Baylor-Wake Forest Thoughts

The short version is that what happened on Saturday was big time. Season opener on the road against a decent team with a ton of recent success. I know we won by 3 but anyone who saw that knows it wasn't that close. The defesne was nails only allowing one long scoring drive. The other two were 50 yards and 34 yards. Offensively we seemed to take our foot off the gas when we got up big but for the most part I was very please. The scary thing was that Griffin didn't even have a huge game, or a "good" game. He was just so/so.

The follwing are just some random thoughts about the game:

• Phil Taylor was as advertised. He absolutely makes a difference. Notice that now that we're good up front, on the line and the backers, Jordan Lake was nowhere to be seen on the stat sheet.
• We need to get Jay Finley the ball more. All the guy does is get yards. I know we have playmakers at various positions but he can control the game if you give him a chance.
• Kicking game is going to lose us a game this year. You just know it. Saturday's game would have been iced early in the 4th if we take care of business kicking field goals.
• The offensive line did an excellent job. The Wake defense was depleted but we didn't make them look better than they were.
• Points to Jason Lamb for beating a tackle and getting a big time sack. I honestly didn't think he had it in him after the past 3 seasons. Let's hope this year's version is here to stay.
• We can still improve the passing game. You can just tell that the passing game is servicable at this point but it hasn't come close to reaching its potential.

Here are some thoughts about our conference bretheren:

• Oklahoma's biggest problem is their offensive line. They'll lose 4 games (maybe one to us) if they don't get better up front. They have a first class defense but it won't take many points to beat them this year. We'll see.
• aggie fans are beating their chest about pounding a 4-7 team last year. I bet UAB exposes the ags in a couple of weeks.
• OSU looked good but I just know we'll see a "Poke Choke" sometime. Let's hope our number is up when that happens.
• Tech was also not impressive. As always, we'll see after a few more games. I think Texas destroys them at this point.
• We'll find out a little more about ISU after their game with equally horrible looking Iowa this weekend.
• We can't get Colorado and Kansas State on the schedule soon enough.

I'll post shortly after the UCONN game next Saturday. I'll be paying attention to how the fan base responds to the positive end of last season and the good start this season.