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Wow, I can't believe it is time, but it is game week. This offseason flew by, maybe that is because we went to a bowl game! We open the sim season with a game against our friends from up I-95(near E-town). Nessler talks about the heat. Heyward-Bey is getting all the pre-game hype, and Corso gives the nod to the Terps, while sporting Testudo's mascot head. David May apparently won the kickoff job and is set to kick away. It is taken at the 9, and returned out to the 22. Schoenhoft is under center and Nolan Carroll breaks up the first pass attempt of the sim season. 2nd and 10, and there was all kinds of heat on the QB and it falls incomplete. 3rd and 10, the catch was made, but appears he landed OB. Delaware is set to punt. Kenworthy punts it away to Oquendo and he gets it up to the 47. Steffy is sacked on first down. (I am not making this up). 2nd and 15, he takes the snap, and is forced to take off running for a gain of 1. 3rd and 14, shotgun, and he is sacked again!!!!!!!!!!! Loss of 3, and the boo birds are out. (Again, I am not making this up, they really are booing). Baltz punts and the faircatch was made at the 22. Otulaja makes a tackle on a handoff for a loss of 5. 2nd and 15, false start. 2nd and 20 on the 12, the pass is complete across the middle to Aaron Love for a gain of 11. on 3rd and 9, the deep pass is incomplete. Set to punt again, Oqunedo fields it, breaks a couple of tackles and gets it to the Delaware 37. Steffy still in there, handoff to Scott for a gain of 1. Steffy over throws a cutting and open Heyward-Bey. 3rd and 9, Steffy in the shotgun, throws deep down the sideline to Heyward-Bey for a gain of 34 to the 2. 1st and goal, inside give to Scott, and he is forced out wide and fumbles. Delaware recovers on the one. Handoff, and Navarre is all over that for no gain. 2nd and 10, another handoff up the middle and they get 3. 3rd and 7, another handoff and Tre Covington makes the stop on about the inch line. Delaware to punt again. Oquendo returns it for 6 to the 35. 12 seconds left in the quarter. Give to Scott for no gain as the first quarter comes to an end. 2nd and 10, form the 35, Steffy throws underneath to Gronkowski for a gain of 5. 3rd and 5, from the 30, fake to Scott, and Steffy takes off and gets down to the 17. First down, Steffy rolls left and he hits Issaiah Williams to the 1. 1st and goal from the 1, Steffy drops back and hits Heyward-Bey on a quick hook. Obi on for the XP, and it is good. 3:47 remaining in the half. May to kickoff, the kick is taken from the 4, and he is finally knocked out at the 46 by May. Wow, nice coverage. First down falls incomplete. Fake handoff and a pass to TE Aganone for 5. 3rd and 5, give up the middle, and Navarre stops him for no gain. Another punt, Oquendo takes a faircatch at the 22. Fake give, to Scott, fake to Hey-Bey, than an incomplete to Heyward-Bey. Steffy looked like a whirling dervish and threw it away. 3rd and 10, 4 wide, Steffy over throws Issaiah Williams. Steffy is down, Steffy is down. Herbstreit says it doesn't look to serious. Baltz to punt, and it is returned to the MD 42 with 2:33 remaining in the half. Steffy has a bruised shoulder expected to be out for a quarter. Alex Wujciak gets a sack, loss of 1, on 2nd a QB keeper for a gain of 3. Otulajia makes the stop for a loss of 1. Delaware to punt, Oquendo takes a faircatch at the 24. Turner is on with 1:42 to go. First play is an out to Issaiah Williams for a first down to the 34. Turner throws deep on second, and Oquendo drops it. Actually looked like a nice break up to me. Turner sheds a defender on second and hits Gronkowski to the MD 46 for a first. Turner dumps it off to Oquendo for 5. TO MD. 2nd and 5, an out to the left for 5, but the mark is short, 3rd and inches, with 50 seconds to go. Give to Scott and he gets the first. TO MD, with 47 seconds to go at the 41. Another drop by Oquendo. This one was a DROP, that would have been at least FG range if not more. Turner hit Gronkowski for 2, and he was sacked on 3rd. 4th and 13 on the 44, it appears they are going for it with time counting down. MD takes the last TO with 4 seconds left. Still going for it, Turner tosses it up and Heyward-Bey makes the catch at the 3. There was a holding call on the play, so it doesn't matter. 7-0 at the half. Eerily silent in the stadium. Wiseman returns the kick out to the 47. Steffy is back. Steffy hits Lansford Watson down to the 36. Play action, looks for Watson again, and it is picked off at the 18. More boos. A draw up the middle for a gain of 7 to the 27. 2nd and 3, and an ugly HB Pass, falls incomplete. 3rd and 3, Triple option, and a swing pass for a loss of 4, that Tre Covington was all over. Another punt, Oquendo returns it for a few up to the 48. Steffy overthrows a WR streaking just ahead of a defender. 2nd and 10, and it is picked off again by Anthony Walters (his second). Delaware takes over at the 40, and throws it down to the MD 42 to Aaron Love. 1st and 10, give up the middle for a gain of 2. 2nd and 8, Navarre gets a sack for a loss of 6. 3rd and 14, he was hit as he throws and the pass falls incomplete. 4th and 14, and they are set to punt. MD has a safe return on, and Wiseman lets it bounce, and it is downed at the 4. Steffy hands off to Scott to the 8. 2nd and 6, Fake to Scott, and he gets outside and picks up the pass for a first to the 16. Steffy overthrows Heyward-Bey on a quick out. 2nd and 10, 1:05 left in the 3rd, another incomplete looking for Scott out in the flats. 3rd and 10, Steffy hit as he throws and it falls incomplete. Baltz to punt it away. Delaware returns it to the MD 45. Barnes makes a nice pass break up on first. Option pitch to the FB for no gain, as Mack Frost makes the stop. Wiseman breaks up the pass ( a polite way of saying he dropped a pick). Punting again, faircatch at the 16. Steffy still out there, with 14 seconds left. Scott gets 3 yards on the carry. MD lets the quarter come to an end. Steffy throws on second. Oquendo made a nice catch and run up the 44. He broke on tackle right as he caught it. This time he drops a dump off. Three drops on the day for him. 2nd and 10, Steffy evades the rush, could have run for at least 5, but tries to pass and it is incomplete. 3rd and 10, he hits I. Williams sliding across the middle right at the sticks. 1st and 10, at the 45, give to Cory Jackson for 5. Fake to Scott, and he hits Jackson running out for a gain of 3 before he stepped out. 3rd and 2, give to Jackson, and he appears to be inches short. They are going for it form the 35, fake to Scott and he hits Heyward-Bey down to the 21 for the first. 2:40 and counting. Delaware is challenging whether he was in. I am not sure why the clock started after he stepped out. New rule? Play stands. Clock stopped now Delaware losses a TO. Screen pass to Scott down to the 13. 2nd and 2, Steffy is sacked back to the 20. Delaware take a TO with 1:52 remaining. 3rd and 9, give to Scott for less than a yard. Obi comes on for the 36 yard attempt. The kick is up, and good!!! Fire in the hole! MD 10-0 with 1:17 remaining. Mays' kick is returned to the 26. First down is broken up by Carroll with a big hit as the ball got there. Pass is complete to the 46, fumbled by the TE, but Delaware recovers. The next pass is complete, and again fumbled, but this time Terrell Skinner picks it up and takes it 64 yards for the score. Obi's XP is good with 47 seconds left. May set to kick off again, and it is returned out to the 23. First pass is incomplete going deep down the middle. Draw left for a gain of 2. Otulajia gets a sack on 3rd down for a loss of 6. Delaware is set to punt, but they call a TO with only 4 seconds left in the game???? Wiseman takes a faircatch to end the game. Well it was a win and it was much closer than the 17-0 final score showed. The 54,000 inside Byrd know it, and the 100 people watching on ESPNU know it, but the casual fan reading the box score will say oh not bad. Hopefully Cyber Ralph reopens the QB job this week. This was ugly. |