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Few things today from Dino's press conference:

Greene and Coppet are both injured and are uncertain for the Maryland game. If they can't go, Wilson and Domer will both see time.

Babers attributed the special teams breakdowns to young players not 100% knowing their assignments and going against SEC talent. He also said that on the many of the punts, the formation was set up to block rushers instead of attacking the return man. Hopefully this will change against Maryland.

Babers felt the defense did what they could given the poor field position they faced with, but he does believe another week of practice will do them well.

He feels confident in MJ's ability to run the offense and felt he was rusty on Saturday. He also felt the lightning delay hurt the team's momentum and allow Tennessee to make further adjustments.

jpfalcon09 wrote:Few things today from Dino's press conference:

Greene and Coppet are both injured and are uncertain for the Maryland game. If they can't go, Wilson and Domer will both see time.

Babers attributed the special teams breakdowns to young players not 100% knowing their assignments and going against SEC talent. He also said that on the many of the punts, the formation was set up to block rushers instead of attacking the return man. Hopefully this will change against Maryland.

Babers felt the defense did what they could given the poor field position they faced with, but he does believe another week of practice will do them well.

He feels confident in MJ's ability to run the offense and felt he was rusty on Saturday. He also felt the lightning delay hurt the team's momentum and allow Tennessee to make further adjustments.

Both Greene and Coppet are injured? Damn. I didn't expect Greene to likely go this week, but I wasn't aware Coppet was injured too. I really hope one of them can go. We saw how out of sorts we looked without them (the mix-up fumble at the five with Moore back there). Wilson was a beast in the spring game, I was very impressed with him and looked very good. But that was also against our defense, the same one that allowed 400 yards rushing this past Saturday.

jpfalcon09 wrote:He feels confident in MJ's ability to run the offense and felt he was rusty on Saturday.

Love this. Babers is right, too.

He also looked 100% which is what I was worried about. Scary that he missed some passes and still threw for 400 yards in 3 quarters. All against a good secondary.

I am in the camp that we will see great improvement from week one to week two. Ton of new faces on ST and defense, and a QB that played one game in 20 months. Ronnie Moore for 60 minutes is a plus too.

Also, Anthony Farinella is done for the year so Tate will handle all placekicking duties.

He said at the radio show that we would likely be without one of the two RB's (Green and Coppet) for this week, but wasn't willing to say which one yet.

jpfalcon09 wrote:Also, Anthony Farinella is done for the year so Tate will handle all placekicking duties.

Damn man. I read he has a back injury, I had no idea it was going time cost him the year. Any idea if he's planning on red-shirting to play next year? Tate looked good of his kickoffs, especially the ones he drilled for touchbacks. But we cannot afford to have him overwork his leg as he's money on his kicks (when they're not getting blocked). Do you have any idea what Gus Schwieterman's injury is? Saw something about a foot injury. And any idea why Aaron Banks didn't play last week?

factman wrote:He said at the radio show that we would likely be without one of the two RB's (Green and Coppet) for this week, but wasn't willing to say which one yet.

If I had to guess based on what I saw from the game, I would say it's Greene because we saw him leave the field and I never saw what happened to Coppet. However, based on his presser today, he said they're still waiting on word on Coppet and he sounded a little less unsure on Greene as he did about Coppet, and it left me with the impression Coppet would be out. So it's anyone's guess but it also wouldn't surprise me if neither one played which would be unfortunate. I think both backs compliment each other well. Greene has incredible moves while Coppet seems to have a better burst.

Obviously I'd love to have both Greene and Coppet. At the same time I'm actually intrigued by both of our young transfers. Something tells me MD wouldn't see it coming if big Donovan goes running at them behind our line.

MarkL wrote:Obviously I'd love to have both Greene and Coppet. At the same time I'm actually intrigued by both of our young transfers. Something tells me MD wouldn't see it coming if big Donovan goes running at them behind our line.

We actually only have one transfer RB who is eligible this year and that's Donovan from Georgia Tech. Domer isn't actually a transfer. He originally signed at Illinois by DNQ there and enrolled at a JUCO but didn't play football there. That's why he was eligible this year and has 4 years of eligibility with a redshirt remaining if needed. Jennings is a transfer from Eastern Illinois but has to sit out this year.

BGSU33 wrote:

jpfalcon09 wrote:Also, Anthony Farinella is done for the year so Tate will handle all placekicking duties.

Damn man. I read he has a back injury, I had no idea it was going time cost him the year. Any idea if he's planning on red-shirting to play next year? Tate looked good of his kickoffs, especially the ones he drilled for touchbacks. But we cannot afford to have him overwork his leg as he's money on his kicks (when they're not getting blocked). Do you have any idea what Gus Schwieterman's injury is? Saw something about a foot injury. And any idea why Aaron Banks didn't play last week?

Schwieterman indeed has a foot injury and is in all likelihood done for the season. Lunsford ended up taking his number for the Tennessee game which would indicate he won't be returning.

I didn't hear anything about Banks, as far as I know he made the trip with the team to Tennessee.

Schwieterman is officially off the two-deep and Aaron Banks is not listed...other than that not much has changed.

The Week 2 depth chart is out. The offense looks pretty much the same. Defense there's been some shifting around. Most notably, Royster is now listed as the #1 DE. That's vert surprising to me. I saw him playing there vs Tennessee but he very much looks and plays the part of an interior guy. We really seem to be reaching and trying to sort out our DE's. Damn I wish Thomas wouldn't have gotten into the situation that had him get dismissed. Other things of note, Valdez has been moved back inside to #1 MLB and Banks, who was a co-#1 last week, isn't even on the two-deep right now. True frosh Harris is now a #2 OLB.

BGSU33 wrote:The Week 2 depth chart is out. The offense looks pretty much the same. Defense there's been some shifting around. Most notably, Royster is now listed as the #1 DE. That's vert surprising to me. I saw him playing there vs Tennessee but he very much looks and plays the part of an interior guy. We really seem to be reaching and trying to sort out our DE's. Damn I wish Thomas wouldn't have gotten into the situation that had him get dismissed. Other things of note, Valdez has been moved back inside to #1 MLB and Banks, who was a co-#1 last week, isn't even on the two-deep right now. True frosh Harris is now a #2 OLB.

Not surprised by moving Royster to end. He is clearly one of the top 4 linemen this team has. Need to get him on the field somehow.

Remember when everyone thought the line was to light? Now it's, 260, 293, 327, 252 as starters. With 243, 281, 294, 266 backing them up.

Harris was recruited as an athlete. Sounds like he's found his position.

Falcon137 wrote:

BGSU33 wrote:The Week 2 depth chart is out. The offense looks pretty much the same. Defense there's been some shifting around. Most notably, Royster is now listed as the #1 DE. That's vert surprising to me. I saw him playing there vs Tennessee but he very much looks and plays the part of an interior guy. We really seem to be reaching and trying to sort out our DE's. Damn I wish Thomas wouldn't have gotten into the situation that had him get dismissed. Other things of note, Valdez has been moved back inside to #1 MLB and Banks, who was a co-#1 last week, isn't even on the two-deep right now. True frosh Harris is now a #2 OLB.

Not surprised by moving Royster to end. He is clearly one of the top 4 linemen this team has. Need to get him on the field somehow.

I'm not disagreeing with Royster being one of our better DL - he is. The surprise comes from putting a bowling-ball kind of a DT at DE. We were exploited last week off the edges and were hurt much, much more than we were between the tackles and clearly lack speed outside on the edges. At 5-10 & 260 lbs, I'm guessing this isn't going to help solve that. But, our coaches certainly know much better than we do, but last week nearly all of those 400 rushing yards allowed happened on runs outside the tackles.