how dare you confuse the narrative with facts. I've heard multiple college DCs including fhcBP say that they needed to wait until halftime to make adjustments. Given Diaco is in the box and working with a new staff I find that especially plausible.
Regardless of what the attempts ended up being, what we were doing defensively would influence that final number. There is no doubt that our D played better. Was it what we were doing, what Oregon wasn't doing or both. I would guess both. I do think we'll get better as these kids get more time in the system. Experience isn't going to replace Chris Jones but it has to help. Man we could have used him yesterday.
So they were only 4/8 in the second half? Plus an interception that set up a score. They weren't having near as much success throwing the ball and didn't run near as many plays, going three and out several times.
they were 4/7 passing in the 3rd quarter with a pick. They ran the ball 8 times for 51 yards or over 6 ypc in the 3rd. We shut them out in the 3rd quarter. They were up by a couple of TDs. What would you do in the 4th qtr? They tried to run it obviously and run the clock. They ran it 16 times in the 4th quarter largely unsuccessfully and almost let us at least tie the game up. I do think our more aggressive D in the 2nd half contributed to their pulling back the reins in the passing game.
One was a drop by a TE that was wide open. The play where we got the interception, I don't know what they were doing. They only had 2 guys running routes and the qb forced it into double coverage. I know they ran a few wr screen plays that got bungled up and were too slow developing. They stopped running the seam and post routes that were absolutely killing us in the first half.
Prolly wishful thinking on my part, but did we just have those seam and post routes covered better? And that's why they stopped running those plays?
I think most of that rushing yardage came on one play if I remember correctly. Otherwise they weren't able to run the ball that effectively.
We still had 4 linebackers out there, so I doubt it was covered better. I don't think they really tried it in the second half. They ran a deeper sideline route on one play that was covered well, and I think we were in nickel on that play.
So when they were balanced in the 3rd quarter and still passing it we did a better job defensively and kept them from scoring. So while no doubt they got much more conservative in the 4th quarter they had been fairly aggressive in the 3rd.
What? In the fourth quarter alone they ran the ball well over 90% of the time. Seriously?
True. But the OP said they didn't go conservative in the second half. That's asinine when they ran the ball almost 95% of the time in the fourth quarter.
No, Mrs. tom's Wife, your statement is asinine. They had no success throwing in the second half and turned the ball over trying. They also only ran 27 plays the second half because we were getting stops.
Or the post title. If the roles were reversed this board would be all about how we went conservative.
