Wow what a win for the Hawks on Saturday night in East Lansing we went from thinking we lost to Ricky Stanzi leading a game winning drive and to top it off a TD as time expired. This team just finds away to win it not always pretty but they just win. Michigan State really played well on defense but on offense we did a nice job of running the ball with Robinson going over 100 yards and the line was pretty good on Saturday night. The Defense was awesome untill that final drive by MSU and the defensive line got a lot of pressure on Cousins and forced him to throw before he wanted to. Marvin McNutt had 2 catches and they were both very important to the win on the final drive he got the 1st catch that got a first down then the Biggest Catch of the game and a outstanding play call one on one McNutt 6 ft 4 vs CL Rucker and McNutt won that battle on the slant to win the game.
Now that we have got through 3 of our 4 road games we have two home games in a row then go on the road to play Ohio State. We did suffer a couple of injuries on Saturday as Dace Richardson broke a bone in his ankle, Greenwood was carted off but returned to the game in street clothes, Sandeman was knocked out and Robinson looked like he sprained his ankle but he said in the post game that he expected to play vs Indiana. The next 2 home games we have Indiana and Northwestern at home both teams are dangerous so we can't play like we have vs bad teams. It would be nice to see us blow someone out this week vs Indiana.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
The Wisconsin Game
This was Ricky Stanzi's best game this year he was outstanding against the Badgers and the reemergence of DJK definitely helped the offense. We still couldn't run the ball like I would like but we were able to run it in the 4th quarter. The offensive line played a lot better in the 2nd half the 1st half the team did not play well but the defense kept us in the game and Murray's 48 yard kick was big to give us some momentum.
In the 2nd half the game changed after Speivey's pick we marched right down the field and scored on a good play by Moeaki and a great pass by Stanzi. The defense was lights out in the 2nd half they didn't allow anything they played great in the 2nd half and forced turnovers again.
This week is a new challenge we head to Michigan State for another huge Conference game. Michigan State is 3 and 1 we are 3 and 0 in the conference. This game is for the conference lead if we win this week we will be past 3 of our 4 tough road games. I don't think MSU is that good of a team but they have a lot of confidence right now we will have to play good to win this game. I want to see us make a statement this week and dominate a good Spartan team so we can stop all these close games. MSU has not ran the ball well all year so we should expect a lot of passing they have some talented wide receivers but I think our secondary is just a little bit better and will make enough plays for us to win.
I'm very excited that we are 6th in the BCS basically the only thing that matters is we need to keep winning and hope that Texas loses to someone. We will jump Boise State and Cincinatti because the Computers love us as they have us as 3rd we might even possibly jump Texas but the first thing we need to do is win at MSU this week.
In the 2nd half the game changed after Speivey's pick we marched right down the field and scored on a good play by Moeaki and a great pass by Stanzi. The defense was lights out in the 2nd half they didn't allow anything they played great in the 2nd half and forced turnovers again.
This week is a new challenge we head to Michigan State for another huge Conference game. Michigan State is 3 and 1 we are 3 and 0 in the conference. This game is for the conference lead if we win this week we will be past 3 of our 4 tough road games. I don't think MSU is that good of a team but they have a lot of confidence right now we will have to play good to win this game. I want to see us make a statement this week and dominate a good Spartan team so we can stop all these close games. MSU has not ran the ball well all year so we should expect a lot of passing they have some talented wide receivers but I think our secondary is just a little bit better and will make enough plays for us to win.
I'm very excited that we are 6th in the BCS basically the only thing that matters is we need to keep winning and hope that Texas loses to someone. We will jump Boise State and Cincinatti because the Computers love us as they have us as 3rd we might even possibly jump Texas but the first thing we need to do is win at MSU this week.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Defense
The defense didn't play great but they played well enough to win the game. The Michigan running game really ran right down our throat they did a very good job of getting to our linebackers and too me it looked like we were overrunning the hole they would go through. The offense they ran was very hard to stop because they were cutting in to different lanes our defensive tackles weren't getting much penatration which caused a lot of open lanes for Minor to run through. The pass defense played very well for the most part they didn't give up any big plays and they kept Michigan from getting open too often, Spievey made the one mistake where he didn't get turned around in time but for the most part they did a good job.
The defense wasn't lights out as we had seen but they did enough to win now presents a new challenge a big back just like Minor but a power running attack of Wisconsin and John Clay. This should be a very physical game I think we have the advantage due to the fact that spread teams have been able to run on us but teams that try and run it right at us have tend to struggle. We are 6 and 0 and heading into a tough venue the thing we can't do is give them short fields personally they don't have great recievers but they do have a good tight end and John Clay is a good running back also Tolzien has been very good this year should be another run game on Saturday.
The defense wasn't lights out as we had seen but they did enough to win now presents a new challenge a big back just like Minor but a power running attack of Wisconsin and John Clay. This should be a very physical game I think we have the advantage due to the fact that spread teams have been able to run on us but teams that try and run it right at us have tend to struggle. We are 6 and 0 and heading into a tough venue the thing we can't do is give them short fields personally they don't have great recievers but they do have a good tight end and John Clay is a good running back also Tolzien has been very good this year should be another run game on Saturday.
Michigan Game (Offense)
Well the offense for the most part played pretty well especially the passing game we really got it going and played good. The Running game struggled a lot of this was due to the 8 and 9 fronts Michigan was lining up in that is why there was so much 1 on 1 coverage. In the 2nd half the line started to get some movement and did a nice job of getting to the next level Robinson and Wegher couldn't find much room to run but Adam did have 10 carries for 70 yards. The passing of Stanzi was okay but the very first pass he had was just a terrible throw nothing else you can say about it there were two things I was dissapointed in were we were attacking there best corner instead of the inexperienced one and then we didn't capatilize on turnovers as I would of liked. We only got a field goal off of Hunters Interception, then we only got a field goal off the muffed punt these are turnovers we could of have scored into touchdowns and really put the nail in the coffin of the Wolverines.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
We Won
Well it wasn't pretty but we did get the win over Arkansas State. Stanzi looked great at times and really played well except for 2 mistakes where he didn't have good footwork on the throw. The run game wasn't that effective today but they were stacking the box and we still ran for 124 yards so it's not like they completely shut us down. The defense looked good again not great like vs Penn State but good enough to win without Stanzi's pick 6 we win 24 to 14 and it isn't so close but we are 5-0 after 5 games this is what we wanted.
The Next 3 weeks will determine how special this season will be and how good this team is because we have Michigan at home this week 7 oclock national TV another statement game opportunity then we travel to Wisconsin and Michigan State Back to back this is the biggest stretch of the year. I personally don't think Michigan is that good as they did lose today at Michigan State but even though I don't like Forcier's swagger but he will not be intimidated next week so we will have to be ready to play no doubt Ferents will have us ready next week.
This is a big game hopefully Moeaki and Prater will be back and DJK will hopefully be able to play more next week too. We already made a statement with our win at Penn State this is an opportunity make another statement with a good Michigan team coming to town. This will be another fun week.
The Next 3 weeks will determine how special this season will be and how good this team is because we have Michigan at home this week 7 oclock national TV another statement game opportunity then we travel to Wisconsin and Michigan State Back to back this is the biggest stretch of the year. I personally don't think Michigan is that good as they did lose today at Michigan State but even though I don't like Forcier's swagger but he will not be intimidated next week so we will have to be ready to play no doubt Ferents will have us ready next week.
This is a big game hopefully Moeaki and Prater will be back and DJK will hopefully be able to play more next week too. We already made a statement with our win at Penn State this is an opportunity make another statement with a good Michigan team coming to town. This will be another fun week.
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