Williams & Blum: The day after

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Enjoy! If you're into that sort of thing.

 

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Enjoy! If you're into that sort of thing.


I was always amazed at Pete Taylor growing up. How was he able to be positive about the team after such miserable losses and seasons. John Walter's to an extent as well. I'm old enough now to understand a little better, but it is still amazing.

Appreciate both you and Blum for helping all of us process our misery. On to the next opponent!
 

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I was always amazed at Pete Taylor growing up. How was he able to be positive about the team after such miserable losses and seasons. John Walter's to an extent as well. I'm old enough now to understand a little better, but it is still amazing.

Appreciate both you and Blum for helping all of us process our misery. On to the next opponent!
Pete was simply elite, and a consummate professional. Even to this day, I think about Pete often. He shaped my fandom in so many ways. I actually never got the vibe of blind positivity from Pete. Moreso was that pure love and passion for the team he was watching/rooting for. He told a perfect story with near every sentence. The pain, the joy, the highs, the lows - Pete felt it, along with us fans, and it came through so organically. If the game was bad, he didn’t sugar coat it.

Goddamn, we were quite lucky to have him. A true all-time great. I cherish that he got to be around for Tinsley and Seneca.
 

cyclone1209

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About this idea that the offense was slowing the game down to give the defense a rest...after a bye week? With rain on the way?

It's all speculation but if true, what an awful strategy.
1. This offense misses Ben Brahmer badly
2. Sama on the year has a nice YPC. But, he has too many runs that go for negative plays. Carson Hansen/Jackson need lion's share of almost all the carries. The offense does not seem to hit rhythm with Sama getting a lot of carries. Just my thoughts..

I thought defense was great in this game, this one was on the offense.

On defense I am excited about Marcus Neal, one sack and a TFL in his first game of lots of snaps, he looks like a difference maker. LBs were great yesterday for most part too.
 
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Fun, casual, insightful, with justifiable degrees of criticism.
 
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1. Only K State is good against the run, the rest are ranked 53rd or near 100.

2. Only Utah is good against the pass, everyone else is ranked towards the bottom.

3. Cincy is 90th vs the run and 100th against the pass. Statistically, they are bad on defense. As is Kansas.

4. Its not the formations, but how we use them. The old motion of the ocean argument. Go back to the Iowa game, one of the biggest plays we had was Klotz leaked out and had like a 21 yard catch for our 1st 3rd down conversion instead of hitting the DE.

Moore had a nice catch on a similar play.... but we only ran it once? Why? If you want to stop the edge rush, that's a easy way to do that. Because that guy now has to be wary of that. Or the corner has to sit in the flat, so the slant or something quick up the sideline is more open.

Like Blum said, use the whole field. Formations don't matter if you do that. They only matter when you don't use the field.
 

madguy30

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1. This offense misses Ben Brahmer badly
2. Sama on the year has a nice YPC. But, he has too many runs that go for negative plays. Carson Hansen/Jackson need lion's share of almost all the carries. The offense does not seem to hit rhythm with Sama getting a lot of carries. Just my thoughts..

I thought defense was great in this game, this one was on the offense.

On defense I am excited about Marcus Neal, one sack and a TFL in his first game of lots of snaps, he looks like a difference maker. LBs were great yesterday for most part too.

Sama should have continued to get carries in the 2nd half the other night.

Those conditions favor him and it showed as he started to get going.
 

stewart092284

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I'd argue we missed Dylan Barrett more than Brahmer.

It's not a coincidence, IMO, that the run game and even pass protection have been slightly shakier, although not horrible, since he has been out with his injury.
 

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Enjoy! If you're into that sort of thing.

Any way you can just post a printed transcript of these? So much easier to read than to listen to a podcast.
 

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1. This offense misses Ben Brahmer badly
2. Sama on the year has a nice YPC. But, he has too many runs that go for negative plays. Carson Hansen/Jackson need lion's share of almost all the carries. The offense does not seem to hit rhythm with Sama getting a lot of carries. Just my thoughts..

I thought defense was great in this game, this one was on the offense.

On defense I am excited about Marcus Neal, one sack and a TFL in his first game of lots of snaps, he looks like a difference maker. LBs were great yesterday for most part too.
Unfortunately there is a pretty big gap (i.e. drop off) between Brahmer and the rest of the TE field (Moore, Burkle, etc.). This needs to be a threat to counter the pressure we are going to continue to see.