part 2

Now we have to figure out how we can put 14 points on the best defense this school has faced since the Miami days of old. Last week I said don’t mistake Fairyland for 95 Nebraska. Well when it comes to defense these guys would have sent Tommy Frazier and crew to the locker room crying. The experts put all the accolades on the front 7 but it’s the secondary that stands out to me. They don’t use these guys in traditional positions. They have 2 safeties and 2 corners but they can line up anywhere on the field. #7 CB Tyrann Mathieu is a beast. This guy will cover your best WR man to man, or he may lineup in the box and rush from the outside. When the ball is in the air it appears this guy will be waiting on it. The leader of this D is no doubt #17 Morris Claiborne. He got a lot of work last year as no one would throw to that other corner they had, can’t remember his name, Patson, Peters, ah who cares. Claiborne and Mathieu is the best CB tandem in the country and one of the best ever. #24 Tharold Simon and #1 Eric Reid along with #18 Brandon Taylor make up the rest of the defensive backfield. It’s hard to differentiate between their safeties and their linebackers. #22 Ryan Baker appears to be the lynch pin of the LB core. But again don’t get caught up in who’s a LB, who’s a safety and who’s a corner. They will line up all over the place and fly to the ball. In the MSU game they stacked the box and stuffed the run as to dare MSU to pass. The only success MSU had running the ball was the QB ISO up the middle. Don’t expect that from us as you know. When MSU or Oregon tried to run the zone stretch play it was blown up before it started so lower your expectations for the run game now. The only way we can get the ball in the endzone is attacking the middle of the field and turning short passes into long gains. The screens will be run to no end but don’t expect them to be very successful. I don’t know how many times I would see Oregon throw the bubble, the receiver would get the block on the corner and have all kinds of room and here would come Claiborne, Reid or Taylor out of no where to blow it up. It’s like the just morph to where the ball’s at. We have to use the entire field, be patient and take advantage of opportunities when they are present. The game could be decided by one or two dropped passes. Meaning we aren’t going to have too many chances to pick up big yards. So if say Tavon has a ball thrown his way on a screen or slant and if he catches it he has a chance at a big gain he has to make the play because that’s not going to be there later in. If he drops the ball that could be the game, that’s how perfect of a game our offense has to play. I’m not trying to kiss LSU’s arse but that’s the facts. I still see us playing a perfect enough game, putting it all together for the first time. But that still will only result in a hand full of FG’s and one touchdown.

All in all the odds are stacked against us. But not as much as you think from reading the above crap waste of your morning article. We have the home field advantage. LSU fans will say their kids are use to it, OK that’s fine but guess what, we ain’t at LSU either so when Geno is trying to change up the play he can do so with nice quite house. Their Offense is persistent but have the main goal of not screwing up. When Lee is in obvious passing downs he blows arse. Stack the box blow up their run and force Lee to pass with a 3rd and 6 and we get the ball back and Geno get’s to stay in a rhythm. Don’t expect us to put up a lot of yards and a lot of points. If the D is playing well, having to punt from the 50 is not a bad thing. Just be patient, make noise, for come late Saturday night after our 16 13 win “It will be a great day to be a Mountaineer where ever you will be”.