(09-02-2017 01:41 AM)scottiep12 Wrote: BC might be mediocre...at best. You can't piss away those kind of opportunities to get a G5 skin. With that said, it works out to an exhibition game and at least there is some positives. Defense looks formidable which means we should be in all 12 games we play. It could be a lot better. It could be a lot worse. We are just...pretty mediocre it seems.
QB-C-
Kids got heart. Kids got no arm.
RB-B
We were playing a stout front 7. I didn't anticipate that we'd be very productive on the ground..and we weren't. Carey really hates Huff, huh? Marcus Jones looked good though
WR-C+
This group is going to be very under-whelming, but mildly reliable, I feel. Beebe looks like a dude that's going to put up solid numbers. Great to see Tears out there running with the 1's. You can see some flashes. DJ Brown was the MVP of the group. Blake needs to be the guy...unfortunately he just couldn't separate tonight. Bummer Wesley dropped that one...I was hoping he'd break out tonight.
OL-B
They had a tough test tonight and held up. Nothing super impressive but they did what they needed to do to give the playmakers a chance. They are going to be the unit that carries us.
TE-C+
Wimann drop on the wheel was brutal. Loved the playcalls to him on the TD and the 4th down conversion.
DL-B
The Sutton Smith coming out party. He's all things NIU. Under-sized but quick, instinctive and plays with a motor. Interior did a fine job.
LB-B+
It was also the Kyle Pugh party. That dude was around the ball all game. Juwan Johnson was flying around anticipating some plays too.
DB-C+
Overall the group was fine. Would have been a D if the BC QB had any touch on a deep ball. We were toasted a few times and got away with it. Lurry is going to drive me nuts all seaso, I can already tell.
ST-B
Hagan's final kick was a bummer. But hey, we've got a punter! Great ability to ge the ball to turnover pretty consistently. Beebe back is refreshing. I'm cool with Blake not returning kicks. Would have loved if those were in Huff's hands. Coverage was pretty decent.
Coaching-D
The way he handled the end of both halves was completely ridiculous. Ended up costing us the game.
Fan base-D
WTF has happened to us? It's flat out embarrassing.
Disagree on a couple grades...linebackers at B+ is probably a little low.
Quarterback= F 15 of 38 when almost all are high percentage passes going no more than a few yards downfield??? And, the line gave him pretty good time.
Coaching= F I just rewatched two critical points of the game. In the first half, BC scored to make it 10-6. NIU got the ball back with 1:59 on the clock. The BC coach called three quick timeouts and NIU punted with 1:41 left of the clock (three plays, 18 seconds!). BC got the ball back, scored a TD and led at half.
At the end of the game---with 1:20 left, Graham ran a keeper on first down and lost a yard...was tackled at 1:15....NIU got to the line and looked at the bench--they snapped that ball at 0:47. It took TWENTY EIGHT seconds to get the play in when you are DOWN in the game. Absolute joke! THEN to compound it on that play Graham completes a crossing pattern to Beebe who is tackled immediately and the whistle blows at 0:41. Carey calls timeout at 0:31!!! TEN SECONDS to call a timeout!!!
OK---I just gave the QB an F...but if NIU would have gotten one more first down, I just accounted for somewhere between 30 and 38 seconds of WASTED time and TERRIBLE clock management.
Let me add here--that IF, when inside the 30 with a minute to go, they were playing for the FG (which I am sure isn't the case)--the coach should be fired before he hits the locker room.
Sorry for the rant, but this is stuff that average fans (which I am) can do in their sleep.