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Post Game: The defense brings it home
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grizeyes said:
Also if I am thinking of the right play it was not a drop by Roberts. About a 20 yard seem route that Roberts went up and got. Davis defender put his helmet right on the ball as Roberts was bringing the ball down and right when he was getting his feet back on the ground. Definitely not drop.
grizfromhel
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your description is accurate but thank goodness it was ruled a dropped pass---- otherwise would have been a fumble recovered by NAU. Looked like the call could have gone either way, as he (Roberts) made a clean catch and got immediately hammered.
It has to be the farming influence. Growing up in Northcentral Montana, I used to listen to all the farmers bitch about too little rain, too much, etc. Then one year the conditions were perfect - you know what the complaint was? These conditions sure are taking a lot out of the soil! We apparently have some of those same farmers on this board.UMGriz75 said:
84GRIZ said:
Yeah not a drop, just a well timed hit by the defender. There was a drop on the following play but not by Roberts.
What I liked about Ben too was some plays allowed him to show his speed too, there was the 4th down pickup and another similar play where he turned upfield along the boundary line and out ran a defender.
Alaska Griz
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UMGriz75 said:
Pretty much what I said before the season started when people were saying coach G is on a short leash and needs to keep up with Stitt's O or he should be gone. As I figured, the D is even better than last year and holding up the team.
Anyone concerned with the facts would not remember that since it's just loose hyperbole. UM's average total offense in 2014 was 394.4 yards per game. It rounds to 400; not 300. The 2014 UM QB finished third all-time in both passing yards and TDs in UM's history.JayLarson said:
Let's hope our defense works on defending screen passes, aside from that I thought the defense looked solid.
Chalich looked better, he still has the deer-in-the-headlights look, Brady certainly wins with the "cool factor". It was nice to see him be able to pick up some yards with his feet, The fact that he was our leading rusher was not encouraging. Really hoping we see more of Jeremy Calhoun.
On the Jeremy Calhoun note, the run game was pathetic yesterday. Nguyen played waaaaay too many snaps. I'm hoping the 15 screen passes to Naccarato was an attempt to compensate. It was rough watching him get all the touches with guys like Hendu, Jones, and Roberts making plays every time they touched the ball.
Chalich looked better, he still has the deer-in-the-headlights look, Brady certainly wins with the "cool factor". It was nice to see him be able to pick up some yards with his feet, The fact that he was our leading rusher was not encouraging. Really hoping we see more of Jeremy Calhoun.
On the Jeremy Calhoun note, the run game was pathetic yesterday. Nguyen played waaaaay too many snaps. I'm hoping the 15 screen passes to Naccarato was an attempt to compensate. It was rough watching him get all the touches with guys like Hendu, Jones, and Roberts making plays every time they touched the ball.
The run game changes with any RB other than Nguyen. It's not all on the OL. Possibly the activation of Calhoun is an indication that maybe they have finally figured out that running inside is not Nguyen's strength. Logwood, Favors and Calhoun all ran better.brewskis said:
PhxGriz said:
Way to be a dick! What exactly was a complaining about, all I said was the screen is not a substitute for the run game. Because it isn't, it is taking advantage of what the defense is doing on the outside. We rushed for over 175 yards, and some people want to say we were using a screen as a substitute for the run. On screen passes yesterday, we targeted Chase 13 times and 10 were caught 3 dropped, and on those 13 he had 44 yards, for an average of 3.38, this is counting screens and swing passes. On 4 other types of pass plays he had catches totally 45 yards, so those yards would not count toward rushing yards.
I am sick of people cherry picking their stats, and as for being wrong about last years teams total yards a game, how many of those yards came from JJ trying to lead a 4th quarter comeback?
That was 13 for 84 yds 5.4 yds average for those cherry picking stats
kemajic said:
i am not sure about that...........if true, the announcer said a few times that the UC Davis defense was pretty beat up missing more than a couple of their starting players...........so are you saying that them not being at full strength missing key players are better than MSU and EWU?
krammer said:
Some posters have eluded that Janssen is in the dog house for some reason. Before the first game, Stitt was asked about him and he said that Josh was number two behind Nacarrato. Then the depth chart appeared a couple of days later and Lyons was 2. Nothing more has been seen or heard about Josh since that point.
IdaGriz01
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True statement about how bad the MSU and EWU defenses are, whether you meaure by scoring or yardage given up.zirge said:
Scoring Defense
#85 Cal Poly 31.8 ppg given up.
#87 UC-Davis 32.6 ppg given up. [Griz lowered that by scoring only 27]
#94 NAU 34.8 ppg given up.
#99 MSU 36.5 ppg given up. [1]
#109 EWU 42.3 ppg given up.
#115 ISU 44.8 ppg given up. [2]
Total Defense
#70 395.8 ypg allowed. [Griz raised that by gaining 441 yards]
#97 MSU 464 ypg allowed.
#99 ISU 465.2 ypg allowed.
#108 NAU 484.6 ypg allowed.
#112 Cal Poly 500.6 ypg allowed.
#123 EWU 567 ypg allowed (last).
[1] Could be much worse, but held Fort Lewis to “only” 14 points. Would be 44.0 (#114) without that.
[2] Shut out Black Hills State, or this would be even worse because they got obliterated (56.0 ppg) in their other games. Those did, admittedly, include two really bad FBS losses.