(12-02-2013 02:25 PM)El Grande Flippero Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 02:13 PM)timxlydon Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 01:49 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 01:15 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 01:12 PM)niusfactuary Wrote:  Really going out on a limb there...

I know, right. That was a slightly sarcastic response to the BG fan saying we shouldn't underestimate Johnson...

But that's not at all what I said. This isn't the first, second or third game of the season. It matters not that he's a "first-year" starter. That's all I said.

I think that Johnson is a solid QB and that the Falcons offense can put up some points. From what I have seen this year though, the Falcons tend to start off kind of slow against their better opponents. This really will be an interesting game to watch because no one can really predict what's going to happen.

Look at the numbers and the records...Matt Johnson is the third team all conference QB this year...hell his QB rating is higher than Lynch's...he will go into next year as the top QB in the MAC.

But you guys go ahead and write him off as a "first year QB"....

My goodness! Stop the presses!! Award him the Heisman NOW!!!!

If the game is close late, I really hope BG pulls out the reverse to the walk on TE.

CHAMPIONSHIP

I don't see NIU losing this games. BGSU is a good team and all NIU fans should respect that. Personally, BSU posed the biggest threat against NIU and nearly won. Yes, the final score was lopsided but you all watched a back and forth affair that was a great game.

However, NIU seems to try and lose MACCG, from my perspective. They were a way better team than Miami, Ohio, and Kent, yet all of those games were decided in the final seconds. I don't know if they choke or simply play down to the competition, but if history is a good indicator, this game will be very close. Hoping for an NIU win so the MAC gets money and it opens up another bowl slot.

That glaring blow out against Indiana is pretty pathetic, but I'm sure BGSU has put that behind them. A 1 point loss to Mississippi State is impressive. Lynch is a beast, but he can be limited like in the Akron game. However, that could have been a fluke. He won't be able to have video game numbers against a BCS team, but BGSU is not a BCS team. I look for Lynch to throw for 200 and rush for 100 with 3 total TD's.

NIU 28
BGSU 24

Quote:but BGSU is not a BCS team

True... but they have the Defense of a decent BCS team. And an offense that's not too shabby, either.

But I agree with your score assessment. It will be close. 28-24 sounds like an expected score where NIU has to keep BGSU at arms length, or come back in the 2nd half to begin to push them away at arms length.

(12-02-2013 02:53 PM)george14 Wrote:  I don't see NIU losing this games. BGSU is a good team and all NIU fans should respect that. Personally, BSU posed the biggest threat against NIU and nearly won. Yes, the final score was lopsided but you all watched a back and forth affair that was a great game.

However, NIU seems to try and lose MACCG, from my perspective. They were a way better team than Miami, Ohio, and Kent, yet all of those games were decided in the final seconds. I don't know if they choke or simply play down to the competition, but if history is a good indicator, this game will be very close. Hoping for an NIU win so the MAC gets money and it opens up another bowl slot.

That glaring blow out against Indiana is pretty pathetic, but I'm sure BGSU has put that behind them. A 1 point loss to Mississippi State is impressive. Lynch is a beast, but he can be limited like in the Akron game. However, that could have been a fluke. He won't be able to have video game numbers against a BCS team, but BGSU is not a BCS team. I look for Lynch to throw for 200 and rush for 100 with 3 total TD's.

NIU 28
BGSU 24

I don't know what it is about Ford Field. IMHO we didn't look like the same team against Miami. And we started really badly against Ohio. Kent State we moved the ball well and held them down but couldn't score enough points to pull away. We were about 8 yards away from a FG that would have made it really hard for Kent State to come back.

We also lost there in 2005 but Akron beat us earlier in the year too.

I am very confident in this years Huskies team to put together a complete game for the MACC. The offense will find ways to move the ball. There isn't one guy on the offense I wouldn't trust giving the ball to. On defense, the team has played much better as of late and has been dominate in the second half most of the year. All of the Huskies best overall performances this year have been when the team is challenged, and I think they will be against a very good BGSU unit. Expect the Huskies to come out focused, determined, and ready to impress.

(12-02-2013 01:27 PM)The Frisky Biscuit Wrote:  The transitive property is poop.

+1

(12-02-2013 03:33 PM)timxlydon Wrote:  I am very confident in this years Huskies team to put together a complete game for the MACC. The offense will find ways to move the ball. There isn't one guy on the offense I wouldn't trust giving the ball to. On defense, the team has played much better as of late and has been dominate in the second half most of the year. All of the Huskies best overall performances this year have been when the team is challenged, and I think they will be against a very good BGSU unit. Expect the Huskies to come out focused, determined, and ready to impress.

Expect BG to come out loose, relaxed, on a serious roll playing their best ball of the season by far and with no pressure whatsoever to accomplish anything other than show up.

(12-02-2013 06:03 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 03:33 PM)timxlydon Wrote:  I am very confident in this years Huskies team to put together a complete game for the MACC. The offense will find ways to move the ball. There isn't one guy on the offense I wouldn't trust giving the ball to. On defense, the team has played much better as of late and has been dominate in the second half most of the year. All of the Huskies best overall performances this year have been when the team is challenged, and I think they will be against a very good BGSU unit. Expect the Huskies to come out focused, determined, and ready to impress.

Expect BG to come out loose, relaxed, on a serious roll playing their best ball of the season by far and with no pressure whatsoever to accomplish anything other than show up.

It's good to be relaxed and loose, but I bet they are expecting to accomplish a lot more than just showing up. If it's a close game or they are winning, the pressure does start mounting. It is definitely on NIU more, but Lynch seems to handle it very well.

We seem to have more turnovers then normal in the championship game.
Don't have a turnover.

Miami game a fluke catch on a tipped ball gave them a first down late in the 4th

Akron beat us on a last ditch pass in the end zone when we had single coverage deep...everybody knew that that play would be an end zone play ...could not understand why we had single coverage ...

As for margin of victory...Coach Carey could have run up the margin in more than one game but either elected to play his 2's and 3's or run basic run plays...

BGSU will play us tough thru 3 quarters and then wear out in the 4th. Most teams that play us hit a brick wall with about 8 mins left. It is done by design to do that.
Lynch will throw the ball more and do a lot better job than he has the last couple weeks. The biggest knock on Lynch is his hands bc they arent that big. He has trouble in windy, wet, and cold games.

Lynch will be very accurate and air it out in the dome.

BGSU runs a lot of play action to have their qb go over the top. He throws a lot out passes and stick routes. BGSU runs the ball a lot in the red zone they must not trust the qb much.

NIU will be very conservative in the 1st half and then clamp down second half. We really havent changed much from last year. Lets do things the hard way 4th quarter!

Go Huskies!

(12-02-2013 10:14 PM)GOONSQUAD41 Wrote:  BGSU runs the ball a lot in the red zone they must not trust the qb much.

Have you met our 1,422 yard rusher (118/game with 10 TD's) Travis Greene yet?

How about William Houston? 11 TD's on a mere 48 carries?

Johnson has 5 rushing TD's as well. We trust him just fine in the RZ.

(12-02-2013 06:09 PM)NIU17 Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 06:03 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 03:33 PM)timxlydon Wrote:  I am very confident in this years Huskies team to put together a complete game for the MACC. The offense will find ways to move the ball. There isn't one guy on the offense I wouldn't trust giving the ball to. On defense, the team has played much better as of late and has been dominate in the second half most of the year. All of the Huskies best overall performances this year have been when the team is challenged, and I think they will be against a very good BGSU unit. Expect the Huskies to come out focused, determined, and ready to impress.

Expect BG to come out loose, relaxed, on a serious roll playing their best ball of the season by far and with no pressure whatsoever to accomplish anything other than show up.

It's good to be relaxed and loose, but I bet they are expecting to accomplish a lot more than just showing up. If it's a close game or they are winning, the pressure does start mounting. It is definitely on NIU more, but Lynch seems to handle it very well.

Of course. But if the game stays close, the pressure gets even stronger on NIU...not on BG. We're on a free roll with nothing to lose. Sure we want and expect to win, but no way does NIU not have more pressure on them than on BG at ANY point during this game...sorry.

(12-03-2013 10:15 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 06:09 PM)NIU17 Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 06:03 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 03:33 PM)timxlydon Wrote:  I am very confident in this years Huskies team to put together a complete game for the MACC. The offense will find ways to move the ball. There isn't one guy on the offense I wouldn't trust giving the ball to. On defense, the team has played much better as of late and has been dominate in the second half most of the year. All of the Huskies best overall performances this year have been when the team is challenged, and I think they will be against a very good BGSU unit. Expect the Huskies to come out focused, determined, and ready to impress.

Expect BG to come out loose, relaxed, on a serious roll playing their best ball of the season by far and with no pressure whatsoever to accomplish anything other than show up.

It's good to be relaxed and loose, but I bet they are expecting to accomplish a lot more than just showing up. If it's a close game or they are winning, the pressure does start mounting. It is definitely on NIU more, but Lynch seems to handle it very well.

Of course. But if the game stays close, the pressure gets even stronger on NIU...not on BG. We're on a free roll with nothing to lose. Sure we want and expect to win, but no way does NIU not have more pressure on them than on BG at ANY point during this game...sorry.

But NIU has played close games all year....see Iowa, EIU, Ball State, Toledo....it's nothing new

And all 4 MACC games

(12-03-2013 10:12 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 10:14 PM)GOONSQUAD41 Wrote:  BGSU runs the ball a lot in the red zone they must not trust the qb much.

Have you met our 1,422 yard rusher (118/game with 10 TD's) Travis Greene yet?

How about William Houston? 11 TD's on a mere 48 carries?

Johnson has 5 rushing TD's as well. We trust him just fine in the RZ.

Aren't most of Houston's TDs goal-line scenarios? Might want to add some context. Also, NIU has two 1,000 yard rushers dude.

Has BG won a close game all year? Since they have not, the only way I see them winning is if they blowout NIU, and I don't anticipate that happening.

I expect an onside kick, maybe a fake punt, lots of that misdirection running game they use, etc. They will throw the kitchen sink at NIU.

If they haven't won a close game all year, I have serious trouble thinking they beat a team that wins close games like it's nothing. (BTW, the Toledo game got out of hand with like 12 mins left, that's not exactly that close)

(12-03-2013 10:23 AM)HuskieJWN Wrote:  

(12-03-2013 10:12 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 10:14 PM)GOONSQUAD41 Wrote:  BGSU runs the ball a lot in the red zone they must not trust the qb much.

Have you met our 1,422 yard rusher (118/game with 10 TD's) Travis Greene yet?

How about William Houston? 11 TD's on a mere 48 carries?

Johnson has 5 rushing TD's as well. We trust him just fine in the RZ.

Aren't most of Houston's TDs goal-line scenarios? Might want to add some context. Also, NIU has two 1,000 yard rushers dude.

Has BG won a close game all year? Since they have not, the only way I see them winning is if they blowout NIU, and I don't anticipate that happening.

I expect an onside kick, maybe a fake punt, lots of that misdirection running game they use, etc. They will throw the kitchen sink at NIU.

If they haven't won a close game all year, I have serious trouble thinking they beat a team that wins close games like it's nothing. (BTW, the Toledo game got out of hand with like 12 mins left, that's not exactly that close)

Houston Stats

ATT YDS AVG LNG TD
10 29 2.9 8 3
2 -3 -1.5 1 1
4 8 2 4 0
7 24 3.4 7 1
5 16 3.2 4 1
2 1 0.5 1 1
No statistics available.
No statistics available.
3 2 0.7 2 1
2 2 1 1 2
7 84 12 44 1
6 47 7.8 37 0

(12-03-2013 10:23 AM)HuskieJWN Wrote:  

(12-03-2013 10:12 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 10:14 PM)GOONSQUAD41 Wrote:  BGSU runs the ball a lot in the red zone they must not trust the qb much.

Have you met our 1,422 yard rusher (118/game with 10 TD's) Travis Greene yet?

How about William Houston? 11 TD's on a mere 48 carries?

Johnson has 5 rushing TD's as well. We trust him just fine in the RZ.

Aren't most of Houston's TDs goal-line scenarios? Might want to add some context.

I think that he accomplished this in 48 carries sort of contextualized that already, no?

(12-03-2013 10:23 AM)HuskieJWN Wrote:  Also, NIU has two 1,000 yard rushers dude.

Has BG won a close game all year? Since they have not, the only way I see them winning is if they blowout NIU, and I don't anticipate that happening.

I expect an onside kick, maybe a fake punt, lots of that misdirection running game they use, etc. They will throw the kitchen sink at NIU.

If they haven't won a close game all year, I have serious trouble thinking they beat a team that wins close games like it's nothing. (BTW, the Toledo game got out of hand with like 12 mins left, that's not exactly that close)

Thanks, but none of that has anything to do with whether we trust Johnson in the RZ or not. That's all I was commenting on.

(12-03-2013 10:17 AM)NIU8484 Wrote:  

(12-03-2013 10:15 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 06:09 PM)NIU17 Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 06:03 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 03:33 PM)timxlydon Wrote:  I am very confident in this years Huskies team to put together a complete game for the MACC. The offense will find ways to move the ball. There isn't one guy on the offense I wouldn't trust giving the ball to. On defense, the team has played much better as of late and has been dominate in the second half most of the year. All of the Huskies best overall performances this year have been when the team is challenged, and I think they will be against a very good BGSU unit. Expect the Huskies to come out focused, determined, and ready to impress.

Expect BG to come out loose, relaxed, on a serious roll playing their best ball of the season by far and with no pressure whatsoever to accomplish anything other than show up.

It's good to be relaxed and loose, but I bet they are expecting to accomplish a lot more than just showing up. If it's a close game or they are winning, the pressure does start mounting. It is definitely on NIU more, but Lynch seems to handle it very well.

Of course. But if the game stays close, the pressure gets even stronger on NIU...not on BG. We're on a free roll with nothing to lose. Sure we want and expect to win, but no way does NIU not have more pressure on them than on BG at ANY point during this game...sorry.

But NIU has played close games all year....see Iowa, EIU, Ball State, Toledo....it's nothing new

Understand totally...but you have to agree that this game means WAY more now than those, yes? You're one game away from a huge opportunity...and as the game goes one...one half...one quarter, etc. The pressure mounts exponentially as the game goes on as long as BG "hangs around".