blueandgold

Any updates?

All I know is we better not come out and open the season with a loss to YSU!!

Your points make sense. I was just saying that it is very difficult to stand out on a losing team due to the "guilt by association" type thinking because overall, everything was bad.

Congratulations to Lako and Davis. They definitely had to play their butts off this year to get an award. To me, this says we had one great player and one pretty good player on a hapless and terrible 2019 football team. Depressing times for Akron football.

OL and DL are by far the biggest areas of need by a huge margin. It's almost impossible to really assess what we have at QB/RB/WR and DB/LB/Safety this year. On the offensive side, we can't block very well at all, so the QB has no time to let a play develop and find the open receiver, the RB's have virtually nowhere to go and the WR's can't even finish routes completely most of the time. On the defensive side, our complete lack of pressure on the opposing QB forces our DB's to try to cover receivers WAY too long. Even the best DB's can only cover for a certain amount of time before getting beat. Our LB's have done a decent job, but I think they are undersized for the most part, especially when running a 3-4 which requires LB's to make more tackles.

So still no LOI's yet? Making me a bit nervous.

Yes, we need DL help big time!

Yes, I agree. I want to see everyone get playing time, but with that being said, I want to win by a large margin. We have the depth now, so there is no reason it should be close no matter who we put on the floor together.

Exactly!

At this point I have no faith in us moving the ball or keeping it close. I hope I'm wrong. I just keep telling myself that they are tearing things down and building from the ground up and there will be hope for the future.

Oh great. Why haven't we used him? The two RB's I was most excited about were Alce and White. Go figure.

White is gone now too??

This is my biggest fear for next season...players transferring out.

I hope I'm not right with all three predictions this week.

I guess I missed it, but how/why did we lose Mikal Dawson?

At this point, the only positions I am concerned about is OL and DL. Until we can learn to run block and protect the QB, it doesn't matter who we have at RB and WR. On the DL we need to get players that can put pressure on the opposing QB. That is all I care about for the next recruiting class or two.

Thanks, although this is one time I wish I was wrong about everything. Lol

After sitting through the UAB game and watching that mess, I have no confidence in the Zips beating anyone. Sad to say, but that's the way I'm feeling right now. Until our offensive line can block to protect Kato and can learn to run block and our defensive line can get pressure on the other QB we are in trouble.

It would have been perfect! Haha

I don't get a chance to get to too many Zips games. I was excited to get a chance to go on Saturday. With that being said, I couldn't even make it through the 3rd quarter. Sad.

They sure did. I'm still mad that he wasn't the Super Bowl MVP for the Buccaneers that year. I mean, who else has ever had two interception returns for a TD in a Super Bowl?

Pretty good assessment overall and the score prediction makes more sense that what Vegas has out there.

It looks so strange seeing Charlie Frye wearing a CMU shirt. I don't like it!

And a guy named Antonio Brown.

I'm optimistic. We are young, especially on defense. What I really want to see is an actual running game!