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Darth Snow

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This conference season is going to be nuts. There are going to be a LOT of close, back and forth games. We have 8 games left, and unless our OL gels, we will be a couple coin flips from going 6 & 2 or 3 & 5. Montez won't always duck the free rusher and scramble for the first down to change a game. He will throw a meaningful pick eventually. He will have at least one bad game. Someday, Viska may not get 100 yards receiving (seems impossible, but it could happen)!

On the other hand, our D won't drop 3 interceptions most games, and will probably keep getting better. It looks like Delrick is improving. Worthington is coming out of his funk. Maybe CB 2 will get solidified. Our OL could gel.

Long story short: this should be a wild, wacky, fun season. Lots more games coming that will be like the nub game.

 
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I also think the Buffs will put a game together that will blow the competition out, not even close. My hope it is the usc, asu or uw game - but we will blow someone out from the first kickoff.
 
Good OP. We are very close to being really really good and we are also very close to being 2-2 and hating everything about this season. We are not playing complete games and we are musical chairs still at OL and DB. If you told us in August that Moretti and Lynott would not be contributing vs UCLA, we'd have been panicked.

Would add that we need more out of the passing game than just Viska, in terms of balance.
 
buffaholic said:
Good OP. We are very close to being really really good and we are also very close to being 2-2 and hating everything about this season. We are not playing complete games and we are musical chairs still at OL and DB. If you told us in August that Moretti and Lynott would not be contributing vs UCLA, we'd have been panicked.

Would add that we need more out of the passing game than just Viska, in terms of balance.
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We are close to being 2-2? Nebraska game was close, where is close game #2?
 
If our o-line was where it needed to be, I'd be ok with that. ****, I was hoping to hear something else. Every time I've seen part of an ASU game, they were mostly on offense, outside of a third down here and there. Their QB is risky, need to take advantage of that. That WR worries me too, he can play.
 
Shldr2Shldr said:
We are close to being 2-2? Nebraska game was close, where is close game #2?
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The UCLA game was much closer than the score. If Montez doesn't somehow evade that pass rush and get a first down, and let's say puts the ball on the ground, we are playing a different game. We had a bunch of close things go our way such as converting at least one 4th down by the hairs on LaViska's chin. JayMac taking a certain interception away from a DB somehow.
 
buffaholic said:
The UCLA game was much closer than the score. If Montez doesn't somehow evade that pass rush and get a first down, and let's say puts the ball on the ground, we are playing a different game. We had a bunch of close things go our way such as converting at least one 4th down by the hairs on LaViska's chin. JayMac taking a certain interception away from a DB somehow.
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Not really man, that was total domination in the second half of that game.
 
buffaholic said:
The UCLA game was much closer than the score. If Montez doesn't somehow evade that pass rush and get a first down, and let's say puts the ball on the ground, we are playing a different game. We had a bunch of close things go our way such as converting at least one 4th down by the hairs on LaViska's chin. JayMac taking a certain interception away from a DB somehow.
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No. No it wasn't.

Our DB's had four INT's hit them in the hands. UCLA got a gift late hit call in the first quarter to put them in the red zone. Besides that 35 yd TD run by Montez in the fourth, we put our offense in crusie control. We played at full throttle for 3 quarters and won by 22 points. That isn't close.
 
buffaholic said:
The UCLA game was much closer than the score. If Montez doesn't somehow evade that pass rush and get a first down, and let's say puts the ball on the ground, we are playing a different game. We had a bunch of close things go our way such as converting at least one 4th down by the hairs on LaViska's chin. JayMac taking a certain interception away from a DB somehow.
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We won by 22 ****ing points!
 
buffaholic said:
The UCLA game was much closer than the score. If Montez doesn't somehow evade that pass rush and get a first down, and let's say puts the ball on the ground, we are playing a different game. We had a bunch of close things go our way such as converting at least one 4th down by the hairs on LaViska's chin. JayMac taking a certain interception away from a DB somehow.
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I disagree here. Other than UCLA scoring the first three early in the 3rd quarter the Buffs dominated. UCLA only got 90 total yds in the second half.
 
The 3 and outs at the beginning of the game were a little unnerving, but I chalk it up as the players playing tight - 1st BIG home game and blackout game + so on and so forth. Looked scarrier in person, once I watched the recording? not so scary.
 
Going forward, I will grade this season on the Doug Moe system--a home loss is minus one and an away win is plus one. That means 8 wins is the mark--steal one in LA, Seattle, or Berkeley and it's a pretty golden season, drop one in Boulder and it's a little disappointing.
 
Shldr2Shldr said:
Have to keep in mind that, despite their struggles this year, UCLA has talent. A lot of of it.
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Yeah, and I think most of us expected UCLA to hang with us for about a half. They did. I'm not sure if I put Cal on the same level based on what I saw against Oregon as I do Washington or even Southern Cal. Win either one of those two, and this season is going to be very, very special. Cal is going to be tough, but I'm not that wowed by either of their QBs. McIlwain looks a lot like Thompson-Robinson to me. Great athlete, but he's still learning how to play QB. Chase Garbers is a JAG.
 
So I was explaining to Mrs skibum why this season is potentially very good, but also a little worrisome.

We all generally know the worries (two words, and they both end in "line").

But the two biggest bright spots are, at least to me, somewhat big surprises:

1. We have a QB that is legitimately being discussed as a 1-3rd round draft pick this year. I don't know if he'll get there, but the fact that this is a real discussion is a huge, huge positive.

2. We have another offensive player, not the QB in #1, that is in the heisman discussion. Everyone knows that he probably won't win, but so far, it looks like he'll be a guest at the NY Athletic Club for an awards ceremony this December.

I mean seriously: did anyone predict either of those two things?

Yes, football is a team sport (and the worry we all have is still there), but still ...

1/3 of the way through the season and we've got a high draft round QB and Heisman finalist WR?

This could be a special season.
 
RuffBuff said:
I won't be shocked if we come out of the ASU, USC, Washington games at 1-2
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If that happens, we'll be 5-2, and STILL have the first spot in the south.
I can see that happening, but it all depends on what happens this week.
If we win at home vs ASU, the players believe in themselves. USC thinks they deserve to win every game, whether they
are good enough or not. They have been in close games this year, but have seen nothing like our boys.

USC is ripe for a dethroning at our hands, and the time is ripe for our ascendance in the south.

I can see us going 2-1 with a real, real tough game in Washington to follow.
 
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