Bowling Green Ball Control
After reading BGWolverine's diary on Bowling Green and their defensive strategy, two things stuck out to me.
1. I think that if they play soft and try to keep everything in front of them we will be able to mount long, clock killing scoring drives.
2. If we can stop their short passing game and get back to the bend but don't break philosophy rather than the "Let the tailback run wild and give them awesome bootleg options" strategy, we should soundly defeat BGSU.
I, for one, am encouraged by the turnover differential thus far. Last year, we were only +1 after the first four games. Our turnover margin then plummeted to -11 in October. (Sweet Jesus!)
Robinson's ability to protect the ball and make solid decisions should continue as his game experience grows.
Any thoughts?
September 20th, 2010 at 11:54 AM ^
we are now +4 on turnovers, btw
September 20th, 2010 at 12:03 PM ^
September 20th, 2010 at 12:27 PM ^
Beyound the explosiveness of Denard, this is the best development of the year. We aren't throwing dumb passes and our ball-security is good.
September 20th, 2010 at 12:43 PM ^
And ideally, we should be +5 in TO margin without Cam Gordon's fumble after int.
September 20th, 2010 at 12:49 PM ^
We've also gotten really lucky, re: fumble recoveries. We've had two punts muffed in what would be hilarious fashion if it was another team, fumbled two more times against UConn (one of which went straight out of bounds, so maybe count that as a 1/2), once against ND, and then there's Gordon's INT/fumble against UMass. That's a total of 6 times we've put the ball on the ground, and we've gotten 5 of them back. Just saying.
September 20th, 2010 at 1:03 PM ^
We could play the "what-if" on us putting the ball on the ground. The difference between last year and this year is that we're in position to recover and are doing a better job in the HOLD ON TO THE DAMN BALL department. Aside from special teams, which after three year you'd think would be at least moderately fixed, we're winning the turnover battle. Win the turnover battle, win the game.