Drive Chart :: North Dakota 13, Texas Tech 38
by Seth C on Sep 6, 2009 8:08 AM CDT
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Offense
Starters: LT Chris Olson, LG Brandon Carter, C Shawn Byrnes, RG Mickey Okafor, RT Marlon Winn, QB Taylor Potts, RB Baron Batch, IR Adam James, IR Detron Lewis, WR Edward Britton, WR Alexander Torres. Reserves: IR Cornelius Douglas, IR Austin Zouzalik, WR Jacoby Franks, RB Harrison Jeffers, WR Lyle Leong, RB Eric Stephens, RB Aaron Crawford, RT Joe King, RG Devric Gallington, LT Terry McDaniel, LG Lonnie Edwards.
Defense
Starters: DE Rajon Henley, DT Richard Jones, NT Colby Whitlock, DE Brandon Sharpe, SLB Bront Bird, MLB Brian Duncan, WLB Marlon Williams, CB Jamar Wall, FS Cody Davis, SS Franklin Mitchem, CB LaRon Moore. Reserves: S Will Ford, S Julius Howard, S Jared Flannel, CB Taylor Charbonnet, S Brett Dewhurst, WLB Blake Collier, CB Nathan Stone, MLB Sam Fehoko, S Daniel Cobb, SLB Tyrone Sonier, DE Sandy Riley, DE Ryan Haliburton, NT Victor Hunter, DE Daniel Howard, DT David Neil, DT Chris Perry.
Drive Chart Texas Tech Offense
Texas Tech Drive 1
What Went Right: 10 of Texas Tech's 40 rushing yards came from this drive, while Taylor Potts completed passes to Detron Lewis, Lyel leong, Austin Zouzalik and Adam James. Batch finished up the drive with a 3 yard touchdown
What Went Wrong: Not much. Only one incomplete pass to Britton
Texas Tech Drive 2
What Went Right: This drive was about to fall flat but was kept alive with a UND facemask. Potts then had a 14 yard completion to Alexander Torres and Potts rushed 1 yard for the touchdown.
What Went Wrong: Looks like some end-arounds and fancy running plays rather than straight ahead rushing. Potts also missed on 3 pass attempts.
Texas Tech Drive 3
What Went Right: Started nicely with a 15 yard completion to Harrison Jeffers and another pass completion to Lewis for 21 yards.
What Went Wrong: Potts first interception of the day while inside the UND 20 yard line. That's either 6 or 3 points that get taken off the board because of Potts mistake.
Texas Tech Drive 4
What Went Right: Potts gets back on track with a nice 6 play 74 yard drive. Completes passes to Torres, Britton, Cornelius Douglas, and Lewis gets the touchdown.
What Went Wrong: Nothing, other than an incomplete pass to Jacoby Franks.
Texas Tech Drive 5
What Went Right: Started great with completions to Torres for 9 and Lewis for 14 yards. Then things fall apart
What Went Wrong: After those 2 completions Potts gets sacked, fumbles the ball and Marlon Winn recovers. Perhaps Potts is a little gun-shy or is wanting to do too much. Remember that Texas Tech is again on the UND 26, within field goal distance, and Potts throws his 2nd INT of the day on 3rd down and 15. It's the end of the half, but there's 3 or 6 more points not on the board although Texas Tech was primed to score.
Texas Tech Drive 6
What Went Right: Nothing.
What Went Wrong: A Matt Goetz false start and this is a whopping 3 play drive for 1 yard. Carona punts and Nathan Stone recovers a fumble giving Texas Tech the ball back.
Texas Tech Drive 7
What Went Right: Potts completes passes to Britton (15), Leong (11) and Britton (6) again.
What Went Wrong: Terry McDaniel holds on first down and this is the last you see of McDaniel for the game. Potts pulls Texas Tech out of the whole and gets Texas Tech to the North Dakota 3 yard line on 4th down, but a jump-ball pass to Detron Lewis falls flat. Again, this is the 3rd drive for Texas Tech inside the UND 20 yard line and no points are on the board.
Texas Tech Drive 8
What Went Right: This is the infamous 4 down on the North Dakota 1 yard line with Potts scoring on the 4th down play. In between then, Potts completes passes to Franks (4), two to Jeffers (24 and 5) and Lyle Leong (8).
What Went Wrong: It takes Texas Tech 4 times to score from UND's 1 yard line.
Texas Tech Drive 9
What Went Right: A nice 19 yard completion to Detron Lewis.
What Went Wrong: Potts' 3rd and final interception of the day.
Texas Tech Drive 10
What Went Right: The return of RB Baron Batch. Batch touches the ball 4 times in this 10 play drive that ended in a Matthew Williams field goal. Also included was a pass to Leong for 28 yards and a 13 yard run from Batch.
What Went Wrong: Texas Tech was driving down the field nicely, but a false start penalty stalled the drive and this is the 4th drive of the day that ended in the UND 20 yard line, although Mike Leach did finally go for the field goal.
Texas Tech Drive 11
What Went Right: Potts completions to Torres for 12 yards and an 18 yard touchdown pass to Adam James.
What Went Wrong: Nothing.
Drive Chart Texas Tech Defense
North Dakota Drive 1
What Went Right: A three and out is always a good outcome. Tackles by Brian Duncan, Jamar Wall and Rajon Henley with blocked punt by Edward Britton.
What Went Wrong: Nothing.
North Dakota Drive 2
What Went Right: Not much, other than the defense finally holding from their own 22 yard line and allowing a 39 yard field goal. Lots of little gains for UND including a big 13 yard 3rd down completion from Jake Landry.
What Went Wrong: How about two personal foul penalties, the 1st one on Marlon Williams and the 2nd one to some unknown player. That's 30 gifted yards to UND
North Dakota Drive 3
What Went Right: 3 plays and 4 yards, thanks to a UND illegal formation penalty.
What Went Wrong: Nothing.
North Dakota Drive 4
What Went Right: Too much yardage given up here including 1 pass for 18 yards and 2 for 10 yards. UND's kicker made a 52 yard field goal, so this wasn't a situation where the defense just gave up a ton of yards. Only 45 to be exact.
What Went Wrong: A 9 yard pass interference penalty by Julius Howard kept the drive alive.
North Dakota Drive 5
What Went Right: End of half.
What Went Wrong: End of half.
North Dakota Drive 6
What Went Right: Another 3 and out, 3 plays 8 yards.
What Went Wrong: Nothing.
North Dakota Drive 7
What Went Right: And another 3 and out, 3 plays 9 yards.
What Went Wrong: Nothing.
North Dakota Drive 8
What Went Right: Not much.
What Went Wrong: 13 plays and 80 yards, with a 9 yard rushing touchdown from UND and a roughing the passer penaltty that gave the ball to UND on the Texas Tech 9 yard line. Too many small completions in the soft underbellly of the Texas Tech defense.
North Dakota Drive 9
What Went Right: Not quite a 3 and out, but a 5 play, 13 yard drive led to another UND punt.
What Went Wrong: Not much, other than a 13 yard pass given up by Cody Davis.
North Dakota Drive 10
What Went Right: A 3 and out, but a Daniel Howard sack led to a 3 play, -7 yard drive.
What Went Wrong: Nothing.
North Dakota Drive 11
What Went Right: This was the end of the game and Sam Fehoko made two tackles. The clock ended this drive.
What Went Wrong: Nothing really and it was nice to see Fehoko make two stops for little yardage.
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Out of 11 drives, we gave up 3 Int’s and gave it over on downs inside the 5. Absolutely sloppy play. 28 potential points left on the field. That is the difference between the easy day Tech should have had and the lackluster performance they actually displayed. It also sounds like despite Potts’ physical tools, he has a lot of work to do actually running the offense and making the quick, correct decisions.
I’m also concerned with all the short passes the defense gave up. I was just listening on the radio, but it seemed like they were moving the ball at will using those short passes.
They’ve got a lot to work on. And forget about UT in 2 weeks for now, I hope they focus on Rice for next week and don’t get caught looking ahead. If they pull too many of these bonehead mistakes against a D1 school (and not be able to depend on sloppy play and penalties from the opponent), it will be a long day.
Too bad you couldn’t make it to the game, it’s so much better at the Jones. With defenses, you have to give the offense something, the short pass was conceded. The Qb was running for his life on any dropback pass attempted, Howard and Henley made sure of that, not to mention Bird’s big day. Pott’s was making his 1st start since high school, his first full game and could only muster 405 yrds, not bad for 1st time out of the shoot, sure he threw 3 picks and said afterward that he made some mechanical errors. I bet he doesn’t make those same mistakes too many times from now on, he’s a very intelligent kid. Hopefully you can find the off switch on the radio and make it to the game, it’s so much better at the Jones
well that sounds pretty encouraging, especially since you were actually there. I definitely would go to the games if I didn’t live so far away. I’m gonna try to get to one game in Lubbock and also the game in Arlington. I guess visualizing in my head I just imagined and dwelled on the worst things I heard.
I know it’s hard to get a totally accurate reading based on the differences in opponent, but how was your impression of the team? Do you think it will be able to step up to better competition?
Well, not that impressed but as the season goes things will or should look up. Potts will mature,as he showed a lot by defining his own mistakes. All in all teams tend to play to the competition, that’s when the upset maestro steps in. It didn’t happen thank goodness. There were alot of busts (blown assignments) but that is to be expected in the 1st game of the year. I bet nobody graded out that well. As far as living far away, try 8 hrs, just got home at 8:45 sun. nite I’ll trade ya the drive to Arlington. Anyway we will get better and step up to the plate against the better competition, but don’t take anything away from those boys from North Dakota they competed and showed up for their 1st D-1 game Hats off to them, I am glad we don’t play them in Hockey, because they are good at it eh.
Overall Better than last year.
Lots of good things I thought.
Good down field coverage most of the time. But also several missed tackles, some of which our guys were just going to fast to really hit someone(they were running past hanging out an arm out trying to arm tackle).
Every one of Corona’s kickoffs was angled. Not sure if this was intentional(I figure it was) but some were close to the sideline, most where in the endzone.
Best of all no missed pat’s or field goals, they all looked straight and high.
"56,000 screaming crazies in The Jones rockin' as it has never rocked before" - Terry Bowden
If you not having fun....then your not playing the game right.
O-Line?
Was it me or did it look like our Monsters could not keep up with the speedy smaller guys on thier defense when we were trying to drive block on rushing attempts?
"56,000 screaming crazies in The Jones rockin' as it has never rocked before" - Terry Bowden
If you not having fun....then your not playing the game right.
It's early
while i wasn’t at the game, it seems to be a somewhat similar performance to last year’s Nevada game, which I did attend.
At that point, second game of the year, and after watching the team during that game, I never would’ve thought we could have the season we had last year.
Harrell looked bad against Nevada and the team never got going on offense. The defense looked soft and special teams were attrocious.
Granted, that game was on the road against a possibly better team than UND, but I think the point I’m trying to make is that these early games against lesser foes don’t always bring out a team’s best qualities.
I hope I’m right and they’re able to shake the lackluster energy and mistakes before we get into the meat of the season, which is happening pretty soon!
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