I thought TM had a pretty good day throwing the ball. There were two drops in the first half and one completely errant throw where the WR ran the route inside instead of outside (don't know who was to blame for that) and another blown route that almost led to a pick-six. Still, he was on target most of the time. In the second half, however, he did quite well. The protection was about the same, but he seemed to collect himself better and hit the open WRs for good gains and a score.
Well, it was obvious that this was a first game. We kept the O under wraps for the most part; very few toss sweeps and inside veers and plain vanilla pass routes with few long throws. Timing was off and that's to be expected. I thought TaQuon's performance was commendable, however, and showed that he's been working. Once everybody gets a couple of games under them, we should do.
I might add that I hadn't seen a river boat gambler pitch like the one on Searcy's long run since JT made that great one to Hill in the 2014 Ugag game. Just as was the case then, TM had drawn in three Alcorn players who hit him just after he made the pitch. There we're two more of them headed up field and Searcy simply blew past them and ran to the six. Great play!
