My Opinion Of The Troy Game

[Cerebus]

It would seem to me that you are the one doing the taunting, not me. There is not too much to say for the game, if you watched it, it speaks for itself.

Really? You think this is appropriate? Because it's not.

Your guesses are as stupid as your questions.

[Got5onIt]

That can't go on forever. If the OL doesn't step up soon, we are going to have a seriously damaged QB. Daniel Maeger knew that, and when he moved around for his own preservation, everyone said "HE'S GOT HAPPY FEET".

I'm just as positive as anyone about our overall football future, but losing like this in mid-season (we should have anticipated that someone was eventually going to blitz Vizza all day long) causes me to be a bit concerned. We didn't beat the blitz until almost the end of the 3rd quarter.

Well, you can't blame the OL 100% here, IMO. Troy's blitz scheme could've been stopped with an additional blocker or different protection schemes. Usually, the blocking scheme will call for gap protection to the left/right or man-on-man. This can differ on either side of the Center as well. If Troy's sending more than one player through a gap, someone in the backfield must compensate if it's not man-on-man protection. Of course, it doesn't help if Troy is sending more defenders than NT has blockers at the LOS.