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10-03-2008, 06:04 AM | #1 |
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My game thoughts...........
1. BJ sucked for 58 minutes, even the balls he completed deep were underthrown and great adjustments by the receivers. He holds the ball way to long, OSU didnt get much pass rush but because BJ held the ball so long he took a lot of sacks.
2. Kruger is not as good as you guys think he is, you can say what you want about him, I think he is smart, reads the run very well, and has good size. However he does not do a great job of pass rushing his one sack tonight came on a twist and missed blocking assignment so he came untouched. If his initial bull rush (his only pass rushing move) is stuffed then he has no motor and gives up on the play. If the ball is ran away from him he does not chase the play. He is also a pile jumper (several other ute fans at the game agree) when the play is over he dives on top trying to get credit. In fact they gave him credit for 2 plays tonight that Fotu made instead of him. 3. Koa Misi is a good player, also I was surprised at how well Newman held up at the point of attack, I think most of that was because Utah played their LBs so close to the line of scrimmage. 4. BJ did make a great throw on the last touchdown. Also BJ threw a 2 yard out to the far side of hte field on the last drive, if he has the arm strength to actually make that throw it is a pick six, instead he short hopped it. Awful decision on his part. 5. Utahs secondary was exposed tonight they did not look good at all. I dont think Moevao is very good and he looked like a world beater at times. 6. Utahs run defense was excellent, so I will admit I was wrong about that, they played the run very well. 7. After the game I was not sure if Utah won the national championshp or barely beat an unranked team at home. Face it Oregon State is not a great team and they made more coaching mistakes late in that game than I have ever seen. Reminds me of the Mcbride at UTah days. 8. Fun game to be at, Utah fans are pussys and left tons of empty seats, also after ORegon scored their was a mass exodus towards the exits. Half hte south end zone cleared out. 9. BJ has continued his streak of a pick and fumble in every game. So good for him. 10. I will make a bold prediction, Utah will lose a game before the BYU game.
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Barely beating an unranked Pac-10 team at home < Barely beating an unranked Pac-10 team on the road
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10-03-2008, 01:24 PM | #3 |
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Well, be fair: one of those two teams beat the then-#1 USC.
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10-03-2008, 01:32 PM | #4 |
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10-03-2008, 01:34 PM | #5 |
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Right. Beating the team that just knocked off the #1 team in the country is not as good as beating the winless last place PAC-10 team.
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10-03-2008, 01:36 PM | #6 |
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How about blowing out a team 59-0 that just knocked off #18 Tennessee?
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The win over UCLA was impressive at the time. As time goes on it has gotten much less impressive as both of those teams have struggled to win. Still, USC could do the same thing. This win last night could look crappier as time goes on. But as of this morning, I do think it is fair to believe that beating the team that just knocked off the team that everyone thought was the odds on National Champ favorite is impressive. Lets be honest, if Utah had lost last night that wouldn't have been that devistating. People would simply being saying "wow, look at the Beavers, there is a team nobody wants to play." And they nearly did beat us. I'm not saying Utah doesn't have its problems, but I do think that we have played in two games where we were in realy danger of losing at the end and both of them were against good teams. Good teams cause other good teams to struggle. To look at BYU who has drubbed a couple of bad teams and a couple more truly horrific teams and try to make comparisons between their offensive performance in those games to Utah's offensive performance in its games is apples and oranges at this point. That will of course change as we begin to play some common opponents. I think BYU is very good this year and it is always impressive to shut any team out and to win by large margins, but you have been a BYU fan long enoug, I assume, to know that BYU has a long history of being better than almost anyone at decimating bad teams and that not translating to dominating other good teams. Lets just wait and see is my point.
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One thing that I do think will suck for both BYU and UTah is because we have such crappy bowl affiliations an 11-1 team is going to the LV bowl to play 6-6 Arizona or Oregon State.
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10-03-2008, 03:39 PM | #9 |
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I hate these arguments but UCLA did nearly beat a ranked Fresno State squad.
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