Good, Bad, Ugly - NoCo

[HookedonGriz]

Seriously going to be hard to find much good from his game:

Good:
- had a good day running the ball....nyugen 17 carries for 80 (4.7 ypc) and Counts 16 for 72 (4.5 ypc). Griz totaled 228 yards on the ground with Chalich putting up 76 as well.
- JLM had another highlight reel play when he reversed field and ran it for 50 yards. I found myself saying did he really just do that. He had 11 grabs for 102 yards
- Griz D held them to 241 total yards, but that last drive they gave up made it all moot

Bad:
- special teams struggled and the blocked punt led to 7 points. A missed FG left 3 off the board. Another missed PAT
- receiver drops. Wow night and day from last week. Guys that typically don't drop balls much dropped some key ones (JLM, curran, Bingham)
- didn't throw a ball down field all game. Not one. Opposite of last week. Didn't give any receivers a chance to go make a play. Even the last offensive play was well short of the sticks and the drive would have stalled. Wtf.
- Kidder getting a personal foul when UNC literally mismanaged the clock so poorly they tried to give the ball back to Griz with time on clock.

Ugly:
- red zone play calling. How many times were they on the 5 yard line, first down, and they didn't even attempt a run.
- the Griz having 4 road losses. Inexcusable in my mind. Wtf are they so flat.
- team going backwards and not forwards, on the field often times and overall.
- sitting home for playoffs. This team at 7-4 doesn't deserve to be in. It is what it is.

Next weeks game just got more interesting. The Griz are more talented and have better players but we've seen how they doesn't mean shit. The stats for some of our losses are so lopsided in favor of the Griz yet they still find ways to lose. That could EASILY happen next week at home.

With that said, FTC!

 

[PDXGrizzly]

Three losses in 4 weeks. Definitely a late season let down. The flat play is what is pissing me off the most. It like if this team get punched in the mouth, instead of punching back, this team loses focus and goes flat. It's really frustrating to watch.

 

[UMGriz75]

- team going backwards and not forwards, on the field often times and overall.

Last season, I noted something that was, to me, extraordinary. With the unique situation of changing out starting QBs for what turned out to be three game rotations, four times, there was an interesting pattern. Each QB would have a great, or very good, "first game." Then subsequent games would see a decline in QB performance. Brady went from NDSU to Cal Poly. Chad went from a very good game with NAU to Weber. Makena went from an outstanding game against UND to Portland State. Brady came back and went from high scoring games against MSU and EWU to the disaster at NDSU(2).

You'd expect QB performance to improve with each subsequent game, but that didn't happen. The pattern was remarkable. And, it just happened again.

At the time, I wondered if Stitt was so "taken" with his talent that he would then try and impose his "complex" offense in subsequent games and instead of playing to the strengths of his talent, was trying to impose his "vision" of DI football too fast too far.

Now, I realize that there is no "complex" offense at work here. It's pretty plain vanilla. Game play announcers commented on it yesterday: it's the same formation, over and over.

 

[Umista]

Old 75 hit on the head. We have a very very unchanging offense. It is so simple minded it reminds me of sand lot football we all played in grade school. Dumb and unchanging and unable to adapt to the defenses each losing team tosses against us...stinks! Yes it is a very complex vanilla offense that most eighth grade teams would be proud off.

 

[cclarkblues]

Old 75 hit on the head. We have a very very unchanging offense. It is so simple minded it reminds me of sand lot football we all played in grade school. Dumb and unchanging and unable to adapt to the defenses each losing team tosses against us...stinks! Yes it is a very complex vanilla offense that most eighth grade teams would be proud off.

I have watched a lot of eighth grade football and I happen to think we would stack up pretty well against most eight grade teams. Maybe not teams from the South, but certainly we would be competitive with most teams from around here.

 

[RobGriz]

Three losses in 4 weeks. Definitely a late season let down. The flat play is what is pissing me off the most. It like if this team get punched in the mouth, instead of punching back, this team loses focus and goes flat. It's really frustrating to watch.

I disagree. They don't wait to get punched in the mouth to go flat. They are flat before the kickoff.

 

[PDXGrizzly]

Three losses in 4 weeks. Definitely a late season let down. The flat play is what is pissing me off the most. It like if this team get punched in the mouth, instead of punching back, this team loses focus and goes flat. It's really frustrating to watch.

I disagree. They don't wait to get punched in the mouth to go flat. They are flat before the kickoff.

:lol: Sad, but true also. Holy hell...