It seemed the hawks had pretty good run success straight at NW today. The first td, multiple nice gainers, they were stuffed a few times but that happens. But it was apparent pretty early on that the outside zone was not working. NW either knew it was coming based on linemen movement etc or they were fast enough to recover and eat it up.
Brian Ferentz on 2nd and 1 calls for a outside zone run that loses 4 yards. Luckily on that set of downs Petras found a receiver for the first down. But there was no rhythm with BFerentz of trying to stay ahead of the chains, terrible 3 down pass routes called short of the line to gain,
Apparent we are missing Wirfs. Petras flushes too early sometimes and when he rolls out he has lost the use of half of his receivers.
Did BF call any 50-60 yard bombs when we had the wind behind our backs? I dont think so but you have to do that. Petras has the strong arm and ISM and Tracy can try to run under it or draw a flag.
Didnt see many reverses to slow down and mess up NW's quick pursuit to the first direction of the play. The offense is pretty vanilla.
I thought the defense played pretty well except against the run in the 2nd qtr but they tightened that up in the 2nd half. There is that lack of a pass rush and I thought PParker had the pass rush trying to contain rather than pressure. Ramsey is a really good scrambler and runner but the lack of pressure let him make several or more key completions.
I like Petras's strong arm (he seems to really throw that long out pattern well that goes past the corner and in front of the safety) but he is missing some open receiver reads, like last week he is throwing high a lot but maybe that is what he is supposed to do along the boundary I dont know. I think it would be ok to give other QBs some package plays and set of downs or series.
Not very dismayed yet because KF's teams usually get better by mid October but it is already Nov and their warmup games have been two close conference losses. It will be hard to run against sparty but that is what they still need to try to do.
Brian Ferentz on 2nd and 1 calls for a outside zone run that loses 4 yards. Luckily on that set of downs Petras found a receiver for the first down. But there was no rhythm with BFerentz of trying to stay ahead of the chains, terrible 3 down pass routes called short of the line to gain,
Apparent we are missing Wirfs. Petras flushes too early sometimes and when he rolls out he has lost the use of half of his receivers.
Did BF call any 50-60 yard bombs when we had the wind behind our backs? I dont think so but you have to do that. Petras has the strong arm and ISM and Tracy can try to run under it or draw a flag.
Didnt see many reverses to slow down and mess up NW's quick pursuit to the first direction of the play. The offense is pretty vanilla.
I thought the defense played pretty well except against the run in the 2nd qtr but they tightened that up in the 2nd half. There is that lack of a pass rush and I thought PParker had the pass rush trying to contain rather than pressure. Ramsey is a really good scrambler and runner but the lack of pressure let him make several or more key completions.
I like Petras's strong arm (he seems to really throw that long out pattern well that goes past the corner and in front of the safety) but he is missing some open receiver reads, like last week he is throwing high a lot but maybe that is what he is supposed to do along the boundary I dont know. I think it would be ok to give other QBs some package plays and set of downs or series.
Not very dismayed yet because KF's teams usually get better by mid October but it is already Nov and their warmup games have been two close conference losses. It will be hard to run against sparty but that is what they still need to try to do.
