not becuase it was UMass and it worked. I thought he did what he needed to do to get up. I thought he established Fitz a little bit. I thought we got a lot of guys involved...and then we worked on some "funky" stuff and gave ND something to prepare for. I thought it was masterful.

ND was the opposite. You just can't pull that shit that early in the game in that situation. Like I said, if we were up 21 late in the game, fine...even if it doesn't work...I get it. Being up 14-0 in the first quarter is a bigger dagger than scoring on a trick play. 7 points is 7 points no matter how you get it.

flwolverine

October 1st, 2012 at 4:13 PM ^

The play was open. There was an obvious lack of execution by the players in having a LB screaming towards Vincent Smith as he's about to pass. As Lewan said, there were a plethora of missed assignments, and maybe one of them was on that trick play. Even so, the play was open and all that was necessary on the part of Vince was to lead Dileo to the corner of the endzone with the pass to have sure touchdown.

ndhillon

October 1st, 2012 at 4:03 PM ^

Lewan's video was pretty telling.  23 missed assignments and they had calls from the OC that didn't make it to the field.  And it was still a close game.

Jon06

October 1st, 2012 at 8:47 PM ^

i'm pretty sure the OL have been tooling around a2 on mopeds for the last few weeks. i'm kind of sad we haven't gotten any comment on the motorized twosie replacements yet.

goblue85

October 1st, 2012 at 10:45 PM ^

good to be back to another football week..  its a new season for boys BIG TEN...  The BTN Journey debuts Wednesday night with a feature on Denard cant wait!