73duck wrote:The thing that concerns me about playing BYU is having 20-year-olds playing 24-year-olds. I have not checked the rosters, but historically many BYU players are coming back from two-year missions and have fewer players than Oregon leaving school early.
I think this game is going to be just as tough a test for us as Baylor was, but in different ways. While I know we can match Oregon's physicality, y'alls speed and scheme are going to prove a challenge and a tall order. I'm also worried about an emotional let down after the emotional roller coaster we went through with the 2 OT game against Baylor on Saturday night and thinking that we took too long celebrating the win in our minds before moving onto Oregon. Here's hoping to a great game and that my BYU cougars won't choke or not show up on Saturday.
I watched the ending of BYU - Baylor game live so I went back and watched the first half.
My feel is that we’re better than Baylor offensively. They struggled to protect Shapen and he spent a lot of time escaping and trying to make throws on the run. Most of the time it was the Baylor OL not picking up BYU’s stunts and giving guys a free run at Shapen. The crowd was a factor as well, affecting Baylor’s clap cadence and ability to communicate pre-snap. In general they were out of sorts and never got in rhythm offensively. BYU is big and physical but we should have an advantage with our skill players, solid OL, and Dillingham.
Offensively, I’m worried that BYU is going to move the ball and really challenge our D. If they have their two big WRs back we might be in trouble. Hall is a great athlete; he was inconsistent against Baylor but made plays when he needed. He‘s like a rich man’s Masoli. We have the talent to match up with them but really need to make another leap this week execution wise.
As a whole their team has a lot of size and plays with supreme confidence. They wiped out half our conference last year so they aren’t going to be intimidated at all. Hopefully we can make a few big plays early and play from ahead. Really looking forward to this game, should be a real test.
This will be my first duck game since Covid times started. Also my GF's first college football ever, against the team from where she grew up in Provo. "I dont care about the Ducks, but I hate BYU". If you see a short Italian woman in a Utah Utes jersey, say hi to Spacefrog's lady.
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StevensTechU wrote:Any intel on whether Nacua and Romney will be back?
The coaching staff doesn't reveal injury status till right before gametime. I gut feeling is that Puka will play and Gunner will be held out (lacerated kidney).
StevensTechU wrote:Any intel on whether Nacua and Romney will be back?
The coaching staff doesn't reveal injury status till right before gametime. I gut feeling is that Puka will play and Gunner will be held out (lacerated kidney).
Thanks. Our staff is pretty mum, as well, but usually there are reporters who tweet out who's not showing up to practice, in walking boots, etc.
Lacerated kidney sounds less than fun. Not sure how that's such a common injury in football.
And our defense worries me more than our offense. Could be a shootout.
Hard to favor a dink-and-dunk team in a shootout. Hopefully, Nix can push the ball downfield better than we've seen so far.
Georgia and EWU both ran two high safeties, which effectively takes away the deep ball. Especially in a game like last week where you have no reason to push things. Dillingham took what the defense gave him and the result was a 40 first down (Oregon record) performance.
