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Onside Kick, good or bad call?
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Onside Kick, good or bad call?
Can’t stop them, with a bulky and slow QB and faster receivers. Why give them the field position and then follow it up with poor clock management? Oh wait, this is now a GA post! So predictable!! Might be bad football for the next few years.
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Re: Onside Kick, good or bad call?
... Way too many mistakes as well. Our D is bad. They had the emotional edge.
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Re: Onside Kick, good or bad call?
Ok call, poor execution.
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Re: Onside Kick, good or bad call?
What onside kick are you referring to? I saw a weird squib thing that we had no chance of recovering.
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Re: Onside Kick, good or bad call?
Okay call (defense is horrendous, might as well give yourself a chance to get a lucky bounce), terrible execution.
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Re: Onside Kick, good or bad call?
That was kicked so hard even if their player doesn’t get it it would have gone back to another player. Really head scratching execution
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Re: Onside Kick, good or bad call?
Too much time left with 3 timeouts. So not a great call. Really bad execution.
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Re: Onside Kick, good or bad call?
I thought it was a squib, Kent State guy just climbed the ladder to pick it off.
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Re: Onside Kick, good or bad call?
I think we were trying to squib bounce it over the guys expecting the onside kick. It looked like there was some open grass behind them and if your guys sprinted we could jump on it at around the 30-40 yard line. It was just kicked to hard and low.
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Re: Onside Kick, good or bad call?
Horrible call with three timeouts.
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Re: Onside Kick, good or bad call?
An onside kick would have been fine, kicking it away would have been fine. Whatever the hell they did, was probably the worst thing that they could have done. I am so confused.
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Re: Onside Kick, good or bad call?
We lost because of defense, period.
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Re: Onside Kick, good or bad call?
FIFYUSUstudent13 wrote: ↑December 20th, 2019, 9:33 pmWe lost because of defense and special teams, period.
Three major special teams mistakes
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Re: Onside Kick, good or bad call?
Bright’s fumble didn’t help.
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Re: Onside Kick, good or bad call?
People keep saying there was an onside kick. There wasn’t an onside kick. There was like a weird squib thing that made no sense.
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Re: Onside Kick, good or bad call?
Bad call with 3 timeouts and only needing an fg
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Re: Onside Kick, good or bad call?
Idiotic call and even worse execution and coverage
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Re: Onside Kick, good or bad call?
Maybe that's something to think about. It was a vote of no-confidence in the defense by Gary at the end of the game. Does that vote of no-confidence carry over into the off-season? People keep talking about going away from the 3-4 and how that became the kiss of death for the defense due to scheme. I don't think it was so much scheme as it was depth, but not how others are speaking of depth.
It was said at the beginning of the season that we were 2 and 3 deep at DL. Let's say for our purposes, that means 9 D1-ready athletes. When you're playing run-heavy teams like AFA, SDSU, Wyoming, and New Mexico, wouldn't it make more sense to have 3 groups to rotate instead of the two that a 4-3 gave us? That way you have fresh guys at the end of the game, which equals fewer injuries over the course of the season. And those teams give you plenty of time to sub. We're much deeper than we were on Gary's first go-round, but not deep enough to really get after it with the types of teams we played.
A linebacker's original, fundamental reason for existing is eponymous. It's in his name. He backs the line as they absorb blockers. However, when you're tired or injured, more of those blockers get by. We were all star-struck with how many tackles Woodward had each year. The reason goes beyond him being an incredible player, though. His high tackle rates were symptomatic of a defensive line deficiency, and hickaggie's postulate that Woodward was repeatedly concussed by those high repetitions has a ton of merit.
I felt like Ena did well at certain times of year when he had sufficient depth, but the fatal flaw, not for him, but for the situation in general is that we're not Utah. We're not loaded with depth like they are and thus there needs to be more of a strategic balance to play-calling and game-planning vs. the tactic-centric method demonstrated by guys who've never coached defense at a G5. It's why Aranda is so successful: He uses the strategic, long-view approach he learned in G5 with a healthy leavening of in-the-moment tactical calls to create a great defense. In a G5 defense, your entire defensive playbook is not at your disposal for every down like it is at a P5 with an elite(ish) defense. Ena should get another year to see if he starts to understand that.
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Re: Onside Kick, good or bad call?
Yup. The way the D was playing that was USU’s best chance of getting the ball back. Poorly executed.
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Re: Onside Kick, good or bad call?
IMO the worse call was punting (or trying to) on 4th and 1 when we had the one point lead. I really feel like we should have gone for it there and tried to extend the lead. The way the defense was (or wasn’t) playing they probably wouldn’t have had any problem driving the longer field anyway.
The opportunity to keep possession near midfield and try to extend the lead far outweighs the risk of losing ~40 yards of field possession had the punt been successful.
The opportunity to keep possession near midfield and try to extend the lead far outweighs the risk of losing ~40 yards of field possession had the punt been successful.
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