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I wish I could rec this a million times

Onlyu, you continue to be the best thing on UteHub

I agree that the ‘blame’ can’t be on a single individual

I haven’t seen Lowell do anything except swallow up double teams, but I will admit that I haven’t focused specifically on him most plays

Someone I did notice during the ASU game is Anae – trying to do too much. He overpursues a lot, and seems to be out of position quite often too. Thes…[Read more]

No thanks

I’m working on a piece about our defense that will provide my reasoning.

More to come

Since leaving the MWC,

TCU:
2012 7-6 lost to Michigan St in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl 17-16
2013 4-8
2014 12-1 beat Ole Miss in the Peach bowl
2015 11-2 beat Oregon in the Alamo Bowl
2016 6-7 lost to Georgia in the Liberty Bowl
Utah:
2011 8-5 beat Georgia Tech in the Sun Bowl
2012 5-7
2013 5-7
2014 9-4 beat Colorado St in the Las Vegas…[Read more]

Off topic …

Congrats on the great season by your Baby Bombers!

I’ve never been to a game at the Coliseum, but whenever I’m in LA I go for Korean BBQ in Koreatown. Been to a few places, all terrific.

Awesome response – thanks for the banter.

You can’t talk about stats without some sort of normalization of numbers. Simply saying we lead the conference in TOs without mentioning the TOs we allow is misleading. We are slightly ahead of our opponents in TO margin, and given that the toughest part of our schedule is in front of us, you’ll for…[Read more]

Hey pop,

This is a very comprehensive breakdown of the ‘state of the utes’ right now – I have some thoughts about your thoughts.

Disagree that our DLine is generating pressure against a Pac12 caliber Oline. Against Stanford we had 0 sacks, 0 QB hurries, only 6 TFL and went -2 in the turnover margin linky. We are just +0.8 in turnover margin on…[Read more]

All of them

Fitts did not play.

My comment about Sack Lake City being dead isn’t necessarily a bad thing. After we got John Pease to DC for a season, I realized how much Sitake’s penchant for gaudy sack numbers cost us.

My issue is that we didn’t generate a whole lot of pressure on Stanford’s QBs. This didn’t hurt too badly against Stanford because they…[Read more]

Again, I said 7-8 wins. Do you think we get more? Is that why I’m overreacting?

well said

In what way?

I said we win 7-8 games – not sure how that’s overreacting.

One more thing:

The ‘Joe Williams did not win 9 games for us last year’ was an allusion to last year’s stellar offensive line. I think the run blocking has been mostly fine, but pass protection has been just awful.

What I’m trying to say is that 9 wins last year was a summation greater than any of the individual parts of last year’s team. I…[Read more]

I’m not saying they didn’t perform well, just that neither is showing that ‘carry the team’ aspect that Joe brought last year – the ability to break tackles, is what specifically comes to mind.

Also, there were more than a few bad snaps – Wishnowski had to leave his feet almost every snap to get to the ball.

Williams did miss open WRs all night…[Read more]

I thought the title was a typo

Which bad snap?