Brady Gustafson

[statler & waldorf]

Watch the game again, PR. You'll see all the things I pointed out (BEYOND the three obvious turnovers) that indicate Grady had a bad half of football. Or don't watch it again, I really don't give two shits.

Watching the game again brings out an amazing perspective. The first time, while drinking of course, brought out the Affective Griz in me. The second time, one day later, and totally sober, I viewed it from an Objective Griz view. Wow! Brady wasn't the only underperformer on the field in the first half.

 

[Yukon]

1st turnover: Brady threw into triple coverage, yes bad.
2nd turnover: Brady hit while throwing, could happen to anybody.
3rd turnover: ball hit out of hands due to bad protection. Again, can happen to anybody.
4th turnover: picked off by a awesome player #22. However, #22 should have let it drop as it was 4th down. if incomplete, they get the ball about 15 yards closer down field.

my 2 cents.

 

[ilovethecats]

Is everyone also forgetting, this is against Saint Francis... Any decent qb would of thrown 400+ passing yards and had a hundo rushing. And who the hell turns over the ball so much against a weak team? It'd be like Alabama vs Idaho St... And I guarantee you if a qb is playing terrible in a game that should be an easy win. That qb gets pulled 10 out of 10 times.

maybe in video games...

Michigan state/furman - 190 yards
Tennessee/app state - 110 yards
Louisville/charolotte - 2qb's put up 390
Baylor/northwestern state - 2 qbs put up 220
Michigan/Hawaii - 3 qb's put up 206

or fcs games...
ndsu/charlston southern - 194 yards
waner/st. anselm? - 176
samford/mars hill? - 350 yards
Chattanooga/shorter? - 188 yards

gus - 350 yards.

obviously he could play better. stitt said as much. gus said as much. but unless you're on the xbox, not many squads are putting up 400+. even against inferior teams. or teams no one has ever heard of like st.anselm, mars hill and shorter.... :?

 

[Umista]

Watching the game live in person with my wife is great entertainment. Later in the week we both re-watch the game 3 more times on TV. Nope she never played the game but she has a super grasp of the game. Her relative was Bill Walsh and she grew up with a football coaching family. We do sit with ex college coaches but most of the time we like to watch by ourselves. I don't consider myself an expert but I am a Griz fan, period.
Coaching is a tough business. QB's get all the attention. As I said before 11 men are on the field and each has to do his job for the QB to look good. Give tall Brady a chance, perhaps two more games should tell us all we need to know about him. I still like what I see and I see him getting better as we move along.
Replace a QB during a game because he is having a bad go? Some coaches do others don't. I'll stick with Stitt on this as he is the Griz coach and let's give him and Brady a chance.

 

[jcu27]

You're comparing crappy teams vs crappy teams and good teams vs good teams... I said like Alabama vs Idaho St or UM vs 45 scholarship SFU. When there's that big of a talent gap a good qb will pick them apart. Vernon Adams would of put 600 yards on em... JJ probably would of too. Shot he almost did against Weber st...

 

[jcu27]

And if Brady would of stopped throwing it to #22 of SFU. The game would of been a lot better. But Brady insisted on targeting him.

 

[UMGriz75]

Stitt's half-time comments:

The Defense is doing a great job. Their offense is killing em right now. We’re leaving it out there too much. They’re having to defend a short field with the turnovers. We can’t do that. Brady and the receivers are just not on the same page. Brady’s got to get the ball out of his hands a little quicker and he’s got to read what’s going on. He’s taking a little bit too much time to figure things out. He knows what they’re doing now and he needs to come back and get the ball out of his hands and to where it needs to go. He’s throwing into some double coverage.

 

[PlayerRep]

Stitt's half-time comments:

The Defense is doing a great job. Their offense is killing em right now. We’re leaving it out there too much. They’re having to defend a short field with the turnovers. We can’t do that. Brady and the receivers are just not on the same page. Brady’s got to get the ball out of his hands a little quicker and he’s got to read what’s going on. He’s taking a little bit too much time to figure things out. He knows that they’re doing now and he needs to come back and get the ball out of his hands and to where it needs to go. He’s throwing into some double coverage.

I agree with what Stitt said. Our group was saying almost the exact same thing as the half went on and at halftime. AZ, I don't see where Stitt said that BG played a "crappy" half of football. You are the one just making up stuff.

 

[timjayko]

Firstly, we won the game (as we should have against SF), secondly although Brady was ultimately responsible for those atrocious turnovers in the first half, you have to remember that our O-line was not blocking really well for him either (this happens all the time in the NFL too where QB's are left hanging out to dry by poor O-line performance). Thirdly for all the Brady bashers out there this is the same QB that was able to lead the Griz to a comeback win against North Dakota State last year (only a handful of teams within the last couple years can say that about being able to beat the Bison). Yes I know Brady's performance where it really counted in the Playoffs the second time around didn't work out, but North Dakota state had a game plan (they figured out our snap count), and really executed it well to throw our offense off guard.

I personally believe if our offense can mold well that any given Saturday with Brady at the helm of the griz offense we can beat anybody in the FCS if we are able to execute the core fundamentals of football on both sides of the ball.

 

[ilovethecats]

You're comparing crappy teams vs crappy teams and good teams vs good teams... I said like Alabama vs Idaho St or UM vs 45 scholarship SFU. When there's that big of a talent gap a good qb will pick them apart. Vernon Adams would of put 600 yards on em... JJ probably would of too. Shot he almost did against Weber st...

not sure if that was directed at me but I was comparing good fbs teams vs crap fbs teams and average fcs teams vs schools I've never heard of. and nearly no one put up 400+ yards. yes, adams probably would have. which is why adams was very good. whish is why he didn't belong in this conference and played for Oregon. and even he only went for 400+ a handful of times. 6 or 7 would be my guess. great for sure...but not exactly where the bar is set.

 

[griz5700]

"So many times last year we prepared for a certain something, then get nothing like it in a game," Griz senior quarterback Brady Gustafson said. "(This week) we prepared for what we saw on tape, but also being prepared for something completely different."

 

[horribilisfan8184]

Stitt's half-time comments:

The Defense is doing a great job. Their offense is killing em right now. We’re leaving it out there too much. They’re having to defend a short field with the turnovers. We can’t do that. Brady and the receivers are just not on the same page. Brady’s got to get the ball out of his hands a little quicker and he’s got to read what’s going on. He’s taking a little bit too much time to figure things out. He knows that they’re doing now and he needs to come back and get the ball out of his hands and to where it needs to go. He’s throwing into some double coverage.

I agree with what Stitt said. Our group was saying almost the exact same thing as the half went on and at halftime. AZ, I don't see where Stitt said that BG played a "crappy" half of football. You are the one just making up stuff.

Not interested in starting a semantics war but that's pretty much a textbook description of "crappy" play.

 

[PlayerRep]

No, you refuted nothing. And you didn't any the question I asked. I have been asking you why you thought BG played poorly in the first half, other than the obvious 3 turnovers (which everyone agrees was horrible). Like I thought, you have been unable to point to anything else and apparently don;t' have any views or data to back up anything you say. You don't understand the game of football. You just have opinions, and you stick to them.

But thanks for your view that BG played better in the second half. That was very helpful. No one probably knew that.

You just have your opinions and you stick to them. You know zero about what I understand and what I don't understand. I however understand, that you are unable to be objective about how Gus played for most the first half. Outside of your cherry picked stat of completion percentage, albeit at a poor YPA, why do you think he played well?

I never once said BG played well in the first half. I consistently said he played poorly or bad or something similar, and that the turnovers were horrible. Now we've confirmed that you can't read too.

Then, I moved on to a new subtopic, i.e. why do you think people thought he was horrible/dreadful, besides the turnovers (or was it primarily the turnovers). You were unable to answer the question--perhaps even to understand the question.

People, including myself, can tell a lot about what you know about football, because of all the dumb things you say about football.

Here you are claiming you said he played poorly or bad, yet nowhere is there an actual post where you STATE he played poorly or badly...just a lot of posts baiting people for their reasoning/analysis as to why they think he played poorly, and then dissecting and wordsmithing their answers and berating their knowledge level because you don't agree with their analysis. Mick Delaney thought he played poorly. Grady Bennett thought he played poorly. Bob Stitt thought he played poorly. I like having those three agree with me a lot more than whether or not you agree with me.

Watch the game again, PR. You'll see all the things I pointed out (BEYOND the three obvious turnovers) that indicate Grady had a bad half of football. Or don't watch it again, I really don't give two shits.

Here are 4 posts that I quickly found. Please read, AZ. Note the words "poor", "inexcusable", "poorly", "bad". I will wait for your apology. Ha.

"And, BG had a poor first half, and make several huge mistakes, but he was not dreadful." [This was in my 2d post on BG on Sunday morning]

"The 2d fumble was inexcusable. The first one was partly on the pass protection. One pick shouldn't have been thrown into that much coverage and was a good pick. The other pick was a tremendous pick. No excuse for that many turnovers by a qb."

"I never once said BG played well in the first half. I consistently said he played poorly or bad or something similar, and that the turnovers were horrible."

"This is what I said, multiple times including a few posts above: "I never once said BG played well in the first half. I consistently said he played poorly or bad or something similar, and that the turnovers were horrible. Now we've confirmed that you can't read too."

 

[Grisly Fan]

"So many times last year we prepared for a certain something, then get nothing like it in a game," Griz senior quarterback Brady Gustafson said. "(This week) we prepared for what we saw on tape, but also being prepared for something completely different."

Very interesting statement! Is this evidence of Stitt learning/improving? And secondly, apparently neither what they saw on tape nor the completely different thing that they prepared for was what they saw in the first half... I have to say that it was refreshing to see effective half-time adjustments that seemed to be missing last year.

 

[stubbins]

Is everyone also forgetting, this is against Saint Francis... Any decent qb would of thrown 400+ passing yards and had a hundo rushing. And who the hell turns over the ball so much against a weak team? It'd be like Alabama vs Idaho St... And I guarantee you if a qb is playing terrible in a game that should be an easy win. That qb gets pulled 10 out of 10 times.

maybe in video games...

Michigan state/furman - 190 yards
Tennessee/app state - 110 yards
Louisville/charolotte - 2qb's put up 390
Baylor/northwestern state - 2 qbs put up 220
Michigan/Hawaii - 3 qb's put up 206

or fcs games...
ndsu/charlston southern - 194 yards
waner/st. anselm? - 176
samford/mars hill? - 350 yards
Chattanooga/shorter? - 188 yards

gus - 350 yards.

obviously he could play better. stitt said as much. gus said as much. but unless you're on the xbox, not many squads are putting up 400+. even against inferior teams. or teams no one has ever heard of like st.anselm, mars hill and shorter.... :?

fuck you for bringing reason in to this conversation....go away.

 

[AZGrizFan]

Stitt's half-time comments:

The Defense is doing a great job. Their offense is killing em right now. We’re leaving it out there too much. They’re having to defend a short field with the turnovers. We can’t do that. Brady and the receivers are just not on the same page. Brady’s got to get the ball out of his hands a little quicker and he’s got to read what’s going on. He’s taking a little bit too much time to figure things out. He knows that they’re doing now and he needs to come back and get the ball out of his hands and to where it needs to go. He’s throwing into some double coverage.

I agree with what Stitt said. Our group was saying almost the exact same thing as the half went on and at halftime. AZ, I don't see where Stitt said that BG played a "crappy" half of football. You are the one just making up stuff.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Ok, PR. Ok. If you can't read between those lines, you're beyond help.

 

[UMcheer2000]

And if Brady would of stopped throwing it to #22 of SFU. The game would of been a lot better. But Brady insisted on targeting him.

Didn't #22 also get injured during the game?
How much did that impact their D and inflate Brady's 2nd half stats?

 

[retiredfan]

I said it on a different thread but I am proud to be a GRIZ, love MY team, and know we will have a great season. I am so glad there was not a site to criticize my every decision and performance in my career.

AMEN to that. !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[go96griz]

And if Brady would of stopped throwing it to #22 of SFU. The game would of been a lot better. But Brady insisted on targeting him.

Didn't #22 also get injured during the game?
How much did that impact their D and inflate Brady's 2nd half stats?

#22 was in making awesome kick returns later in the game.

 

[AZGrizFan]

And if Brady would of stopped throwing it to #22 of SFU. The game would of been a lot better. But Brady insisted on targeting him.

Didn't #22 also get injured during the game?
How much did that impact their D and inflate Brady's 2nd half stats?

Yes, he was exhausted from all those lengthy KO and punt returns.