Yep, playing calling wasn't smart in the red zone, yes, we scored but against fast aggressive defenses in the Sec those silly swing passes want get it. Leach's play calling in the red zone is his weakness.
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Overall I give this a B+. Came out throwing haymakers and put them down 28-3 early. Receivers look excellent, Will looked above average and his arm has more pop than last year. His timing was off on that INT but he will clean that up. Biggest gripe with him was I believe 3rd quarter and it was Walley who broke free and had an easy TD and Will just overthrew him by 5 yards. Can’t miss those in SEC play, have have have to connect on the deep ball there. That 35 yards pass to Ducking for the TD could not have been thrown better, just need to get consistent.
OL looked excellent. D-Bill may have finally figured it out and could be an All SEC LT if he plays like that each game. Run game didnt have much push but that’s just the offense we run. Running it on first down is a refreshing change of pace and I hope we keep sprinkling that in. Think I saw 4 runs in a row at one point for a first down which not sure I’ve seen here since Leach showed up, was nice to see. Marks/Dillon are legit.
Defense looked great minus pass rush. Jett is playing himself into NFL territory and our secondary looked serviceable. Arnett is a really good coach we have to keep him here. Pass rush is a concern but ill wait another week before really worrying. If we look the same against AZ and get zero pressure it can cost us some games. The fact we couldn’t get home when brining all pressure wasn’t great but like i said I’ll worry about that next week.
Great start to the season with good film for us to study and clean up. Hailstate
Y?all are insane. We looked good early but got tired in our 6 playing at midnight up 24 points hahah. I?ll give them a pass on that. It was laaaaate I was having trouble staying awake just laying on my couch watching it. Offense was scoring late with backups and defense was still getting some pressure while playing at about 75% late.
There's some damned revisionist history going on here folks.
It was 35-3 when we started coasting and it was 7-0 at the rain delay. And Memphis sure as hell didn't come out after the rain delay firing. After the rain delay, we scored to make it 14-0. Then Memphis went punt, FG, punt, punt to get us to the end of the first half and had 15 total yards in doing that. Then to open the 2nd half they went punt and punt.
So 5 of their 6 drives after the rain delay ended in punts and the one scoring drive they accumulated a total of 4 yards on after the Rogers pick.
So let's not freaking act like we didn't dominate that ass. We let backups start playing considerably more 2nd half and they didn't play well. It happens. We can be upset about that. But our 1st team other than a few errors completely dominated Memphis.
Some of y'all need to chill out.
The 35-3 portion of the game felt like watching our 2014 game against USM, minus will's one misread. The rest of the game felt like Geoff Collins 1Amazing / 1Bad schtick against 2014 UAB.
This team gives off a lot of 2014 vibes to me, (lots of seniors everywhere. a returning QB with dark horse heisman hopes that is fully the leader of this team, a tough sec schedule, but a west that has no clear #2)
Agree with about all of that. I knew Jett was pretty good, but I was a little surprised how darn good he is last night. He will get a shot at the nfl if he keeps playing like that. Very smart player..knows where the ball is going before the play develops. He’s also a punishing tackler.
Am I missing something? People act like Memphis is a pushover.
They have been getting increasingly better over the past 4-5 years. I'll take a 26 point win any day. Without the delay, I am quite sure we destroy them 63-3 or something similar, but let's not act like this is Utah state or Sam Houston. Memphis is much improved from the Memphis State days.
The last TD is exactly what I expected when the other coach called a damn timeout. That was ridiculous of them.
Memphis is also better than San Diego State. Watching the AZ/SDS game this morning and SDS's defense was bad. Way too many missed tackles and not a lot of push from their front. Even with that they got a couple of turnovers. SDS's QB missed wide open receivers that Will won't.
Usually a big difference between MAC teams...which always play the big boys tough early in the season and the Sun Belt teams IMO....
We handled the rain delay much better than Memphis.
First five drives for Memphis after the delay: 4 punts and a FG (only because we gave them great field position after a pick).
First five drives for us after the delay: 3 touchdowns, a pick, and a few plays that ended the first half. We also had a TD on our first drive in the second half.
Yes, we went to sleep for awhile in from mid-third to mid-fourth quarter, but we definitely "came out shooting" after the delay more so than Memphis.
Edited to add: I see that others made this same point first. Apologies for piling on and not reading all responses before posting mine.