120th Monon Bell Classic

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Quote from: sigma one on November 17, 2013, 02:31:54 PM
I saw Wabash do some things early on in the passing game yesterday that I have not seen all year.

What did you see?

sigma one

Old Pal:  Wabash was getting Putko out of the pocket more than previously, a lot more.  In earlier games he would roll out occasionally, but it was not featured in the Wabash offense.  Most importantly for your question, Wabash has tried to live on the quick throws to the outside all season (whatever you want to call them, bubble, etc.).  They wanted to get Hodges loose if they could.  Saturday they threw several of those in the first half to Christen.  But they set up the throws down field by essentially baiting DPU into aggressively trying to stop the action to the outside.  They then hit behind the dbs.  This was just something that Wabash had not done before--or not done very often.  It appeared they hd tucked away some of  those routes for the Bell Game. 
     As we all know, DPU had to be committed to stopping the run.  Those Wabash throws to the outside had all year been part of its "running game."  Wabash just fooled them early.