Above Immage from WVSports.com.While the mood at Puskar Stadium seemed a bit underwhelmed, the Mountaineers took care of the most important task of the day, winning. Liberty with its superstar athlete also named Brown came in with a solid well coached game plan and gave the Mountaineer Defense a challenge. Of course some of that challenge could be left at the foot of the kickoff teem. As they gave the Flames an average starting spot of the 33 yard line. But nevertheless the Eers were able to score more points and really had a pretty impressive offensive day. We got to see Ryan Clark carry the ball for five yards on 3 carries, but those were "short yardage yards" that we simply didn't pick up last season and they did account for one TD. We got to See Noel Devine rush for a TD and 112 yards on 17 carries. And we got to get reintroduced to our newest Star Jarret Brown. He accounted for 243 passing yards with 19 completions on 26 attempts, and 69 rushing yards with a Touchdown. All day long he made good decisions with one particularly good decision when he read cover 0 by the flame defense. He simply scampered straight up the middle for not just a big gainer but a score. Yes sports fans he can run too. He also spread the ball around to Joche Sanders (8-95), Alric Arnet (1-22), Tuler Urben (2-49), Wes Lyons (2-31)(Lyonns strained a hamstring but appears to be held out simply as a precaution for rest of game.), Noel Devine (3-9), Bradley Starks (2-34) and newcomer Tavon Austin (1-3). All in all a very nice performance from the 5th year Senior.
Image from Charleston Gazette.The resounding negative of the game as mentioned above was kick off coverage. They were in mid-season form, unfortunately I am referring to last years mid season. This needs to be corrected asap as the Mountaineers can ill afford to give teams that kind of field position.
All and all though the Eers got this job done. Now on to East Carolina.
DaGeek
2 comments:
I think you provide a fair assessment. I was (am) concerned with what I saw on defense. I expected a much stronger performance on that side of the ball.
I tip my hat to Jarret Brown. It was very clear that this is his team. In the past I thought he played like a back-up and tried to play Pat White's part. On Saturday however, he played like a starter. He was his own person, making the decisions that he would make; not the decisions he thought someone else would make. Spot on Jarret!
Joe
Agreed. Our D tends to play well when we are tackling well. We've never been strong on coverage other than tackling the receiver immediately or pressuring the QB. ECU's spread could give us trouble and Cincinnati's 5-wide set is downright scary. And Kudos to Brown as well. I'm not sure he could have played any better. His TD run was a thing of beauty and Coach Stewart gave him all the credit for the correct read on what was a called pass play.
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