Sunday, September 16, 2007

Texas A&M 54, ULaMo 14

54 points? Of all the games for my date to be on the east coast... Other than that, it was a great game. Not a statement game though. Fran does not "try to make statements", he simply tries to "take advantage of perceived weaknesses." Perceived weakness is really sugar coating a pass defense that is bad enough to make the ULaMo head coach admit that everyone "has done fairly well throwing the ball against us."

So what do you think? Was Fran taking what the defense have him, or was he making a statement? The number seem to back him up. In the ULaMo game we had the most balanced offense yet, 55% rushing and 45% passing. The Montana State game it was 60/40 and the Fresno State game was 72/28. Given that, you would expect our yards per pass in the ULaMo game to be much larger than in the Fresno State game, and they are. ULaMo allowed 6.8, Montana allowed 5.6, and Fresno held us to only 3.3. Interestingly enough, our yards per rush were about equal in against Montana State and ULaMo. That seems to indicate that Fran wants to pass first, and if it is not there he will run. I am curious to see if this trend continues.

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