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Originally Posted by jwinslow
I think we were lucky to come back as well as we did against MSU, but what I dont' get is why OSU's mistakes are reasons why we shouldn't win and MSU's mistakes are reasons they should have won but squandered.
They should have tackled Holmes on the last td of his, but the Ginn play was just toughness by him running into and over a LBer and sprinting for the TD.
I think we battled very hard and put ourselves in position, and caught a few lucky breaks (which may have turned into scores later anyway had we not fumbled the ball (that was the main way they slowed us down).
MSU was in the game b/c of how we gave the game away. The first Holmes fumble was a miscommunication (he needed the next line of guys to field it b/c it was too far to run up, yet they didn't hear him and he couldn't get there). Ginn has caught a lot of balls bouncing off of the turf, so that was a little uncharacteristic of him too.
The roughing the passer call was nothing they did either.
Our mistakes were huge turnovers that definitely led to some of their scoring. For the most part, their mistakes (other than the FG) were missed tackles against talented players. If they make those tackles, we may very well go onto score still. |
IMO if we play like we did the past 2 weeks the rest of the season we will lose at least one more game. Penn St. didn't make any major mistakes and beat us, MSU did make major mistakes to even out our mistakes so we won.
Smith still seems to be having problems reading defenses and hitting receivers that are just a little open. The 2 TD's were good balls, but won't go for TD's against better teams. Ginn was invisible again except for his TD. It's also a little disturbing that only 4 players touched the ball on offense.
We are going to have to play better if we are going to beat Minn, NU, and scum. Hopefully the game at Indiana will give the offense a chance to get on track.