FB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[Dr. Acula]

I did not watch today.  Mount only had two 3rd downs the entire game?  I mean, I guess they did rush for 436 yds and were 15-15 passing, but two 3rd downs??  That seems crazy.

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

I did not watch today.  Mount only had two 3rd downs the entire game?  I mean, I guess they did rush for 436 yds and were 15-15 passing, but two 3rd downs??  That seems crazy.

They could've scored 100. Mostly backups in the 2nd half. Twice ran out of bounds at the 1 and kicked FGs.

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

78 points is pretty cool.  19 points by Wilma might be more than they've scored in the past 10 years combined vs Mount

Mount has never given up more than 9 points in a game vs Wilmington, ever

Mount backup QB (Fr Mikey Maloney) threw an Int that was returned to the red zone that resulted in the last TD. 

[D3fanboy]

78 points is pretty cool.  19 points by Wilma might be more than they've scored in the past 10 years combined vs Mount

Mount has never given up more than 9 points in a game vs Wilmington, ever

Mount backup QB (Fr Mikey Maloney) threw an Int that was returned to the red zone that resulted in the last TD. 

That and the offense was scoring so fast that the defense barely was able to get a break. 

[raiderguy]

I see my "secret" find in preseason (Kayden Minner) played today and led all rushers! How did he really look? No scores though. His scouting report was very impressive.

[Desertraider]

Someone asked earlier if Mount winning big would quiet the naysayers....nope. Sorry but I said it last year - he isnt at Mount to lay 70 on Wilmington. Good win - but not THE win we are looking for. Roll Raiders!

[Dr. Acula]

Musky went to Ada and lit it up.  42 points and 512 yds of offense including 385 yds passing.  They seem to have two nice WRs with Grant and Keitt both over 500 yds receiving already.  4-1 with the loss being 35-10 to JCU.  The Fish might be the feel good story this year.

[BergAlum2]

Yeah Muskies played great against ONU, now I think they easily gonna beat the Berg too.    Gonna be at best a 4-6 season for us, the worst since 2008. 

Maybe this will be the year the Pioneers win the OAC 

I kinda been wondering about your defense. To me it seems like Mount's defense 10 or so years ago was definitely more dominate than this years team.  When you guys played against bottom of the conference teams like Wilmington, or Otterbein. It used to be your defense would get the shutout, and your opponent would finish the game with a pitiful like 80 yards of total offense, -30 yards rushing and like 4 first downs, never crossing the 50.

It just doesn't feel that way anymore, besides the game against the 8-2 or 9-1 OAC team of the year, OAC teams used to be lucky to get a single score on you, and not be shut out, and when they did score it always late in garbage time.  Seems like now you are giving up a lot more yards than you used to, which doesn't matter now in your sure to be 10-0 season, but I do wonder when you play teams with more parity in the playoffs.   

Anyways, I do think the Marietta game will disappoint and not live up to the hype, and you guys will put it away in the first half 

[Desertraider]

I have been questioning both the offensive and defensive play calling. The defensive calls are mot nearly aggressive enough - especially compared with Kappas and VK calls. It seems like Ely has them in more individual sets. The Ott game was a text book defense. QB drops back, 3 DL push into OL, 2 LBs drop to 12 deep coverage, DB covering flats - everyone drops and leaves middle of the field open - QB takes off for 25 up the middle.
There wasnt anything wrong with it - there did everything right for the set called - but no one pressured, no corner blitz, no twist with an LB and DT, no gap pressure. And they did it again, and again, and again. VK and Kappas werent perfect - but if they got beat on a play it was because they were to aggressive, fine. It wasnt because they were sitting back watching the play happen.

[Raider 68]

At the Homecoming game yesterday and the result were not a surprise. The Raider offense scored at will but the defense gave up the wide runs and passes outside. Wilmington had speed and it showed.  The kickoff coverage needs attention, too many long returns. My guess for Heidelberg is a closer game, but the Berg does not have it this year.

[Dr. Acula]

I have been questioning both the offensive and defensive play calling. The defensive calls are mot nearly aggressive enough - especially compared with Kappas and VK calls. It seems like Ely has them in more individual sets. The Ott game was a text book defense. QB drops back, 3 DL push into OL, 2 LBs drop to 12 deep coverage, DB covering flats - everyone drops and leaves middle of the field open - QB takes off for 25 up the middle.
There wasnt anything wrong with it - there did everything right for the set called - but no one pressured, no corner blitz, no twist with an LB and DT, no gap pressure. And they did it again, and again, and again. VK and Kappas werent perfect - but if they got beat on a play it was because they were to aggressive, fine. It wasnt because they were sitting back watching the play happen.

This feels like the big difference defensively.  With VK and Kappas you expected to give up some chunk plays and were okay with it because you knew it was the tradeoff for being super aggressive trying to force a turnover or a sack/negative play constantly.  I won't say Ely is running the OSU Knowles defense out there, but it seems much closer to that philosophy than the VK/Kappas school.

[raiderpa]

The Wilmington game really provided no real insight as to the Raiders down the road.  The only thing I gained from today was respect for the Wilmington players who continued to go out and give it everything when they were getting waxed.  I will say that the Quaker speed was a new addition and it did give Mount some issues. Quick pitches to the outside gained positive yards and their return men did an excellent job. Minner looks like the future.

[D3fanboy]

I see my "secret" find in preseason (Kayden Minner) played today and led all rushers! How did he really look? No scores though. His scouting report was very impressive.

IIRC, he had one of the step out at the 1 yard line and kick a FG runs.  He and Thomas will be a nice 1-2 punch next year and then he'll take over in '26

[CaliRaider]

All this complaining about limited carries for our RB is amazing.  If we're planning to make a run in the playoffs you're potentially looking at 14 games and your RB needs to be fresh and healthy.  So what if TE only had 7 carries or whatever it was vs Wilmington.  Focus on the long season and the big prize. 

Mount practices a lot of stuff vs lesser opponents.  The year they played the short spring season the barely ran at all.  But they practiced a lot of pass blocking for a young OL. 

[D3fanboy]

All this complaining about limited carries for our RB is amazing.  If we're planning to make a run in the playoffs you're potentially looking at 14 games and your RB needs to be fresh and healthy.  So what if TE only had 7 carries or whatever it was vs Wilmington.  Focus on the long season and the big prize. 

Mount practices a lot of stuff vs lesser opponents.  The year they played the short spring season the barely ran at all.  But they practiced a lot of pass blocking for a young OL. 

I appreciate the idea and that happened in the past.  But Mount hasn't won the "big prize" in a while.  Preparing for the 14-15th games didn't really serve the Raiders very well last year.  There's a line between holding back for the playoffs and shutting it down completely.  The son-in-law has seemed to struggle with that in his head coaching tenure