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Re: I Must Be Blind, and Have Zero Football IQ

2009-10-25T20:22:09-06:00

Obviously you need to make adjustments throughout the year, throughout the week, and throughout the game. What I'm saying is that we needed to be preparing and scheming differently for this game to begin with and that a simple in-game adjustment just wouldn't have cut it. Coaching is very much a trial and error thing, and I don't think you can write this off as something simple that Bronco, Anae, or Jaime could have just changed to win the game. This was a team loss 100% from Max to Bronco to the waterboy (probably the exact opposite of the Utah game last year).

Statistics: Posted by Schmoe — Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:22 pm

Re: I Must Be Blind, and Have Zero Football IQ

2009-10-25T19:49:52-06:00

I really like Nelson's ability to scramble.
Perhaps BYU underestimates how powerful a running QB can be?
Look at FSU when they played us... nearly every time they called a passing play, they either a) completed a pass, or b) Ponder scrambled for 5-10 yards.

For BYU, there's basically two options.... completion, or sack/interception. I'd love to watch a quarterback who can take a broken play and still turn it into positive yardage, rather than something disastrous happen.

Hall's not all that bad of a scrambler... if he's facing SDSU. TCU on the other hand is going to dish out more of the "disastrous". I could help but cringe when Hall got blown up and fumbled. BRUTAL.

Completely agree though. Ponder had his way with us too often. No excuse for that.

Statistics: Posted by BroncoBot — Sun Oct 25, 2009 7:49 pm

Re: I Must Be Blind, and Have Zero Football IQ

2009-10-25T18:41:07-06:00

I really like Nelson's ability to scramble.
Perhaps BYU underestimates how powerful a running QB can be?
Look at FSU when they played us... nearly every time they called a passing play, they either a) completed a pass, or b) Ponder scrambled for 5-10 yards.

For BYU, there's basically two options.... completion, or sack/interception. I'd love to watch a quarterback who can take a broken play and still turn it into positive yardage, rather than something disastrous happen.

Statistics: Posted by Italics — Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:41 pm

Re: I Must Be Blind, and Have Zero Football IQ

2009-10-25T18:33:27-06:00

I like the idea floated somewhere else of throwing Hall and Nelson into the backfield, a sort of wild cougar (insert Courtney Cox joke here) formation. Who's gonna get the snap? The passer or the runner? It would be crazy and would blow Whittingham's mind.

But, won't never happen.

Statistics: Posted by CAFB_04-12 — Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:33 pm

Re: I Must Be Blind, and Have Zero Football IQ

2009-10-25T18:18:00-06:00

Well, there's a reason that our season always progressively gets worse as it goes on - we never change.
So yes, adjustments have a LOT to do with it

Watch our offensive and defensive schemes in the beginning of the season, and then watch them in TCU game. Not much difference. One example: the draw play - works sometimes, but is becomming terribly obvious. I remember when BYU used to have an exciting offense.
The only reason it's exciting to watch now is because we have talented players - but the plays themselves are as vanilla and predictable as they come.

Statistics: Posted by Italics — Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:18 pm

Re: I Must Be Blind, and Have Zero Football IQ

2009-10-25T15:17:38-06:00

The problem is that a simple adjustment isn't enough to win this game, not even close. Our gameplan for TCU the last two years has obviously been flawed. There are so many things that need to change before we win these kinds of games...

Statistics: Posted by Schmoe — Sun Oct 25, 2009 3:17 pm

Re: I Must Be Blind, and Have Zero Football IQ

2009-10-25T10:15:07-06:00

I definitely have zero football IQ. My observations:

1) Defensive speed for TCU disrupted our offensive game plan and coaches failed to adjust

2) Offensive mistakes for BYU (dropped balls, 1 INT, 1 fumble) killed us. The INT was the most critical of the turnovers. It came on a solid drive that could have closed the gap to one TD. BYU never recovered. And TCU continued to roll anyways, so it may not have mattered in the end.

Statistics: Posted by CAFB_04-12 — Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:15 am

Re: I Must Be Blind, and Have Zero Football IQ

2009-10-24T23:17:09-06:00

I actually do have zero football IQ, but I don't think speed was as much the difference maker here as it was lack of preparation to deal with that speed. We knew Jerry Hughes was fast, so why didn't we put another man on the line to prevent him from sacking or hurrying Max over and over again? I thought BYU did a pretty good job stopping their speedy running backs, though.

Statistics: Posted by Sammich — Sat Oct 24, 2009 11:17 pm

Re: I Must Be Blind, and Have Zero Football IQ

2009-10-24T22:38:03-06:00

ESPN just mentioned the word "speed" three times, I think, in their synopsis of the game.

They closed it with something like "And BYU gets blown out at home for the second time this season by a team with speed."

During the highlights, they also mentioned that it was "very apparent" (or something like that) how much quicker TCU was than we were.

Guess I'm not the only one

Statistics: Posted by Italics — Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:38 pm

Re: I Must Be Blind, and Have Zero Football IQ

2009-10-24T22:21:28-06:00

Maybe it's time to go to the basketball section. We're undefeated in basketball. And the thought of this ugly loss will wear off with time....

Statistics: Posted by SenorCougar — Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:21 pm