The TBP Official In Game Thread: Bulls at BYU

[USFRaider]

Fix the defense. If that means we have to get rid of Glenn Spencer, so be it.

[MikeG]

 

 

[MikeG]

My take is that both sides of the ball had their moments. The defense started off terribly but also hung tough a bunch at various points only to look silly at other points. The offense started out pretty rough as well but seemed to grow over time. The offense helped the defense out quite a bit with ball control.  The time of possession

was

35:37

24:23

in favor of USF. The easy thing to say for most of us is that we played better than most of us expected. I still question a lot of what the coaching staff is doing and how some decisions seem wasteful. But it beats getting beat down like we were against NC State. I can see us winning some games this year when before- I wasn't sold on that just yet. I still think the whole Fortin thing was a total waste of time. You have to be blind not to see the difference in ability between these two QBs. Some one on here once said it best-- we tend to hire coaches who try to force their agenda on our team instead of adapting and using the tools that are already here. Hell -- even Taggart was totally guilty of this until he finally stopped trying to push his ideas so hard and finally trust Flowers to lead.

[MikeG]

Not a single highlight or score shown on college final. They even said "the score was not really indicative of the game". You lose by 8 points and these clowns ignore even the nice plays we had--- but show anyone elses decent plays. I guess if you let a team out to a 21 point lead you suddenly are not worthy. You can bet they end up showing something of FSU's game as if that one was somehow different than ours.

 

man do I hate ESPN

[CousinRicky]

Just woke up and turned to pen for the score. Appears I'll skip thru the first quarter and then it will be worth watching. 

[Cornada]

5 hours ago, Gatorbull325 said:

1st quarter had 2 PUNTS, 1 FUMBLE, and 2 field goals deep in the red zone that should have been touchdowns. The defense sucks, but the offense lost this game. 

I must of watched a different game.  The game I watched, the D couldn't stop the run or the big plays.  

[CousinRicky]

1 hour ago, Cornada said:

I must of watched a different game.  The game I watched, the D couldn't stop the run or the big plays.  

Just got done watching.  Unless BYU punted in the 1st quarter our D only forced one punt.  To put this on the offense is crazy talk.

Edited September 26, 2021 by CousinRicky

[BullyPulpit]

7 hours ago, chapelbull said:

Our defense got run over the first 3 drives of the game and again after our long drive to start the half.  Our defense sucks.  Period, it's not the offenses fault

Nowhere in there did I blame the offense. I simply said that the coaching staff recognize the defenses weaknesses and appeared not to try and take any shots deep in order to play possession football. 

[HyperBullee]

7 hours ago, MikeG said:

Not a single highlight or score shown on college final. They even said "the score was not really indicative of the game". You lose by 8 points and these clowns ignore even the nice plays we had--- but show anyone elses decent plays. I guess if you let a team out to a 21 point lead you suddenly are not worthy. You can bet they end up showing something of FSU's game as if that one was somehow different than ours.

 

man do I hate ESPN

ESPN is no friend to USF. I learned long ago that I can’t rely on positive coverage of our team if I’m hoping to get it from the mouse. It was weird how the xCCS era actually had the talking heads on our side a little early on. Of course, that changed pretty quickly though over time…

Edited September 26, 2021 by HyperBullee

[HyperBullee]

1 hour ago, BullyPulpit said:

Nowhere in there did I blame the offense. I simply said that the coaching staff recognize the defenses weaknesses and appeared not to try and take any shots deep in order to play possession football. 

I’m hoping that this isn’t flying over many people’s heads:

This staff has been making consistent adjustments after bad 1st quarters the last few games.

Yes, we struggle with getting started early but Weis Jr. and Spencer have been much better this season with the adjustments…almost as if they have more options with more of the playbook installed and better personnel than they did in year one…who would’ve thunk-it.