Crazy pills

I think the people who are taking this loss to primarily talk about Anae are taking crazy pills. Our glaringly obvious problem this year has been defense.

To me this is like the guy who goes to buy new tires when his engine is on fire.

True.



But Anae is the one in charge of an offense that exposed our best player to needless contact. The wheels came off with the defense, but Hill was the engine to success for the entire team.



Is it Anae's fault Hill made an audible, passed on handing the ball off and going for it. Not entirely. But Anae sets the tone on offense and he clearly had no issue with Hill tucking and running every 3rd play.



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Only if its about replacing him. But otherwise, letting a horse run into the road is a high risk situation. Instead, Anae should have been a more pass oriented offense--which it will not be forced to become.

But he's not alone: Heat's on with Howell and Kpop (for KIck Off Kraziness), and that interior Dline coach. ;-)

Gunk wrote:
True.



But Anae is the one in charge of an offense that exposed our best player to needless contact. The wheels came off with the defense, but Hill was the engine to success for the entire team.



Is it Anae's fault Hill made an audible, passed on handing the ball off and going for it. Not entirely. But Anae sets the tone on offense and he clearly had no issue with Hill tucking and running every 3rd play.



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Gunk. Go back and watch the game. BYU came out throwing deep. First time this yesr. It worked go a minute then fizzled and sputtered. Anae went to what was working. Read option.



When you have a QB who runs better than your best running back in history, but cannot consistently throw deep, you either run him, or bench him if you have a great passer. We will find out whether we even have a good passer now. I already know we do not have a great one.



It is high risk - high reward. It allows you to whip Texas when they are having an off season. Look around. Anae is not the only one doing it.



Starting quarterbacks get injured. Great teams have depth. I do not recall when BYU last had a depth of QBs that actually turned out to be great.



Name a starting D1 QB in the entire state of Utah. BAM. There is not one. All 3 schools are playing back-ups. Our back-up. A 5th year senior, threw 3 interceptions while the other two whipped ranked teams.



For years, one of my broken record vomplaints, is that BY does not get enough meaningful playing time for their backups. And when they come in to mop up, they do not let them play.



Fault the coaches for mediocre recruiting classes and for not letting backups truly play even at the risk of running up the score, but the players do need to execute, and they did not on Friday.



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hawkwing wrote:
I think the people who are taking this loss to primarily talk about Anae are taking crazy pills. Our glaringly obvious problem this year has been defense.

I think it is both. Plenty of people on this board and others are talking about Bronco taking back the defense. Anae's offense sucked on ice, and a lot of good things happened specifically because Taysom could just run over and around people when the line broke down every other play, or when receivers weren't getting open or running the right routes.



The defense will be worse than last year (as I predicted) but the offense is going to be light years worse than last years'. And that is saying something. Anae has had two years to put a line together, and they are still shuffling bodies around trying to find the right lineup.



BYU is in big trouble, but on the bright side we do have one of the weakest back end schedules in all of football, so we might be able to salvage the regular season, if Anae is all that his protractors think he is. The clock is ticking.