VikThunder
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I never thought we'd be playing UW in a million years but here we are. If the UND QB can set a school record for TD passes, what will Keith Price do?
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Portland State at Washington Sept. 15
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DustRunner
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And UW is coming off a drubbing against LSU, so they're going to be ready to tear us apart.
DustRunner said:
I suspect you're correct.
*gulp*
DustRunner
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We can only hope that McDonaugh will be able to keep a level head and get us on the board a few times to at least make this one respectable.
scooter1
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So Sisler is out, Brown is still out, and we're minus a defensive coordinator.
I'd like to see the defense hold UW under 45 and the offense score more than 17.
I'd like to see the defense hold UW under 45 and the offense score more than 17.
GreenGiant
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scooter said:
I hope they are right with 38-17 that would be a good showing for the vikings.
LET'S GO VIKINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Four penalties in the first minute and a half? Sheesh.
BroadwayVik
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Highlight reel catch by Monahan!
Special teams this year is far from special.
BroadwayVik said:
That was a great catch. Too bad Noa couldn't reel in that third down pass.
VikThunder
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martymoose said:
What a step backwards compared to last year.
VikThunder
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We should pull McDonaugh and give some reps to our backups.
VikThunder
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VikThunderous said:
Kieren has NO touch on his passes.
VikThunderous said:
He's been off on quite a few today, except that TD pass to Lewis down the right side.
VikThunder
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Looking forward to Marty's post game analysis with accompanying grades for coaching staff, offense, defense, special teams, etc.!!
Well, that wasn't fun to watch.
The Good:
-Edgerson looked good. Co-led the team in tackles.
-Sluss and Bass had some moments. Man, if Bass could have had that pick in the first half, it may have been a real boost. The game wasn't a huge blowout at that point.
-Only five penalties. Pretty good considering that we had four (one was declined) in the first two minutes of the game.
-That catch by Monahan in the first half was unreal.
-Zero sacks for UW.
-Won the second half in term of points.
-Some secondary play. There were quite a few plays where UW made nice passing plays where the coverage was great, however, the routes ran and the passes thrown were perfect. One would expect this from a PAC-12 program.
-McDonagh looked ok. Good at times, freshman at times. That dropped snap that he quickly threw the out on for a pick six was ten shades of terrible. However, that deep pass he hit Lewis on for the TD was fantastic. Such is the life of a true freshman QB playing a PAC-12 team. I'm going to go ahead and say that I was incorrect that it's a bad thing that he tries to run over people when he runs. He put some PAC-12 guys on their ass today.
-Tempo. The tempo of the offense looked great in a big venue, with a true freshman leading the way.
-Great punting today. Other than that last one.
The Bad:
-Special teams.
-Special teams.
-Special teams.
-Secondary.
Random:
-It was interesting to see UW audible when we went into the 3-3-5 set on defense in 3rd down situations. They'd obviously watched some film on us. It was even more interesting to see us audible out of the 3-3-5 into a 4-3 in one instance after the UW audible to a run play. I think they ended up getting a first down on the run, but it was pretty smart of us to get into a formation that would be better against the run when it was fairly obvious that they'd audibled from a pass play to a run play.
- I'm not a big fan of the short slow developing screens that we ran on 3rd/4th and medium/short today. How about some quick hitting slants with our WRs that don't take forever to develop and resulted in little to no gain today.
-I hope Keitrell Anderson is ok. He looked like he had his bell rung pretty good. I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't play next week. That had concussion written all over it. Also, Kincy was hurt. That won't help with our secondary woes.
Onward to conference play! Let's get to 1-0 next week.
The Good:
-Edgerson looked good. Co-led the team in tackles.
-Sluss and Bass had some moments. Man, if Bass could have had that pick in the first half, it may have been a real boost. The game wasn't a huge blowout at that point.
-Only five penalties. Pretty good considering that we had four (one was declined) in the first two minutes of the game.
-That catch by Monahan in the first half was unreal.
-Zero sacks for UW.
-Won the second half in term of points.
-Some secondary play. There were quite a few plays where UW made nice passing plays where the coverage was great, however, the routes ran and the passes thrown were perfect. One would expect this from a PAC-12 program.
-McDonagh looked ok. Good at times, freshman at times. That dropped snap that he quickly threw the out on for a pick six was ten shades of terrible. However, that deep pass he hit Lewis on for the TD was fantastic. Such is the life of a true freshman QB playing a PAC-12 team. I'm going to go ahead and say that I was incorrect that it's a bad thing that he tries to run over people when he runs. He put some PAC-12 guys on their ass today.
-Tempo. The tempo of the offense looked great in a big venue, with a true freshman leading the way.
-Great punting today. Other than that last one.
The Bad:
-Special teams.
-Special teams.
-Special teams.
-Secondary.
Random:
-It was interesting to see UW audible when we went into the 3-3-5 set on defense in 3rd down situations. They'd obviously watched some film on us. It was even more interesting to see us audible out of the 3-3-5 into a 4-3 in one instance after the UW audible to a run play. I think they ended up getting a first down on the run, but it was pretty smart of us to get into a formation that would be better against the run when it was fairly obvious that they'd audibled from a pass play to a run play.
- I'm not a big fan of the short slow developing screens that we ran on 3rd/4th and medium/short today. How about some quick hitting slants with our WRs that don't take forever to develop and resulted in little to no gain today.
-I hope Keitrell Anderson is ok. He looked like he had his bell rung pretty good. I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't play next week. That had concussion written all over it. Also, Kincy was hurt. That won't help with our secondary woes.
Onward to conference play! Let's get to 1-0 next week.
DustRunner
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My views on the game:
Sluss is awesome. Except for that time where he got beat by that TE for UW, but on that TD, that guy just looked like he was twice Sluss' size, so really couldn't do anything there. And Edgerson was good as well.
I'm not sure what's going on recently, but in all of the games I've watched over the past two weeks, I've just seen a litany of botched special teams play by lots of programs, resulting in more missed field goals than made ones. But Canaday needs to get his act together, because right now he's not looking like a Top-10 long snapping prospect. And we need better blocking up front, because Fernandez is 4-7; all four times he's gotten the kick away he's made it, and his three misses were blocks. Zach Brown wouldn't help us here because without blocking, a good snap and a good hold, kickers can't do their job.
Monahan! That was an amazing catch while being completely mugged. :mrgreen:
I'm surprised that McDonagh was out there that long. The announcers said that he needs reps, but in a game like that, you're more likely going to fry the kid's brains by sending him out there again and again to get punished. I thought we would see more of Ramirez, frankly. But it was good to hear that at least the announcers were interested in noting that Kieran is a big guy, and isn't afraid to run.
Run offense was pretty anemic. D.J. had nowhere to go, and Shaq wasn't any better. Kieran was our best rusher, and that's because the pass rush had already overshot him on several occasions.
Marquis Jackson was a no-show during the game, really, so UW did a good job containing him. Although I liked his effort chasing down that RB (Sankey, was it?) on that twenty-yard or so scamper down the Viking sideline. Not many DE's/LB combos make that kind of play on a pure speedster.
Hope Keitrell is all right. We may see a lot more of Toureen next week if Anderson can't go.
Agh, TE passes over the middle that couldn't be hauled in. Had those been caught, at least the passing stats wouldn't have been so bad.
Our pass defense sucks. When the guy in the studio even dares to bring up a 100-point victory as a possibility, I know it's a complete disaster. :thumbdown:
And a gripe at Coach Sark at UW: he probably thinks it's funny to go for it on fourth down twice in the fourth quarter of a game you lead by almost 40 points. Yeah, throwing to the end zone with a minute left and up by 39 is uncalled for. I'm just glad it was incomplete. :evil:
Sluss is awesome. Except for that time where he got beat by that TE for UW, but on that TD, that guy just looked like he was twice Sluss' size, so really couldn't do anything there. And Edgerson was good as well.
I'm not sure what's going on recently, but in all of the games I've watched over the past two weeks, I've just seen a litany of botched special teams play by lots of programs, resulting in more missed field goals than made ones. But Canaday needs to get his act together, because right now he's not looking like a Top-10 long snapping prospect. And we need better blocking up front, because Fernandez is 4-7; all four times he's gotten the kick away he's made it, and his three misses were blocks. Zach Brown wouldn't help us here because without blocking, a good snap and a good hold, kickers can't do their job.
Monahan! That was an amazing catch while being completely mugged. :mrgreen:
I'm surprised that McDonagh was out there that long. The announcers said that he needs reps, but in a game like that, you're more likely going to fry the kid's brains by sending him out there again and again to get punished. I thought we would see more of Ramirez, frankly. But it was good to hear that at least the announcers were interested in noting that Kieran is a big guy, and isn't afraid to run.
Run offense was pretty anemic. D.J. had nowhere to go, and Shaq wasn't any better. Kieran was our best rusher, and that's because the pass rush had already overshot him on several occasions.
Marquis Jackson was a no-show during the game, really, so UW did a good job containing him. Although I liked his effort chasing down that RB (Sankey, was it?) on that twenty-yard or so scamper down the Viking sideline. Not many DE's/LB combos make that kind of play on a pure speedster.
Hope Keitrell is all right. We may see a lot more of Toureen next week if Anderson can't go.
Agh, TE passes over the middle that couldn't be hauled in. Had those been caught, at least the passing stats wouldn't have been so bad.
Our pass defense sucks. When the guy in the studio even dares to bring up a 100-point victory as a possibility, I know it's a complete disaster. :thumbdown:
And a gripe at Coach Sark at UW: he probably thinks it's funny to go for it on fourth down twice in the fourth quarter of a game you lead by almost 40 points. Yeah, throwing to the end zone with a minute left and up by 39 is uncalled for. I'm just glad it was incomplete. :evil:
