Colorado's offense is good, not great. Our defense is great.
They have a great QB and WR and very good complimentary WRs to with them, but that is it. They flat out can't and won't run the ball. They don't have the desire or talent to do so. No push from the OL against an FCS team and all the running backs transferred out. There just isn't a run game. Their OL is just bad. If Sanders threw the ball more than 10 yards NDSU hit him. They just aren't very good, they can't decide if their RG should play RT or vice versa and it's not because they are playing so well. They don't have a TE, they had a decent receiving TE but he transferred out, brought in a kid from Cincinnati and he transferred out after the Spring, they are left with a local kid that washed out at tOSU and a converted DE. The TEs are so bad they don't even play them.
Colorado's offense is basically short passes where they hope their WRs can pick up yards after the catch and some bombs thrown in. I would not call their passing attack "precise" it's closer to "playground". Make the tackles on the short passes, swarm to the ball and then they are ineffective. Sanders is great at moving around to buy time, he has to as he doesn't otherwise have time to throw it deep. Stay in your lane and contain him, as the big boys up front will collapse the pocket. That doesn't stop Sanders from chucking it, he will still throw it, but it will be underthrown, be aware and look for it and turn the PI they want into an INT.
This is a team that could only muster 31 against NDSU. Colorado has more than 5 WRs that are faster than anybody in that secondary and that is all they could score. NDSU was missing their safety and had several bad coverage breakdowns that Colorado took advantage of and still only scored 31 in a game that they were trying to score in to the very end. Our defense is better at every level than NDSU, by quite a bit. Colorado's offense reminds me of Frost's, they can get a chunk of yards on an explosive play, but they can't score or sustain a drive.
White and the Blackshirts should be licking their chops. They get to play a predictive offense that makes itself one dimensional. The can really make a name for themselves nationally by shutting down an overhyped one dimensional offense that just isn't great at all.
They have a great QB and WR and very good complimentary WRs to with them, but that is it. They flat out can't and won't run the ball. They don't have the desire or talent to do so. No push from the OL against an FCS team and all the running backs transferred out. There just isn't a run game. Their OL is just bad. If Sanders threw the ball more than 10 yards NDSU hit him. They just aren't very good, they can't decide if their RG should play RT or vice versa and it's not because they are playing so well. They don't have a TE, they had a decent receiving TE but he transferred out, brought in a kid from Cincinnati and he transferred out after the Spring, they are left with a local kid that washed out at tOSU and a converted DE. The TEs are so bad they don't even play them.
Colorado's offense is basically short passes where they hope their WRs can pick up yards after the catch and some bombs thrown in. I would not call their passing attack "precise" it's closer to "playground". Make the tackles on the short passes, swarm to the ball and then they are ineffective. Sanders is great at moving around to buy time, he has to as he doesn't otherwise have time to throw it deep. Stay in your lane and contain him, as the big boys up front will collapse the pocket. That doesn't stop Sanders from chucking it, he will still throw it, but it will be underthrown, be aware and look for it and turn the PI they want into an INT.
This is a team that could only muster 31 against NDSU. Colorado has more than 5 WRs that are faster than anybody in that secondary and that is all they could score. NDSU was missing their safety and had several bad coverage breakdowns that Colorado took advantage of and still only scored 31 in a game that they were trying to score in to the very end. Our defense is better at every level than NDSU, by quite a bit. Colorado's offense reminds me of Frost's, they can get a chunk of yards on an explosive play, but they can't score or sustain a drive.
White and the Blackshirts should be licking their chops. They get to play a predictive offense that makes itself one dimensional. The can really make a name for themselves nationally by shutting down an overhyped one dimensional offense that just isn't great at all.
