I've rewatched this game twice now and I'm seeing it a lot differently. First and foremost, you cannot watch what our offense did after the first quarter without note of what the defense was doing. Our defense had the best game for the maroon & gold perhaps in a generation. A defensive shutout and we held them inside their own side of the field all but 2 plays. It was frightening.
In light of that, following the two interceptions Kill & Limegrover effectively shut it down. I believe in an attempt to avoid any further injuries and in acknowledgement that we were without our anticipated tight end strength. It was, for the most part, runs up the gut and very simple short pass plays. In light of what our D was doing and in light of how decimated our O Line is, this was the absolute correct thing to do.
As to Demry, there is no way whatsoever, he should have been put in that game behind a crippled O line. He might have been killed.
I still have issues about why the line has been injured for what seems like the last 3 years, but as far as Mitch Leidner and what was done Saturday, the game was managed just as it should have been.
In light of that, following the two interceptions Kill & Limegrover effectively shut it down. I believe in an attempt to avoid any further injuries and in acknowledgement that we were without our anticipated tight end strength. It was, for the most part, runs up the gut and very simple short pass plays. In light of what our D was doing and in light of how decimated our O Line is, this was the absolute correct thing to do.
As to Demry, there is no way whatsoever, he should have been put in that game behind a crippled O line. He might have been killed.
I still have issues about why the line has been injured for what seems like the last 3 years, but as far as Mitch Leidner and what was done Saturday, the game was managed just as it should have been.