First, it was great to meet several good friends and meet some new ones! Emeril can cook! The lamb gyros were off the charts!
Charlie the cook was grilling some killer steaks as well! Met Joey Kent, looks like he could still play.
The Offense:
QB: tyler looked in mid season form, ran the offense well, only made one bad throw all night and got bailed by a PI (the 2nd pick that was overturned was a good throw on a seam route by the TE that was pushed in a clear PI). He made some nice throws but also put the ball on the ground once.
WR: Hunter and Rogers played well. Hunter's route running has improved greatly. Rogers had a pure drop, could have been a repeat of Hunter's long TD. Zack Rogers played well, the arm injury bothered him and I think led to him putting the ball on the ground. Arnett looked lost. Dallas played but didn't do much. Our first three receivers are very good, the rest, not so much at the moment.
RB: Poole put the ball on the ground twice and for the most part danced the night away, though he had a couple of nice mooves on the scamper towards the end. He also missed at least one blitz pickup. IMO Lane out played him all night. He is a decisive runner. Neal ran well the two times he got to touch the ball.
OL: Disappointing. Really poor all night in my view. We could not move an inferior team off the ball all night, especially the left side. That does not give me confidence for the SEC schedule ahead of us. Also two motion penalties. They had trouble with blitz pickups all night.
Gameplan: It was clear we committed to the run game, we just could not execute it.
Defense:
DL: Starters are good, backups, not so much. We got good pressure all night but apparently never heard of contain. The QBs got outside the rush all night. When Maggitt lined up at end he was a force off the edge. Couch looked like he was having difficulties.
LB: Played a lot of night with just one. AJ Johnson was a non factor. A. Johnson played very, very well all night. There was a clear drop off when Propst was in.
Vareen played well.
DBs: Played a lot of DBs in a lot of looks. Coleman was out of position a few times, looked like he thought the defense was different than the one that was called on the long pass for a TD. Teague was the most consistent corner all night.
Kicking game: Not much was learned on KO returns. Lane at least caught the ball and had positive return yards on punt returns. Palardy was inconsistent but had three really good kickoffs. We maintained lane discipline all night on coverage.
Crowd? Out of it most of the night. Only got loud a couple of times.
A victory but we have a lot to work on before we go into the swamp.
