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Colorado at Washington State - October 19, 5pm, ESPNU
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Our offensive players are good enough. They are limited by the OC and his playcalling
not sure stormtrooper is a great look when it's gonna be 45 and rainy. I hope their field is turf.
he's had some issues in the red zone, but this seems overly simplistic.
darth-horax
Well-Known Member
Love teh stormtroopers...SO cool
Stupid penalties last week turned short yardage, goal to go situations into 7-10+ yard to go situations and ultimately cost them multiple scores. There's definitely a lot more to the red zone woes than bad playcalling.
and against zona the problem was running too much and too predictably in the 4th. we broke trend in a big way against Oregon early on by passing 3 times. Can't really say we've been against running in the red zone. I think the culprit, outside of penalties, has really been sup-par play by our injured/notsogood TE group. And of course, Montez not being great processing things down there.
If CU doesn't get big play TD's they struggle mightly in the red zone. I think part of that is the QB and part of it is not really having a threat in the red zone (other than Viska). This is why having a big, play making TE is so crucial in the red zone.
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The OC sends in multiple plays to Montez and Montez picks the play based on coverage. I agree that Coach Johnson should stop giving Montez power.
The WSU defense shouldn’t be too hard to run against. We’ve played a couple tougher defenses in the last couple weeks. Oregon in particular, but UA has gotten their act together since the disaster in Hawaii.
Long story short- if we have it first and goal at the five, look for us to push it in on the ground. Nothing fancy should be necessary.
Long story short- if we have it first and goal at the five, look for us to push it in on the ground. Nothing fancy should be necessary.
FWIW, Arizona is ranked 104 on defense in the latest SP+ rankings. They are still bad.
Dammit.
and they punked us hard in the 4th quarter. sigh.
Any rankings that have the CU offense ranked in the top 15 in the country need to be taken with an entire bottle of salt
Okay. But Arizona just gave up 38 in the second half to Washington Saturday night. They very well could have given up 40+ to CU with better play in key situations. I am confident in saying Hawaii was only a slight outlier for them.
Agreed. My comment, while not necessary in this context, was more of a standalone shot at the advanced stats that say our offense is anything more than an average FBS unit.
Something has to go right for us again in Pullman eventually. 2017 game was so bad...
The last two games combined in Pullman... 3 points.
C/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | QBR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. Noyer | 7/18 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 |
| S. Montez | 4/13 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 3.4 |
| C. Marksberry | 2/3 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 22.2 |
| TEAM | 13/34 | 94 | 0 | 0 |
The last two games combined in Pullman... 3 points.
DeNiro
My Dixie Wrecked
Wasn't that FHCMM only shut out?
Stop making (or allowing) him to think - it's the only way
only one I remember, but we were pretty bad and things are fuzzy the first few years.
WSU is such an interesting challenge. They don’t have a talent advantage, but can certainly be argued to have a scheme advantage.
They aren’t a no hoper like Oregon was, but you have to hope that things are going your way that day.
same with AFA - see what happened there...also our D's Achilles heal if definitely going against their strength
so did just about everyone. We were favored against AZ and are 2 TD dogs against WSU.
Like everyone else?
Going to try to make it -- have to stop off at Central Washington U first to see the #2 kiddo, but heck, Pullman's just a boring 3 hour drive away, right?
Not really feeling super confident given the weather forecast, but hopefully Montez can channel his father's connections to the Raiders and get some stick-em for his fingers! Paging Lester Hayes, anyone???
Not really feeling super confident given the weather forecast, but hopefully Montez can channel his father's connections to the Raiders and get some stick-em for his fingers! Paging Lester Hayes, anyone???