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1. The royal blue was awesome. Thank you Bronco for doing something for the fans. Very cool.
2. What the hell was that wildcat thing with Unga the first two plays? Way to put Max Hall in a 3rd and long the first time he takes a snap.
3. Hall's arm strength was a major problem the whole night. He never had anyone open, and with his weak arm, it made it even worse. I don't think he had that bad of a night. There was just simply nobody ever open. With Utah's CB's on the line of scrimmage playing bump and run, you have to break some long ones to make them respect you, but between our lack of athleticism at WR and Hall's arm, that was impossible. Major major major props to him for throwing balls away from the defenders even if it meant an incompletion. Zero INT's was the stat of the night.
4. Still upset about the punt on 4th and 5 at the 35 yard line. That is just ridiculously overly conservative play that is never the right call.
5. Watching in the stadium I didn't get a good look at most of the personal foul calls. Watching on TV, I thought the ref's called it too tight. Several of those were normal pushing and shoving stuff that happens every game. The call on Tonga cost us a TD and it was a weak call. There were a few others on both sides that were weak. Jorgensen's jawing the official after not getting a holding call was also especially weak. It's extremely rare to get a personal foul call on complaining to the ref's.
6. I wasn't impressed as others with Hill's defensive scheme. Utah didn't do a good job blocking. We didn't do that much different on our blitz schemes. Dropping Pendleton back occasionally into a deep zone was the only new tweak I noticed. It didn't look that great, either. He dropped 20 yards back into a prevent-type deep zone and there was always stuff open underneath, Wynn just couldn't hit anyone.
7. Speaking of Wynn, he looked good the first two drives, but after that--nothing. Any other QB in the MWC would have won that game for Utah. He had receivers open on every play. It was really bizarre watching this game seeing Hall having absolutely no one open and Wynn with everyone open, but both having the same results. We were really lucky Wynn sucked in that game. I understand freshman improve over time, but I'm going to stick my neck out to say I'm not going to be too worried about Wynn until maybe he's a senior. He has a long ways to go.
8. Our defensive personnel. This is why playing in the MWC hurts us so much. We get used to beating shitty teams like Wyoming and UNLV and never realize how bad we are until we go up against a decent team. Utah's DB's are each a thousand times better than ours. We can't get any better without a defense that can make some stops against solid offensive teams. And we won't do that with the secondary personnel in the program. I don't see much hope at all on the horizon in that area. The game is becoming more and more a passing game. We can't expect opposing QB's to suck in order to win games like we did through the 90's.
9. Not calling the timeout with 1:06 to go. I'm OK with it now after watching again and thinking about it some more, but not for the reason Bronco gave. At that point, the worst thing to happen would be for Utah to go for it and win the game with a TD. Calling a time out gives KW a chance to think about that and maybe reverse the decision to kick it. Especially since he's rethinking his probabilities with the time out. Safer to just let the clock run, let them kick the field goal, and regroup in overtime.
10. I was down watching warm up's early and a couple fat blondes with heavy make up dressed in full Ute gear that looked like twins were on the BYU sidelines with the family members that were out on the field for when the team ran out. Later I saw them on TV on the replay. Were they from the Whittingham family? If so, I wish they were the ones that took the elbow to the face not KW's wife.
11. Kinahan's a dickhead. Did anyone see him on TV last night praising himself effusively about how brilliant he was in getting Hall to crack with his interview questions? I usually laugh at him (not an LOL more of a smirk) on the radio when he's doing his rivalry schtick, but I think he crossed the line this time. He got Collie to say his thing, now he got Hall to say his thing. He thinks he's so clever. Haha, you got over on us P.K. But the thing that crosses the line is that he's on TV acting serious calling out BYU for how awful what Hall did was, and how he should be reprimanded with a game suspension. Dick.
12. If you are in one of these categories you are a loser:
--Ute fan who was totally and completely offended at what Hall said and takes it personally
--BYU fan who thinks Hall brought shame to your university and church and needs to apologize
--BYU fan who thinks the U had it coming and is glad Hall said it, and thinks the U needs to clean up their act
2. What the hell was that wildcat thing with Unga the first two plays? Way to put Max Hall in a 3rd and long the first time he takes a snap.
3. Hall's arm strength was a major problem the whole night. He never had anyone open, and with his weak arm, it made it even worse. I don't think he had that bad of a night. There was just simply nobody ever open. With Utah's CB's on the line of scrimmage playing bump and run, you have to break some long ones to make them respect you, but between our lack of athleticism at WR and Hall's arm, that was impossible. Major major major props to him for throwing balls away from the defenders even if it meant an incompletion. Zero INT's was the stat of the night.
4. Still upset about the punt on 4th and 5 at the 35 yard line. That is just ridiculously overly conservative play that is never the right call.
5. Watching in the stadium I didn't get a good look at most of the personal foul calls. Watching on TV, I thought the ref's called it too tight. Several of those were normal pushing and shoving stuff that happens every game. The call on Tonga cost us a TD and it was a weak call. There were a few others on both sides that were weak. Jorgensen's jawing the official after not getting a holding call was also especially weak. It's extremely rare to get a personal foul call on complaining to the ref's.
6. I wasn't impressed as others with Hill's defensive scheme. Utah didn't do a good job blocking. We didn't do that much different on our blitz schemes. Dropping Pendleton back occasionally into a deep zone was the only new tweak I noticed. It didn't look that great, either. He dropped 20 yards back into a prevent-type deep zone and there was always stuff open underneath, Wynn just couldn't hit anyone.
7. Speaking of Wynn, he looked good the first two drives, but after that--nothing. Any other QB in the MWC would have won that game for Utah. He had receivers open on every play. It was really bizarre watching this game seeing Hall having absolutely no one open and Wynn with everyone open, but both having the same results. We were really lucky Wynn sucked in that game. I understand freshman improve over time, but I'm going to stick my neck out to say I'm not going to be too worried about Wynn until maybe he's a senior. He has a long ways to go.
8. Our defensive personnel. This is why playing in the MWC hurts us so much. We get used to beating shitty teams like Wyoming and UNLV and never realize how bad we are until we go up against a decent team. Utah's DB's are each a thousand times better than ours. We can't get any better without a defense that can make some stops against solid offensive teams. And we won't do that with the secondary personnel in the program. I don't see much hope at all on the horizon in that area. The game is becoming more and more a passing game. We can't expect opposing QB's to suck in order to win games like we did through the 90's.
9. Not calling the timeout with 1:06 to go. I'm OK with it now after watching again and thinking about it some more, but not for the reason Bronco gave. At that point, the worst thing to happen would be for Utah to go for it and win the game with a TD. Calling a time out gives KW a chance to think about that and maybe reverse the decision to kick it. Especially since he's rethinking his probabilities with the time out. Safer to just let the clock run, let them kick the field goal, and regroup in overtime.
10. I was down watching warm up's early and a couple fat blondes with heavy make up dressed in full Ute gear that looked like twins were on the BYU sidelines with the family members that were out on the field for when the team ran out. Later I saw them on TV on the replay. Were they from the Whittingham family? If so, I wish they were the ones that took the elbow to the face not KW's wife.
11. Kinahan's a dickhead. Did anyone see him on TV last night praising himself effusively about how brilliant he was in getting Hall to crack with his interview questions? I usually laugh at him (not an LOL more of a smirk) on the radio when he's doing his rivalry schtick, but I think he crossed the line this time. He got Collie to say his thing, now he got Hall to say his thing. He thinks he's so clever. Haha, you got over on us P.K. But the thing that crosses the line is that he's on TV acting serious calling out BYU for how awful what Hall did was, and how he should be reprimanded with a game suspension. Dick.
12. If you are in one of these categories you are a loser:
--Ute fan who was totally and completely offended at what Hall said and takes it personally
--BYU fan who thinks Hall brought shame to your university and church and needs to apologize
--BYU fan who thinks the U had it coming and is glad Hall said it, and thinks the U needs to clean up their act
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