(09-06-2017 04:19 AM)Yesolitis Wrote:  

(09-04-2017 07:56 PM)Halz87 Wrote:  Following up on the PI calls. I would like to hear if that was a coaching strategy going into the game with ECU's hyped receiving core. Overplay the pass and take the PI calls. Don't give up the big play. Need to wait for the coaches show this week but I hope someone asks the question.

I don't think we overplayed the pass. In fact, defensively, I thought this game looked very similar to what JMU did against YSU and really throughout most of the playoffs last year.

Giving up only 80 yards rushing is certainly not overplaying the pass. I do think these refs were quicker with the laundry. I think it's a human element. When a larger body can't seem to grab the ball from this pesky "little" guy covering him, there must be foul play involved, right? Wrong. Sometimes it's just two guys being physical and that should be allowed to play out. Maybe it's just my 5'6" Napoleon complex coming out.

I wish the NFL would grow a pair and drop the face guarding rule as PI too. If a guy is not even touching you, who cares if he looks back or not, he is not interfering. The WR should still be able to fight him off to receive the ball if he is worth the millions he is being paid. My two cents.

Sorry...I think we're on the same page except for out meaning of "overplay." I think we focused on stopping the run with bodies in the box. I'm curious if they then told the corners that if they were in single coverage to "get the flag" before giving up the big play and emphasized it to death. I'm not arguing most of the PI's. Except for a couple in the second half, they looked like pretty easy calls to make.