Cbs Sportsline Mean Green Report (Sept.16Th)

[MeanGreen61]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/teams/report/NTX/13957449/mean-green-report-strategy-and-personnel

[H-towngreen]

I think I may have heard a thing or two about our poor specials teams play.

--CB Royce Hill and WR Darius Carey have combined to return just three punts for minus-3 yards, a punt return total that ranks 116th among 120 Football Bowl Subdivision teams

[island eagle]

I think I may have heard a thing or two about our poor specials teams play.

--CB Royce Hill and WR Darius Carey have combined to return just three punts for minus-3 yards, a punt return total that ranks 116th among 120 Football Bowl Subdivision teams

Of course, some of that has to do with the punters we faced the last couple of weeks. Not many were returnable at all. That Rice kicker was some stud for a sophomore.

[Will to Win]

Winning cures everything...

If your caught your girlfrend cheating on you..winning cures everything

If caught your thingy in your zipper...winning cures everything

If you got fired because you can't win...winning cures everything

When you lose everything smells, looks, and feels like poo-poo

I want to win, losing sucks

Edited September 16, 2010 by Will to Win

[All About UNT]

Reasons as to why I am optimistic

1.) Army barely got a Win over on E. Michigan (31-27)....who I wouldn't mind us playing any day of the week. If Army is so scary...I believe they should have blown them out of the water. EMU got beaten the next week (28-21) by Miami (OH) who absolutely stinks as well.

2.) Rice only put 106 yds rushing on us....truly not that bad. Clemson on the other hand had over 200 yds...but combine that first drive with the fact that they have stellar RBs in place...and that is to be expected. If Army is a rushing offense...I say let them come. Our defense has improved even since Clemson...and I am sure that trend will continue.

3.) Lance and Thompson will perform. With EMU putting 285 Rushing yards against Army with two middle of the road running backs. With both Dunbar and Hamilton healthy...I believe it is not out of line to put an average 7 yds a carry against Army when EMU put up 6 ypc. Thompson will come out looking to make plays and earn his keep. I fully expect him to put 200+ yds passing on Army...combined with another 30-40 rushing.

4.) Hamilton Hamilton Hamilton.....the guy has only had 7 carries and posts 58 yds rushing (8.3 ypc). Army expects Dunbar but they will not be expecting a dual Running Back scenario...I hope that Coach C has considered this option. Either way...give the ball to Hamilton and let him show his stuff as well. I would anticipate nothing less than 300 yds Rushing this game. If you don't think that the dual RB scenario is effective then look at EMU's stats for Rushing against Army.

4.) Atterberry- He has got to know that last weeks short punt can cost us games. He is booting almost 43 yds each punt but I expect that average to go over 50 this game. He knows that what he does effects the outcomes of games and we saw him kicking 50-65 yd punts all offseason.

5.) Absence of playing Riley of 3rd and 2 scenarios....Coach C had better have learned his lesson because it is one we can all agree on.

6.) Last but not least....Revenge. Not a great way to win a game but it sure gets people hyped up. Anyone at Army will tell you that UNT had outplayed them last year. 5 turnovers including 3 INTs by Riley cost us the game...plain and simple. The 1st INT resulted in a FG (D held em to a 35 yd drive)...the last INT was our last drive and last shot at redemption.

Reasons we lose

1.) Turnovers- Hawaii fumbled a kickoff return at their own 24 yd line right after Army had a nice long scoring drive. This of course resulted in a TD almost immediately...the score is 21-21. Right after that??? The very next Hawaii possession on the second play.. Army sacks Hawaii's QB at the Hawaii 11 Yard Line. Of course Army scores again..now 28-21. Needless to say Hawaii gets their act together and closes it out. The point? Some commentators have said that Hawaii's defense got tired out but I am sorry when the ball is fumbled at the 24 and then the 11 yard line...what can you expect your defense to do? Those two errors cost 14 points and half of Army's score. This game should have ended 31-14 Hawaii but it didn't. Army seems to either be very skilled in forcing turnovers or gets very lucky about where they occur. EMU had a fumble at their own 7 yd line that resulted in an Army TD. You take 3 mistakes and 42 yds given to Army...and the team is 0-2...just like us.

Edited September 16, 2010 by All About UNT

[EagleD]

Winning cures everything...

If your caught your girlfrend cheating on you..winning cures everything

If caught your thingy in your zipper...winning cures everything

If you got fired because you can't win...winning cures everything

When you lose everything smells, looks, and feels like poo-poo

I want to win, losing sucks

That is genius.

[BeatNavy]

LOL at "If Army is a rushing offense."

Also a good chuckle at Hawaii getting their act together after we went up 28-21. Yes, they scored on their next drive to make it 28-28. Do you know what they did on their next two drives? A total of 7 plays for 20 yards & two punts.

One can also discount our short TD drives, but it's misleading to ignore the ones that WEREN'T short (below are from UH game):

13 plays, 75 yards, 6:54

8 plays, 68 yards, 3:51

or the drive which ended with a blocked FG: 17 plays, 74 yards, 8:11

as for the EMU stats saying anything about a dual RB approach, it might be a good idea to look at which EMU players got more than 90% of their rushing yards (hint: it wasn't a pair of RBs)

the BEST comparison of our matchup vs EMU and our matchup vs you guys is that we had no film on EMU's new offense and we have almost no film on your starting QB

Edited September 17, 2010 by BeatNavy