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2024 Game 1 Official Thread: NDSU @ COLORADO on ESPN at 6
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The guy who's foot it bounced off of is in the process of just tackling the receiver, that's why he's on the ground
Wouldn't that be a tipped ball, Making the contact legal? Also looks like receiver is diving towards a very poorly thrown ball.
Looks to me like he is tackling the receiver WELL before the ball is anywhere near him. He doesn't ever look at the ball he just straight tackles the receiver
Idk why everyone is wishing passerby good luck for the rest of the season. **** him and **** those losers. I personally will relish every embarrassing loss those tools blunder into because I know passersby will feel a mounting sense of ennui that will eventually crush his pathetic soul. **** him. **** the bison. Go Buffs!!!
The int was dumb luck. The defender who is on the ground was trying to bump Sheppard, but fell. Sheppard was on the outside doing a late break to the post. The pass was to Miller who was the Middle WR and breaking out toward the area that Sheppard is vacating. The fallen defender is in the way, and Miller doesn’t know how to get the ball. It then bounces in the air.
Colorado says out loud that we will be playing MAN Coverage 90% of the time, it turned out to be 70%, and we got beat pretty much on every single man coverage play, because NDSU had smart and creative plays that allowed for them to kill us by taking our man coverage and running our guys away from the play. Makes us look pretty dumb,
DC let’s go kid!
Pretty dumb until pitching a shut out in the second half until 2 minutes left in the game.
We got out of man in the second half
JMBuffs
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And it's the adjustments Livingston made that give me optimism.
They just have to be better at disguising it and mixing in some other concepts. Playing against a statue, true freshman QB next week, I bet we still see a good amount of man.
I really like the way HCP teaches and coaches. To. The. Point.
I’m going by recollection from the stands and just remember the big plays out of the backfield. Two for 60 yards made a pretty big impression I guess.
This is why mobile QBs can take you out of man coverage.
Do you think they underestimated NDSU? Everyone knows their QB can run, yet they still play man coverage exclusively in the first half.
I think the defensive concept is to sell out to generate pressure but NDSU handled it because they're a machine at recognizing and executing. Despite rarely getting us blocked or beating coverage, they schemed to find plays and made them. It was really impressive to me. 2nd half D seemed to be more of just playing straight up and relying on our guys being able to beat their guys.
BuffLuke80
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Another disadvantage of playing too much man, a QB that can get out of the pocket and move. At least have a spy on whatever QB if he can move and you want to play man mostly. That 48 yard play to the back just looked like a straight bust to me, could be wrong. It just looked like whoever was supposed to cover him didn't know it.
Mobile QB can take you out of man coverage, he can also limit what you can do with your pass rush and as they had an experienced and well coached OL that means that the receivers had the time to complete patterns. Doesn't matter if you are in man or zone if you give well coached receivers enough time they will get open. The smart, veteran QB was good at finding them when they were.
We did adjust and when we did their offensive effectiveness in the second half was mostly taken away.
Raiola ain't going anywhere outside the pocket, so I sure as sh!t would stay primarily in man. As I've said repeatedly the last 4 days, this defense was never built to counter NDSU.
Nobody is dumb. Stop trying to find cracks in the armor 1 game in. Give it three games and then assess.
I think staying with our man stuff is good against Raiola and their skill players who can’t out athlete our DBs. However, I also think there needs to be some other concepts mixed in to confuse him. I didn’t realize it but they took him out for the 4th quarter last week so he still doesn’t even have a full game of college experience yet.
I sort of the think the game plan last week was "keep it simple, and win on talent."
On both sides of the ball.
If our D and O are as vanilla this week, I'm gonna be disappointashocked.
Not finding cracks, observing that we boldly say that we can man up against anyone at anytime, and so NDSU, which is a unicorn, said, OK, we will just run our wideouts down field to occupy your corners, then we will max protect, and then we will put the RB or TE into 1-on-1 with your LB and we will pick you apart in the middle of the field.
Man to man against NE and Raiola will be more effective because in theory, they WANT to throw to the WR's, but they can also just choose to run the ball, and then get the backs and TE involved in the short passing game. I have heard a lot about Livingston using the exotic blitz's and rolling coverage to confuse the QB. That makes me feel that we did not show much of anything against NDSU. Travis's ability to disguise where he is and how he and others can jump routes is what I hope to see on Saturday. I would like to see us make our own breaks, instead of getting beat in some of the most sucky ways, like QB scrambles
I rewatched the game and didn't see a single CU lineman pull, nor a single run outside the tackles. I expect a little more creativity too.
If I remember correctly Trevor either missed an assignment or just got completely beat on that play.