After a somewhat slow start, they looked quite good. Not the explosiveness on offense of the last two seasons, but still a very productive and methodical effort I'd say.
Couple thoughts I took away from last night's game.........
-Freund bobbled several snaps while holding for place kicks. Need to tighten that up, he's been the holder for 4 years now.
-Josh Murray is going to need to get the ball more. He is a much more decisive and patient runner than Brady.
-I thought the offensive line got pushed around a bit in the run blocking. Lots of tackles in our backfield.
-Hellevang only punted a couple times, but man can he kick it a long ways. I wonder how he'll do in situational punting.
-The player that I was most impressed with last night was Dominique Hawkins. His interception is what finally fired the team up, and he had a couple real nice kick returns.
-Need to work on tackling.
-Kenny Watkins also looked good, stayed where he was supposed to all night, and had a couple of pass break-ups.
-Hard to tell from one game, but I've felt that the secondary was somewhat of a weakness for us the past two seasons. Aside from the two busted plays that resulted in TAMUK TD's, I thought they looked quite good last night. Along with Otto and Manke, I thought the young guys Hawkins, Ankenbaur, Watkins all played well. And Saporu wasn't even dressed last night.