1. This defense plays with a pride, and an attitude that we haven't seen since 2006. I LOVE watching this defense. In some ways they may not be as big, or strong as some other defenses of the past, and with all the guys hurt, they may not even has much talent in some areas, but they more than make up for it with attitude.
2. The offense can move the ball effectively when Vick is healthy, and make it look easy. When Vick can't run, and can't lean into his throws, not so much.
3. Vick is incredibly tough, and he is a winner.
4. Regardless of what this team accomplishes, there will still be complainers. While the complaint has been "Ohio hasn't beaten a MAC team with a winning record for awhile" (conveniently overlooking the non-MAC teams with winning records that Ohio has beaten), when Ohio does beat a team that most likely will end with a winning record, and beats them on the road, in the rain, the complaint just shifts to the win not being impressive enough.
5. Albin and Isphording showed that they are very adaptive in their game plans, and that they are willing to change them a lot for different opponents, based on the strengths of those opponents, and they can be very effective at changing the player groupings to work with their game plan. Thus, Minnesota was very fast against the run, so Ohio tried very little wide stuff against them, and ran AJ up the gut a lot. By contrast Akron was incredibly strong up the middle, so there was very, very little running room there, but Akron did not have as much speed outside, so we saw little of AJ, and primarily had player groupings featuring Daz and Papi, and primarily we saw outside running, and very little in the way of runs up the middle.
Last Edited: 10/4/2015 7:16:58 AM by L.C.