— Andy Padron BGSU (@CoachPadron) November 1, 2017
As you can see here from Coach Padron's twitter feed, the Falcons enjoyed the celebration of their 44-16 win over Kent State. They deserve to enjoy the win. These guys are working hard the whole way and not getting much reward in the way of wins, and this was a good one...the first time all year where they were clearly and definitively the best team on the field for the full 60 minutes.
More on the game coming later, but a couple quick thoughts.
BG relied heavily on the run, but Doege was 14 of 18 in the passing game and didn't make any mistakes. Got sacked a couple times, but by and large he was effective and he did connect a long ball to Datrin Guyton. We'll see how he develops, but he does appear to be a natural born QB.
It should not go unnoticed that BG's two best skill players were true freshmen Doege and Andrew Clair, who was over 100 yards for the fourth straight game.
Taborn went down on the o-line, which was kind of a nightmare scenario because Coach had said that we were already using everybody who was ready to play. For all that, the line did hold its own, I thought. There were some periods where they were losing battles but they won their share, too. Coach said after the game that Caleb Bright and Clark Clancy deserved a game ball for their performance. Bright is a r-FR and Clancy is a
BG was playing without McAuliffe, Kramer, Posey and Wortham, all of whom were injured. In addition, Malik Brown and Shannon Smith were held out for violation of team rules. Coach said he didn't know when they would return.
BG had a bunch of guys play well on defense. More on this later, but Nate Locke had a huge game from the middle, with multiple TFLs.
So, a good night for our guys, who have been living the struggle the rest of us have just been watching. Buffalo is next and an opportunity to get another one.
Humor me while I engage in some excessive optimism. Taking tie breakers into account (we beat Miami), we are all alone in second place in the east. :-)
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I agree that Doege appears to be the future. He seems very comfortable out there. But he did make some rookie mistakes. Kent had a pick six negated by a penalty and Doege drew intentional grounding penalty that was pretty blatant.
ReplyDeleteEven so, it was a nice effort by an 18-year-old. Such nice touch on his throws, and that deep ball to Guyton was so sweet.
Schad, that's right. It was only Doege's second full game and last year he was in HS. On The Wire they used to refer to people as "natural born police." Doege appears to be "natural born QB" Also have a strong QB in the next class.
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