About Last Night

[Mare]

In my opinion, Defense killed us. The offense had a poor showing, but defense killed us. I really expected to see a different team after half time, some major adjustments, but No! What did they talk about in the locker room for 20 minutes? About the QB situation. Eckert marched down the field and comes up short. We have to settle for 3. Try something else. Use Romo. How about we call something other than the run up the middle. So high school, so predictable. Everyone knows, or should know if they ever look at a stat sheet, Romo is our leading rusher. A QB, the leading rusher?! A QB that gets slammed by everyone on this sight, why that is I can't figure out. 3 and out, back to Eckert. Doesn't work, still doesn't work, oops! fumble, oops! interception. Halftime- thank God. Try Romo again, somebody cover the back side, since a penalty backed the QB into the endzone. Who's job is that anyways? Somebody had the job to cover the back side! Back to Eckert. Oops! interception again! How many of these do we have to see. Does he panic? Does he force the pass? (5 interceptions so far) Afraid to run, with his -6.3 rushing avg. ? Lets talk stats again... Passing: fairly even on %'s between the 2 QB's. Efficiency: Eckert 104.75, Romo 132.41. Touchdowns: Eckert 2, Romo 3. Games played: Eckert 6, Romo 4. All purpose yards: Romo 59.2 average, Eckert... I don't even see his name here?! Look at total offense: 29 less plays for Romo than Eckert, 30 less yards. So if Romo had equal plays, approx. 1/3 more, think of the yards we could have had. Why the discrimation against Romo? There seems to be conflict even within the coaching staff, or does it go beyond that? The goal is to win the game. Do we want to use the best players or do we want to use the locals?

[Ponymon]

Maybe Eckert wouldn't have had any problems if they hadn't substituted Romo for him in the first half when he was moving the offense pretty well! Kind of recks your momentum to have the sub come even when you are making the plays. What type of confidence builder is that?????????

[Ms.Mustang]

A stat that Mare forgot to mention is Romo has lead SMU to 43 points in 71 plays while Eckert has lead SMU to 31 points in 100 plays.(Romo is successful approximately every 11.8 plays and Eckert is successful approximately every 20 plays at getting SMU either a field goal or TD)
Isn't how often we score the idea of the game?!! What would be wrong with going with the percentages and starting Romo and finding out if his points are related to garbage time or not. My guess is Romo will still be our best runner and will continue to put points on the board for SMU!!!
I know for sure he is the fastest QB and SMU has put points on the board when Romo enters the game.

[Ponymon]

I really don't care who we start, just so long as we STICK with him for 4 quarters. I have never seen a team win consistently with revolving quarterbacks. NEVER!

[Ms.Mustang]

Does Eckert feel Romo breathing down his neck? Are you trying to tell me that's why he's having trouble? Is that's why he seems to celebrate when Romo goes 3 and out. Stalled drives, interceptions, is that doing fine?!! Should we just leave him in there and get more of the same? The fact that Eckert can't run is what gets him in trouble and the other team's defense are more than aware of that!!!

[Ponymon]

Ms. Mustang, you OBVIOUSLY don't follow football very closely!

[Ms.Mustang]

Waht is it that I don't understand? Do you care to enlighten me with something factual?!!! Who do you think we should start and why??? After we solve the QB situation we can move on to defense. Oops! I forgot, I don't understand football!!!

[Mare]

Whoa Nelly!! Sounds like we are getting a little emotional here. Truth hurts, Donut!! Ponymon, what game have you been watchin'?

[ALEX LIFESON]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm I smell a relative, or mabey a girlfriend?

[04stang]

are you people kidding me? eckert went 10 for 11 while he was in there and then when they put romo in the whole team went into a slump...romo holds the ball, makes poor throws, and takes off when the first read is covered. that is why eckert has been starting and will continue to start, eckert took a lot of shots that he didnt have to take, and he stood in there and took them like a man. we should split our lineman out like texas techs did, to help the lineman out, and get eckert back there and just air it out all game because the running game isnt working. then maybe we can just outscore our opponent.

the fact is that when romo came in it threw the rhythm of the team off, including eckert, and i dont buy into all that crap that romo is doing better, he is simply in when a lot of starters are out of the game. eckert did well and we need to give him some confidence and give him a game so that we can build on that.

the thing that is holding smu back is consistency, on defense, offense and special teams. the only thing in my mind that has been consistent is eckert throwing the ball, and the recievers still havent caught the ball the way eckert would like them to either. but i dont buy into teh whole romo thing, because i believe the coaches see something in eckert that romo simply does not have...thats just my opinion

[Mare]

Did you say a couple weeks ago for the Phillips fans to get over it, that it was Eckert and Romo's team now. Now are you trying to exclude Romo altogether? Romo offers way too much to the team to exclude him. Eckert has some things to offer the team too, but it's not all about him It's about our team and getting some wins. The individuals on the team need to pull together and back each other, We fans too, need to back our team. We need Wins!! Go Red!! Go Blue!!

[PK]

Our offensive problems involve more than just the QB. There are too many dropped balls, not enough time for the QB to find the open reciever, no holes in the line for the RBs, too many turnovers and stupid penalties. Everyone here seems to think it is easy to pick the right QB...unfortunately it depends on who is posting as to who the right QB is. The reallity is that both QBs are probably on an even par skill wise, but with different attributes. No matter which one the coaches pick , if we don't win the game everyone will say he should have used the other QB.

Rice wins a lot of their games, because they use an offense most teams don't use and therefore is hard to prepare for. I suspect it is very hard for a scout team to even come close to simulating the Owl's offense as the Owls practice it every day and the scout teams don't. That being said, we all know Coach Shumann seemed to have it figured out...sort of, but if memory serves me right, we still couldn't win in Houston even when he was coaching the defense. Part of defeating a triple option team is keeping their offense off of the field...you can't do that if you can't sustain drives and if you have turnovers giving them good field position.

This team has at time played very well and at other times looked terrible. That is probaly due to the lack of maturity and senior leadership as well as coaching mistakes. We still have a half a season to go and plenty of opportunities to improve. Let's keep supporting them and let them have that opportunity.

[Ponymon]

Mare, you don't seem to read very well. It isn't all about Eckert or Romo. I don't care WHO starts, but WHOEVER does start needs to play the WHOLE game. If you watched the Rams beat the Seahawks yesterday you will have noticed that Bulger threw 3, count them THREE interceptions in that game. Martz stayed with Bulger instead of bringing in the veteran Chandler, however, and look who threw the winning touchdown. You guessed it BULGER! Bennett needs to pick the starter and STAY with him, no matter what. The quarterback position needs stability not constant change!