O-Trap;970290 wrote:Okay, just got home after finding my car and grabbing a bite.
1. Medina, if you want to host a playoff game AND you want to charge for parking, make sure parking isn't a nightmare and that you have enough space plotted out. Remember, this isn't Medina football, where not that many people care (I married a Medina grad). Have enough parking planned out, and if you don't please don't charge people $2 to park several blocks away off Medina grounds.
2. I was very surprised at how easily Monheim went down when running the ball. Line-of-scrimmage battle aside, I know he's an animal, but it seemed like one or two Bobcats meeting him at the LOS brought him down without much pop. When that is combined with the Orrville offensive line not run blocking well, you get what you got tonight: runs mostly in the 0-3 yard range. It wasn't that they didn't run at first. They did. They just weren't getting anywhere with it. OQB can even verify that I texted him at halftime saying Orrville needed to get its running game together. It just didn't look good tonight. Some nights, the bear gets you, and tonight was that night for the Orrville rushing game.
3. I have to speak to the line. Norwayne's defensive line did a HECK of a job meeting the run at the LOS (both up the middle and to the outside) and rushing Brenner, who was running all night. The Norwayne team as a whole isn't big, but it's QUICK, and it showed tonight against a slightly bigger (though not much more physical) but slower Orrville line.
4. Wallace did what he does. The WRs go down field and then he beat the Orrville D around the outside. It's how he likes to run.
5. I was curious why Brenner didn't do the same thing more often. Granted, Norwayne's defense is quick, but there were a couple times when spreading the field looked like it gave him a lane to run but still tried to force a pass. I was asking others why, but I didn't get an answer.
6. Orrville's run D did not look good against the speed of the Norwayne line. Granted, Norwayne's offense is very explosive, but giving up such long gains to Zimmerly up the gut through a nice sized hole isn't where you expect a smaller, speed-oriented team to beat you. Kudos to the Bobcats for winning the LOS on both sides of the ball, and ESPECIALLY on some of those run plays.
7. Tackle, tackle, tackle. Orrville tried a lot of tackling tonight, especially in the second half, and Wallace and Zimmerly ran through several arm tackles for extra yardage.
8. One thing I saw from Wallace and one of the Norwayne receivers was that on runs up the sideline, when confronted by a defender, they lowered shoulders and hit the defender rather than just squirting out of bounds. I saw several Orrville plays (not counting the last drive when they were trying to stop the clock) where that happened, and I was surprised.
All in all, Norwayne "out-physicalled" Orrville, and tonight, it made all the difference.
It's called the Bobcat Cow Butt.
