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Official CU @ Oregon State Thread - 10/14 2 PM MT on P12-Network
- Thread starter Darth Snow
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We’ve been watching their adjustments all year. They're regressing, badly.
jkppkjjkp
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I was joking earlier about how DJ Eliot should get some plaudits for today and all the red zone trips that only ended up being FGs.
He's coaching a defense that seems to lack legitimate P5 talent on the line/front 7, maybe he does deserve some credit for "successfully" executing a bend but don't break gameplan.
He's coaching a defense that seems to lack legitimate P5 talent on the line/front 7, maybe he does deserve some credit for "successfully" executing a bend but don't break gameplan.
that is not exactly correct and you know it. the competition in-conference is much better than the ooc slate. the dbs are decent to good. teams that have the ability are running right at our weaknesses-- weak pursuit and bad tackling and getting no pressure in a base set is really hurting our d.
So, what adjustments have been made?
ahoelsken
Well-Known Member
Hard to enjoy this one. We needed a stop at the end to beat one of the two worst teams in the Power 5. Lindsay was Lindsay (I think we're all going to miss him in 2018), but 6 completed passes in three quarters against that team is pathetic. The defense stopped them twice-Granted, both were critical.....but this defense looks bad, and its a combination of things. There's very little depth (as evidenced by George Frazier's newfound iron man status) and we've got a guy who was demoted LY at Kentucky calling signals. We did cut back on the penalties in a big way, though.......I can't give this performance anything better than a C-.
the last 2 games have shown the way on how to beat us. they have to figure out a way to get more defensive help in the box and hope that our corners can hold up in man for most of the game. i think. maybe bring the safeties up? i dunno. as for what has done to date, it hasn't worked.
seattlebuff
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Um, yeah, Seattle's in King County ... is there a point you're wanting to make?
The point I’m trying to make is that they haven’t done anything to date. They keep playing the same way and are expecting different results.
Or BAILER!!!Remember guys we could have it worse. We could be Nebraska.
SuperiorBuff
Well-Known Member
Lame
I hope the team really looks closely at how well/poorly our receivers got open, and also how well/poorly Montez went through his progressions. Only three CU players caught passes today, and one of them was Montez. Yikes.
It should be
I honestly get the sense that they look at a game like today (or last week, or the week before, or the week before) and say “aaawwww, jeez, we were so close to making a play here or there. Make just a couple plays and we are running away with that game”. They think what they’re doing is right, but it just isn’t getting the breaks. This is, of course, complete bull****. What they’re doing is a total **** show.
You mean winning today?
How can you look at the game today and not come away feeling like we were completely out-played and were lucky to win? Over 300 yards given up in the first half. Even the commentators were like “that’s as “bendy” as you can get without breaking”. There’s nothing about this game to be proud of. Take the win, fine, but don’t hold it up as some kind of shining example of competent football. This team has problems.
Ok, so style points are more important than a W?
lvbuff
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Pure speculation...I doubt they are handing out participation ribbons in that room tomorrow.
No, but looking like a **** against a ****ty team is still cause for concern. The absolute worst thing the coaches could possibly take away from this game is that their plans and preparation were a success.
I’ll take a conference road win against a highly emotional team no matter how it looked.
Guys, there was a time during the game today where we hadn’t forced a punt in four quarters of play. OSU never punted once in the first half. We never stopped them. Not once. You can’t come away from a game where that happens and say “well, we won, so I guess that validates what we have been doing”. You have to walk away saying “man, we got lucky, we need to shake things up on defense or we will be absolutely decimated against the good teams at the back of our schedule.”
there are things you can fix and things you can't... i think the o-line has improved some in the last couple of games. i think our wideouts need to stop reading their own press clippings and toughen up. i think montez lacks consistency. these things are fixable.
i also think our d-line is getting punked pretty much every game. i think our linebackers aren't fast enough. i think we don't get enough pressure on the edges. i think we have generally good dbs but they aren't yet as good as last year... are these things fixable?