(This is a weekly series of articles entitled “Monday Morning Quarterback”. I will try to post them two days after the football games are played so as to have our wilder emotions under control by then. It will be my take on the positives and the negatives we saw happen and a chance for commenters to agree or disagree and to add their own thoughts.)
I tried to tell myself to wait until Monday to do this edition of this series but for a few personal (travel) reasons I just can’t put it off. This will be short but not sweet as there aren’t many positives to talk about at all. We had our asses handed to us by the freakin’ Akron Zips of the MAC conference! That says it all really. I’ll put down some more personal opinions at the end of this article.
POSITIVES
1. Our kicking game continues to do well. Punter Ryan Winslow was tasked with punting seven times due to the ineptitude of our offense and had a 42.1 ypp average. His longest was 49 yards; he put two punts inside Akron’s 20 yard line, had one touchback and two fair catches. That leaves another positive in that two of his punts were returned for a total of 10 yards, which means our Punting Team covered well. Our own punt return team didn’t fare so well and looked like the Two Stooges at one point. This one play is burned forever into my eyeballs.
Chris Blewitt stayed his good kicking self as he went 1/1 on a 34 yard FG and kicked off three times for three touchbacks. When a kicker can limit the opponent’s starting field position to their own 25 yards line that’s playing well. So far on the season Blewitt is 7/7 for 21 points and has completed 19 of 20 PATs for a total of 40 points.
2. Hmmm, let’s see. Ok – RB Rachid Ibrahim continues to shine in his very limited role. He had three catches out of the backfield for 40 yards, a 13 yarder which was and a 26 yarder, both for 1st downs and all YAC, and one rushing attempt for 10 yards. His abilities to run with the ball are as good as Boyd’s so use Ibrahim more and don’t rely on Conner up the middle so much.
