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After watching a game that appeared to have Kurt Warner in his NFL prime suit up, I am trying to square this against the previous 6 games (or 5 seasons for that matter). I think UNI fans may have been more shell shocked than the MSU defense after watching that performance.
For years, fans have been asking why we are not running slant routes, crossing patterns, much of anything over the middle of the field? Where are the TEs in the offense? Why can't our receivers catch balls thrown their way?
So, how can all of this change in the 7 days since loss to YSU?
Since I will not ever likely to be privy to the coaches meetings, I will take some educated guesses/borderline tinfoil hat speculation.
I offer the theory that the first six games of the season were an elaborate rope-a-dope by Farley & crew. I think they were hoping to make it through the first 7 games playing AB with 3 losses rather than 4. Then unleash Dunne & full playbook on NDSU.
On hindsight, I think it is pretty clear that the playbook was severely thinned down for AB. Throwing to the sidelines and downfield (to the sidelines usually) had to be done done to minimize the possibility of a turnover. Either off a bad throw or a ricochet of a hot throw.
What's the idea of playing Dunne against MSU, the week before NDSU?
Option 1: to validate that Dunne (and crew) could translate practice performance into a game, or
Option 2: AB was actually injured, or
Option 3: give NDSU's coaching staff more to worry about digesting game film, or
Option 4: all of the above
Thoughts?
For years, fans have been asking why we are not running slant routes, crossing patterns, much of anything over the middle of the field? Where are the TEs in the offense? Why can't our receivers catch balls thrown their way?
So, how can all of this change in the 7 days since loss to YSU?
Since I will not ever likely to be privy to the coaches meetings, I will take some educated guesses/borderline tinfoil hat speculation.
I offer the theory that the first six games of the season were an elaborate rope-a-dope by Farley & crew. I think they were hoping to make it through the first 7 games playing AB with 3 losses rather than 4. Then unleash Dunne & full playbook on NDSU.
On hindsight, I think it is pretty clear that the playbook was severely thinned down for AB. Throwing to the sidelines and downfield (to the sidelines usually) had to be done done to minimize the possibility of a turnover. Either off a bad throw or a ricochet of a hot throw.
What's the idea of playing Dunne against MSU, the week before NDSU?
Option 1: to validate that Dunne (and crew) could translate practice performance into a game, or
Option 2: AB was actually injured, or
Option 3: give NDSU's coaching staff more to worry about digesting game film, or
Option 4: all of the above
Thoughts?
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