WinOneThisCentury
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Q. You had offensive lineman that had some bad injuries during the season. How are their recoveries come ago long?
COACH FERENTZ: Brandon and Andrew are both doing good. Brandon's a hundred percent, and Andrew's close. He will be when we start practice. Both those guys, Brandon was pretty much ready to go when we got back in January after that 10‑week break. It's been like two plus months it wasn't. And Andrew is still working for it at that point. But I think they're both doing really well.
This is really huge news on Donnal. I expected him to miss the spring. If these two guys are ready to go, you have an offensive line that is going to be able to run the football on anyone...yes anyone (anyone = teams not called Alabama, LSU, Florida, or Georgia). Prior to the injuries, the OL did a damn good job going into MSU and getting Weisman over 100 yards and keeping JVB clean against a very good defense that still thought they had a shot at the B10 title. If these two are healthy, with Boffeli or Simmons at the center position, we are deep and bigger than last year. When you throw CJ and Hamilton in the mix at TE, when you go two TE sets, it's a formidable group. I know the QB position is the wildcard, but having a solid OL that can run the ball and protect, certainly provides you a much greater opportunity to be successful at the QB position. Whomever it is at QB, they won't be relied on to carry the team, and they won't be running for their life like JVB was much of the last 4-5 games. The left side of the line after those two went down was like a free turnstile at a subway station.
If we stay healthy with this projected OL, there is no doubt of a 4-1 started and honestly, we should also beat Northern Illinois. The issue is that they are going to score points and it's the first game out of the box. Their defense is going to be rebuilding though with several of their best players gone from the group last year...we should be able to physically manhandle them...we need to convert that to points.
COACH FERENTZ: Brandon and Andrew are both doing good. Brandon's a hundred percent, and Andrew's close. He will be when we start practice. Both those guys, Brandon was pretty much ready to go when we got back in January after that 10‑week break. It's been like two plus months it wasn't. And Andrew is still working for it at that point. But I think they're both doing really well.
This is really huge news on Donnal. I expected him to miss the spring. If these two guys are ready to go, you have an offensive line that is going to be able to run the football on anyone...yes anyone (anyone = teams not called Alabama, LSU, Florida, or Georgia). Prior to the injuries, the OL did a damn good job going into MSU and getting Weisman over 100 yards and keeping JVB clean against a very good defense that still thought they had a shot at the B10 title. If these two are healthy, with Boffeli or Simmons at the center position, we are deep and bigger than last year. When you throw CJ and Hamilton in the mix at TE, when you go two TE sets, it's a formidable group. I know the QB position is the wildcard, but having a solid OL that can run the ball and protect, certainly provides you a much greater opportunity to be successful at the QB position. Whomever it is at QB, they won't be relied on to carry the team, and they won't be running for their life like JVB was much of the last 4-5 games. The left side of the line after those two went down was like a free turnstile at a subway station.
If we stay healthy with this projected OL, there is no doubt of a 4-1 started and honestly, we should also beat Northern Illinois. The issue is that they are going to score points and it's the first game out of the box. Their defense is going to be rebuilding though with several of their best players gone from the group last year...we should be able to physically manhandle them...we need to convert that to points.
