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For those of us who watched it on TV, could they show the salad dressing commercial one more time?!?! Holy smokes. What a terrible broadcast. The sideline reporter was hot though.

Hey, I will take an ugly win over a good looking loss any day. We are 1-0. Rob will get things squared away this week in practice. All will be fine. This team will win a lot of games. You can quote me on that. Go tigers

I kind of dread waking up when we lose, hoping that maybe that was a bad dream. Last night could have been nightmare, but we did somehow win despite having that feeling of dread. Despite O'Neill missing a chipshot (he was 18-of-22 last year), the offense doing nothing, and Morgan State imploding every time they got near the red zone. Despite last night's performance, I don't see a 2-3 win season but I never predicted playoffs either. I was hoping that 7 wins as a max and that certainly looks far off even if you think (I do) that last night was a bit of a fluke offensively. This has to be a wake-up call for the offensive coaches. Very little adjustment last night and that's what's perplexing. Even though the last scrimmage was pretty good, sounds like they struggled in practice this week. Not sure if they were focused on the task at hand or were thinking about Md. I guess why that is tough to start with Morgan State and have Maryland as the next game. No matter how much you tell the kids about the next six seconds, they are still human. As Rob said in the presser, to paraphrase that Morgan State didn't look this good on film. I'm guessing they totally underestimated the Bears on both sides of the ball. I'm going to watch the game again at some point and I wonder defensively if we even played that well or their mistakes (bad passes, drops, penalties) were their undoing. On the good side, we had three sacks and held them to 3 of 14 on third downs. That's a lot better than last season's 48% rate allowed by the D on 3rd down. R-freshman Bryce Carter had one and transfer Grant Udinski from Davidson added a 1/2 sack. Carter had six tackles coming off the bench which is impressive for a r-freshman in his first game. Let's also not forget that this was the first FCS game for Leatherbury and first college game for Brent Richardson, Rodney Dorsey and Adrian Platt. Greenwood barely played at Kentucky other than special teams so expect a bit of a learning curve for the receivers. Jordan Waite was a OLB/DE and now is starting at FB. The tight ends other than Joe Green basically have no experience (why not play juco transfer Metise Moore?). What the coaches have to understand is that they need to rely on Shane if the offense is not moving. Not just running him out of the backfield but putting him in the slot with either C.J. or Platt or James Scott or David Bryant at RB.

I've been a big supporter of Rob on this board but last night was inexcusable. The lack of adaption to Morgans defense was atrocious. This may have been one of the worst called offensive games I've ever seen in my life.

Jammer needs to go.

As I stated in a different topic thread, if last night is any indication, a 2-3 win season, at best, is in the offing. As I was sitting in the stands last night, I noticed Morgan loading the box, and asked myself "why aren't we forcing them out of that, by going with 4 wides"? If I understand that, why was it apparently lost on our offensive coaching staff? We were thoroughly out coached & but for Morgan shooting itself in the foot on offense, we lose. And it wasn't lost on me that Rhode Island took an FBS team, Central Michigan, to triple OT.

I didn't think Mahalak was injured. I assumed we pulled him because he was so ineffective. (And listening to Spiro's wrap-up on the ride home, he said the team came out of the game with no injuries.) I also think this may have been the most hapless offensive performance I've seen from us. (Worse than when we lost at Morgan in RA's first year.) Morgan's self-destructive tendencies are what saved us from a humiliating defeat.