2008 National Champ

Vaki is playing out of position and it’s shown the last couple of games. I’m actually not sure what his best position is on D. When they blitz him, he does well. And he’s decent in coverage but not what you want from a Free. Where he’s really struggling is when he needs to set the edge. Maybe he’d be better off moving back to nickel?

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Yup. I thought they’d go for two.

And how bad was that last 4th down play? Catch that damn ball and you are driving for the winning points. How do you not get dirty on that one?

The first pick was 100% on Vaki. The second one was a great play by the defender.

The problem is the routes, not the passer. It doesn’t appear as if any of the calls have option routes because they run the same tree no matter the defense. If you want to run a stick route, you need to either have a route over the top to draw to put the defender…[Read more]

The problem is that they aren’t good at either run or pass blocking so you can’t lean on either. 3rd and short, 4th and short the runner is getting hit in the backfield. But they keep running those plays as if the line is getting 6 yards of push.

Interestingly, the one 4th down they converted today was also the longest pass of the game.…[Read more]

Stanford scores to cut it to one point.

ASU has a good D Line so Utah will struggle on O. But they have a much worse offense. 24-12 Utah and everyone who watches the game will want to know why they are watching 1970’s vintage offensive playcalling in 2023.

UW is gettable but you have to play a complete game. ASU very well could have won last week in Seattle and Stanford is giving them everything they can handle tonight.

There isn’t a team in the league that doesn’t have flaws. You just have to exploit them on the correct day.

I like the optimism. But is Utah really going to pin it’s championship hopes on two guys who haven’t played a down so far in their freshman year to be lockdown corners?

Still need to get into the top 11 and that’s going to be tough if the secondary and OLine don’t get figured out.

without trying to restart the Barnes/Johnson, who is worse debate.,, Johnson was 8-23 in the Oregon State game you are crediting to Barnes.

Ultimately, both have played passably against bad defenses and terrible when up against a competent DLine. We see QB’s wilt under the Utah pressure D almost every week. I’m not sure why some expect the Utah…[Read more]

When you get beat like that, it’s not any one thing. Tip your cap to the other guy and go figure out how to do better next week. Because you just got beat in every phase of the game by a damn good team.

^^^ This didn’t age well

Not predators as much as an invasive species that makes a lot of useless noise and never leaves a place as good as they found it.

Not the same Indianapolis kicker but still love the quote:

2003: “That’s hard to believe, here we are, I’m at my 3rd pro bowl, I’m about to go in and throw a TD to Jerry Rice…and we’re talking about our idiot kicker who got liquored up and ran his mouth off…he has ruined kickers for life.” Peyton Manning’s response to Colts kicker Mike Vande…

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Klatt’s been on the Utah bandwagon for years. He’ll call it out when they don’t perform but he’s a big fan of how Utah plays.

You can’t joke around the binary choice police. Whitt is either the GOAT or he needs to be fired. You’re not allowed to be anywhere in between those two extremes.

Do the same thing they do with the T-Shirts saying the Super Bowl losing team won. Those end up in 3rd world countries as donations.