A Sea Of Red

Another Poll to keep the discourse going.

If we can est The run, We cant control this gaem. We have way to many injuries. But if we control the clock and Kick feild goals all day we could have a slight chance. Its to bad points for feild goals dont work the same way they do in fantasy football. hahahahaha

Kevin....

Haize, He does deserve his own category

I should have made it pick 2.

Which Key to the game is an absolute Must to win?

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Hold My Own wrote:Which Key to the game is an absolute Must to win?

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Good point. Added one for you.

Turnovers, easily

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if we allow turnover OR them to run for over 100 yards rushing we lose this game unfortunately the likelihood of keeping both of those from happening does not seem very high at the moment.

we control the passing game well, turnovers have been our kryptonite. But if we can manage their run game, we can keep it close!

Key to game will be the offense. we have got to score points.

ballcoach15 wrote:Key to game will be the offense. we have got to score points.

I say if we can actually keep them to fewer points then we do, we have the best chance of winning!
Although, scoring more points then your opponent is a pretty tried and true formula

Purple Haize wrote:

ballcoach15 wrote:Key to game will be the offense. we have got to score points.

I say if we can actually keep them to fewer points then we do, we have the best chance of winning!
Although, scoring more points then your opponent is a pretty tried and true formula

Thanks BJ.

The top 2 vote-getters are definitely the most important - creating turnovers and stopping their run game. Hard to choose just 1 of those; we likely need both to win.

If AA and SCH can get on track that will definitely help things, especially for Josh in (likely) getting his first start. He definitely showed he can escape when a play breaks down and get positive yardage as well, my question is do we run designed plays to use his running ability (similar to MB)?

I really think you guys need to make UM one dimensional to win this. Yeah, turnovers are huge too, however, we have a young QB who has thrown some key interceptions, two of which led to a loss at App. UM has been able to dominate in the trenches thus far, so if I were an opposing team, I would make it number 1 priority to take away the bread and butter of the opposition. For UM, that has been their run game. If you can make Trent McKinney throw the ball, you may be able to create some turnovers.. On the flip side, if you do bring up your safeties for run support, you have to have confidence in your CB's leaving them in one on one coverage. If you get burned a couple of times early in the pass game from leaving your CB's out on an island, I think youl see your D-coordinator switch into a cover-1 or cover-2, however, that may free up some space and allow our run game to get going. Its going to be a tough game, and I think it will be a bit of a chess match in the first half for sure.

If there's one thing we're comfortable with, it's our CB's. I'd take our top 2 CB's over any other tandem in the country. They pretty much shut Wake Forest's WRs down man to man.

BJWilliams wrote:If AA and SCH can get on track that will definitely help things, especially for Josh in (likely) getting his first start. He definitely showed he can escape when a play breaks down and get positive yardage as well, my question is do we run designed plays to use his running ability (similar to MB)?

I don't think so. So who would be the back-up if he goes down due to an injury? They got to keep him healthy for this game.

If we score on the first 10 or 12 possessions, I think we can control the tempo and put ourselves in a good position to win.

Schfourteenteen wrote:If we score on the first 10 or 12 possessions, I think we can control the tempo and put ourselves in a good position to win.

I think that's a pretty fair assumption.

Chippy wrote:

BJWilliams wrote:If AA and SCH can get on track that will definitely help things, especially for Josh in (likely) getting his first start. He definitely showed he can escape when a play breaks down and get positive yardage as well, my question is do we run designed plays to use his running ability (similar to MB)?

I don't think so. So who would be the back-up if he goes down due to an injury? They got to keep him healthy for this game.

Shashaty is the only other QB we have on the roster, and then we have Gabe (though he is a wideout).