fromolwyoming
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The Good-
Brian Hill. For a True Freshmen, he really stepped up his game when Wick went down and ended up with 121 yards and 2 TDs. Not bad for a true freshmen. Given a couple years, and a better o-line, I think we will really have an incredible back after Wick and May leave.
Colby Kirkegaard. Led the offense to a career and season high on output and points. Also had over 330 yards passing, 2 TDs, and no TOs with a decent completion percentage too. And other than their QB, the sheep kept in most of their starters except to give them a rest.
Dominic Rufran. He is now the national leader of consecutive games played where he had a catch with 45 (meaning for the last 45 games he has played in, he has had at least 1 catch).
Kind of in between, but the defense did get a couple of sacks, with the first one by Mertens.
The Bad.
The overall defensive performance. I know we had several starters out going into this game, but there were blown assignments, missed tackles, piss poor attempts at tackling, and let their QB have a career day on us. Just overall bad.
Special teams. Other than punt coverage, they just did badly.
The "Really? WHY!?"
More injuries to key players. Chief among them, Shaun Wick. First series of the game, his hand is broken. Luckily Brian Hill stepped up pretty damn good for him, but man, this was a big blow to the offense. Both our 1 and 2 RBs are done, May confirmed for the season and Wick most likely is as well.
Malkaam Muhammed. He was trying to fill in Mark Nzeocha's shoes (not easy to do at all) and then he goes down with a bad injury.
Sampson, who we just got back recently may also be done for a while, if not the season.
These last few games are tearing through our players pretty hard. Our defense, which had struggled when healthy, is now down to 2nd and 3rd stringers at most positions outside of the d-line (which has remained fairly healthy). And our RB corps is down to having our 3rd stringer as our starter, but he is actually pretty good and stepped up when Wick went down. But after him we have 2 relatively inexperienced guys that were built more for the spread than the pro offense. Not saying they can't be good pro-style backs, but it's a learning curve.
Brian Hill. For a True Freshmen, he really stepped up his game when Wick went down and ended up with 121 yards and 2 TDs. Not bad for a true freshmen. Given a couple years, and a better o-line, I think we will really have an incredible back after Wick and May leave.
Colby Kirkegaard. Led the offense to a career and season high on output and points. Also had over 330 yards passing, 2 TDs, and no TOs with a decent completion percentage too. And other than their QB, the sheep kept in most of their starters except to give them a rest.
Dominic Rufran. He is now the national leader of consecutive games played where he had a catch with 45 (meaning for the last 45 games he has played in, he has had at least 1 catch).
Kind of in between, but the defense did get a couple of sacks, with the first one by Mertens.
The Bad.
The overall defensive performance. I know we had several starters out going into this game, but there were blown assignments, missed tackles, piss poor attempts at tackling, and let their QB have a career day on us. Just overall bad.
Special teams. Other than punt coverage, they just did badly.
The "Really? WHY!?"
More injuries to key players. Chief among them, Shaun Wick. First series of the game, his hand is broken. Luckily Brian Hill stepped up pretty damn good for him, but man, this was a big blow to the offense. Both our 1 and 2 RBs are done, May confirmed for the season and Wick most likely is as well.
Malkaam Muhammed. He was trying to fill in Mark Nzeocha's shoes (not easy to do at all) and then he goes down with a bad injury.
Sampson, who we just got back recently may also be done for a while, if not the season.
These last few games are tearing through our players pretty hard. Our defense, which had struggled when healthy, is now down to 2nd and 3rd stringers at most positions outside of the d-line (which has remained fairly healthy). And our RB corps is down to having our 3rd stringer as our starter, but he is actually pretty good and stepped up when Wick went down. But after him we have 2 relatively inexperienced guys that were built more for the spread than the pro offense. Not saying they can't be good pro-style backs, but it's a learning curve.
