I mentioned it in the Week 1 thread, but CMU caveat aside, I was very happy with the halftime adjustments. That was my biggest gripe with this staff each of the past two years. Better teams will have a counter to your counter punch, but that was a better defensive counter punch than I've seen from this staff.
The defensive seven played fine. They were supposed to be the strength, and even though apparently CMU has arguably the best offensive line in the MAC, if they are the strength of this team, they've got some work to do. I think the offensive line looked good, and for how young the secondary is, they actually looked better than last year. I think we are more than set at RB and WR. TE continues to be underwhelming. Maliq Carr got all of the flowers that he had taken the step from good to great. Instead it looks like he put on a bunch of bad weight, and still has inconsistent hands.
QB it's in own thing. I was fine with Thorne leaving. He was good 2 years ago, he was subpar last year. If he had stayed he probably would have been the starter. He demanded a guarantee, and when he didn't get it, he took the guarantee from Hugh Freeze. I didn't think Thorne played well enough to be guaranteed the job, and if another program was desperate enough to give it to him, good for them. But man, Kim got better but neither one looked good enough for me to understand why it remained an open competition. Now there are also rumors that Auburn's promise came with an NIL promise. I can't speak to that.
