game summary from ESPN

eulesseagle · November 27, 2005

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=253300249

NTEagle08 · November 27, 2005

North Texas (2-9, 2-5), the Sun Belt champions the past four years, lost its final six games of the season and were winless (0-5) at home for the first time since 1982.

El Paso Eagle · November 27, 2005

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For those who do not follow the Green, does this year undo what the last 4 years might have gained us?

good_ken · November 27, 2005

I read the stats, and a couple of things stood out:

1. We threw the ball 37 times. There have been homestands where we didn't throw the ball that many times.

2. We gaine dnearly 400 yards. That's pretty good.

3. Meager completed 16/24 passes. That's good enough for this offense.

4. We gave up over 400 yards. Once again our defense we weak.

Meager has caught a loit of flak this year; in my estimation it is the defense that will have to improve this off-season. The UNT offense isn't that bad. To be competitive next year; we will have to find some linemand (offense and defense) that can play.

NTEagle08 · November 27, 2005

I read the stats, and a couple of things stood out:
1. We threw the ball 37 times. There have been homestands where we didn't throw the ball that many times.
2. We gaine dnearly 400 yards. That's pretty good.
3. Meager completed 16/24 passes. That's good enough for this offense.
4. We gave up over 400 yards. Once again our defense we weak.
Meager has caught a loit of flak this year; in my estimation it is the defense that will have to improve this off-season. The UNT offense isn't that bad. To be competitive next year; we will have to find some linemand (offense and defense) that can play.
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Stats are a bit misleading. 2nd half was absolute nightmare in offense and offensive playcalling. Meager's completions numbers are also a bit misleading because most of those were 5 yds or less dump passes, when he actually had to throw the ball 10+ yds he wasn't that accurate. I'll admit Meager looked alot better today, but still has alot of work to do if by some odd chance he goes into next year as the starter.

VideoEagle · November 27, 2005

I read the stats, and a couple of things stood out:
4. We gave up over 400 yards. Once again our defense we weak.
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Glad someone seems to finally be noticing this. If we score 35, it doesn't do much good if our defense is giving up 50.

VideoEagle · November 27, 2005

Stats are a bit misleading. 2nd half was absolute nightmare in offense and offensive playcalling. Meager's completions numbers are also a bit misleading because most of those were 5 yds or less dump passes, when he actually had to throw the ball 10+ yds he wasn't that accurate. I'll admit Meager looked alot better today, but still has alot of work to do if by some odd chance he goes into next year as the starter.
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Certainly Meager will start Spring drills as the starter. Where it goes from there is up to him.

As for the "dump passes," it's hard to throw deep when both you mid and deep routes are covered. It's also hard to let you receivers get deep when you only have 2 to 3 seconds before the defense is chasing you out of the pocket.

And of course there were two mid to deep passes by Meager that hit the receiver in his hands, only to be dropped. Phillips also had one of those.

He, too, had problems being rushed and having to either take a sack or heave the ball blindly.

We need to develop some pass blocking!

meanrob · November 27, 2005

The UNT offense isn't that bad.
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If it isn't bad, it's pretty darn close to being bad.

MTSU- 7pts

Troy- 10 pts

FIU- 13 pts

FAU- 16 pts

ULM- 19 pts

That's 5 Sun Belt games in which the offense didn't score 20 points.

If that isn't bad, I'd like to know what it is.

good_ken · November 27, 2005

If it isn't bad, it's pretty darn close to being bad.

The stats you psoted as also misleading, as the offense has been getting better each week. The part that disturbs me is that each week we seemingly give up more points. We haven't held an opponent to under 24 points since Florida International. Sunbelt opponents shouldn't score this many points against us.

Me, I'll live with Meager and the rest of the offense. This "defense" really bothers me. Every opponent has lined up and ran straight ahead at us. Very disturbing. I hope they use all 7 mid-year scholarships on defensive linemen. Could really use some help at those positions.