MGB weekly prediction: UNT will pull stunner at Army

Brett Vito · October 20, 2016

MGB:

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2016/10/prediction-unt-will-pull-the-stunner-at-army.html/

MeanGreen_MBA · October 20, 2016

Keep em coming Vito....

NTAlum09 · October 20, 2016

At least this wasn't a poo poo article

Eastwood Eagle · October 20, 2016

Brett's hitting the Mean Green Kool-Aid hard lately. I love it.

97and03 · October 20, 2016

No way we hold them to only 23.

MeanGreenTexan · October 20, 2016

Travis · October 20, 2016

Brett, I was thinking the same thing.

GMG24 · October 20, 2016

45 minutes ago, 97and03 said:

No way we hold them to only 23.

Why not? Teams haven't just pounded the ball down our throats this season. The big gains in rushing early on came from scrambles or missed assignments. Those got corrected.

Army of Dad · October 20, 2016

45 minutes ago, 97and03 said:

No way we hold them to only 23.

Whith our defense being much improved and possibly poor weather conditions why not?

MGNation92 · October 20, 2016

Just now, GMG24 said:

Why not? Teams haven't just pounded the ball down our throats this season. The big gains in rushing early on came from scrambles or missed assignments. Those got corrected.

Really hoping the assignment part is the best it's ever been for this week. Only way to stop a triple option is sound gap integrity and tackling

GMG24 · October 20, 2016

3 minutes ago, MGNation92 said:

Really hoping the assignment part is the best it's ever been for this week. Only way to stop a triple option is sound gap integrity and tackling

If this staff has proven anything, it is that they will get mistakes corrected and rather quickly especially on the Defensive side of the ball. If we can get a few stops early and the offense can score once or twice I think we can get them uncomfortable and try to force stuff. I really, really like our chances.

Ryan Munthe · October 20, 2016

This team has improved by leaps and bounds EVERY week. I have the utmost confidence in them we will win. We will see if I eat my words.

Marty · October 20, 2016

We never played well after a bye week under Mac. Hope that trend doesn't continue under SL.

Ben Gooding · October 20, 2016

37 minutes ago, GMG24 said:

If this staff has proven anything, it is that they will get mistakes corrected and rather quickly especially on the Defensive side of the ball. If we can get a few stops early and the offense can score once or twice I think we can get them uncomfortable and try to force stuff. I really, really like our chances.

This is the key to the game. Do this and I love our chances. Don't do this and I hate our chances. Getting a run based team behind the 8ball on the scoreboard early is the best way and quickest way to put them to bed early.

chrisfisher · October 20, 2016

I know the triple option is something completely different than we've seen all season... but we are actually fairly stout against the run. I actually thought we'd pull this one out as well... This is all contingent on our offense executing... we can't have our defense on the field for most of the game as in several prior games..

Matt from A700 · October 20, 2016

This will be a tough game but maybe Vito is feeling guilty for picking Marshall two weeks ago?

VideoEagle · October 21, 2016

1 hour ago, Matt from A700 said:

This will be a tough game but maybe Vito is feeling guilty for picking Marshall two weeks ago?

If you look back at the poll on the chances of us winning that game, you'll see a LOT of us picked Marshall to at least likely win!

greenminer · October 21, 2016

4 hours ago, 97and03 said:

No way we hold them to only 23.

That was my thought.

If we win, it will be close and it will be in the 30s.

I also think they could potentially open this up into a 40+ point horse race, and I am not confident we could keep up.

Wag Tag · October 21, 2016

4 hours ago, Ben Gooding said:

This is the key to the game. Do this and I love our chances. Don't do this and I hate our chances. Getting a run based team behind the 8ball on the scoreboard early is the best way and quickest way to put them to bed early.

Score on our opening drive! GMG

KingDL1 · October 21, 2016

Holy cow Brett have u been in our Mean Green Jell-O shots that Amanda makes? If not stop by the next tailgate.

DeepGreen · October 21, 2016

southsideguy · October 21, 2016

If Hood can step this game it will be a big help with his big body clogging the middle, After last season I gave up on the Mean Green and had no expectations going into this season. Now they have been thinking we can win again! Hold on Lucy is holding the football for me to kick, be back in a second,

SilverEagle · October 21, 2016

Just remember, one of Army's losses was to the mighty University of Buffalo.

I assume that Army has been getting better and better each week.......but so have we.

Edited October 21, 2016 by SilverEagle

GOMG2013 · October 21, 2016

Just for this one game, I would have considered playing buyers at corner. This is going to be a very different type of game for our corners and they are going to have to get dirty.

GMG_Dallas · October 21, 2016

16 minutes ago, GOMG2013 said:

Just for this one game, I would have considered playing buyers at corner. This is going to be a very different type of game for our corners and they are going to have to get dirty.

I think you can say the same for our receiving corps though. They're going to have to be physical. I like the corners we have and I don't think it's worth the risk of having Buyers play a position he hasn't played since, what, 2014? I say keep him where he's at.