carny worker said:
grizcountry420 said:
ranco said:
It was a good win against a quality opponent. The fact we got the win with three turnovers (one pick 6) is a testament to the tuff ness of this team. While I realize JJ was under a lot of pressure, he struggled. He under threw a number of passes and the 2nd INT was a pretty bad over throw - granted he was under pressure. It takes a good team to win a game when you do not play your best. The Griz are a good team.
I'm sorry but a team with a 4-6 record is not a quality opponent...
LOL. You got that right. Brint is such a homer. He refuses to admit anything negative about the Griz. I like how he tried to justify the 3 interceptions, and the play of the offensive line. The Grizzlies had 53 yards rushing, a 2.1 yards/carry average, and Johnson spent much of the day picking himself up off the turf. Trying to say that South Dakota was a tough opponent is a joke. The facts are that the Griz have not defeated a real playoff type team this season, and have struggled even against average opponents. The Griz offensive coordinator needs to teach Johnson how to to read the blitz and hit the hot receiver. He seems to be clueless in this area.
Just a realty check post to counteract the sugar coating.
Hello Growler, MSU fan now I see?
USD is a good team with a lot of near misses, they could easily be 6-4 right now with wins over UM and Youngstown, with SDSU and NDSU yet to see. They're not there yet, their pass D isn't the best and when their running back got hurt they really lost an edge. They seem like a team that's a few play makers shy of being a real solid crew.
And the Griz did defeat PSU who is still in the playoff race (albeit a REAL long shot).
The 3 interceptions: He was pressured and being hit on all three, was he not? One is being attributed to a bad route by a WR. I did say I wished he would've thrown a few away
The O-line play: The Griz scrapped the run early on because passing was working pretty well. Also a lot of plays with Johnson getting hit were because of initial down field cover, many of Jordy's passes were 2nd/3rd reads or even on broken plays where he's running out of the pocket. Are we now to expect the O-line has to pass protect for 8 seconds per play? Yeah there were issues, they were blitzed heavily at times, some O-linemen would miss on plays. I'm not saying it was great, but the O-line blocked well enough to keep the passing game going, something they've been pretty good at most of the season.