Watching Ball State vs Navy and...

[Ryno aka Menace]

This offense is potent. They move the ball at will. Either Navy is that bad or Ball state is that good. And after watching Dontae Love and Nate Davis...these two are play makers. I really need to see something from my zips this weekend to make me feel better about us vs them.

[Ryno aka Menace]

Wow! What a difference half time adjustments can make for a team. I hope our coaches take notes.

[apalmison]

Yikes, and they're back on the march. Gotta be a little nervous about facing this offense.

[UAZipster0305]

Another quality OOC win for the MAC. This week, I'm looking for UB to beat Pitt, BGSU to beat Minnesota, Temple to beat UConn, and our Zips to beat Syracuse. In the other games, I don't think the MAC teams have a chance.

[RACER]

i also watched the game.i hope we get both dl back for this game.there offense looks good.the zips shoud be able to score some points though.davis had all day to throw the ball;so we need to get some pressure on him.

[72 Roo]

The Cardinals were impressive on both sides of the ball. To me they are better tahn us on both sides also. We need a focused, healthy team to beat them. I think if we continue to play the 3-3-5 defense against them the odds of a Zip victory are slim and none. Their O line opened some nice holes and they have the backs to hurt you when given a little space.I feel more confident about beating Syracuse than I do BSU.

[Buckzip]

The Cardinals were impressive on both sides of the ball. To me they are better tahn us on both sides also. We need a focused, healthy team to beat them. I think if we continue to play the 3-3-5 defense against them the odds of a Zip victory are slim and none. Their O line opened some nice holes and they have the backs to hurt you when given a little space.I feel more confident about beating Syracuse than I do BSU.

With Bain back our defense will merely be bad. Without him the defense is even worse.

[ZachTheZip]

The Cardinals were impressive on both sides of the ball. To me they are better tahn us on both sides also. We need a focused, healthy team to beat them. I think if we continue to play the 3-3-5 defense against them the odds of a Zip victory are slim and none. Their O line opened some nice holes and they have the backs to hurt you when given a little space.I feel more confident about beating Syracuse than I do BSU.

With Bain back our defense will merely be bad. Without him the defense is even worse.

I think you forget that the 3-3-5 is specifically designed to stop the type of offense that Ball State runs. It isn't designed to stop a power running game like Wisconsin ran, so we saw a huge mismatch there and the Badgers took advantage of it. Syracuse will also try to take advantage of it, but they aren't Wisconsin and they don't have PJ Hill and a monster O-line.

[bigham78]

The Cardinals were impressive on both sides of the ball. To me they are better tahn us on both sides also. We need a focused, healthy team to beat them. I think if we continue to play the 3-3-5 defense against them the odds of a Zip victory are slim and none. Their O line opened some nice holes and they have the backs to hurt you when given a little space.I feel more confident about beating Syracuse than I do BSU.

I agree.The Zips will need to play better on defense to beat beat this team.I very impressed with Ball St on both sides of the ball. :blink: