Red Wins Spring Game, 13-3

by Akula Wolf on Apr 18, 2011 2:05 PM EDT

The first team-defense made life difficult for Mike Glennon on Saturday, intercepting him twice:

"I've said all spring, the best thing we have in the secondary is a lot of competition," O'Brien said after watching the Red (second-team offense/first-team defense) beat the White (first-team offense/second-team defense) take a 13-3 victory in the end-of-spring contest. "Those guys are fighting for jobs. Michael Glennon wasn't going to throw for 400 yards against that defense.

"It's a little bit different defense from the last few years ... because we have guys with some experience back there."

Six of Glennon's 40 attempts were either knocked down or tipped, and it was a couple of those tipped passes that were picked off. Glennon completed just over half his passes and averaged an unfortunate 4.6 yards per attempt. I was not there on Saturday, so those of you who were will have to set the current panic level. On a scale of 1 (Rivers) to 5 (Beck), where would you estimate we are right now? For calibration purposes, I note that Marcus Stone rates as a 4.23 on the scale. If I need to go to an Asheville Tourists game and beg Russell Wilson to come back, I'll do it.

Seriously, though, it's great to see the defense performing well. Hard to believe this secondary, which was atrocious just two years ago, could be the strong point of the D.

Here's the recap from the N&O, as well as a photo gallery.

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I don't

take anything away from spring game stats. It really is more of an eyeball test at that point and my eyeballs were not at C-F stadium on Saturday.

You forgot the most important stat: was our attendance reported accurately?

by PACKHOOLIGAN on Apr 18, 2011 2:15 PM EDT reply actions

i assume not

/tinfoil hat

Backing The Pack

by Akula Wolf on Apr 18, 2011 2:58 PM EDT up reply actions

you know, the thing about Spring Games is....It's really hard to...

LOOK, IT’S MARIO!!! HI MARIO!

Seriously, I was there….Glennon looked somewhat comfortable, though he probably would have been sacked 12 times if that was allowed…He can throw it around, the talent is there for sure, it’s just going to be impossible to tell until he plays with the whole playbook against a defense that doesn’t know him…

As always, (I wish I would have copyrighted this phrase 20 years ago) “The O-Line Needs Work”…

Panic Level – a good, solid 3.2…

by WolfOG on Apr 18, 2011 3:28 PM EDT reply actions

This Defense and RW would mess up the rest of the ACC

Good thing for them we’re NC State and keeping MG’s mom content is priority numero uno.

by Sportin'L.A.Gear on Apr 18, 2011 4:05 PM EDT reply actions

The coaches seem to have a lot of faith

in Glennon. It is obvious he can make the throws, the question is what happens when the lights go on. It doesn’t seem like O’Brien was begging for RW to come back, so I actually feel pretty confident in Glennon’s abilities to lead the O this year.

by mplode on Apr 18, 2011 9:35 PM EDT reply actions

Let's not forget

The number 1 rusher from last season was out for the spring game. Greene running the ball will help Glennon quite a bit.

by TheSHJ on Apr 18, 2011 10:46 PM EDT reply actions

Based on what I saw in LAST year's Spring Game...

… my panic level on Glennon is only around a 2-2.5, honestly. The guy’s gonna be a good QB – I just don’t think there’s any way around that. He’ll never be mobile like RW, and there’s not going to be another PR here… but he’s gonna be a good QB for us. I don’t worry too much about what happened Saturday – like you, I’m FAR more excited about the defense making plays…

by wolfonthehill on Apr 19, 2011 6:02 AM EDT reply actions