Three For Thursday [Cyclones @Zips]

[Cykron]

On 9/14/2017 at 2:21 PM, Cykron said:

 

We are not a great tackling team.  We had all kinds of guys slapping at Wadley last week instead of wrapping him up.  However, give Wadley credit.  He brought some great moves.  I would expect Ball to have a similar game.  Hope Ball gets slippery fingers.  We haven't caused a fumble turnover yet this season.  And I rarely saw anyone trying to rip the ball out (which is okay if they are wrapping up the ballcarrier, but we haven't been doing that either).  

 

Here is the x-factor.  #5 Kamari Cotton-Moya, our starting Strong Safety.  He is an incredibly hard hitter, but went out with a elbow injury last week and never returned.  I contend that Wadley wouldn't have scored his last touchdown if Cotton-Moya had been in there.  #4 Evrett Edwards is okay, but there is a dropoff.  Edwards danced with Wadley as he scored his last TD.  

 

Here is the y-factor.  #42 Marcel Spears.  Hardly any of us even knew his name before the season.  He had 17 tackles last week.  He bailed out a lot of teammates who missed tackles.  

 

Here is the z-factor.  #7 Joel Lanning will be playing only his third game ever on defense this week.  He started last season as a QB.  Seriously.  In the next to last game last season, he ran for 5 TDS . . . and then didn't play the following week!  I'm serious.  He is explosive in short yardage situations (the "Joel-dozer"), but he doesn't just lumber forward.  He hits holes and explodes to the end zone.  So far, he hasn't done much on defense to draw my attention, other than a nice QB hurry against UNI that led to an INT and our first TD.

 

 

#5 Cotton-Moya didn't play.  #4 Edwards was covering on the TD pass.

 

#42 Spears was pretty quiet this week.

 

#7 Lanning put lots of pressure on your QB and got a big pick.  

 

Best i've seen in terms of control of the line and pressure by our d-line.   From what I read in the other thread, it sounds like it might have been largely related to a poor job by your o-line.  I'd like to think that our blitzing was executed very well and kept your o-line off-balance.  

[zipsoutsider]

On 9/16/2017 at 11:16 PM, Zipgrad01 said:

Who is struggling? This team stinks 

Your attitude stinks. 

[Zipgrad01]

1 hour ago, zipsoutsider said:

Your attitude stinks. 

It took you 2 days to come up with that? 

[zipsoutsider]

15 minutes ago, Zipgrad01 said:

It took you 2 days to come up with that? 

Umm. No...2 seconds, but I don't think any further detail is necessary. Go pout somewhere else I stead of ruining the experience for everyone, here.

[Zipgrad01]

4 minutes ago, zipsoutsider said:

Umm. No...2 seconds, but I don't think any further detail is necessary. Go pout somewhere else I stead of ruining the experience for everyone, here.

I think the bad play calling, poor blocking, excessive penalties, bad attitudes, lack of talent and general poor play on the field is ruining it for everyone. But that is just me.

 

Have a great day!

[zipsoutsider]

21 minutes ago, Zipgrad01 said:

I think the bad play calling, poor blocking, excessive penalties, bad attitudes, lack of talent and general poor play on the field is ruining it for everyone. But that is just me.

 

Have a great day!

Blah...blah...blah... grow up.

[kreed5120]

@Zipgrad01 you're not wrong in your assessment of this team through 3 weeks of football. Hopefully they find some way of turning it around or else this is going to turn into a really long season.