Charlie

The approach by the Bills is good and Moss will do fine.

Should have kicked or run the edge again. Allen could have taken it in if a pass play broke down.

It was not good that we lost to the Y. However, going forward if they get one out of ten, as we already know, will do very little to make you happy. I very much expect Utah to finish the year ranked and the Y will not. Simply think of it as a stumble with a mid major, accept openly that it was an awful mistake, and turn the discussion to that…[Read more]

Lot’s of reasons for Lander to stay in SLC. His mother Mikki is a Utah fan in a way much unlike any instate recruit’s family related to other recent recruiting adventures. The family’s base is Utah beyond even all they love about the university. He may venture off to Texas but the U is as likely a landing spot as any other.

UCLA and ASU have not lost their last game this season. ASU will beat Az., however, all their remaining games will be up for grabs. UCLA should loose to Oregon. If Utah wins their next two games it will wrap up the southern division even leaving room for a loss to Oregon. I don’t expect USC to remain in this level of disarray. The players…[Read more]

The Utah staff has done and continues to do an awesome job of recruiting. The Bartons have zero complaints about the process. Athletes get to choose to sick around home or go for a new environment. Other schools also have much to offer. Last, in the last decade or so the talent in Utah high schools is much too great to think that the local…[Read more]

Late in the game I noticed that as well, actually my son pointed it out. I thought he was buried in the LB depth chart. I was wondering if someone was dinged up. Still, he was putting quick pressure on JD from the edge. Nice to see his versatility. His dad was an amazing player and man, if he is similar he will be awesome. Love that he uses…[Read more]

My experience has been a hand, fist, back of hand, hand holding the ball, all are ok. If the forearm or elbow touches, the player is down. So the back of the hand or any part of the hand is ok. From what I saw in the replay at the stadium, I did not see the forearm touch.

Yes, make ASU try to win without JD’s run yards on broken plays.

Setting the edge is hard enough on run plays. On broken pass plays it gets so much harder because so many defenders drop back from the LOS and the pass rush desperately works to get the QB. Into the play there becomes a lot of open space with few defenders, then of course, QBs are…[Read more]

I think the comments about leadership relates mostly to what everyone sees as command of the huddle and interactions on the field. Rising has been much more engaged with conversation on the field. Brewer was much more quiet going about his job. I have always thought Covey was insightful. When talking about QBs he talked about Brewer’s skills…[Read more]

I agree, the pass to Howard may just be the play of the game because of its impact. Rising gave us the story in the flea-flicker. He misunderstood the call that came in and thought it was the flea-flicker. The Utah coaches noticed they were not running the called play and called timeout. When they asked Rising what he was running oddly they…[Read more]

When the QB runs as much as JD I like the use of a spy. I think our LBs are good enough to move the assignment around so it is Lloyd most the time and 80 to 90% of the plays works. The assignment becomes meet JD at the LOS sideline to sideline and let the rest of the team play 10 on 10. The expectation is that without JD’s numbers they begin to…[Read more]

Go with the last 2 games with Rising’s arrow pointing up.

I think it was a combo of things that benefited everything else and created rhythm. Some improvement in one aspect takes pressure off others. I saw the most improvement in play calls, no WTF situations at all. The effort and smarts improved together.

With multiple backs the last one will see a more tired D and the most dispondent D. Thomas…[Read more]

I prefer the 4 highest ranked conference champs.

The portal is good. As bad as Bentley was imagine last year with out him. Imagine this year without Rising, Pledger, McKinney. It is not perfect but no recruiting source is. Still I prefer to home grow talent but we still get caught short at times.

I am an optimist and hope we can settle in after all the CBs and safeties we went thru and hope that Rising and Ludwig get a game plan down for who we have. But I saw many mistakes by the coaches at the Y game that need to be fixed. Myself, I don’t care what the media has to say, I view it like a coach where I can’t get down but instead spend…[Read more]

We were all at rock bottom after loosing to UNLV in 2007 but the same players and coaches responded with an amazing run. It can happen.

Some bad behavior is due to mental issues however some are due to bad personality traits which on turn may not be fixable with social science. Society has a roll to help but should not be at fault without an understanding of specific shortcomings. T the end of the day we are all responsible for our actions.

At one the I read the Trib and avoided the D news. Now I find the D news more objective and ant take the Trib. I think I am still the same guy so that is how things have changed.