I did not see them all and most of them were the “Football in 60” on the PAC12 network.
A few observations that I came away with:
We will obviously really miss Covey and Lloyd. The next player we will miss IMO is TJ Pledger. He had some excellent runs. We will really miss Bam. He was blowing people away at the end of the season.
Returning players who will continue to make a big difference:
Obviously Rising, Kuithe, and Kincaid fit into this category. Cole Bishop and Phillips should be amazing this year. Of course, we know Tavion is a very good running back. But, after rewatching the games it became even more obvious. He was in the dog house early in the season and was allowed to come in during the second half of the USC game. They could not stop him. He also ran all over Colorado. When he didn’t play against UofA – our offense struggled more. He scored 21 TDs while not playing in the better part of 4-5 games.
Rising was at times inconsistent with his passing, especially the long throws. However, his running was excellent. He sees the field well and reads the defense as well as anyone I have seen at Utah since Alex Smith.
Our defense was not very good early in the season and especially against Oregon State. However, they started to improve and became a solid defense (not as good as 2019). If a couple of guys step up to take Lloyd and Sewell’s places – we could have a very good defense in 2022.
We played sloppy against overmatched Arizona and Colorado teams in the last three weeks of the season which leaves a bad taste in my mouth. However, we were excellent on both sides of the ball in both Oregon games. Did we play down to our opponents? Probably.
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