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San Diego State @ CU Game thread - 11/28 @ 3 PM MT on P12 Network
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Rob DeVere
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The kid that started at QB for SDS, apparently started their first three games! Not as if he was a slug!
Rob DeVere
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As a college FB fan, you're not used to watching defensive battles anymore! Under the new CF environment, it's a defensvie battle if it's 42-31!
That game featured two good defenses! SDS was a Top 10 rated "D" with a five game win streak playing PAC teams!
Won't even mention they are one of few teams playing a 3-3-5, which is not easy when all you have is ONE walk-through practice against it! (AZ is another, so it was good practice for Noyer, to see it live, by a team that features it and has played it as it's base"D" and played it well, for awhile!)
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ahoelsken
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Baker wasn't a threat to run like Johnson and Brookshier were. We'd have probably shut them out had they not made the QB change.
Rob DeVere
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Remember it was a UCF team led by All American DOUCHE, coach Scott Frost that claimed that!I say we should just pull a UCF and declare ourselves undefeated National Champions! What say you?
Especially since the ***** condoms backed out of the game with us because of Corono virus concerns. How convenient..
Don't want to be part of anything that Frosty the Blowhard, is part of!
Rob DeVere
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Held 'em to 3 points as it was! Brookshire was little threat except to the worms in Folsom's grass! And was no great shakes on his run game. Especailly after the Buffs saw DTR in the first game.
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It's also of note that all three of those teams were from California where the covid restrictions were much more strict.
CULifer
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When Chev saw SDSU had nothing on offense, he may have gone total vanilla to prevent more plays from hitting film. Maybe.
SINKRATZ
PhD in Analogy
In a season where getting to play another game is never guaranteed, I doubt this very much.
This, they really didn't have any practice time to work on SDSU specific stuff.
Also much of what they have done this year on offense has been built off the tight end sets. Both the running game and the passing game have been based on using the TEs and so it's no surprise that they were ineffective when the only TE they had was an emergency guy.
A lot of Noyer's effectiveness this year has been based on hitting short and intermediate stuff keeping the LBs and safeties honest. Russell had 5 receptions for 77 yards in the first two games which was enough to force teams to worry about covering him.
It also looked like for whatever reason Noyer was just not as sharp as we have seen him in the first two games. A part of that as well may have not been having time to get comfortable with his reads against a Brady Hoke defense that looks different than most.
Rob DeVere
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I vote for the lack of preparation for this type of "D". A 3-3-5 (actually more of a 3-3-4, plus a rover, installed and perfected by Rocky Long over a number of years there, to stop the spread) isn't your regular defense, ever-shifting between a run and a pass shield, it's odd and normally would take a few days of study and practice, for both Chiv and Noyer to figure out.. Plus don't underestimate SDS just because they are MWC; they had a 5-0 streak agianst the Pac going into that game, so they weren't scared of the PAC hype/rep by any means.
BehindEnemyLines
beware the habu
This is a great question. What will the TE position group be in tucson? Do we even have a "group" of te's?
Lack of preparation obviously had some to do with the lack of production on offense. However, we have seen this with Chev before. I'm not concerned, yet. Chev has a head coach and QB coach who are playing a pivotal role in what we are seeing so far and think that will continue.
Didn't SDSU have all week?
Bufffan68
Club Member
I thought the game wasn't announced til Thursday, but you could be right.
Buffs win. Coaching staff gets a free pass all considering.
SDSU knew about the possibility of this game happening early in the week, so they definitely got more film and on field practice work done for CU than CU did for them.
You really want to watch that piece of **** game?
I actually enjoy low scoring football games (not so much that I watch soccer, mind you) . This one was frustrating as a fan, because we wanted our offense to get going. But I appreciate a little defense, and there was plenty of it in this one. As long as you know the outcome and don't have stress, it might be fun to go back and watch IMO.
it is a helluva lot easier to prepare a defense to disrupt an offense than an offense to attack an unusual defense. Note how poorly SDSU’s offensive attack was. Yes, they had injuries, but They weren’t prepared on the o-line either. And of course, Landman was playing on another level.
That's fair and the defense was great for sure, but I just felt like, outside of the first drive, the offense killed itself with sloppy play and mistakes which made it hard to watch. For me, personally, that was a take the win, but flush it and move on kind of game.
Yeah, the 3-3-5 is so unique and you don't really see it from many P5 teams. I can imagine it being tough for an OL without any prep and basically having to learn and adjust mid game.
Why don't more teams run it? There must be a liability.
Is this the defensive version of the triple option? It's not effective if you see it week after week, but if only a few teams run it, it's difficult to adapt to?
Didn't we run some 3-3-5 in the past, forgot what staff, or was it 4-2-5 base?