Utah has a pulse! Utes outlast Aztecs in offensive extravaganza

but let’s be honest. We got lucky.

The hail mary. The blocked punt on a dropped snap. No personal foul on Shelby on that pick to secure the win. And I think Lindley just completed another pass for 30 yards just now. What did he have, 550 yards passing? Just embarrassing.

Our defense looks bad. The defensive line may be 11 or 12 deep, but they can’t get any pressure on the QB. So what do we have to do? Blitz backers and corners. And even then we still can’t get pressure most of the time. Our backers are slow. And our corners are undersized. Watching Lindley pick apart our defense was just demoralizing.

Still, I though we’d lose by 3 TD’s. I’m glad I was wrong. NIce to see the offense still has a pulse. Wynn looked better, but honestly, after that first pass that he threw into the ground how many of you said “oh shit, here we go again”? Hopefully today gives him the confidence to go out there and just play, and stop playing timid and scared.

Now onto BYU. At least we know they don’t have the team speed to beat our defense like SDSU did. We can play that soft man-zone against BYU and we should be fine. We can’t lose to that independent mid-major down south. Go Utes.

I want insanity next week! I want Blechen (club hand version) to cut Bronco in half! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! (my wife wants me to breathe)… GO UTES!

..leader of the faithful! >grin<

I said in another post that I don’t believe God decides Football games. However, I think He may send angels to the outfield, or in this case the end zone to give some extra help to the confidence of the players.

I think those confidence angels were there tonight helping our guys make good plays and helping them fight back from their two week absence. The Hail Mary prayer was answered in the first half at the end. Guts showed up in the defense, and Jordan Wynn showed up not crouched in the fetal position. And finally Blecham sealed the deal at the end of the game with that interception.

Even if SDSU would have won, I would have been happy to have my team back. But I will take the WWWWWWWWWWWWWW and thank heaven above that the football angels were in our outfield or red zone if you want to be technical!

Go UTES!!!!!!!!!

What the hell are you talking about, “not a pretty win”? I thought we looked DAMN good out there tonight, offensively. Our D lagged at times, but this was a great game. Pitt was an ugly game. Tonight, I liked a LOT of what I saw.

Confident for BYU. I will be at the game, so I’ll harrass as many BYU fans as possible. I’m expecting Utah to win by more than 3, but less than 10. I actually think it will go down to the final 2:00. The final Holy War will be yet another epic game.

PS… I glanced over the remarks you all made while watching the game. I must say, it saddens me very much (and irks me) that so many of you put out SO MUCH negativity about the Utes. I do not like hearing U fans say things like “We suck!” or “Our team is a joke” or “Don’t worry, we’ll blow it.” I do not like this AT ALL! The negativity makes it seem like Utah is a bad-to-mediocre team on the same level with UNLV and Wyoming… not a 2-time BCS winning team headed to the Pac-12.

I realize it’s frustrating at times, but try burying the negative remarks. That’s not how us Ute fans roll. Sometimes we struggle, but always support our Utes!!!

We acquitted ourselve nicele, beat SDSU in a tough game, got down but came back—which we had not done . . .uhhhhhh . . .recently.

Pleased as punch with this outcome.

Bring on the quee. . .uhhh cougars.

Seals it with a clutch int at the end, in the end zone? Is that kid rapidly approaching folk hero status or what?

how good of a team SDSU is. Yes, our defense struggled against SDSU, but so did TCU. They actually put up more points against TCU than they put up against us. When you’re playing a team of that caliber sometimes you’re going to get beat deep. It happened to us, and it has happened to other good teams.

I’m just excited that this team had the fight to come back from a 17 point deficit. To me, that shows a lot of heart that we’ve been lacking these past few weeks. I said all week that we could come back from the two losses. I even got criticized for it! but i’m confident that the team we watched for the first 8 games of the season is back.

I thought for sure that by now there would be some dumb ass trolls from the TDS searching for a good bashing. I’m kind of sad. :(

..so I can rip the red off their back if they try to leave or boo…

I agree with SLC Ranger, the D-line is not up to Utah standards. We supposedly have these great 12 players, but none of them can get any pressure without a blitz (except Shelby at times) and they all got completely owned by TCU’s line. I don’t think it’s the talent, I think it’s that the coaches aren’t getting them to reach their potential.

Amazing how sports can alter emotions so fast. Things looked much to familiar when we got down 20 – 3, but the Utes finally did what we all hoped they would do, keep their heads up and keep fighting. Plenty have commented about the play of our defense, but it sure was frustrating seeing our usually stalwart defense giving huge cushions to the SDSU receivers play after play, and the lack of pressure on the QB for the 3rd week in a row. But what impressed me was our offense. There were so many things going wrong the last two weeks, and it was good to see more than the usual 5 plays we have resorted to running. I was also happy that we could establish a strong run game against Rocky Long’s defense. I just wish our D could have gotten the SDSU offense off the field faster, because they weren’t much better at stopping our offense

My number 1 reason: only the women are allowed to have facial hair…..

A Ute, an Aggie and a Cougar were hiking together when they came across an old coke bottle. When they picked it up a genie popped out in a cloud of smoke.
“For freeing me I shall grant each of you one wish.”

The Aggie thought for a moment, then said, “Well, agriculture is important to our state school, so my wish is that Cache valley always have good crops each season.”
“It is done.” said the Genie.

The Cougar thought for a moment and said, “Well, we in Happy Valley like to be in the world but not of the world, so my wish is that there be an invisible wall around Utah Valley.”
“It is done.” said the Genie.

“Fill the valley with water.” Said the Ute.

First mix a concoction of Red Bull, Coca Cola, Mountain Dew, Rock Star along with the Gatorade the Kitty drinks each game. Next have the double agent Ute infiltrate the TDS bench. Get Cosmo’s supply and switch the non caffeine for the ultra hyper mixture.

Then once Cosmo has his ultra hyper mixture administered send over swoop to do some “friendly” taunting. About this time the rocket fuel should kick in causing Cosmo’s ADHD to kick into overdrive. He will chase Swoop with a large metalic object and try to tackle him, but due to ADHD complications he will lose focus and smack a ref over the head. He will be ejected. This will infuriate the zoobs who will start yelling slurs such as “gosh darn Utes” and “provocation, vanquish the foe.” Causing further mayhem will be the flag the team receives from berzerk fans. Cosmo of course will run back out on the field from the locker room naked with only the mascot head on in his birthday suit.

He is arrested along with several zoobies for trying to interfere with security. Then in the patty wagon he self combusts. What a finale! Then the Utes are motivated and win 69-8.

Go Utes!