Details matter

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Indeed, details matter

In my opinion, we are a top 15 team. Facts do not lie, and the fact is we have struggled with tackling all year. Utah’s offense feeds on opponents who have issues with tackling. We contained them in the first half, though you could see glimpses of what was coming. The second half is where our tackling was exposed. Utah’s passing game was not good enough, but their running game is worthy of a top-10 ranking. At this level, details decide games.

The first play of the game

Remember friends, details matter. I want to express my complete disdain for Utah’s coaching staff. I have seen this in every sport, amateur and professional: You take out the biggest threat, no matter how.

On our first drive, a Utah player appeared to lead with his helmet, with a clear intent to take out Overmyer. Correct me if I am wrong. Plays like these do not happen by accident. Remember what a “bounty on your head” means? I’ll ask again: should this play have been reviewed by the officials? Was it worth it of a replay? Should this be allowed? Please clarify me on this.

What it cost us

We bounced back and controlled the first half, but losing Overmyer clearly diminished our offense. Our offensive line protected Conner, but the running game was not there.

What’s a tight end’s job? You catch, but you also block, and Overmyer has been an integral part of our blocking. A dominant offensive line can not operate without a good-to-great blocking tight end. That is football 101. McGary is good, but he is not at that level yet. I remember Pollard telling us how good of a blocker Patrick is.

Utah was baffled that we were still effective without Overmyer. They had to lean on their offensive line, and that is where we physically could not handle them. Was it the altitude? Maybe, but we dropped a few notches once the fourth quarter started. Our poor tackling was exposed again and again. I stopped counting. At this level, you can not get away with it.

Stop blaming Conner

Some of you have the audacity to complain about Conner. I thought he played a solid game. Let’s look at the facts. All year, our offensive line and tight ends have created time and holes for our running backs and Conner’s legs. Makhi has 52 and Conner has 20. Before this game, we were averaging 220.28 yards per game, and we had 86 last night. Against teetech, we had 175. Last night’s 282 passing yards was above our season average. He did not play flawlessly, but he had a good game. Remember friends utah’s rushing defense was at 64.86 ypg before last night. Again we had 86. Last week Colorado had 138 yards rushing yards…keep that in mind with Overmyer out.

Moving forward

It is Sunday. Our team and coaching staff will learn from this, and we will. At this level, losing your No. 1 offensive weapon is the difference between winning and losing. Let’s all hope Patrick is back soon.

Utah, you did your job taking out Overmyer. Yes, I do believe in karma.

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Losing Overmyer was the biggest problem, otherwise I think we win. A qb needs options and one of our biggest options was lost.

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I remember the 49ers being experts at these low fouls.

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There seems to be a curse the Coogs/Texans can’t break though. I’ve never seen a program have more bad luck than UH. Overmyer is just another instance. The b-ball team has the injury to Shead as well as other injuries. Double-digit lead in the second half they couldn’t hold. It’s always something.

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I won’t call it bad luck ButchP. This was a clear intent to injure Overmyer…details matter. I would like to hear more on that one.

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I’m trying to stay away from this board for a while because I’m still disappointed, but takes like these do not help with that.

This is extremely misleading. In our other games in which we averaged less, we were moving the ball consistently. If we’re going to pull up stats and ignore what we saw with our eyes last night, then look at the conversion rate and amount of 3 and outs.

We did not move the ball consistently, and that’s what costed us, along with the poor defensive performance.

And before someone, says something like “we held the #10 team to x amount of points”, consider the reason that same defense could have possibly performed better if we weren’t making the same mistakes we’ve been making all year. Poor tackling, and terrible angles.

Watched the Go Coogs postgame and Towns made a comment about coaches put players in position to make plays and they didn’t make them. I partially agree. The other issue is that a certain defensive coach keeps trotting out a player who is physically not talented enough to play the position.

I understand the guys behind him might not be ready but it is on the coaches job to get them ready! It isn’t going to get easier so they need to get a new guy ready to go! No excuses!

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Let me ask you this:
How can you move the ball consistently like we have been if our best blocking TE is out of the game?
Games like these are won and lost on…details.
Overmyer has been an outstanding blocker. It helps the entire offense. We clearly need more “quality” when key players go down. This is valid for every squad. This is how close teams are from one another. This is true for the top 25 ap teams. They are much closer to one another then the media wants you and I to believe. Without Patrick we all saw how important he is to our offense.
Was the ute’s play on Patrick worthy of a flag?

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If we really just have to rely on our TE blocking to run the ball(which we shouldn’t), then leave the 11 personnel then go to 12. Or go Pistol Full House and try to run outside zone.

Our running backs are pretty good at cutting the ball back so even if the extra TE just gets in the defenders way then even that would be a positve. Lol

Still, no disrespect to Overmyer but a TE should not derail your entire offense. Maybe a WR, RB, definitely a QB but never a TE. That’s extremely odd.

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When your TE is elite as a receiver, it’s different than a traditional TE

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This is the BEST postgame post I have seen.

100% spot on!

It bears repeating.

Go Coogs!

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In our offense, the TE is an integral part. He blocks, but he is also Weigman’s most trusted receiver. He lost that 3 plays into the game. I feel if Overmyer is in the game,we scire a td on the turnover on downs in the red zone. It would have affected the game plan Utah utilized because the TE was not a major factor and they could focus on other aspects.

It was a major blow.

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Agreed. He can block as a TE but plays like a 6’5” WR with his speed and ability to make catches. This was a huge loss.

With that being said, I thought it was Slade Nagel’s worst game of the year in terms of play calling. I thought we should’ve used tempo in the second half and we went to some of the same plays too many times after having very little success. Utah stacked the line quite a bit to shut down the run, and that was the perfect time to hit them with a slant or over the middle. One of the few times we tried, Amare went for over 40 yards.

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You missed the point of the entire thread and why I posted it. Games at this level are won by minute details, minutes. The other point that can be added to this is all about our offensive philosophy of having a balanced offense. To have a balanced offense you need your entire components to perform. If it is not the case it becomes…unbalanced. Patrick has been that component that is essential for us to perform. And yes our entire offense depends on these key components like Weigman, Amare. They all need to perform or we will be…unbalanced. This is why coaching is so hard and is a constant chess game.

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Thank you. What is most important part is to have Jeff and his team to triple down the efforts to sell out our upcoming game.

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I’m feeling oddly ok about last night’s loss. Overmeyer getting knocked out after the first series was a major blow. I don’t think enough is being made of Conner’s injury either. I’m purely speculating, but I have to imagine Conner had a right foot/ankle injury that occurred in the OK St game and was re-aggravated again last night. His throws were off all night and even on his big run, he couldn’t finish it with a TD because he was hobbled (IMO). That severely limits what our offense is capable of. As atrocious as the tackling was on defense, we forced 2 takeaways and only gave up 21 (half of Utah’s scoring average and lowest scoring total of the season for them.) That last TD was probably given up so we could get the ball back. It sucks we lost, but we held our own and had a chance to win at the end given everything we had going against us. It could always be worse. I’m proud to be a Coog.

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I’m still disappointed in the defense from last night. Their first touchdown was the result of missed tackles left and right and it seemed Iike they were gassed or something because the qb just ran right past them. Later in the game, they had some key interceptions that kept them out of he end zone but more missed tackles that allowed them to gain easy first downs and run down the clock. In fact, they were getting whatever they wanted.

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We have a bye week so I think Overmyer will be back. His helmet hit the grd so it seems like a concussion. So I think we will be back full strength for Cincy.

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That was not my first impression, but added with what happened throughout the game (Wayshawn Parker in particular) leads me to believe that dirty play is at least tolerated if not encouraged in that program.

Also, they will lose to BYU. Maybe Arizona as well. We are not out of this thing.

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Remember this video?

Look at 2:08, 3:20, 4:10 (look at the cavity that created)
Yes friends details matter.