Reasons why the Griz are better this year

[DuCharme]

We’ve all read or heard that UNA were onto the Griz signals in the first half. That changed after halftime.

 

[Yukon]

We’ve all read or heard that UNA were onto the Griz signals in the first half. That changed after halftime.

speaking of this. How does the Griz coaches call in the plays? Hard to tell as some players never look at the sideline and just seam to know what play it is. Happens very fast also.

 

[PAGriz]

Just a few points about the game and some comments I have seen on this board following the game.

1) A saw some posts about UNA stealing the calls from the GRIZ sideline in the first half. This is non sense. The only people who would know that would be the UNA staff and unless someone here knows a coach on that staff this shouldnt have been brought. This may be a shock to people on here like playerep but these comments take away from what at least I saw in this game(my opinion) and that is this team was a young team last year. They are a year older, wiser, stronger and better prepared. I know its early but it appears to me so far that Bobby has addressed a major deficiency from last year and that deficiency was depth. More than anything else they wore UNA down.

2) Is this team better than last year? Of course they are. The question is how much better. The sample size is too small and at this point too unknown. They beat what appears to be a bad South Dakota team and a team that played a D 2 schedule last year and went 7-3. I suspect the results would have been similar if you plugged last years team into this years first two games.

 

[bgbigdog]

Last season, yes... I know I shouldn’t go there, but the intensity & effort was night/day different from the year prior. They’ve turned it up even higher this season.

Don’t underestimate the impact Mallory made in the interior when he was in - kid’s the one true road-grader the group. Get the inside running game going like this & the outside will be there when they aren’t playing speed-based defenses like NA.

The coaching was outstanding - mostly. Moving to a predominantly zone coverage scheme in the 2nd half made a huge difference. And guess what, they knew what to do and how to play it because they are prepared. I’ll overlook the over the top trickeration because it’s about Bobby being Bobby. Hopefully he’ll rein that in a bit & no, this wasn’t about getting anything on film FFS, his rep is known far & wide. Sometimes he just can’t help himself.

Regardless of what happens @ the duck pond, you’ll know they’ll play hard every minute. All you can ask for.

 

[IdaGriz01]

Last season, yes... I know I shouldn’t go there, but the intensity & effort was night/day different from the year prior. They’ve turned it up even higher this season.

Don’t underestimate the impact Mallory made in the interior when he was in - kid’s the one true road-grader the group. Get the inside running game going like this & the outside will be there when they aren’t playing speed-based defenses like NA.

The coaching was outstanding - mostly. Moving to a predominantly zone coverage scheme in the 2nd half made a huge difference. And guess what, they knew what to do and how to play it because they are prepared. I’ll overlook the over the top trickeration because it’s about Bobby being Bobby. Hopefully he’ll rein that in a bit & no, this wasn’t about getting anything on film FFS, his rep is known far & wide. Sometimes he just can’t help himself.

Regardless of what happens @ the duck pond, you’ll know they’ll play hard every minute. All you can ask for.

:thumb:

 

[BadlandsGrizFan]

Actually, the Griz played well in the first half too. Just gave up 2 long passes, and fumbled late on the odd play involving Sneed. The team was prepared and motivated.

Please pay more attention if you are going to post in my threads.

Late in the 2nd quarter, it was the defense coordination that thought a 3 man rush would get the job done. Lopez had all day, and you can only cover so long. A perfect case of the prevent defense - leading to 10 points and the halftime lead.

Lopez had more time than ANY Griz opponent QB i can ever remember, in the first half and there were still open receivers, but that's not Bobby's fault. He had his team perfectly prepared.

As much as you like to attack the HC, he doesn't call the defensive plays. Not sure whether you understand that or it just doesn't fit your narrative. Either way makes you look the fool. Some poor DC calls, corrected at halftime, do not indicate the team was not ready to play. A 45-0 half is proof they were.

Griz win by 40+ points and this guy is over hear bitching about the Head Coach not having the team ready...lol

 

[PlayerRep]

Late in the 2nd quarter, it was the defense coordination that thought a 3 man rush would get the job done. Lopez had all day, and you can only cover so long. A perfect case of the prevent defense - leading to 10 points and the halftime lead.

Lopez had more time than ANY Griz opponent QB i can ever remember, in the first half and there were still open receivers, but that's not Bobby's fault. He had his team perfectly prepared.

As much as you like to attack the HC, he doesn't call the defensive plays. Not sure whether you understand that or it just doesn't fit your narrative. Either way makes you look the fool. Some poor DC calls, corrected at halftime, do not indicate the team was not ready to play. A 45-0 half is proof they were.

Griz win by 40+ points and this guy is over hear bitching about the Head Coach not having the team ready...lol

Good point. Pretty funny. I suppose the coach should have known that the opponent was going to figure out how to steal defensive signals from the press box, and had towels ready to go sooner in the game.

 

[PlayerRep]

“They came out and did some different things, hit us with the quick passes out on the perimeter, were cutting us down, getting us blocked and we couldn’t defeat the block,” North Alabama coach Chris Willis said. “Had us on our heels pretty much the whole second half defensively. It was just two different games. It really was.”

Willis continued: “I thought first half we did what we needed to do to hang in there, whether it was one-point lead or one-point behind. We had the lead. We went in not feeling overconfident and understanding it was a close game. We made adjustments, but hats off to those guys. They’re a good football team. I think they wore us down. I think their O-line kind of controlled some things there in the second half. You could tell the size probably came into play.”

MIssoulian again.

What, the Griz o-line kind of controlled things in the second half? Can that be true? Don't alot of you think our o-line still sucks? Who's the dummy who was saying a few weeks ago that there was "no sign" that the o-line had improved?

PR - get over yourself already. I don't recall anyone saying the O-line still sucked. I recall many posters, including myself, saying we needed to see them play some games to draw meaningful conclusions. They had a good half no doubt. It's a long season with a tough schedule...I think the jury is still out on the unit, but certainly signs of improvement so far.

Shouldn't you be getting over yourself or getting better with-it regarding Griz football?

I merely kept saying that there had been lots of signs of improvement in the o-line since last year, including additions, spring ball, and fall pre-season and coaches, players and parents saying things had improved. This was in response to some posters saying there had been no signs of improvement.

I've been proven to have been completely correct in what I said. Try following what's going on better, so you don't say so many stupid things.

 

[PlayerRep]

Just a few points about the game and some comments I have seen on this board following the game.

1) A saw some posts about UNA stealing the calls from the GRIZ sideline in the first half. This is non sense. The only people who would know that would be the UNA staff and unless someone here knows a coach on that staff this shouldnt have been brought. This may be a shock to people on here like playerep but these comments take away from what at least I saw in this game(my opinion) and that is this team was a young team last year. They are a year older, wiser, stronger and better prepared. I know its early but it appears to me so far that Bobby has addressed a major deficiency from last year and that deficiency was depth. More than anything else they wore UNA down.

2) Is this team better than last year? Of course they are. The question is how much better. The sample size is too small and at this point too unknown. They beat what appears to be a bad South Dakota team and a team that played a D 2 schedule last year and went 7-3. I suspect the results would have been similar if you plugged last years team into this years first two games.

My info is 100% correct. Brint can confirm that my source would be 100% on this. Why do you think that posters have mentioned that towels were put up as the game went one (to cover signals). Don't ever question my information. Ha.

You are correct that this team is considerably better than last year's team. Last year's team would not have pounded by ball late against UND and had 12:15 of TOP. Many other differences too. You just hate Hauck so much that you want to minimize the team's improvement and the opponents. Kem and I talked at the game about how you profess not to be a Hauck Hater, but clearly are.

 

[AZGrizFan]

Lopez had more time than ANY Griz opponent QB i can ever remember, in the first half and there were still open receivers, but that's not Bobby's fault. He had his team perfectly prepared.

As much as you like to attack the HC, he doesn't call the defensive plays. Not sure whether you understand that or it just doesn't fit your narrative. Either way makes you look the fool. Some poor DC calls, corrected at halftime, do not indicate the team was not ready to play. A 45-0 half is proof they were.

Griz win by 40+ points and this guy is over hear bitching about the Head Coach not having the team ready...lol

Good point. Pretty funny. I suppose the coach should have known that the opponent was going to figure out how to steal defensive signals from the press box, and had towels ready to go sooner in the game.

Well that certainly would have been helpful and made for a lot less first half angst in THIS Griz household... :evil: :evil: :evil:

 

[DuCharme]

The only people who would know that...

“only” is fairly absolute... how do you know?

 

[granitegriz]

Mallory is getting a lot of praise on e-griz, and deservedly so. The run game is back!

 

[Missoula223]

Just a few points about the game and some comments I have seen on this board following the game.

1) A saw some posts about UNA stealing the calls from the GRIZ sideline in the first half. This is non sense. The only people who would know that would be the UNA staff and unless someone here knows a coach on that staff this shouldnt have been brought. This may be a shock to people on here like playerep but these comments take away from what at least I saw in this game(my opinion) and that is this team was a young team last year. They are a year older, wiser, stronger and better prepared. I know its early but it appears to me so far that Bobby has addressed a major deficiency from last year and that deficiency was depth. More than anything else they wore UNA down.

2) Is this team better than last year? Of course they are. The question is how much better. The sample size is too small and at this point too unknown. They beat what appears to be a bad South Dakota team and a team that played a D 2 schedule last year and went 7-3. I suspect the results would have been similar if you plugged last years team into this years first two games.

Did the Griz coaches shield their signals in the second half with towels just for the fun of it?

 

[granitegriz]

If every time the Griz blitzed, they ran the perfect play to counter...that is not a coincidence!!!

 

[PlayerRep]

Just a few points about the game and some comments I have seen on this board following the game.

1) A saw some posts about UNA stealing the calls from the GRIZ sideline in the first half. This is non sense. The only people who would know that would be the UNA staff and unless someone here knows a coach on that staff this shouldnt have been brought. This may be a shock to people on here like playerep but these comments take away from what at least I saw in this game(my opinion) and that is this team was a young team last year. They are a year older, wiser, stronger and better prepared. I know its early but it appears to me so far that Bobby has addressed a major deficiency from last year and that deficiency was depth. More than anything else they wore UNA down.

2) Is this team better than last year? Of course they are. The question is how much better. The sample size is too small and at this point too unknown. They beat what appears to be a bad South Dakota team and a team that played a D 2 schedule last year and went 7-3. I suspect the results would have been similar if you plugged last years team into this years first two games.

Did the Griz coaches shield their signals in the second half with towels just for the fun of it?

They should have done it in the first half, when the sun was still coming down to the field. Would have helped with the heat and avoiding sunburn.

 

[Missoula223]

Last season, yes... I know I shouldn’t go there, but the intensity & effort was night/day different from the year prior. They’ve turned it up even higher this season.

Don’t underestimate the impact Mallory made in the interior when he was in - kid’s the one true road-grader the group. Get the inside running game going like this & the outside will be there when they aren’t playing speed-based defenses like NA.

The coaching was outstanding - mostly. Moving to a predominantly zone coverage scheme in the 2nd half made a huge difference. And guess what, they knew what to do and how to play it because they are prepared. I’ll overlook the over the top trickeration because it’s about Bobby being Bobby. Hopefully he’ll rein that in a bit & no, this wasn’t about getting anything on film FFS, his rep is known far & wide. Sometimes he just can’t help himself.

Regardless of what happens @ the duck pond, you’ll know they’ll play hard every minute. All you can ask for.

All ST guys want to get a fake on film early in the season to make teams less aggressive as the season goes on.. regardless of reputation he still has to uphold it.

 

[Grisly Fan]

Just a few points about the game and some comments I have seen on this board following the game.

1) A saw some posts about UNA stealing the calls from the GRIZ sideline in the first half. This is non sense. The only people who would know that would be the UNA staff and unless someone here knows a coach on that staff this shouldnt have been brought. This may be a shock to people on here like playerep but these comments take away from what at least I saw in this game(my opinion) and that is this team was a young team last year. They are a year older, wiser, stronger and better prepared. I know its early but it appears to me so far that Bobby has addressed a major deficiency from last year and that deficiency was depth. More than anything else they wore UNA down.

2) Is this team better than last year? Of course they are. The question is how much better. The sample size is too small and at this point too unknown. They beat what appears to be a bad South Dakota team and a team that played a D 2 schedule last year and went 7-3. I suspect the results would have been similar if you plugged last years team into this years first two games.

Did the Griz coaches shield their signals in the second half with towels just for the fun of it?

They should have done it in the first half, when the sun was still coming down to the field. Would have helped with the heat and avoiding sunburn.

Clearly the coaches didn't know that UNA wasn't stealing signs. Idiots.

 

[BadlandsGrizFan]

Just a few points about the game and some comments I have seen on this board following the game.

1) A saw some posts about UNA stealing the calls from the GRIZ sideline in the first half. This is non sense. The only people who would know that would be the UNA staff and unless someone here knows a coach on that staff this shouldnt have been brought. This may be a shock to people on here like playerep but these comments take away from what at least I saw in this game(my opinion) and that is this team was a young team last year. They are a year older, wiser, stronger and better prepared. I know its early but it appears to me so far that Bobby has addressed a major deficiency from last year and that deficiency was depth. More than anything else they wore UNA down.

2) Is this team better than last year? Of course they are. The question is how much better. The sample size is too small and at this point too unknown. They beat what appears to be a bad South Dakota team and a team that played a D 2 schedule last year and went 7-3. I suspect the results would have been similar if you plugged last years team into this years first two games.

Did the Griz coaches shield their signals in the second half with towels just for the fun of it?

Its not like that sort of thing is unheard of either.....IDK why people wouldn't believe that something like that could have taken place.

Teams have been stealing signals in multiple sports across the board forever.

 

[BadlandsGrizFan]

I would say that a major difference between this years team and last years(dont talk about them) is that this years team seems to be much more calm during chaos...if that makes sense.

This year Ive seen during certain points of the game when things really have the potential to turn bad, or get out of hand, that the team in general whether offense or defense gathers itself, and stays calm the whole time, and they dont compound bad play with 3 or 4 more bad plays.

Last year, collapses happened...as to say they couldnt always stop the bleeding.

 

[PAGriz]

Just a few points about the game and some comments I have seen on this board following the game.

1) A saw some posts about UNA stealing the calls from the GRIZ sideline in the first half. This is non sense. The only people who would know that would be the UNA staff and unless someone here knows a coach on that staff this shouldnt have been brought. This may be a shock to people on here like playerep but these comments take away from what at least I saw in this game(my opinion) and that is this team was a young team last year. They are a year older, wiser, stronger and better prepared. I know its early but it appears to me so far that Bobby has addressed a major deficiency from last year and that deficiency was depth. More than anything else they wore UNA down.

2) Is this team better than last year? Of course they are. The question is how much better. The sample size is too small and at this point too unknown. They beat what appears to be a bad South Dakota team and a team that played a D 2 schedule last year and went 7-3. I suspect the results would have been similar if you plugged last years team into this years first two games.

My info is 100% correct. Brint can confirm that my source would be 100% on this. Why do you think that posters have mentioned that towels were put up as the game went one (to cover signals). Don't ever question my information. Ha.

You are correct that this team is considerably better than last year's team. Last year's team would not have pounded by ball late against UND and had 12:15 of TOP. Many other differences too. You just hate Hauck so much that you want to minimize the team's improvement and the opponents. Kem and I talked at the game about how you profess not to be a Hauck Hater, but clearly are.

Your too funny. I dont hate him. Heck I dont know him and have never met him. I am just not blind loyal to him or anybody else like you two dimwits are.

I have gone back and searched. I cant find one time where you have criticized or questioned anything he has said or done. In this game there were spots where it was easy to critique a few things in the 1st half like for example, leaving 4 points on the field or running fake special teams plays when.
This was a slightly better than average D 2 team, nothing more. UNA will be lucky to finish with 5 or 6 wins this year. I am cautiously optimistic. I think they are better. But if you are a "real" football guy you can admit looking at the schedule none of will really know until about 6pm PST on Sept 28th.

I know, you played the game 50 YEARS ago and nobody else on the face of the earth has played it since.

You know what else happened 50 years ago:

The video game pong was invented
Calculators were invented
A man landed on the moon
The microwave oven was invented
Cassettes were invented
The Vietnam war was at its half way point
Post it Notes were invented
The Jets won the Super Bowl
Most importantly my Mom was still a virgin or least that's what she told my Dad.

Im happy for you but as you can see quite lot has changed and evolved since then, football included.

You reference past events when they are convenient for you but criticize everybody else who does when it doesn't fit your narrative. When it comes to Bobby you can reference his past when he was here the first time but you cant reference it when he was at UNLV. You talk about Grizs opponents pasts to argue "quality wins" or "Quality opponents".

I dont dislike Bobby, I like getting under your skin because your a hypocrite. The fact that you were talking about me at the game proves its working. I am so sad you two concurred that I hate Bobby. I might never sleep...................................................................................................................................again. Sorry I fell asleep for a minute