Surprises

I was surprised how well the defense played. This was a Rich Rodriguez team. Holding them to 16 points is impressive.



I was surprised at the O Line's play. Not one hold and big holes the whole game.



I was surprised that Taysom looks slower.



I was surprised that I forgot how special and downhill Jamaal runs.



I was NOT surprised that a freshman won it for us. That happened last year. ;)

BoiseBYU wrote:
I was surprised how well the defense played. This was a Rich Rodriguez team. Holding them to 16 points is impressive.



I was surprised at the O Line's play. Not one hold and big holes the whole game.



I was surprised that Taysom looks slower.



I was surprised that I forgot how special and downhill Jamaal runs.



I was NOT surprised that a freshman won it for us. That happened last year. ;)

I don't think Taysom is slower, I think UA did a really good job staying in their lanes and not letting him get outside on his runs. I did feel like the offensive game plan was pretty conservative. Taysom just did not look as aggressive tonight as he has in the past.

frdbtr wrote:

I was surprised how well the defense played. This was a Rich Rodriguez team. Holding them to 16 points is impressive.



I was surprised at the O Line's play. Not one hold and big holes the whole game.



I was surprised that Taysom looks slower.



I was surprised that I forgot how special and downhill Jamaal runs.



I was NOT surprised that a freshman won it for us. That happened last year. ;)

I don't think Taysom is slower, I think UA did a really good job staying in their lanes and not letting him get outside on his runs. I did feel like the offensive game plan was pretty conservative. Taysom just did not look as aggressive tonight as he has in the past.

You very well may be right. To me he looked slower than in times past. He still played a good game. He was ice the last drive.

BoiseBYU wrote:

BoiseBYU wrote:
I was surprised how well the defense played. This was a Rich Rodriguez team. Holding them to 16 points is impressive.



I was surprised at the O Line's play. Not one hold and big holes the whole game.



I was surprised that Taysom looks slower.



I was surprised that I forgot how special and downhill Jamaal runs.



I was NOT surprised that a freshman won it for us. That happened last year. ;)

I don't think Taysom is slower, I think UA did a really good job staying in their lanes and not letting him get outside on his runs. I did feel like the offensive game plan was pretty conservative. Taysom just did not look as aggressive tonight as he has in the past.

You very well may be right. To me he looked slower than in times past. He still played a good game. He was ice the last drive.

He did play a good game. It was just interesting to me on a couple of his runs, you saw him start to turn on the speed and I would think "there he goes" and then someone would come out of nowhere and take his legs out from under him. I decided after a while that AZ's D was dialed in on him and stayed at home to not let him get away from them.

I also thought Hill looked a step slower but that's not meant to sound like a knock against him. He looked poised he made the right reads all night and his throws were on target. Williams is a stud! The defense showed so many different looks tonight I was shocked how well they played. Really only one blown play that lead to the go ahead touchdown, the rest of the night they were solid.

Not trying to sound defensive here but just wait until someone blows an assignment on one of his runs and you will see that he hasn't lost a step. :)

I feel like Taysom has lost a step, but he is still very fast for a quarterback. He lost one in each of his comebacks to injury. But as Frdbtr pointed out, he will go the distance if the defense loses him.



The nice thing about having a dozen steps is it's okay if you lose one or two :)

It looked to me like he did exactly what Coach Detmer wanted him to do; be more measured and careful.



I liked the play calling and I loved seeing Ty and Taysom interact between plays. It looked so much more like a productive relationship than I ever witnessed with Coach Anae.



And I am hoping that the staff and team were holding something back for Utah.



I was so happy to hear Coach Sitaki bring up the Utah game in the sideline interview after the win tonight.



I HOPE the coaches told Taysom to try not to show Utah how much he has in his legs and arm. He definitely showed his heart, mind, and guts.

Ygridiron4ever wrote:
It looked to me like he did exactly what Coach Detmer wanted him to do; be more measured and careful.



I liked the play calling and I loved seeing Ty and Taysom interact between plays. It looked so much more like a productive relationship than I ever witnessed with Coach Anae.



And I am hoping that the staff and team were holding something back for Utah.



I was so happy to hear Coach Sitaki bring up the Utah game in the sideline interview after the win tonight.



I HOPE the coaches told Taysom to try not to show Utah how much he has in his legs and arm. He definitely showed his heart, mind, and guts.

I hope they were holding something back too because to me the play calling seemed really vanilla to me. I don't know if it was because they were holding something back or because of what AZ's defense was giving them, or if it was because Ty hasn't installed his whole offense yet.

I was impressed at the O line with regards to opening up running lanes. I do think the pocket protection could use a bit of polishing.

The last two AZscos came on outside LB blitzes and I think one of them was an error by Bernard. Sitake alluded to that when asked about his great game,

But surprises?

Bernard was quite good. And will get better.

Kaufusi shows great signs considering he hasn't played DE for what, five years? He has the motor.

Other than some bad kicking by Almond-- clearly the freshman is a surprise...although coaches alluded during camp that the best kicker wasn't in camp--Yatsee! First collegiate kick under that pressure???? Wow!! We have the meat!!

Otherwise, Special teams was really pretty good. Johnny L has IT.

Oline did better than anticiaoted. Sure would be great to their two back. Johnson and Wilcox. Let's see vs tough Dline next week.

I was surprised how much Jamal was used. He won't be able to take that pounding every week. But that was the game plan. Let's hope the O opens up.

For the first game by a first-time college coach/coordinator running a new offense, I was pretty impressed at how efficient the offense was at moving the ball. The receivers had some drops (Nick Kurtz continues to showcase his T-rex arms on deep balls), and Jamaal had some big runs called back for stupid penalties, but if the offense can clean those things up and sustain drives, it could be a hard O to stop. It might not be Baylor-sexy, but it will score plenty enough to win games.

Two more: I was surprised at how well BYU fans represented. And I was surprised at how well the TE plays worked.

I was surprised at how bad Taysom was at waving off defenders. He looked to immediately stare down his intended receiver, which will cause issues with better teams going forward.

I was surprised we had a TO left in the 4th quarter. Nothing against Bronco but he would've burned all of them in the 3rd quarter. Lol

birdie702 wrote:
I was surprised we had a TO left in the 4th quarter. Nothing against Bronco but he would've burned all of them in the 3rd quarter. Lol

I know. I was actually quite upset earlier when Taysom took that delay of game penalty. I thought he should have taken a timeout since it was clear the offense wasn't set, the snap wasn't ready and the play wasn't going to get off in time.



Good thing we took the five yards there.

Bernard as LB, pretty solid first outing.

pressure on Solomon. He wasn't very comfortable at any point.

Run defense could definitely be a little better.

Missed PAT? Hopefully Oldroyd (sp?) steps up and can dominate there.

Taysom did NOT look as fast. But his decision making was solid and I agree with Sno, he was throwing darts all night. Had Pearson not dropped/went OOB on the sideline and I can't remember who dropped the fastball over the middle, he would have had an even better evening.



Overall, it went very well. I was nervous all game that arizona was going to rip off a big play and take the lead Would have been nice to find the endzone more often. Offense moved the ball very well. Made for a great game. Definitely something to build on.

BroncoBot wrote:
Bernard as LB, pretty solid first outing.

pressure on Solomon. He wasn't very comfortable at any point.

Run defense could definitely be a little better.

Missed PAT? Hopefully Oldroyd (sp?) steps up and can dominate there.

Taysom did NOT look as fast. But his decision making was solid and I agree with Sno, he was throwing darts all night. Had Pearson not dropped/went OOB on the sideline and I can't remember who dropped the fastball over the middle, he would have had an even better evening.



Overall, it went very well. I was nervous all game that arizona was going to rip off a big play and take the lead Would have been nice to find the endzone more often. Offense moved the ball very well. Made for a great game. Definitely something to build on.

And dont forget the two nice Jamal Williams runs that were called back.

I didn't think that Taysom was that slow. I do concede that he was taking care not to explode forward off from his right foot. He stumbled once while boot-legging left for a first down (but he did reach the marker). AZ's DB's were pretty fast in their coverage of Hill, as though they were spying him out for those end scrambles.



I doubt that Hill's full effort is that much slower. I think he is just being careful. As the season progresses, we will see more speed from him.

I think the biggest surprise was that the defenses from both teams were better than expected. I had a hunch this would be the case for BYU's D, but did not expect BSU's former coordinator to turn things around so quickly for AZ.



I think this Cougar O would have scored at least 42 points on AZ's 2015 defense.