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Quote from: WRMUalum13 on January 02, 2025, 05:40:25 PMI honestly don't care all that much about either FBS school, lets talk about Sunday's game!

I think an interesting thing to watch is how Mount plans to deal with God's gift to college football.  Against Salisbury, Rossy dropped back into a Safety-ish spot to spy the QB, could we see something similar against Lehnen?

Pass rush lanes are going to be super important; everybody wants to make Lehnen a pocket passer, but it will not be easy. Kaleb, Rossy and Factor all are superb at getting after the QB, but they will have to play with great discipline on Sunday to limit the QB leaking out on key passing downs. 

or do you play to let Lehnen "get his" but try to shut down everyone else?

the offense getting off to a good (even decent start) will hopefully be something that the coaches have been preparing for, can't put up an 0-fer in the first half and get down by 21 again.

Agreed, this is the aspect of the game I look most forward to. How to contain/limit NCC.
My opinion is tainted by my memory of Mt DB's in the greatest era of D3 (2005-2014). I always felt Mt had the best athletes.
Realizing I'm no defensive genius, my approach would be to go with man coverage and one or two contain/spy guys on Lehnen. Make the NCC receivers beat Mt's best athletes and force Lehnen to throw accurate passes in tight windows. The DB's will have their backs turned to Lehnen, so it's critical the contain/spy guys take proper angles (can't believe how often you see guys at every level trying to make the tfl rather than pursue flat down the line of scrimmage) and be sure tacklers.

Just my opinion on how I'd initially approach the game.

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Couldn't have ChatGPT'd a better script to start this game.

LETS GO!

Perfect first drive

...And an easy answer by NC

I'd say keep running the stretch right til NCC figures it out. Then change it up once they do.

I thought we might see Beaudrie on the 4th down. Keep that ace in the hole til a crucial time.

Why didn't Mount try the FG?

Quote from: mucgrad06 on January 05, 2025, 09:01:11 PMWhy didn't Mount try the FG?

Wind is brutal at that end. Don't mind it, but would've been a great opportunity to put Beaudrie in the game for a wrinkle.

All that being said, it should've been a TD. Awful throw.

Now Beaudrie?

No idea what Dartt is doing/thinking at the moment. Good lord what a weird couple possessions.

Totally mismanaged that series in the red zone. Genius Geoff decided to show up at the worst time.

Dartt's gonna Dartt

Why would they run it !

worst coaching decision

That was an audible, right? Deshields called that himself, right? There's no way a head coach of any level of football call that play coming out of a timeout, right?

Right?

RIGHT??

Fire Dartt.

Quote from: BergAlum2 on January 05, 2025, 09:34:46 PMWhy would they run it !

worst coaching decision

Only thing that I could imagine is that Mount thought they had a TO left? 

Inexcusable no matter what that was

The moment is too big for Geoff Dartt.

Alma and now this.