Do you think coaching staff held back in Brawl 1.0

[armonte]

Clay has been playing at a high level

Kinda what I was seeing.

 

[pussycatkillerz]

I think they held back most of the year by rotating players heavily. They could’ve blown out a lot more teams in the regular season if they wanted to. But it’s pretty clear now that there was a season-long strategy, and once the playoffs hit, the rotation tightened up. Starters are playing the bulk of the snaps at almost every position.

I don’t think they held anything back against the Cats or Sac State. The only thing they intentionally held out for the Cat game was Loud, everything else you’re seeing now is just the result of turning the switch fully on for a playoff push.

 

[Irish$$$]

With Bobby saying multiple times before Brawl 1.0 that we would play again, do you think the coaching staff held back in terms of game planning?

The play calling has been so different the last two games, and I can't tell if it's because of match-ups or if it's just what's been building to all year.

I can't believe the Griz would sacrifice homefield thinking they didn't want to show everything, but I wonder. Otherwise why keep predicting we would play again.

I don't think the Cats held anything back. The literally have the same formula each game, they just dare teams to stop them, which no-one has yet.

Short answer: NO

 

[GriznMN]

These are the types of threads that make it hard to take the Griz fandom seriously sometimes. Do I think that Bobby is playing 4D chess by purposely only giving 80% effort in the rivalry and defacto conference championship game? No. No I do not think that.

I think MAYBE you could argue the defensive scheme was held back by the lack of Kyon Loud being on the field. But that certainly wasn't gamesmanship from the coaching staff.

Who said anyone was giving 80% effort in the rivarly?

 

[Mtgrizpolson]

No

 

[jrifkin48]

In that they didn't have two of their best defensive players who will be back for this game, yes. Other than that, no.

But I don't think it matters, because but for a lucky deflection to an out of position defender, the GRIZ win the first game.

Casual fans and bubcats have zero idea who Kyon Loud is. They don't know, but they about to find out.