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    • #225925
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      NorthernUte
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      That was the worst coaching job I have ever seen out of the team as a whole.

      Offense- Why tf are we throwing the ball 40 times with a freshman when our back is averaging 5.7 a carry?? Didn’t love not kicking the field goals, but that was slightly understandable. I’d hate to know if Cam split reps this week with Isaac resulting in less time playing with the offense this week. I can keep complaining, but I’ll start with defense now.

      Defense- Every fan on this chat board knew exactly what Arizona was going to do in this game, every person in America knew it… so what did we prepare all week for? Could not stop McMillan for s**t, his stats don’t show it, but anyone watching the game knows exactly what role he played in that game. So clearly we didn’t focus on the best wide receiver in America… hopefully we at least prepped for the run, right?? Wrong, awful, terrible rush defense tonight. The score is not indicative of how bad the coaching was this week, but I genuinely don’t know what the coaches could have been prepping for this week.

      Still go Utes, but that was excruciatingly hard to watch!

    • #225927
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      Xanthis
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      Whitt is getting out coached a lot more often these days. That combined with the secrecy behind injuries is losing him a lot of good will. It’s a bummer really.

      • #225935
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        The Miami Ute
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        What’s shocking is that tonight he got out coached by a guy that, at this time last year, was the HC of the glorified community college known as San Jose State.

    • #225932
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      Breux41
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      I also love this staff.

      But they failed the team. Not only the way you said, but if Wilson is literally our best option right now they’ve failed either at recruiting or at evaluating talent. Great kid. Not even close to ready. Questionable passes and decisions and bobbled snaps. They screwed up.

    • #225937
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      TruckStopTerrors
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      I think they’re worried about Bernard’s durability. Especially when you have nobody else seemingly able to be even adequate as a backup for him. Mitchell had 2 carries tonight for 0 yards…. That was it…. That tells me all the other backs aren’t at all playing well when they’re practicing or in game when they get the ball. From what I’ve heard, they don’t believe Bernard will stay healthy if they’re giving him the kind of attempts they have JJ last season.

      I also won’t be sad to see Ludwig go after the season if Whitt decides to hang it up. I would like Morgan to go out and get his own guy. 4 straight runs on 1st and goal ending up in a turnover on downs. No attempt at a little misdirection hitting somebody like Kuithe like something AZ did for their first td. I just think often the playcalling is unimaginative and predictable. This goes beyond players not executing said playcalls too. Jmo.

      • #225950
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        Xanthis
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        Mitchell is unplayable. He can’t pass protect so if he’s in then he’s getting the ball. The RB room is empty after Bernard.

        • #225952
          TruckStopTerrors
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          Exactly

        • #225979
          22Ute22
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          Yup, our RB room is terrible outside of Bernard. Mitchell has no vision and can’t pass protect. Stanley is too light to pass protect and be a between the tackles RB. Vincent is a walkon. Bernard is literally our only good RB. The dropoff from him to the rest is a CHASM.

    • #225938
      cj13
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      Arizona also made plays when it mattered. 3rd and longs, 4th down stops. We don’t lose this game every time if we played it 10 times. Hopefully we can fix things and get back on track. If we win out the season will have gone better than expected. Onto the next (we need Cam back).

    • #225947
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      Rick Walker
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      Mcmillian wasn’t the problem, he wasn’t even the biggest problem in the passing game, the problem was giving up over 200 yards to their running backs. That game was beyond frustrating watching our normally stout run D just give up 15 yard gain over and over again.

      • #225955
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        TruckStopTerrors
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        Agreed. Pretty bad showing by the D Line and LBers.

      • #225959
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        homer
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        The poor arm tackling let them get huge YAC. Utahs D-Tackles are soft. How many times do you hear linebacker names called? The LB groups took a huge step back. Barton is a shadow of the player he was last season before the injury

    • #225969
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      Holladay Ute
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      I feel like they were a little arrogant heading into this game. Playing against a good team (possibly a top 25 team) w/ your true freshman QB. You should kick the FG on a good opening drive and let your defense play w/ the lead. Instead, we call the same exact stupid play that we called on 3rd & short.

      Also, I was frustrated listening to Whitt’s interview w/ Bill after the game. Yes, 3 YPC in the run game was bad. Why were we not feeding Micah Bernard more though. The reason we had 3 YPC was b/c of the sacks and b/c of those dumb QB design runs that got stuffed every single time. Micah Bernard had a pretty good game and we just seemingly didn’t go to that nearly enough. I get that we’re worried about his durability, but we gotta play to win this game. Very disappointing we literally have nobody behind Bernard in the RB room.

      • #225974
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        RustyShackleford
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        Yeah the situation with the RB room is unacceptable. How the hell do we have no one behind Bernard. I can’t remember the last time we didn’t have a bruising power back that could get 2-3 yards every time

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