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Position Grades
IrishDawg22
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QB = Keith Price look mobile and confident. It was really impressive to see him come right back out after the INT and go 7-8 on their 1st long TD drive. You can tell he likes getting into a rhythm with the fast paced offense. Only bad news was that he appeared to be limping after a play in the mid 4th qtr. GRADE = A
RB = Sankey is so good at finding the hole and hitting it hard. The thing that still amazing me for a RB his size is how hard it is to bring him down. Sark needs to continue to feed him 25+ carries per game. Dwayne Washington looked really quick and I love how he ran hard after contact. Grade = A+
WR = It actually nice to look at the box score and see the reception totals spread out. Mickens, Smith and Ross all looked very dangerous with the ball in their hands. The best performance by this group had to be the blocking, either on the bubble screens or in the run game. This is one of the reasons Oregon hits you with so many big plays is their WR group is so good at taking out their defender. Grade = A+
TE = Nice to see Perkins get a TD, but we did not see much else from the group due to our formations. Grade = Incomplete
Oline = we knew they could run block based on Sankey's performances last year, but could they give Price time to throw? I know it had a lot to do with the quick passing game, but it is still impressive to only giving up the 1 sack, which I think is on Sark for not calling a timeout the play before. Riva needs to clean up his game, and you can correct me if I am wrong, but I only remember 1 holding call. Grade = A
Dline = this group played terrible. I am still not sure how we held them to 6 pts without even getting a sniff of the QB. Outside of Hau'oli, no one could get off their blocks. WTF happened to Shirley & Hudson? In the Vegas bowl they were causing havoc in the ball field on several occasions. Littleton just looks over matched when their OT would get hands on him. Even Shelton was getting pushed around on the inside. Shocker alert....we have no depth on the inside of the line. Grade = F
LB = I was really disappointed in this group. They did make a lot of tackles, but very few negative plays. Maybe it the fact is coming back from the surgery, but Feeney was not flying around the field like last year. I think the group combined for 1 TFL. You would think with all the sweeps plays, someone could shoot through the gap on occasion. I just felt like they did just enough to have a solid game. Grade = B
DB = I gotta admit I was a little scared having Ducre and Shamburger out their full time. Of all the players last night I think these 2 exceeded expectations. Peters looks the part of a #1 CB, but man he plays aggressive. It will be interesting to see how he does against some of the top WRs in the conference. Parker has another solid night. Grade = A
S/T = Did I actually see a K get 2 TBs? And the coverage units looks halfway decent. Return game did not get many opportunities, but I think we may see our TD drought come to an end. Grade = B+
RB = Sankey is so good at finding the hole and hitting it hard. The thing that still amazing me for a RB his size is how hard it is to bring him down. Sark needs to continue to feed him 25+ carries per game. Dwayne Washington looked really quick and I love how he ran hard after contact. Grade = A+
WR = It actually nice to look at the box score and see the reception totals spread out. Mickens, Smith and Ross all looked very dangerous with the ball in their hands. The best performance by this group had to be the blocking, either on the bubble screens or in the run game. This is one of the reasons Oregon hits you with so many big plays is their WR group is so good at taking out their defender. Grade = A+
TE = Nice to see Perkins get a TD, but we did not see much else from the group due to our formations. Grade = Incomplete
Oline = we knew they could run block based on Sankey's performances last year, but could they give Price time to throw? I know it had a lot to do with the quick passing game, but it is still impressive to only giving up the 1 sack, which I think is on Sark for not calling a timeout the play before. Riva needs to clean up his game, and you can correct me if I am wrong, but I only remember 1 holding call. Grade = A
Dline = this group played terrible. I am still not sure how we held them to 6 pts without even getting a sniff of the QB. Outside of Hau'oli, no one could get off their blocks. WTF happened to Shirley & Hudson? In the Vegas bowl they were causing havoc in the ball field on several occasions. Littleton just looks over matched when their OT would get hands on him. Even Shelton was getting pushed around on the inside. Shocker alert....we have no depth on the inside of the line. Grade = F
LB = I was really disappointed in this group. They did make a lot of tackles, but very few negative plays. Maybe it the fact is coming back from the surgery, but Feeney was not flying around the field like last year. I think the group combined for 1 TFL. You would think with all the sweeps plays, someone could shoot through the gap on occasion. I just felt like they did just enough to have a solid game. Grade = B
DB = I gotta admit I was a little scared having Ducre and Shamburger out their full time. Of all the players last night I think these 2 exceeded expectations. Peters looks the part of a #1 CB, but man he plays aggressive. It will be interesting to see how he does against some of the top WRs in the conference. Parker has another solid night. Grade = A
S/T = Did I actually see a K get 2 TBs? And the coverage units looks halfway decent. Return game did not get many opportunities, but I think we may see our TD drought come to an end. Grade = B+
Comments
I don't know if the DL was so bad they deserve an F. Maybe a C or D would be better. It is probably the most alarming position unit on the team.
At DB, Ducre played great. I wasn't really worried about him. He played pretty well towards the end of last year in the Nickel, is one of the fastest guys on the team. He also is jacked for a corner. I honestly think he will possibly get drafted. At the least, he will be in a training camp in the NFL next year.
D-Line gets a D. Every play it seems like the Boise OL was shoving them back 3 yards and there's no way that Baltazar and that other RB should have been ripping off as many 8 yard runs on draw plays. They did, however, stop Boise when they absolutely needed to, didn't allow a TD, and stopped them on the 4th and 1 so they get a little credit. Overall I agree with everything else though. The team as a whole looked great.
215 lb Josh Perkins will be a force
Our D-line will cost us games this year...and I'm still not convinced about the O-line, despite the good game they had. Price will get hit this year. A LOT.
Three holding calls a chop block and three false starts.....sloppy. Many of Sankey's big runs were not due to big holes. He made something out of nothing several times. We have to see these guys with good games against the power houses before they deserve an A.
Your retardo logic of how you were critical of Sark makes a nice appearance here. Look, Irish said the d line was bad, he's so objective. Those are doog grades on the offensive line and Price. Look, Irish said he was disappointed in the linebackers, he's so objective. Then gives a B grade.
Your worst post yet.
Level of competition factors into my grade also. We don't know how good Boise will end up being. We know they're well coached but we also know they have less talent.
I didn't see enough from Price that I thought resembled the kind of quarterback play that it takes to beat great teams. And I think that's what an A grade should be.
Honk 'em