The dialogue here has been less then compelling since our neighbors from the South have blessed us with their presence. That said, lets try and have a FOOTBALL discussion.

I was wondering, what is the ONE thing you would like to see the Bobcats improve (or expand) upon this week? Maybe it's a unit (kickoff coverage) or an individual players performance or something the coaches need to switch up.

Marshall fans, if you can, RESTRAIN YOURSELVES from commenting.

I'll go first: I would like to see the Offense run the ball effectively against the Herd. You might say, "Hey Paul, we've been running the ball well all year, why'd you pick that!!??". Well, here's my thought process: in the Solich era we've had teams that have run the ball well, primarily during the Kalvin years. However, those teams never ran the ball well against quality opponents. We just didn't have the O-line to push around the more athletic and bigger defenses. I'm hoping this year is different. If we can run the ball well against the Herd, then we will run it effectively all year.

Ok, your turn, GO!

That is my #2 "would like to see".

#1 is win the turnover margin.

Hard to pin it down to one thing, but I'll go opposite and say we have to have an effective passing game.  To me, I'm envisioning an athletic Marshall team taking away a lot of our run at the beginning.  Tyler has to be smart and find openings down the field.  Brazill has to get his rhythm and make the big plays we've seen from McCrae, Price, etc.  Foster needs to use his body and get the 50/50 passes.  Dunlop needs to be featured a little more to really pressure the secondary.  Same for Jordan and the TE's.  Etc.

We get that and we'll have our running game ready, Tyler can scramble, and the bubble screens will have some room.  I believe we're going to see an entirely new offense Saturday.  I just hope they execute.

- Win the turnover battle
 - Special Teams
 - Pressure on Cato. Pressure, pressure, Pressure. Our Dline is small, but fast, so linebacker help, stunts, blitzes, whatever it takes to disrupt the true freshman.

Fewer than 5 penalties and/or 40 penalty yards
Strum and Flading are supposed to be good. If they can contain Curry, that will be gravy.
LOUD Ohio crowd

Adding to what's already been covered:
- Would like to see Tettleton start making progressions through receivers. Haven't seen him come off one receiver to another much which could lead to picks.
- Better kickoff coverage. NMSU took one back and Gardner-Webb almost did. Gotta make Marshall earn their points.

I would like to see a full game of solid effort.  Against NMSU we had a so-so first quarter, a solid 2nd and first 10 minutes of the 3rd quarter, but a sleepy 4th.  NMSU was 3 scores down and had the ball with over 11 minutes left.  If they had gone hurry-up -- especially on the drive that started with about 9 minutes left -- they could've have made it too interesting.  Last week against G-W, we had a sleepy 1st quarter (maybe due to a lack of film on G-W), an awesome 2nd quarter, but a sleepy 2nd half.  Even with 2nd string in, we should've gotten more than 2 FGs.  In the first two games, we've outscored the opposition 74-27, but it's 40-0 for the 2nd quarter.  That leaves 34-27 for the other three quarters, and 7-7 in the first and outscored 7-3 in the 4th.  We're going to need four solid quarters (or more) to beat Marshall.

Would like to see the defense stop the run, the offense run the ball and the special teams create field position.  Simple. 

Most games are won on lost at the line of scrimmage. This will probably be one of those games. I'm looking for this game to show just how good, or not, Ohio's lines are.