Topic: WV MetroNews: Defense prepping for rushing attack

[ZackUSAF82]

By Dave Wilson in Marshall Sports

HUNTINGTON W.Va.—Last Saturday was by far and away the best performance by Marshall’s defense in more than a year.  Miami was limited to 239 yards of total offense and 92 of those yards came on a pair of big pass plays.

So, in week two where does Marshall want to improve?  It is limiting big plays down the field.

“We had those two big plays, if we tighten those up they could’ve had less than a hundred yards in the game,” says defensive end Jeremiah Taylor.  “You can always get better fundamentally and there’s no telling where we could be.”

For the most part defensive coordinator Chuck Heater liked what he saw from his unit in its first test of the season.  After converting two third downs in the first quarter, Miami went 0-for-9 on third downs the rest of the game.  The Redhawks had just 74 yards rushing and only ran 57 plays in the game.

Link: http://wvmetronews.com/2013/09/06/defense-prepping-for-rushing-attack/

[svherd]

Miami was a pretty weak team offensively. GW may be better on that side of the ball.

[Greg H]

Miami was a pretty weak team offensively. GW may be better on that side of the ball.

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[svherd]

not

Doc seems to think GW is pretty decent.

[MarshallManiac]

coach speak.  Doc will be saying a lot of silly things this week to keep his guys from overlooking G-W