Northern Colorado vs. Sacramento State

[Floydcaster]

Okay, the Bears play #23 (coaches) Sacramento State. Their only losses are to a now #16 Northern Iowa and Cal-Berkley. They beat ranked Montana two weeks ago and most recently smoked Northern Arizona 44-0. It's a home game and boy, it's going to be a tough one. Hopefully COVID restrictions will not take any more players this week because we will need everyone we can. Defense will need to play lights out and our offense will need to, show up and limit their mistakes to a bare minimum to pull this off.

There's a chance that the Bears could pull this off, but it's slim.

 

[Brian]

We should run the wishbone. I think that's our only hope (service academy style football).

 

[Floydcaster]

We should run the wishbone. I think that's our only hope (service academy style football).

Not a bad idea as Dylan is mobile enough to run it. Running backs would love it. Receivers might get a little bored.

I wonder how our OL would adjust? Also, might be tough to change an entire offense in a week.

 

[Brian]

Not a fan of those gray yoga pants we are sporting today. Offense needs to get some first downs to help the defense out a bit.

 

[Beanhead]

Well so far the defensive coaches don’t look like they watched any film and as usual we love middle runs and inside screens with no blocking this sucks!

 

[Beanhead]

Another shitty play calling series!

 

[Floydcaster]

These games remind me how much OL development matters. Usually 2 or 3 years to be really good if done well.

 

[Brian]

We certainly don't make things easy do we?

 

[Beanhead]

Max McCaffrey is the worst OC in college football

 

[Floydcaster]

17-7 at half. This is a good Sacramento State team. Not anywhere close to what we want but UNC has shown improvement.

 

[Beanhead]

Please tell me where we have improved?? The defense is playing hard like they always do, but we don’t get points for that, our offense is horrendous we have 97 yards of offense at the half 83 of it in one play, please help me understand how we have improved oh and by the way 1 first down!!

 

[Floydcaster]

Please tell me where we have improved?? The defense is playing hard like they always do, but we don’t get points for that, our offense is horrendous we have 97 yards of offense at the half 83 of it in one play, please help me understand how we have improved oh and by the way 1 first down!!

You are correct, our defense has been the bright spot. As for our offense, it's still spotty but our receivers are running their routes a lot better than at the beginning of the season. The OL, a big work in progress, has started to occasionally open holes and protect McCaffrey enough to make plays if need be. Again, this is watching them at the beginning of the season to now. Is it pretty? Not usually. However, it has gotten better.

Like I've said, this is a year zero for Ed. Development takes time.

 

[Beanhead]

The players are here this staff doesn’t put them in position to make plays most of the time,

 

[uBear]

Please tell me where we have improved?? The defense is playing hard like they always do, but we don’t get points for that, our offense is horrendous we have 97 yards of offense at the half 83 of it in one play, please help me understand how we have improved oh and by the way 1 first down!!

Admittedly the first half was...not great. But the second half was probably as good as the team's looked all season, a genuinely impressive performance against a good team. We've got Montana next week and if both teams play like they did today it's not going to be a gimme for the Griz.