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tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2019 5:27 pm I didn't notice if Ethan Walker (normally #57) played, and I doubt DU wore different numbers...

DMac wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2019 7:45 pm Damn, tech, wish I had known you were going, woulda brought an extra fattie and a couple of Stoners for the after game, fall ball grill and chill and hooked up with you.

DU-fan wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2019 9:33 pm

tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2019 5:27 pm I didn't notice if Ethan Walker (normally #57) played, and I doubt DU wore different numbers...

tech37 - Nice write up. The atmosphere was great for a fall scrimmage. Denver wore their jersey #'s. Ethan Walker did not suit up for the game.

DMac wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2019 7:45 pm Damn, tech, wish I had known you were going, woulda brought an extra fattie and a couple of Stoners for the after game, fall ball grill and chill and hooked up with you.
Game definitely didn't feel like a little fall ball scrimmage, looked and felt a whole lot more like an early season game, was a real treat. Refs let the boys go, can't say I didn't like it, would have been several more flags in a regular season game (and there were some that should have been thrown). First flag is thrown against Denver...dead straight here...Denver fan behind us bitsches about the home cookin' for Cuse in Cortland. Couldn't resist asking him if he realized just how ridiculous that sounded..geezuz h!
Had to walk away from that game liking a whole lot of what you saw from Cuse. As for the no prgam part, throw in forgetting your glasses which makes it very difficult to distinguish 22 from 23, or most other numbers for that matter, and it makes it tough to tell who was doing what. The look of the team and the movemnt of the ball was impressive by Cuse, lot of zip on passes and thrown accurately and to the right person. The O looked really good. Cook looks like a different player, brings a different intensity and confidence to the field than he did last year. He looked timid and intimidated to me...not this year. Had a nice game, hustled and played tough. Buttermore threaded the needle and hit him with a pass right on top of the crease in crowded quarters, really was sweet. D man got to him before he could complete the play and put it in but you gotta love the mentality...execution was there too. Siebold, very good looking player, Scanlan the same. Cuse is a potent team and is playing with a lot of confidence, looks like a real sweet unit around the cage. New OC influence?
FOGOs were great minus a little run Denver went on, gotta like what you see from those boys. They made it look real easy several times and pretty much controlled that part of the game. No two better wingmen than Kennedy and Fernandez. Kennedy has blazing speed, but damn if you can't say the same for Fernandez, that's a mighty tough duo to deal with.
Had this been a regular season game, Cuse wins this one hands down. No way the last part of the game is played the way it was if the game counted (a little honor Tierney week-end ends in a tie and not an L?).
I thought there were stretches in the game when Cuse dominated Denver pretty much all over the field, was pretty impressive fall ball outing the way I saw it.
Meant to mention a couple or heady and hustle plays, gotta love the heart part. Couple of GBs Cuse was able to keep alive and eventually gain possession from. Player couldn't get to the ball but could get a stick on it and redirect it to a trailing player with a horizontal dive and flick of the stick. Cuse made that all out effort kind of play a few times during the game. Heads were in the game, field awareness and getting the ball in the right place was done well more than once by Cuse. Was another play when a Cuse boy was tied up, hand cuffed, and tip toeing the sideline but dumped the ball to a lot of green that a Cuse boy was the only one in. Nothing huge, but the kind of execution by necessity, creativity, to get the ball where it needs to go that makes a difference in a game. I thought Cuse played that part of the game well.

Sometimes I don't understand your stuff dmac, but I always get the gist. I did not see the game, but most observers were impressed with Cuse's intensity and overall competence. Been a while since I have felt the enthusiasm from fall ball observers that I sense this year. Got me fired up. Team experience level may have an impact on early performance. I have argued for years that scrimmage performance is diagnostic of the coming season's performance.So far so good.

Matnum PI wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 8:46 am Obviously an old article but... There's something funny about it.