Offense
Our QB play was great, Lee made some tough throws and is the real deal. He is really good and accurate, Is he the best guy in the league right now no but he is one of the top ones. NWesterns QB is really the best QB I saw play yesterday, that is quite a bit better but that is because he has been playing for 4 years. Lee's pass threat makes everything else easier.
Offensive Line played great but why? They didn't have 9 guys stacked in the box for one thing. They didn't have the box stacked because other teams have to respects the QB and WR we have now.
RB Bryant played well but I credit it more to our Oline blocking well and keeping #11 double teamed for most of the game. How did they do this one is because the Oline wasn't working against 8 man boxes throught the game. Why is that because our QB and WR core are very good.
WR I love our WR core, our 1's are a matchup nightmare. Morgan Jr, Spielman, Lindsey, DPE, are going to hurt alot of teams. There is a big drop off in talent from there but wait and see how big these guys are going to be. Speed kills and with Lee getting them the ball we are a force to be dealt with.
TE Young and tall and hopefully can catch we are ultra thin here would love to see a big TE commit but love having Hoppes going forward.
Defense
I don't think 3-4 is the best Defense against arky-state. Not sure why we couldn't press up more on the WR's. Not sure why we couldn't stop a bubble screen until the second half. Most teams play up tight on these but we didn't move our safeties up to support. I hope what happened was Diaco didn't want to switch to Nickle as everyone is learning the new system and they wanted to run the 3-4 against a bubble screen team. If you run the 3-4 against bubble you have to get your linebacker up to quick to help and the CB has to try and shed the block. We played way off for the first half not sure if they were worried about a bubble slant pass or still what but I hope this is the case because we should have stopped the dinking dunking passes alot earlier than the 2nd half. I will have to wait and see on the defense. I think we will play well in conference play big boy football but against Arky-State and Oregon they are going to abuse those passes and runs to those areas. Especially those areas behind the OLB's were wide open until the 2nd half our safeties started helping more.
I loved the push we got with our front 3. I see people complaining they were not getting the QB. No but they were playing 3 vs 5-6 blockers if you include the RB or TE on some plays and they did a great job of plugging up the run. I am glad we started out with the ball in the 3rd quarter as I was afraid with of our D getting super gassed by all the quick passes. Luckily we had a long drives in the 3rd.
Oregon unfortunately won't tell me much more about our 3-4 D as they run a different offense. I think we play better Defense against Oregon just because this defense was built to stop the run. If we stop the run or slow it down we will take away some of Oregons striking power.
Future
Oregon is a tough one on the road but it is winnable with this offense. I think we have a decent shot at Wisky this year at home. The 3-4 D is made to stop teams like Wisky and Iowa so I hope we beat both of them. Iowa's D looked really good against Wyoming and they have excellent PA as usual. NW might be a really tough matchup unless we learn how to stop short screen passes in this D. They have a really good QB but we should be able to outscore them.
Our QB play was great, Lee made some tough throws and is the real deal. He is really good and accurate, Is he the best guy in the league right now no but he is one of the top ones. NWesterns QB is really the best QB I saw play yesterday, that is quite a bit better but that is because he has been playing for 4 years. Lee's pass threat makes everything else easier.
Offensive Line played great but why? They didn't have 9 guys stacked in the box for one thing. They didn't have the box stacked because other teams have to respects the QB and WR we have now.
RB Bryant played well but I credit it more to our Oline blocking well and keeping #11 double teamed for most of the game. How did they do this one is because the Oline wasn't working against 8 man boxes throught the game. Why is that because our QB and WR core are very good.
WR I love our WR core, our 1's are a matchup nightmare. Morgan Jr, Spielman, Lindsey, DPE, are going to hurt alot of teams. There is a big drop off in talent from there but wait and see how big these guys are going to be. Speed kills and with Lee getting them the ball we are a force to be dealt with.
TE Young and tall and hopefully can catch we are ultra thin here would love to see a big TE commit but love having Hoppes going forward.
Defense
I don't think 3-4 is the best Defense against arky-state. Not sure why we couldn't press up more on the WR's. Not sure why we couldn't stop a bubble screen until the second half. Most teams play up tight on these but we didn't move our safeties up to support. I hope what happened was Diaco didn't want to switch to Nickle as everyone is learning the new system and they wanted to run the 3-4 against a bubble screen team. If you run the 3-4 against bubble you have to get your linebacker up to quick to help and the CB has to try and shed the block. We played way off for the first half not sure if they were worried about a bubble slant pass or still what but I hope this is the case because we should have stopped the dinking dunking passes alot earlier than the 2nd half. I will have to wait and see on the defense. I think we will play well in conference play big boy football but against Arky-State and Oregon they are going to abuse those passes and runs to those areas. Especially those areas behind the OLB's were wide open until the 2nd half our safeties started helping more.
I loved the push we got with our front 3. I see people complaining they were not getting the QB. No but they were playing 3 vs 5-6 blockers if you include the RB or TE on some plays and they did a great job of plugging up the run. I am glad we started out with the ball in the 3rd quarter as I was afraid with of our D getting super gassed by all the quick passes. Luckily we had a long drives in the 3rd.
Oregon unfortunately won't tell me much more about our 3-4 D as they run a different offense. I think we play better Defense against Oregon just because this defense was built to stop the run. If we stop the run or slow it down we will take away some of Oregons striking power.
Future
Oregon is a tough one on the road but it is winnable with this offense. I think we have a decent shot at Wisky this year at home. The 3-4 D is made to stop teams like Wisky and Iowa so I hope we beat both of them. Iowa's D looked really good against Wyoming and they have excellent PA as usual. NW might be a really tough matchup unless we learn how to stop short screen passes in this D. They have a really good QB but we should be able to outscore them.
