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Air Force @ FAU Game Thread - September 9, 2018

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Rick said

Rick said

d-owl said

Cool, np – thanks for the info.
Posted On: Sep 2nd 2018, 8:52 PM #380123

Just found out that this game will be on FaceBook as well - so you are all set!

Waiting for the actual "page" to visit and will circle back once we have it…
Posted On: Sep 3rd 2018, 9:58 PM #380173

FYI, the game will NOT be on CBSSN, it will ONLY be on FaceBook:

Live Video: FaceBook

Two games will be on CBSSN, LA Tech & North Texas.

Marshall will also be on FaceBook.

CBSSN is only the production partner for these contests…


Posted On: Sep 5th 2018, 1:13 PM #380213

Wow – well, that will work for me!
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owlsdad said

From the 2018 FAU Football Schedule thread (but I thought at least my post belongs over here)….

David Slavic said

I'd expect this one to be a shootout.
Posted On: Aug 23rd 2018, 8:52 AM #379608

Rick said

(AF runs a triple option)

 :smile:
Posted On: Aug 23rd 2018, 9:22 AM #379609
Navy runs the triple option - and they scored 42 on the Owls last year.  The TO is not the offense it used to be, with 3 yards and a cloud of dust as the goal.  These guys will throw it a little (their QB had 1100 passing yards last season), and when they do it is usually to stretch the field and/or because they have determined that they are going to catch you napping.  The RBs (including the QB) in these offenses are also now the kind of guys who can easily turn a missed assignment into a 50-yard TD, and are not the lumbering guys doing the FB dive.

I get that the TO is still a ball-control scheme, but they will be very capable of scoring plenty of points. Stony Brook was not a good gauge last weekend, but they scored 38 points and only gave up 75 TOTAL yards.  Even against an FCS team, you would expect in mop-up time for a team to at least throw together a few stats.

Correction - maybe we can learn something from the AF vs Stony Brook game.  AF really only had 3 good drives in the game.  They had a number of very unsuccessful series against the Sea Wolves (several 3 and 4 play drives, with a few where they lost yards even in the first half).
Posted On: Sep 5th 2018, 2:09 PM #380220

When I said "shootout" – I meant "high scoring lol. AF will try to run at will, just like Navy did a year ago.
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I haven't read anyone say we "suck". I've simply read that there is concern given what transpired last Saturday - which is completely fair. Anyone who has followed the program knows what a body bad game feels like, and thought we were beyond those hapless performances.
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I see from the article posted here that the line is FAU -8.5 (currently -9.5 through the Yahoo Sports app) and the over/under is 65.5 from the same article.

It's common to give 3 points for home field advantage.

This roughly equals a 38-28 score with FAU as the winners.

For week one, I see from the NCAA website that there are only two teams with worse defenses than ours.

One of those teams is UCONN, and there are only two yards that separate us.  UCONN played UCF this past weekend, who we play in week four.  Draw your own conclusions.

A review of the week one running backs who gained at least 100 yards showed Rodney Anderson had the best carry to TD percentage - he carried the ball 5 times and scored 2 TDs, which means he scored on 40% of his carries.  The average for this same group was 8.22% (or 7.83% without Anderson figured in).

(Don't really know where I'm going with this - I just like stats when having a discussion).

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I think in the OU game, which I rewatched, that Robison was going through read progressions very well and delivered the ball on the money except for some obvious freshmen jitters. It dawned on me that every other defense Robison will face these next 4 years (besides OSU) will be not even close to as good as OU and it left we very excited about this guy. He's got serious talent. I'd have to imagine he's the most talented QB that we've ever had, and I'm so glad Kiffin is giving him a chance to develop. I don't think there's really much developing to do, his skills are right there on film. I'm psyched to see what Robison can do these 4 years and we should feel great that we have a serious QB. The biggest question on offense is how will the receivers do. They honestly didn't look that good, and whether they have a lot of talent or not, hopefully they have good hands. Durante looked very raw and has obvious talent, but he needs a playmaker next to him that's not Willie Wright. But we do have talented TE's and I guess we should be fine. We sort of need another good receiver besides Wright and Durante.  
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We will win this week and we can go back to talking about beating UCF and OSU next year
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I think we're going to find that we need the defense and special teams to score points this year.

This isn't a knock, just a side effect of breaking in a new QB, the WR's lagging behind, and defense's keying in on Singletary.
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Hoot_N_Holler said

I think we're going to find that we need the defense and special teams to score points this year.

This isn't a knock, just a side effect of breaking in a new QB, the WR's lagging behind, and defense's keying in on Singletary.
Posted On: Sep 5th 2018, 9:45 PM #380239
I think I literally blocked special teams out of my mind after Saturday lol. Let's just say I do think there may be some legitimate concerns there - particularly in the kicking game.
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d-owl said

I think I literally blocked special teams out of my mind after Saturday lol. Let's just say I do think there may be some legitimate concerns there - particularly in the kicking game.
Posted On: Sep 5th 2018, 11:58 PM #380246

I think we're going to find that we need the defense and special teams to score points this year.
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AF OL; 280-280-265-285-275 from LT to RT SMALL for todays day and age. Nowhere near the size and power of OU (thank God!).

DL needs to wreck havoc in the BACKFIELD and force TURNOVERS! LB's need to fill lanes and seal edges with the CB's.

AND ALL OF 'EM NEED TO TACKLE!
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