You cannot win games, especially in our league, at this level, without scoring points. “Obviously, at some point, you’ve got to get things rolling on offense. “Those guys understand the expectation over there, and we’ve made that very clear since last December with the bodies we have coming back there,” Mettlach said. will have to be leaders on the field and on the sidelines. That means that junior linebacker Marc Sippel, senior defensive lineman Samuel Kinney, junior defensive lineman Austin Schlicht, and senior defensive back Michael Bates Jr. With such a lack of game experience on offense, Mettlach admits that his team will lean on its defensive experience, especially early in the season while junior quarterback Alex Fries gets up to game speed.
What happens from there in the first game? Like I said, we’ll deal with those as they come.” The basic fundamentals that we preach every single day, and the way we go about it, that’s the kind of stuff that we want to see show up on Saturday. You may not see in practice during early camp, but multiple hats to the football on defense, guys sustaining blocks on offense, whether that be the (offensive) line or the skill on the outside edges. “The biggest thing for us is we want to see our guys play with some energy, some aggression, some physicality. We’ve got to be able to function without turning the football over. “You’re starting a new (quarterback), a bunch of new guys up front. “First and foremost, we have to take care of the football,” he said. No matter how much scouting the Huskies’ coaching staff was able to do, there is plenty that Mettlach wants his team to be concerned about on their own side of the football. “You can’t teach from a tight copy or anything like that, but you can kind of see what they’re standing in, and at least personnel. We got a little bit of film off of what they had from the stream down in Indianapolis, but it’s not great. Of course, there was an issue with the stream for the whole first half, so we didn’t see any of the first half of the game. “We, like everybody else, streamed their game. “With us not playing a game, they didn’t have to exchange with us,” he said. The Chargers (0-1 overall) opened their season with a 39-20 loss on the road at Indianapolis last weekend, but Mettlach and his staff have not had a great chance to scout everything they will have to offer.
We’ve got to do a job to limit the mental mistakes, especially early in the game, so we can get into a little bit of a flow, and then we’ll see where we’re at.” “Obviously, they’ve got a game under their belt, so that’ll be all ironed out for them. “First game of the year, you always see the procedural penalties or lining up, not getting lined up, so we’ve got to limit that stuff. “At the end of the day, there’s going to be some mistakes,” he said.
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