Scrimmage Report

The scrimmage yesterday....a few thoughts...first, we were not allowed to video it...but I snuck in a camera.  The footage is below.

So, that ought to tell the story.

Anyway, here are a few things.

It seemed to me that the offense was much like last year.  We made some big plays--a couple runs, a couple double moves in single coverage, a kickoff return, a nice play from under the goalposts on a hard play fake--but I didn't get any sense that we were able to really sustain any drives.  There was a bad turnover and the 2-point drill was scary.  It seemed to me that the defense won their share of the plays, especially on the runs.

Some other observations.  Nate Pabst was getting reps at LT.  He was a DL last year and moved to the OL since then and is listed as the starting LT in Phil Steele, which probably came out of talks with Loeffler. (He had it Pabst, Fatuskai, Deyo, Warner, Wollschlager as BG replaces Grant and Robinson).

Having Terrion Stewart back will help a lot.  He is a difference maker.

We had open FG competition and they seemed to mostly miss them.  A bunch of the snaps were low.

The guys were engaged.  Two big fights broke out.

As has been noted elsewhere, Bryce DeFalco is injured and on crutches.  I did not see any other injuries.

It's hard to tell with a scrimmage.  Was it good offense?  Was it bad defense?  Vice versa.  It's hard to tell.  This team needs to be way more consistently effective to have a shot this year....all will be revealed soon.  The schedule will present little margin for error.