Grade the SJSU game
by JazzyUte on Sep 13, 2009 3:00 PM MDT
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PrintYou know what? I'm not even sure I want to see the response to this one. I love wins. But I love them even more when they're actually fun victories.
This wasn't fun. It was a chore.
Not only was the coverage horrible (I felt like I was watching a replay of some rural high school football game on the town's very own Channel 69), but the performance was nearly as bad. Thankfully San Jose State sucks or this would've been an epic loss. Seriously, we came extremely close to blowing our nation-leading winning streak to San Jose Freaking State.
Ugh. Could you imagine that?
But we didn't. And that is a good thing. When you win ugly, you get the hell out of dodge and fix what didn't work without taking a hit in the standings. Utah is still 2-0. They still have their winning streak. They're still theoretically in the BCS hunt (but let's be honest, that's not happening). So for that, I am grateful.
That performance, however, showed me just how ungrateful I can be. It's a win, but I wanted so much more from the Utes.
Oh well, on to next week and a much tougher opponent.
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some things that were positive :
The run defense.
Cain has some pretty good wheels.
Wide and Shak looked good in very limited action at the end.
Yeah, I got nothin’ else.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
I saw a lot of positives last night.
RJ’s play was a huge negative, and there wasn’t enough pressure on the QB, and of course, the fumbles are an issue. That being said, there were a lot of positives:
Cain had a great day both running and passing. He’s not the leader Brian was, but he’s clearly more physically talented than Brian (both running and passing).
The running game was very good. Even with SJSU teeing off on Matt on every zone read, he still got almost 100 yards on 20 carries. The playcalling needs to get better, but maybe we’re still holding stuff for Oregon.
Downfield receiver blocking is still great. This was lacking at times in the past few years, and it’s nice to see the receivers really blocking well.
Our run defense is fantastic. I know KW sells out to stop the run against most teams, and so far it’s worked well for us. We’ll see how it goes against OU.
Everyone hates a pink-shirt-wearing communist.
by displacedute on Sep 14, 2009 10:27 AM MDT up reply actions
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The first half struggle was not a surprise to me, I knew it would be tough
The third quarter was a dissapointment, I expected us to come out and take the game over, but we let them hang with us for way longer than i expected. It was good we weren’t playing oregon this week or we would have been beaten. This is a learning week for our players.
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