Dr Z

George just tweeted that he is practicing now? source

I've had this play in my head for two years now (for the Zips), to see it work on the biggest stage, at the most crucial time of a game, was pure delight for me.

If you had the opportunity to call one play against Toledo, what would it be? Feel free to explain your personnel, or reasoning for the play. Most of us have sat in front of our TVs, or at Infocision stadium this year saying "why don't they just...." Let everyone know what you have been thinking or saying. I'm assuming Gruden is selecting spider two Y banana, but what would you call? Here is mine. Toledo will look at many wide receiver screens on tape soon. I want to take advantage. I mostly hate the wide receiver screen, but I have always thought, why not pump fake that and hit the other receiver on the go route. Obviously the defense has to be aligned properly to make this work, and I think this play takes advantage of Kyle's sideline accuracy. Here it is my submission to AJ: PS If offensive isn't your thing and you want to give Coach Amato your play, feel free.

Good to hear. I hope this VERY good game is not his ceiling.

Wrong QB, Clayton Moore.

Agreed, that it is a decision making issue. I disagree with you about when. Dalton was able to go through progressions, Kyle doesn't often do that. He often makes his decision before the snap of the ball. A couple throws that fans are blaming on the receivers dropping Saturday (and other Saturdays) shouldn't have been thrown. A QB needs to give his players the best chance to move the sticks. Throwing into tight coverage is not usually the best option. If everybody is covered, I understand, but often, that's not the case. 3rd downs and 4th quarter completion percentage separate the boys from the men. I love Kyle's accuracy on the go patterns, but the crossing stuff in middle of the field seems to present a challenge. This may be all due to the comfort level of running the offense too, remember DW ran this offense before he arrived at Akron. Whatever the issue is, I hope it improves, I would LOVE to head into the offseason with a three game win streak! That would also be the last four out of five (even though it's crummy competition)!?!?

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Some discussion here before the season started. Big Zip commented after the St Mary's game.

This team is not ready to go bowling. They played better in Michigan than they have recently. The team is on the schedule coach Bowden has been talking about since he got here.

Wow.

It will be interesting to me to see who the starting QB is next year. I would make it an open competition, but I'm only seeing the product on Saturdays.

Not exciting to watch, but I'll take a win. We just have to get better play out of the QB position. 3rd downs are crucial to a teams success, and we couldn't have been worse today on the offense side.

That was the point of my Jimmal Ball comment the other day (got lost in translation). PS I answered your other question on page 2 of this thread.

I don't know of a "standard." I use trends. KD and iCoach have been the absolute best. Here is something you may enjoy reading.

I'll share a beer experience I had last night. Went to the Derek Hess show last night, my wife wanted to stop and get chocolate at Lily's since it was close. Much to my surprise, Lily's has a very nice singles beer selection. Picked up a couple Bell's I haven't tried and Fat Head and Southern Tier Xmas beers. Who knew? Those are my "tailgate" beers today. For Browns fans, this would be a cool xmas gift. Reasonably priced if your a fan of Hess IMO.

Zips are a six point underdog. This one is right on the line for KD ATS. 7 and it's almost golden.

I'm surprised they upset BC with Rian only scoring nine! They must have some real support for him. Excited to see a team play that is 20th in the nation in scoring. Looking forward to see them 1/18.

Out of the three, the volleyball game interests me the most. I got a chance to play a couple games with a few of the girls at the end of last season. Disappointing to see they have a losing record. Hopefully they can put it together for the tournament. Good luck to them! Here is the preview for tonight.

Explaination of the NFL scheduling. - Six games in division (two against each opponent) - Four games against another division in conference (on a three-year rotation) - Four games against a division out of conference (on a four-year rotation) - Two games against the other teams who had the corresponding divisional finish in conference (these are the "parity" games)

Here is the explanation I recieved from the staff back in Feb 2010 on what type of offense KD likes to run Coach Dambrot runs a combination of different offenses. First he runs a fast break similar to NC which tries to get the ball inside. From there on ball reversal we screen down and the get into baseline runner, with our 4/5 men on blocks and a player running off their screens. If the backside post helps we flush hi for a hi/lo look. We can sprint into on ball screens and either pick and pop or pick and roll. We run a lot of quick hitters always looking to get the ball inside and then play out of the post. Depending on what the defense does will determine which cut we run. We have set plays to isolate individuals in the post, sets designed to shoot the 3 and sets designed to drive the ball. We can run a set that is motion offense, we can spread the floor and use the ball screen to create total defensive rotations. We run a lot of different things to utilize our personnel. Hope this gives you a quick overview of our offense. PS Why are Zip fans always debating who plays the point? Remember the great AA vs McNees debate in 2011? Zipgal killed it that year.

Wow. Glad your not marketing March Madness (one of, if not the, biggest sporting event) this year. World Series are great, but it rides on lucky bounces of the ball, and a few hot hitters. Think bigger.

Lynch was awesome. Interesting that Akron's defense played better against Jordan than BSU. Thanks for not kneeling on it Rod. Playstation-type stats

Like the NIU jerseys. Under/over finished at 73 before kickoff!?!

Staff and team goal.