By Tim Schlittner For the last five weeks, Otto’s Army has examined the experience and talent on Syracuse’s offense. From Ryan Nassib to Antwon Bailey to Marcus Sales to Nick Provo to Justin Pugh, the Orange return a corps of players poised to contribute in a major way in 2011. In past years, any discussion of the offense [...]
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Football Friday: Defensive Line
July 15th, 2011 
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Tags: defensive line, Football Friday, Syracuse No Comments »Football Friday: Offensive Line
July 8th, 2011 Tom Sullivan 1 Comment By Tom Sullivan Brace yourself for what is about to follow. Considering where this program has been over the last decade, it’s just about the most surprising thing any Syracuse football fan could read as they prepare for the 2011 season – the Orange offensive line will be the strength of this team as it [...]
Posted in Football Friday, Thomas Sullivan Tags: Football Friday, offensive line, Syracuse, syracuse footall 1 Comment »Football Friday: Tight Ends Looking Provo-catively Top Heavy
July 1st, 2011 Zach Lowe No Comments By Zach Lowe The news out of spring camp on the second day of April was dispiriting: “Syracuse tight end Cody Catalina will not be able to return to the football field for the Orange due to a knee injury suffered during the 2009 season.” So the book on Catalina’s orange odyssey, which began all [...]
Posted in Football Friday, Zach Lowe Tags: Football Friday, Nick Provo, Syracuse, tight ends No Comments »Football Friday: Wide Receivers
June 24th, 2011 Dave Cooperman No Comments By Dave Cooperman What a difference a year makes. The theme of last season’s run of Football Friday was all about needing a veteran defense to carry an inconsistent, question mark filled offense. This season it is the offense who returns the core of impact starters and a bulk of that core comes from the [...]
Posted in David Cooperman, Football Friday Tags: Syracuse, syracuse football, wide receivers No Comments »Football Friday: Running Backs
June 17th, 2011 Steve Schaefer 3 Comments By Steve Schaefer Delone Carter rushed for 1,233 yards last season and averaged 5.3 yards per carry. Delone Carter ran for 198 yards and two touchdowns in the Pinstripe Bowl. Delone Carter was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the fourth round. To paraphrase the opening argument of Kevin Bacon’s character in A Few Good [...]
Posted in Football Friday, Steve Schaefer Tags: running backs, Syracuse, syracuse football 3 Comments »Football Friday: Quarterbacks
June 10th, 2011 Tim Schlittner 1 Comment By Tim Schlittner We are 83 days away from the kickoff vs. Wake Forest and we here at OttosArmy.com will be bringing you football content every Friday from this point forward. Let me start with a simple question: is this the most comfortable you’ve felt with your starting quarterback at Syracuse since Paul Pasqualoni was [...]
Football Friday, Saturday Edition: Season Predictions
August 28th, 2010 Zach Lowe 1 Comment By Euclid 419er Continuing with the Football Friday series, this week will feature season predictions by each of our writers, running Monday through Saturday. — In putting together my picks, I found that my predictions were not all that different than the rest of the crew, so I decided I could at least say them differently. [...]
Football Friday: Season Predictions
August 27th, 2010 Brandon Matthews 1 Comment By Brandon Matthews Continuing with the Football Friday series, this week will feature season predictions by each of our writers, running Monday through Saturday. — Defense and Special Teams. That’s what Syracuse must hang its hat on this season. If Long can give the Orange great field position and the defense can keep the scores low, [...]
Football Friday, Thursday Edition: Season Predictions
August 26th, 2010 Steve Schaefer 2 Comments By Steve Schaefer Continuing with the Football Friday series, this week will feature season predictions by each of our writers, running Monday through Saturday. — Last week I wrote our Football Friday column breaking down the schedule, and introduced the three ways of looking at the Orange schedule: the optimist, the pessimist and the realist. Now [...]
Football Friday, Wednesday Edition: Season Predictions
August 25th, 2010 Tom Sullivan 5 Comments By Tom Sullivan Continuing with the Football Friday series, this week will feature season predictions by each of our writers, running Monday through Saturday. — Alright class, time to take notes. As the reverend Dave Cooperman pointed out Monday, every year I try to take a step back from all the optimism, cynicism and [...]
