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KC Bobcat
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How to handle Miami

Posted: 11/17/2011 12:01:06 PM

How to handle Miami

	Rest the started and banged up players for MACC
	Pull the starters once the game is at hand
	Crush Miami

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For Tuesday's game against Miami, should we

1. Treat it like the 4th NFL exhibition game and rest the starters and banged up players for the next game that really matters.

2. Play the starters, but clear the bench after a comfortable lead.

3. Keep foot on the gas until the final gun. After all, it is still Miami.

Brian Smith (No, not that one)
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RE: How to handle Miami

Posted: 11/17/2011 12:16:36 PM

What I'd like to see: Play the starters but don't put anything on tape and don't let Tettleton get hurt. That means a heavy dose of running backs instead of Tettleton pulling the ball down and diving head-first into linebackers. No trickery with Bates and Brazil. Save the razzle dazzle for Ford Field. If anyone is questionable --especially with leg injuries -- they shouldn't be playing. Strains don't tend to work out well in weather like last night's game.( I was sitting near the ONE heater Ohio had behind the bench and there was a gathering around it like a Depression-era soup kitchen line.)

Again, what I'd like to see.

Last Edited: 11/17/2011 12:18:34 PM by Brian Smith (No, not that one)

Doc Bobcat
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RE: How to handle Miami

Posted: 11/17/2011 12:20:59 PM

Brian Smith wrote:

What Brian said.

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RE: How to handle Miami

Posted: 11/17/2011 12:21:11 PM

You have to play it like a regular game. It's still our arch rival. We must win. Have to go 110 percent. No let downs. Must go into MAC Championship full force.

Go Bobcats!

SONY7

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RE: How to handle Miami

Posted: 11/17/2011 12:23:41 PM

3 should always be a goal, but I think the smart move is to take a middle ground between the first two. Start your starters, give younger guys some reps (like switch a player in here or there every 3rd or 4th drive). If a guy was banged up against BG but he can still play, start him. If there's a guy that's questionable, don't risk it.

This is the Battle for the Bricks, we shouldn't take it lightly. But we also have a MAC title to win.

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RE: How to handle Miami

Posted: 11/17/2011 12:24:26 PM

Brian beat me to it.

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RE: How to handle Miami

Posted: 11/17/2011 2:43:43 PM

I agree that no one questionable should be out there but that's as far as it goes. I don't believe in playing not to lose or playing at anything less then 100% effort. That's when injuries happen. I do believe that "resting" for some future game is a strategy doomed to fail. Momentum is a wonderful thing. It should not be screwed with.

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RE: How to handle Miami

Posted: 11/17/2011 3:05:40 PM

In 2006, we clinched the MAC East with one game to go and it was against Miami. The only person we held out of the game was our starter at quarterback, Austen Everson, because his knee wasn't 100%. Every one of our other star players (Kalvin, Muncy, Cohen, Mayle, etc.) played, and that was the first win in the streak we have against Miami.

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RE: How to handle Miami

Posted: 11/17/2011 5:00:42 PM

I say we beat the life out of those red doves.
Muck Fiami.

if we're up big, then yes, get the backups live game experience. And if a player is questionable in such a way that you wouldn't have played him last night, or against CMU, or Temple, or Ball State, or Buffalo etc then don't play them, but otherwise: this is a...scratch that, THE rivalry game. Gotta play to win.

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RE: How to handle Miami

Posted: 11/17/2011 5:25:37 PM

I voted #3...leave no survivors.

GO BOBCATS!

That one crazy fan
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RE: How to handle Miami

Posted: 11/17/2011 7:36:47 PM

They are Miami, it's on ESPN2, it's on a weeknight so if people want football they'll have to watch it. I say we take them to the woodshed and just go to town. I want to see total annihilation.

The opposing team sucks!

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RE: How to handle Miami

Posted: 11/17/2011 8:32:34 PM

I'd keep an eye on the guys who are banged up. Tettleton did something to his throwing hand; Leftwich got dinged; and a few others, as I recall. Although beating Fiami is a priority, you don't want to screw things up for Detroit.

We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.

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