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Im nervous about our dline play, our linebackers seem undersized but athletic, our secondary will be good, oline solid, rbs solid, wrs talent there but no depth, tes solid, qb play needs to step up....overall i bullieve we are headed in right direction but not expecting miracles this year, still believe we end up with winning record

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Drives me nuts to see a Chris Cosh "bend but don't break" like defense. Against a team like Western Carolina you should be able to play 1 on 1, put pressure on the QB and now allow the guy to throw for 400 yards. Extremely worried about our defense and this new 3-4.

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I was at the game, it was bad. I will take the W though. Student section seemed great, Good job mark harlan.  :GoBulls:

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Mike White threw a lot of balls at people's feet. Willie stuck with him but I may have gone with a healthy Bench.

Thank heaven for Mack.

The defense isn't going to be able to keep us in many games unless that technique is cleanes up. Also the scheme seems soft. There's time to fix some of this before the UCF game but maybe not Maryland.

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Mike White threw a lot of balls at people's feet. Willie stuck with him but I may have gone with a healthy Bench.

Thank heaven for Mack.

The defense isn't going to be able to keep us in many games unless that technique is cleanes up. Also the scheme seems soft. There's time to fix some of this before the UCF game but maybe not Maryland.

A week is plenty of time to fix some things.

 

Step One - Sit Mike White and start either Bench or Flowers.

 

Step Two - Adjust the gameplan so that the defense gets more aggressive.  The Secondary allowed 5.3 yards per attempt.  That's actually pretty good.  The problem is if they get 5.3 yards every single play then that's not good.  Bresnahan is a good coach though and I think he will figure it out. 

 

Step Three - Run some drills designed to practice what to do when a play breaks down.   Not every passing play call is going to initially work.  Only about 40 - 50 percent of them are, especially with our receivers.   The team needs to work on what to do when a play is dead, in order to try to create something out of nothing.  

 

 

Maryland will most likely crush us next week but if the Bulls want to give themselves a chance then Step 1 is an absolute must.  

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Team Stat Comparison
 
 

WCU                           USF

1st Downs

27                              13

3rd down efficiency
9-19                          4-13
4th down efficiency

2-2                            0-2

Total Yards 

454                           485

Passing 

374                           191

Comp-Att

46-67                      10-27

Yards per pass

5.6                            7.1

Rushing 

80                            294

Rushing Attempts
29                             33
Yards per rush

2.8                           8.9

Penalties 

5-45                        6-38

Turnovers

2                                2

Fumbles lost
1                                1
Interceptions thrown

1                                1

Possession

37:26                     22:34

 

Espn stats      http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/boxscore?gameId=400547646

Looking at the states i can see we didn't control the ball or the time which led into a lot of scores against us. We had good total yards but we allowed way to much and it is not mainly from the defense it was because the offense didn't have the ball most of the time and run the football and move the clock. We need to do that against Maryland if we want to have a chance.

 

We didn't convert alot of third down because most of the time we had third and long. And it was caused either by bad running calls or bad throws. our O-line looked better but they need to step it up, we played a FCS team and not a very good one.

 

 

Hope coaches improve there calls and Qb does better, because the problem isn't of how talented we are it is how we are playing the game.   

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better teams will load the box and stop mack.our oline isn't that good

 

what will we do than?

 

bench and flower better be ready

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The good

-Mack is a beast

-Much less offensive procedure penalties and the play came in with time so that is a big plus.

-The team was down and fought back, last opener they gave up.

-Special teams looked great.

-Play calling was good just White held back offense.

The Bad

The defense played soft..in third quarter they shut Wcu down only to go back to soft zone and let them back in game.

The ugly

-white struggled most the game...not sure what his deal us but it's only going to get tougher.

This team could be ok this year with some changes and tweaks

This Maryland game will really answer some questions about this team.

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Team Stat Comparison
 
 

WCU                           USF

1st Downs

27                              13

3rd down efficiency
9-19                          4-13
4th down efficiency

2-2                            0-2

Total Yards 

454                           485

Passing 

374                           191

Comp-Att

46-67                      10-27

Yards per pass

5.6                            7.1

Rushing 

80                            294

Rushing Attempts
29                             33
Yards per rush

2.8                           8.9

Penalties 

5-45                        6-38

Turnovers

2                                2

Fumbles lost
1                                1
Interceptions thrown

1                                1

Possession

37:26                     22:34

 

Espn stats      http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/boxscore?gameId=400547646

Looking at the states i can see we didn't control the ball or the time which led into a lot of scores against us. We had good total yards but we allowed way to much and it is not mainly from the defense it was because the offense didn't have the ball most of the time and run the football and move the clock. We need to do that against Maryland if we want to have a chance.

 

We didn't convert alot of third down because most of the time we had third and long. And it was caused either by bad running calls or bad throws. our O-line looked better but they need to step it up, we played a FCS team and not a very good one.

 

 

Hope coaches improve there calls and Qb does better, because the problem isn't of how talented we are it is how we are playing the game.   

 

so the offense didn't run the football and move the clock??? we averaged 8.9 yards per carry and had 294 yards rushing. might want to reconsider your analysis.

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The time of possession is the result of too many incomplete passes leading to short possessions and also Mack scoring too fast.

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