Fall camp day 2, the offense strikes back

https://twitter.com/Harmonwrites/status/1025534508781563904?s=19



Sounds like Kalani isn't too thrilled with the defensive showing today.

Wilson stood out as the best quarterback for practice day 2.

Sounds like Sitake may not be able to use the offense as his scapegoat.

Gunk wrote:

Sounds like Sitake may not be able to use the offense as his scapegoat.

How do we know? They are going against the BYU defense.

frdbtr wrote:

Sounds like Sitake may not be able to use the offense as his scapegoat.

How do we know? They are going against the BYU defense.

Haha! Touche

frdbtr wrote:

Sounds like Sitake may not be able to use the offense as his scapegoat.

How do we know? They are going against the BYU defense.

ha ha.

BYU had to be close to worst in the country in defending 3rd and long last year.

BroncoBot wrote:

Gunk wrote:

Sounds like Sitake may not be able to use the offense as his scapegoat.

How do we know? They are going against the BYU defense.

ha ha.

BYU had to be close to worst in the country in defending 3rd and long last year.

And how long the "long" was didn't matter either. I was never comfortable with BYU's odds of getting off the field on 3rd down until they had done it.

I learned a long time ago that trying to predict how good offense, defense, or any position group is based on Fall Camp reports is fools gold.



About the best you can do is determine which players are primed for good seasons.....until they get injured, that is.

Am I stretching too far in this interpretation?



Tanner Mangum is reportedly down 24 pounds from last year. To me, that's a sign that he wasn't serious about his approach to last off-season and season. But given the unserious nature of that offensive coaching staff, that's not surprising.

Yes, you're exactly right. Tanner Mangum and the rest of the team didn't put in much of any extra work during the off season. The goal was to make BYU football fun again, but hopefully the team has learned that hard work leads to winning which leads to having more fun.

I think that may hold some truth, but is probably reading too much into it. I remember reading that Tanner wanted to put on some weight to better absorb hits (prescient, to say the least, given his OL and injuries!)

Also, FWIW, anti-depressants have a tendency to lead to weight gain.

I think Tanner's in a much better place in all aspects this season. I hope it pays off for him and the team.

SpiffCoug wrote:

Am I stretching too far in this interpretation?



Tanner Mangum is reportedly down 24 pounds from last year. To me, that's a sign that he wasn't serious about his approach to last off-season and season. But given the unserious nature of that offensive coaching staff, that's not surprising.

Yes.



Last two offseasons all I remember is people praising Mangum's work ethic in hitting the gym to put on weight:



https://twitter.com/gregwrubell/status/748726145537875971



Absolutely unfair to now knock him as having been lazy when he takes those same pounds off...especially when he mentioned this offseason in talking to the press that the reason he was trying to lose weight was to speed up his recovery--take some weight off his injured leg:



https://www.sltrib.com/sports/byu-cougars/2018/07/14/byus-tanner-mangum-has/

Why are we body shamming Tanner? Every body is beautiful.