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The first five games

Duff Man

Duff Man

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After a great opening game performance, the next month looks favorable for the Buffs. Anything less than 4-1 start will be a disappointment heading into the meat of the conference schedule. No matter how Arizona looked last night, three road games in four weeks is going to be a tough stretch.

With that in mind, style points over the next four games (outside of UNH) do not matter. What I am hoping to see develop over the next four games boils down to three things:

1. Finding a #2 corner. The fall practices did not really settle the issue and Wigley looked shaky at times on Friday night. Need to see some progress here.

2. Continued progress along the OL. This includes developing some depth for conference play because our depth is likely to be tested at some point.

3. Blowing out UNH and getting backups real, live experience for most/all of the second half.
 
Duff Man said:
After a great opening game performance, the next month looks favorable for the Buffs. Anything less than 4-1 start will be a disappointment heading into the meat of the conference schedule. No matter how Arizona looked last night, three road games in four weeks is going to be a tough stretch.

With that in mind, style points over the next four games (outside of UNH) do not matter. What I am hoping to see develop over the next four games boils down to three things:

1. Finding a #2 corner. The fall practices did not really settle the issue and Wigley looked shaky at times on Friday night. Need to see some progress here.

2. Continued progress along the OL. This includes developing some depth for conference play because our depth is likely to be tested at some point.

3. Blowing out UNH and getting backups real, live experience for most/all of the second half.
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Agree. I will add pass rush.
 
Duff Man said:
1. Finding a #2 corner. The fall practices did not really settle the issue and Wigley looked shaky at times on Friday night. Need to see some progress here.
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Chris Miller didn't play did he? Was he still banged up with that hammy he hurt at the fall scrimmage? I had pretty high hopes for him emerging this season.
 
I thought Wigley did fairly well. CSU does have some good receivers and a better than average QB. He was in on a lot of plays and did well.
 
Duff Man said:
After a great opening game performance, the next month looks favorable for the Buffs. Anything less than 4-1 start will be a disappointment heading into the meat of the conference schedule. No matter how Arizona looked last night, three road games in four weeks is going to be a tough stretch.

With that in mind, style points over the next four games (outside of UNH) do not matter. What I am hoping to see develop over the next four games boils down to three things:

1. Finding a #2 corner. The fall practices did not really settle the issue and Wigley looked shaky at times on Friday night. Need to see some progress here.

2. Continued progress along the OL. This includes developing some depth for conference play because our depth is likely to be tested at some point.

3. Blowing out UNH and getting backups real, live experience for most/all of the second half.
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To point number 3, I would add not having noyer or lytle handing off every play. Let them run the offense, it's the other teams job to stop them.
 
The NU game is one game where I could not care less about style points.
- On the road v a P5 team (we’ve been horrible)
- Vs Nebraska (historically we’ve been horrible against them)
- We just had a huge game vs a rival and I don’t want a let down
 
Not Sure said:
I thought Wigley did fairly well. CSU does have some good receivers and a better than average QB. He was in on a lot of plays and did well.
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I think he is just mediocre enough to get us beat at some point this season.

Sykobuff said:
To point number 3, I would add not having noyer or lytle handing off every play. Let them run the offense, it's the other teams job to stop them.
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Very much agree.
 
Duff Man said:
I think he is just mediocre enough to get us beat at some point this season.
He was shaky last season, got beat like drum many times that were overlooked because the entire D was bad. I had hopes that he would progress but after Friday night I think he may have peaked as a player.



Very much agree.
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I thought it was fine to not start throwing again once Noyer and Lytle were playing. Heck, Montez wasn't really throwing in the 3rd quarter while he was in. I suspect, though, that Noyer would have thrown the ball on his first possession if we hadn't been inside the 10 yard line.

It was good to get them experience running the offense. Next time, though, it needs to be the full offense. Maybe that doesn't include going down field, but it at least needs to include those bread & butter plays that are almost handoffs to the WRs.

I think that on Friday, though, MacIntyre knew that if someone like Mo Bell got one of those in stride he was going to take it to the house and MM didn't want to run up the score or extend the game.
 
Buffnik said:
I thought it was fine to not start throwing again once Noyer and Lytle were playing. Heck, Montez wasn't really throwing in the 3rd quarter while he was in. I suspect, though, that Noyer would have thrown the ball on his first possession if we hadn't been inside the 10 yard line.

It was good to get them experience running the offense. Next time, though, it needs to be the full offense. Maybe that doesn't include going down field, but it at least needs to include those bread & butter plays that are almost handoffs to the WRs.

I think that on Friday, though, MacIntyre knew that if someone like Mo Bell got one of those in stride he was going to take it to the house and MM didn't want to run up the score or extend the game.
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Agree to a point but they need to run the offense and throw the ball. I get it that he didn't want to run it up on bobo but from here on out, keep the pressure on.
 
Sykobuff said:
Agree to a point but they need to run the offense and throw the ball. I get it that he didn't want to run it up on bobo but from here on out, keep the pressure on.
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Run the O between the 20s. Full blast. Play good sport when you get in the RZ (3 base runs, kick FG). That way 2s and 3s gets meaningful reps in case pressed into service. Also gets your FG team reps.

Standard stuff.
 
The pass rush will get plenty of practice this Saturday. I'm betting we go after the HS kid relentlessly.
 
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