Weather actually helped CC

[JayLarson]

This is what I believe as the weather seemed to have a big affect on our passing game. It is hard to say this when JJ went for 388 passing yards, but he was 21 of 42. This easily could have been a 500 yard passing day for JJ, Coastal could not cover our receivers, and I honestly believe on those throws that JJ was throwing too short that it was intentional and if he had put 1 more yard on 2 different passes and taken one off another this game would have had a much different score. I think the weather caused some of JJ's passing struggles and it did not seem to affect CC at all. :twocents:

 

[grizman71]

This is what I believe as the weather seemed to have a big affect on our passing game. It is hard to say this when JJ went for 388 passing yards, but he was 21 of 42. This easily could have been a 500 yard passing day for JJ, Coastal could not cover our receivers, and I honestly believe on those throws that JJ was throwing too short that it was intentional and if he had put 1 more yard on 2 different passes and taken one off another this game would have had a much different score. I think the weather caused some of JJ's passing struggles and it did not seem to affect CC at all. :twocents:

Damn, I didn't realize Payton Manning was a poster on EGriz. Thanks for your input Payton! :roll:

 

[JayLarson]

What does that even mean?

 

[GrizRanger]

I noticed that JJ was wearing gloves on both hands, while Alex Ross was not wearing a glove on his throwing hand. I think it is more difficult to throw an accurate pass with gloves on, so JJ made a mistake in wearing a glove on his throwing hand.

One of many mistakes Griz players made in regard to game preparation for bitter cold weather.

 

[uofmman1122]

It looked to me like many of our players made zero preparation for the extreme cold, while nearly every player on CCU did.

 

[grizfromhel]

We didn't seem very well prepared for Coastal Carolina, which probably involves quite a few factors, but wonder if weather wasn't a significant one. Hard to do good practices with the temps below zero. Also think the bye week at playoff time is not always good----hard to keep your edge sharp.

 

[AZGrizFan]

This is what I believe as the weather seemed to have a big affect on our passing game. It is hard to say this when JJ went for 388 passing yards, but he was 21 of 42. This easily could have been a 500 yard passing day for JJ, Coastal could not cover our receivers, and I honestly believe on those throws that JJ was throwing too short that it was intentional and if he had put 1 more yard on 2 different passes and taken one off another this game would have had a much different score. I think the weather caused some of JJ's passing struggles and it did not seem to affect CC at all. :twocents:

I'm not sure what game you were watching, but Coastal was able to send 6 (and sometimes 7) guys REGULARLY because their corners could cover our WR's man-on-man. Those short throws weren't "intentional". He was throwing directly into the wind, which knocked them down. The reason JJ was 21-42 was because either HE insists on going 30-40 yards downfield on EVERY sequence of downs or the OC insists on doing it. If they'd stuck with shorter, ball control passes they'd have had much better success.

 

[JayLarson]

Really, cause in the 4th quarter with the wind JJ did the same thing on a pass to Henderson I think, he stopped and caught it and the got yards after the catch. Throwing a deep pass short vs man to man is a good strategy, and it is done through out the country, our receivers turned to come back to the ball as the db's are still running up field, and 2 of those passes in the end zone if they had just gone like 2 feet farther would have been tds. I would hardly call a team giving up 388 passing yards a team that was able to cover our wide receivers in man to man. Not sure what you were watching.