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Post Game: You get a turnover, and you get a turnover

It was a weird one for sure. While the Griz dominated the scoreboard, they definitely didn’t dominate. The offense has been asleep now for two straight games, and the great run game we had was shut down by a very poor defense. UC Davis did to UNC and poly what I had hoped the Griz would do to them. For instance, Davis had 100 yards more passing and 100 yards more rushing against both poly and northern colorado than the Griz did. I’m hoping homefield advantage helps a bit, because from what I’ve seen Davis is the better team
 
kemajic said:
My point. Particularly when it came against a poor team. And being out-first downed by CPSLO is even worse. Davis will present quite a different challenge.
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Stats. Perhaps the worst way to judge a team’s performance.

Short fields = less first downs
Short fields = less TOP
Short fields = less yards of offense

ST TD’s = missed offensive possessions = fewer offensive yards
ST TD’s = ADDITIONAL offensive possessions for the opponent, adding to their TOP, yardage and first down numbers.

The offense scored six TD’s. The D held them to one late garbage TD.

That’s about as dominant as you can get.
 
UC Davis looks legit and will create a lot of issues for the Griz. Davis will be favored to win even in WaGriz. Griz will need to play their best game of the year to win that one. From what I’ve seen last couple of weeks, Davis may win easily.
 
hm.grwn.grizfan said:
It was a weird one for sure. While the Griz dominated the scoreboard, they definitely didn’t dominate. The offense has been asleep now for two straight games, and the great run game we had was shut down by a very poor defense. UC Davis did to UNC and poly what I had hoped the Griz would do to them. For instance, Davis had 100 yards more passing and 100 yards more rushing against both poly and northern colorado than the Griz did. I’m hoping homefield advantage helps a bit, because from what I’ve seen Davis is the better team
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The Griz dominated.
 
AZGrizFan said:
Stats. Perhaps the worst way to judge a team’s performance.

Short fields = less first downs
Short fields = less TOP
Short fields = less yards of offense

ST TD’s = missed offensive possessions = fewer offensive yards
ST TD’s = ADDITIONAL offensive possessions for the opponent, adding to their TOP, yardage and first down numbers.

The offense scored six TD’s. The D held them to one late garbage TD.

That’s about as dominant as you can get.
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This is a very good post.
 
HikeGlacier said:
We had 68 yards rushing. Had 14 points at halftime against one of the worst teams in the Big Sky. What happened to taking a knee at the end of the game? Just more things you are clueless about.
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Why do you hate the third string guys so much? Theyr’e people too. They want stats too. If CP can’t stop our THIRD string, that’s THEIR problem.
 
AZGrizFan said:
Why do you hate the third string guys so much? Theyr’e people too. They want stats too. If CP can’t stop our THIRD string, that’s THEIR problem.
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I could care less, but Hoops said last Saturday that Bobby always takes a knee to not run up the score.
 
Overall I liked what I saw yesterday. D looked stout. Special teams came to play. Offense looked discombobulated at times. We got a lot of reps and personnel looks on both sides of the ball. On to Davis. WA Griz needs to come out drunk and riled up to help out our guys on Saturday night. Need to jump on Davis right away. Very winnable game.
 
HikeGlacier said:
We had 68 yards rushing. Had 14 points at halftime against one of the worst teams in the Big Sky. What happened to taking a knee at the end of the game? Just more things you are clueless about.
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Bobby addressed this issue at the post-game interview. Said he should apologize for not taking a knee.
 
BWahlberg said:
Had to have some fun with the title there. The Grizzlies completed a 2 week in a row road stretch against two of the worst teams in the Big Sky and were able to show some strong improvement defensively. Now, the real test lies ahead, against the best offense in the Big Sky, if not the FCS. I've been harping a lot on what I wanted to see from the defense in these few weeks and it started with turnovers. The Grizzly defense seems to have found something! Today they grabbed 2 picks, 1 fumble, had another fumble recovery wiped out by targeting, and forced 3 turnovers on downs. Those 3 turns on downs came on the UM 27, Poly 40, and UM 34. Between all of these turnovers the Grizzlies scored 21 points off them.

This game was not without some added frustration, but that's just a fact of life here for the Griz this year. The ground game could not get going, the injury to Cannon Panfiloff compounded those issues there as well. I think the frequent QB rotation might have messed with consistency more than hurt it. And I'm bummed we won't have Rostad for the first half of UCD. 132 penalties yards is flat out bad, yes I know some of the calls were suspect, but still.

Those concerns aside, this is a good road win, now two in a row that were generally "low stress" games where the Griz knew they were better, played better, and came away with a win where the opponent really never stood a chance.

Some more quick thoughts:

- Junior Bergen, to me, already holds the title as the best Grizzly returner of all time. Today he cemented that with a Big Sky Conference record 6th punt return. I don't know how entirely healthy the kid really is but once again he showed that his talent can even shine through even if he's not 100%.

- Griz offense was kind of stale and inconsistent today, after some barn burning numbers their last two games have really pulled back. Is this because they've been figured out? The QB rotation? Bobby rope-a-dope anticipating the next few games? Treating these two games like scrimmages? We'll find out soon enough.

- Riley Wilson was a one man wrecking crew for quite some time in the game. Poly started dedicating an RB to just chip the guy, but then we saw Tirrell, Nuce, Harris, and even Mata'afa tally up some TFLs and sacks. Another small thing that I just liked seeing was a handful of our D-line guys make some critical plays and stops. 4 sacks, 11 TFLs by the defense. That is huge!

- I thought Ah Yat and Fife both had good, and bad moments. I'm as baffled as ever as to what the plan is with these guys, but maybe that is the plan. Rotation, tough to prep for two, etc. Ah Yat was more "in tune" with the WRs today, some nice connections with X, Fontes, and White. Racanelli had a great 1 handed grab, White's TD was something else. But, Fife had a bad pick, missed a TD, and that end of the first half series was baffling (not sure play calling or execution). Ah Yat's RPO / zone read wasn't as crisp as we're used to seeing and he was behind WRs a bunch on crossing routes.

- REALLY liked the more heavy use of the zone for the defense. Husteadt's pick you can credit to the design and him recognizing and acting on it. Not sure it'll work against Davis, but hell who knows.

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Alright, the Grizzlies still aren't playing perfect football, but I think we can all agree that the last two games are BETTER football than we'd seen before. We'll find out in a week + 4 hours from this post if it's all fools gold or if they're making those small improvements to just get back to the type of football we expect to see. Rest up Griz - the games you remember are played in November and it's crunch time!

Go Griz!
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Defense is playing better as guys learn the system and get comfortable with their roles. Offense looks inconsistent but I think coaches are purposely giving 2nd and 3rd deep allot of playing time. When you rotate players, including quarterbacks, offense tends to look disjointed. Offense and defense has been rotating lots of players in to get experience to help during stretch drive. Example Griz 10 and 26 both have 105 rushing attempts this year. # 3 for Cal Davis has 185 by himself. Thats is allot of wear and tear on a running back. Also believe we have held back much of our playbook which will give opposing coaches trouble down the road.
 
The whole “run up the score” thing is a red herring. You play until the final whistle. Losing by 1 point or 50 points is just one loss and if you can’t accept losing big then maybe competitive sports are not for you. I have been on each side of the equation and never did it make a difference — it was a W or L.
 
Grisly Fan said:
The whole “run up the score” thing is a red herring. You play until the final whistle. Losing by 1 point or 50 points is just one loss and if you can’t accept losing big then maybe competitive sports are not for you. I have been on each side of the equation and never did it make a difference — it was a W or L.
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I agree, but losing by 1 point stinks so much more than by 10 or more
 
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