A very strange game
The offense was great. Miles makes an enormous difference. He's not a great passer, but he's good enough. And the rest of the offense looks very potent.
Vernon Adams is fantastic. We will not face a better QB all year.
Our pass coverage was awful. Our young DBs must improve or we are going to continue to get torched.
Even with all that, were it not for a couple of fluke plays we would have pulled away in the 4th quarter and won by 14 to 21 points.
Let's look at each of their scores and determine what happened:
TD 1: A great scramble by Adams and a late hit got them to mid-field. Then Adams made a perfect throw for a 41 yard TD. Kevn King was late getting there.
TD 2.: Another long pass. We blitzed, Adams avoided the hit and made a perfect throw. Kelly got beat 1 on 1, but it was a great throw.
TD 3: 4th and 3. Budda Baker just got torched by Kupp 1 on 1. Another great throw.
TD 4: Adams makes an amazing throw scrambling to left. Beaver and Gardenhire were in the area, but neither committed to the receiver.
FG: We had them stopped on 3rd and 12 but Timu left his man when Adams scrambled and Adams threw it to him. Another great play.
TD 5: Just bad coverage the whole drive. King particularly looked out of position.
TD 6: We had them stopped and Peters' ridiculous penalty lets them off the hook, and then they make an amazing catch on 4th and 3 for the TD.
TD 7: Adams converts on 4th and 12. They catch that deflected pass on another 4th down. King drops a pick in the end zone.
So....yes our DBs were bad. Yes Adams was tremendous. But it took some very unusual plays to make that game that close at the end.
Going forward I feel good about the offense.
I think the run D is OK.
Pass D is a big concern. We knew the young DBs were a big concern. Well, they are a BIG concern.
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If you get to TD 7 and don't delete your post you may be a doog
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Vernon Adams is fantastic. We will not face a better QB all year.
Old what's his name in Oregon had a good laugh at this ... -
Very rarely do I agree with Aubbie, but for the most part I do today. TD#1, we had Adams in our grasp and somehow he escaped and made a huge play on 3rd down. It was almost a 3 and out. The the TD was an incredible throw. On TD#3, Budda dropped a pick/collided with the corner the play before he got burned on 4th down. TD #6, The Peters penalty led to another TD, which was an amazing throw and catch on Sidney Jones who played good coverage. The final TD had a fluky play when Dixon deflected that pass.
Terrible defense, the coaching was suspect, and the secondary was terrible. They should have had 14-21 points less though. Nothing was good, but Eastern was getting lucky on some of those TD's and very few QB's make some of those throws. Adams deserves a lot of credit. We should get better, but the 3 man rush against a QB like Adams is terrible coaching and so is how we use Kikaha. That worries me. -
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Doog. The defense looked like shit. We have some playmakers on the line. Peters is pretty good but 3/4 of our secondary sucks. They couldn't get off blocks on bubble screens vs eastern Washington it's going to look worse when Stanford or a team that actually blocks runs that same shit. We can't get off the field on passing downs and advantageous situations.
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Fluke plays happen once ...RoadDawg55 said:Very rarely do I agree with Aubbie, but for the most part I do today. TD#1, we had Adams in our grasp and somehow he escaped and made a huge play on 3rd down. It was almost a 3 and out. The the TD was an incredible throw. On TD#3, Budda dropped a pick/collided with the corner the play before he got burned on 4th down. TD #6, The Peters penalty led to another TD, which was an amazing throw and catch on Sidney Jones who played good coverage. The final TD had a fluky play when Dixon deflected that pass.
Terrible defense, the coaching was suspect, and the secondary was terrible. They should have had 14-21 points less though. Nothing was good, but Eastern was getting lucky on some of those TD's and very few QB's make some of those throws. Adams deserves a lot of credit. We should get better, but the 3 man rush against a QB like Adams is terrible coaching and so is how we use Kikaha. That worries me.
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I re-watched the game with special attention to the defense. So here is the offense...classic misdirection
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The defense sucks shit, there is no doubt. I also think people aren't quite reacting the way they are if it was 59-38. There would be concern without throwing in the towel.topdawgnc said:
Fluke plays happen once ...RoadDawg55 said:Very rarely do I agree with Aubbie, but for the most part I do today. TD#1, we had Adams in our grasp and somehow he escaped and made a huge play on 3rd down. It was almost a 3 and out. The the TD was an incredible throw. On TD#3, Budda dropped a pick/collided with the corner the play before he got burned on 4th down. TD #6, The Peters penalty led to another TD, which was an amazing throw and catch on Sidney Jones who played good coverage. The final TD had a fluky play when Dixon deflected that pass.
Terrible defense, the coaching was suspect, and the secondary was terrible. They should have had 14-21 points less though. Nothing was good, but Eastern was getting lucky on some of those TD's and very few QB's make some of those throws. Adams deserves a lot of credit. We should get better, but the 3 man rush against a QB like Adams is terrible coaching and so is how we use Kikaha. That worries me.
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Aubbie is like the Energizer doogie. Persistently perseveres. Myself, I prefer to keep the analysis simple. The defense was Kuntkowskilicious terrible. Period.
It smelled like a Holt D. DB's played like a Holt D. Score Looked like a Holt D.
No amount of lipstick will clean up that pig.
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Our secondary sucks at coverage and tackling. They are great in all other phases of the game though.
