Mean Green Punch Fau Owls In Mouth

[Mean Green 93-98]

Interesting quote from Captain Kangaroo:

“(Riley Dodge) is a very educated runner, and a very educated field general....They may be a better team now than they were when they had the other two quarterbacks.”

Also from the article:

I have previously noted that James Hamilton looked more effective in the Canales offense than Lance Dunbar. Hamilton showed that in the modified offense vs. FAU.

Hamilton is a much more of an attacking, aggressive runner and a much, much better run finisher than Lance Dunbar, but now there is a good deal of film on him. It is not reasonable to expect him to average anything near the 11 yards a carry he had vs. FAU from here on out.

UNT's coaching staff needs to avoid a kneejerk overreaction to Hamilton's success and Dunbar's mediocre game.

There is mounting evidence that DeLoach and defensive line coach Mike Nelson have repeated the glaring foolish mistake of last year when they had the two best strongside DE prospects on the roster (Eddrick Gilmore and Draylen Ross) sucking at DT rather than excelling at DE. Weber and McCoy are barely used at all by the defensive staff. That is just a stupid misuse of the talent on this roster.

When a team with a losing mentality scores a win, they often treat it like confirmation they have arrived and follow it up with a weaker showing the next week. That certainly was the case for UNT last season.

Good teams realize that with film out there, they have to fix all the little mistakes and constantly improve to continue to win.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/473885-unt-mean-green-punch-fau-owls-in-mouth-take-first-step-to-season-goal

Edited September 29, 2010 by Mean Green 93-98

[eulesseagle]

sounds like good advise to me from someone who has won a couple of national championships. anyone can learn from anyone.

[Green P1]

Great... now my brain hurts.

[akriesman]

“(Riley Dodge) is a very educated runner, and a very educated field general....They may be a better team now than they were when they had the other two quarterbacks."

I hope to hear that same quote after the season ends. Riley is a fine young man with a lot of talent. But, unless that shoulder of his makes a superhuman recovery, defensive coordinators are going to adjust to what we rolled out last game (and quickly).

Even option QB's have to throw the ball downfield at some point. Nathan and Derek both looked much more poised than I expected to see this year.

With that being said, I hope we run the ball as much as we can the rest of the season. But, we need to have a backup plan when 8 or 9 defenders are in the box shutting down our running game.

[NT80]

But, we need to have a backup plan when 8 or 9 defenders are in the box shutting down our running game.

You can expect that starting this Saturday evening with ULL. Until UNT/Riley shows it can still complete the deep ball defenders will stack against the short range passes and runs.

[eulessismore]

You can expect that starting this Saturday evening with ULL. Until UNT/Riley shows it can still complete the deep ball defenders will stack against the short range passes and runs.

Should we expect to see "situations" using Baine or Dotson to at least throw the intermediate ball?

[SilverEagle]

"With an 11 point lead, they let FAU score in 3 plays. You just can't do that. You have to protect leads. You have to play with focus on every series.

A part of that issue was the defensive line was obviously a little gassed again at that point in the game playing against a physical FAU team. This is a regular issue that has not been addressed yet by the defensive coaching staff. Todd Dodge, the overseer, probably needs to step in.

Really DeLoach needs to solve the backup DT spot. The missing piece to that defensive problem may be Tevinn Cantly.

Cantly was a very solid starting caliber DT last year. He showed up this fall at 336 lbs - over 40 pounds heavier than his playing weight last year. His knees started giving him problems.

How much weight has Cantly lost since then? If Cantly is in usable shape and can give Shavod Atkinson and Kelvin Jackson breaks, that could do a lot to alleviate the defensive falloffs that UNT regularly experiences in the late third and fourth quarters as our starting defensive line wears down.

If Cantly can fill that role, it would free up guys like John Weber and Brandon McCoy to move back to the strong side DE spot. McCoy was very good late in the FAU game as a pass rusher (including a big crunchtime sack on what may have been his only down at DE) and Weber has flashed as a pass rusher all off-season. UNT needs someone who can introduce a bit of a power rush at DE like they had with Eddrick Gilmore last year. KC Obi and Brandon Akpunku could again split the weakside end spot as they did last year, keeping Akpunku fresher for pass rushing situations."

Totally agree with this assessment. How many games have we lost in the last five years or so because we could not stop our opponent in the 4th qtr.

Mr. Cantley needs to step up...........NOW!

[Quoner]

"With an 11 point lead, they let FAU score in 3 plays. You just can't do that. You have to protect leads. You have to play with focus on every series.

Great assessment. I'm sick of us playing with limited focus on every other series.

[MeanGreenTexan]

Great assessment. I'm sick of us playing with limited focus on every other series.

Yeah, and I cant believe UNT didn't protect that lead and lost....wait. We did protect the lead, and won!

That's Crazy!

[TheColonyEagle]

Didn't we score 2 TDs off the pass?

One might argue that run, run, run got FAU a little too close, then Riley and the WRs burned them.

Carey was WIDE open in the end zone on his 2nd TD.

[greenminer]

So we are expected to tame any enthusiasm about Hamiltons success last week, but Deloach and Nelson are stupid if they don't move McCoy because he got a sack on the one play from DE?

[UNTLifer]

Yep, I'm taking Tobi's advice over the years of experience that Deloach and Nelson have under their belt.

[slugg]

From his pulpit, it is Gospel, from one who is AWOL at games. ..Principally he relies on others to supply him with information about games. AWOL Toby, from his little bunker shells out uninformed proclamations about the team. How sad....they say he is an alumnus.