Report Card and Game Balls vs FAU

First, I'm happy with the victory on Friday Night over FAU 34-6 at home. Couple of things I felt we did well on. Defensively, I thought we did a very good job shutting down their offense. Guys were swarming and gang tackling. We forced them to punt 10 times in the game. They were 6-19 on 3rd Downs, so I felt we did well on that regard. We held them to 250 yards total offense and had 5 sacks on the night. We did have an effective pass rush in this game. Of the 8 penalties total, 3 were on D and all were 15 yarders (The PI on Crawford, one on Denzel for a personal foul and another one early in the 2nd quarter) Overall, solid effort here, however, need to cut those penalties out and I would like to see us force more turnovers and win the turnover battle. 

Offensively, we had a delay of game penalty on our first play from scrimmage and a false start in the first quarter. In the 2nd quarter, the O didn't have a penalty called on them. In the 3rd Quarter, we had a false start called on Seantrel. No penalties in the 4th. The drops were still a problem, we dropped two sure TDs early in the game, but thank goodness for Duke having a huge game there, with 186 yards on 19 carries and a TD before coming out later due to the fact he was feeling a little woozy, but he'll be ready to go next week. Nice game for Stephen, going 15-27, 160 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT (hopefully, by the next game, it'll be 0). We did lose Scotty late in the game to a collarbone injury. It didn't look good when he came out. We'll see what the report is on that shortly. 

Special Teams, 2 of the 8 penalties were here. We get called for an illegal block in the 1st quarter when D'Mauri gets called for a block in the back. Later on a kickoff after Duke scores the TD, Tyrone gets called for an offsides penalty. We had 62 yards on Punt and Kick Returns, while they had 73 yards (67 of those on Kick Returns). Our punt return Defense did a good job, though the 2 Touchbacks by Patty, is fixable. However, the TBs on Kickoffs were just outstanding. Kicking game was solid with 2 FGs by Matty. 

Overall, solid effort, however, we can and must get better and correct the ME's (Mental Errors) going into the next game and I feel we will do that. 

Report Card:

• Offense: B 
• Defense: B- 
• Special Teams: B

Game Ball this week goes to Duke Johnson. 19 carries, 186 yards 1 TD in 2 1/2 quarters of work. 

I will be back next Friday from Ft. Lauderdale with a preview of the game vs Florida in Armageddon.