Some great info can be found in today's profile of Columbia QB "Clean Joe" Green in the Columbia Spectator. The revelation that he worked out with several NFL players last year in Seattle is a highlight of the piece.
The opening line for the Columbia-Princeton showdown this Saturday has the Tigers as a whopping 19 1/2 point favorite.
1. Princeton
A lot of the Ivy teams have played weak competition so far, but Princeton has played the easiest schedule by far. Still, outscoring your opponents by 95-0 over two games is hard to ignore.
2. Harvard
The Crimson slammed Brown, but we'll learn much more about Harvard at Holy Cross on Saturday.
3. Yale
The Eli offense looks a little out of sync, but they should thrash Lehigh this weekend.
4. Dartmouth
The Green bounced back nicely in week two after a sloppy opening week win.
5. Columbia
The Lion pass defense puts a damper on a 2-0 start.
6. Cornell
The Big Red have been a scrappy team, even at 0-2. But at some point, Cornell needs to win. They should easily against Bucknell this week.
7. Penn
The Quakers fell apart at key moments at Lafayette. They don't seem poised to beat Dartmouth at home Friday night.
8. Brown
The Bear defense seems just as non-existent as last year.
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I think you’re putting too much blame on the pass defense unless you’re including the coaches. It is extremely difficult to cover a speedy receiver when there is no pass rush at all. And that’s the way it was against Georgetown. For reasons which I do not understand ( and I invite more knowledgeable observers to explain), the DC kept us in the same ole vanilla 4-3 almost the entire game ithough we weren’t able to pressure the QB. As a result the Gtown QB and receivers had a field day. And to their credit ,they were terrific. The QB threw beautifully all day and the receivers caught everything thrown at them ( with one exception). Why didn’t we play a LB as an additional DE, execute LB blitz packages and throw in a few CB red dogs as well. We needed to do something to break Georgetown’s momentum, but we did zilch.. BTW- doing Zilch is a district carryover from last year, especially in the last 2 games against Cornell and Brown and was a key factor in those losses. If the DC continues this pattern going forward when we face really good QBs and receivers, we’ll get eaten alive.
On the other side, the OC still hasn’t learned that the rules oermit throwing the ball to the middle of the field. E.g. quick hooks to TEs, hitting speedy RBs (Miller) circling out of backfield, slants and crossing patterns to the WRs. Not once did we do this. Almost all throws were more horizontal than vertical anD thrown to the sidelines. We only threw 1 pass to our big TEs and that was at the 56 minute mark.His running game is a mystery too. You would think that after Miller broke a long one early in 1Q running to the outside that we’d see a lot more of these types of plays. We eventually did but not until midway thru the 4Q. Maybe someone could explain this to me.
In my view, if we want to play with the big boys this season ( and we should) we need to see significant changes going forward.
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