[Hieronymus]

Thoughts after the last 2 games, and I repeat we learned more these 2 games then we did all year.

- You can’t let the Stanford outside backs progress the ball unmarked. You will get destroyed.
- The CBs are not nearly as effective at triggering the offense. It was better today, but it mostly required a CB to carry the ball forward and that is a dangerous way to play. It was pretty well controlled though against ND.
- Teams with the skill and the tactics to quickly switch the field cause problems. Most teams can’t do this, and the press can bottle them up completely. ND all game and UVA in the second half were a different level of opponent and can regularly make that switch and break open the press.
- Didn’t get enough out of the wings in these games. Kitihata was ineffective both games and Klinger was pretty invisible today. Montoya was better, though her crossing was rough.
- Holden is the best back to goal forward on the team. Aikey did manage to body up enough to get a lucky bounce on the Montoya goal, but overall the forwards aren’t good back to goal. Makes the last bullet below a bigger challenge.
- Smith and Bhuta are not as fast as you would like outside backs to be, and Boamah has been on a bit of an out of control stretch the last few games. I am concerned. 
- Speed at CB and DM with Nguyen isn’t great either.
- The big red flag though is the team hasn’t shown the ability to work out of bad stretches when they get pushed back. It took OT and a formation change to stabilize things today. But they can’t get trapped back into basically a 631 for almost an entire half like we have seen in these 2 games. A 433 wants the ball and then wants to get the ball when it doesn’t have it. It doesn’t sit back and absorb pressure well for long stretches as we have vividly seen.

[Hieronymus]

Thoughts after the last 2 games, and I repeat we learned more these 2 games then we did all year.

- You can’t let the Stanford outside backs progress the ball unmarked. You will get destroyed.
- The CBs are not nearly as effective at triggering the offense. It was better today, but it mostly required a CB to carry the ball forward and that is a dangerous way to play. It was pretty well controlled though against ND.
- Teams with the skill and the tactics to quickly switch the field cause problems. Most teams can’t do this, and the press can bottle them up completely. ND all game and UVA in the second half were a different level of opponent and can regularly make that switch and break open the press.
- Didn’t get enough out of the wings in these games. Kitihata was ineffective both games and Klinger was pretty invisible today. Montoya was better, though her crossing was rough.
- Holden is the best back to goal forward on the team. Aikey did manage to body up enough to get a lucky bounce on the Montoya goal, but overall the forwards aren’t good back to goal. Makes the last bullet below a bigger challenge.
- Smith and Bhuta are not as fast as you would like outside backs to be, and Boamah has been on a bit of an out of control stretch the last few games. I am concerned. 
- Speed at CB and DM with Nguyen isn’t great either.
- The big red flag though is the team hasn’t shown the ability to work out of bad stretches when they get pushed back. It took OT and a formation change to stabilize things today. But they can’t get trapped back into basically a 631 for almost an entire half like we have seen in these 2 games. A 433 wants the ball and then wants to get the ball when it doesn’t have it. It doesn’t sit back and absorb pressure well for long stretches as we have vividly seen.