Heater can't stop their offense all night. Especially with us throwing 3 and out parties for 3 quarters every game. FAU is going to score 30-35 pts on us at a minimum. Can our offense put up 35 or 40?? Thats the question.
I have to mark it down as a loss, i do not trust Doc to have a game plan better than Kiffins. Its not that the talent isn't there to win, but i feel a bad weekend coming up
I think our offense can put up 30-40 on their D easier than they can put up 30-40 on ours,
IF we practice for up-tempo and are smart about getting on and off the field on defense for substitutions and get set up when we can. Like I said Heater practiced against this offense in 2013 as we were running it. If he remembers how he tested the '13 Herd in practice he can prepare them for FAU and it won't be that hard. But the kids have to put the work in.
If we hassle and hary them early on and put that QB on his back a few times it will knock them out of their gameplan. They've not played a defense like we are capable of delivering. If we deliver that defense to them they might not score 10.
In 2014, everybody that beat WKU said they did it by blitzing Doughty the whole game and forcing him to make bad decisions. We didn't run any blitz packages the entire first half. I didn't stick around to watch the second half because I was so disgusted we were handed the keys to the city and decided not to unlock the door. We didn't pressure him at all and he picked us apart every play. So it is possible to know how to beat someone and then choose not to do it. If that happens at FAU we will get killed. OTOH, if the team isn't watching the UNT/FAU game in the film room that entire week of prep then I will consider it a failure. That will sober them up to how wrong things can go if they don't stay focused.