Saturday marks the first of three consecutive judgement days for Alex Brink and the Cougar program. Each week for the next three weeks, the fate of Cougar football for this season, and perhaps in years to come, will be on the line.
Arguably, this game is the biggest. And, judging by the injury report, one would be hardpressed to say that this is anything BUT the biggest game of Little Alex’s career.
Want further proof: the defensive line is banged up. The LB corps is fine. The safeties are banged up, and the CB situation is just in shambles. In as many words, we’re gonna give up points to the Spuds. And, if we don’t move the ball ourselves, we’re gonna give up A LOT of points.
(by the way, if any of you out there somehow disagree, check the Idaho game last year where we gave up four scores while we had Derting and were healthy on O).
Then you look on offense where the running game will be nowhere to be found. So, the game will come down to Alex–and you can bet the world that Erickson and Company employ the same scheme that Auburn used + a few wrinkles. In other words, they will make us live and die on the intermediate route…
So, the world is really Alex’s oyster. All the playcalling and excution will be on him, against an inferior opponent where the WRs and TE should be WIDE open, coming off a BAD week, with still ALL TO LOSE and little to gain.
This will be a gut check for him, BIG TIME.
If he’s up to it, he moves on to the next Judgement Day against Baylor (where a loss would make us an UNACCEPTABLE 1-2).
If he’s not, we’ve hit the lowest point of Cougar football in a long, long, time.
Predictions come Friday.
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