Well, that was an underwhelming opener.
I watched on TV, and there was a lot of unrelated conversation going on in the room around me, so I was unable to get too locked in to the game. Will be going through the tape over the next few days.
I'm doing things a bit differently this year. First of all, I'm doing the entire OL, rather than just select players. Second, the scoring system has changed. Last year, it was binary: players got 1 point for succeeding, 0 for not succeeding. I'm trying for a bit more nuance this year, and will be scoring each lineman on a scale from 0-3 each play.
Through the first quarter:
Schlueter: 86.1% run, 76.2% pass
Andries: 94.4% run, 85.7% pass
Olson: 88.9% run, 100% pass
Dunlap: 97.2% run, 90.5% pass
Faalele: 88.9% run, 90.5% pass
Fairly solid start from our guys, although Schlueter looked a little shaky in pass protection.
A few notes:
• I've raved about TE Jake Paulson's blocking in the past. As has been noted in some other discussions, he made a rather egregious whiff against SDSU. OTOH, if you want to see something fun, go to the tape and watch the play that starts with 13:11 left in the first quarter. Paulson is at the bottom of the screen, and he goes out and just absolutely freakin' DESTROYS LB Longhair. Hits him, drives him back a few yards, puts him on his back and lands on top him with full force. Brings a tear to my eye just thinkin' about it. Unfortunately, the rest of the play did not unfold so well. QB Morgan appeared to make a bad read. We had SDSU outnumbered 5 to 3 at the point of attack on the right side, even though Faalele did not get a good block. Instead of handing off the ball to Mo going right, Morgan kept it and went left, right into two defenders for no gain. The drive ended one play later.
• All in all, I thought it was a pretty solid game from Morgan, other than making a poor decision on the interception and on perhaps one other throw. He was 13-for-18 with receivers dropping one or two. One of those incompletions came during the last drive of the first quarter. The left side allowed pressure, and on the right TE Ko Kieft allowed a twisting DL to get around him and to the QB. Morgan was hit by two guys as he released the ball, which sailed high to an open Tyler Johnson. It went off his fingertips.
Watching live, my impression is that the OL's performance trended downward throughout the game. Will be interesting to see if that's how it scores, and where the breakdowns came.
JTG
I watched on TV, and there was a lot of unrelated conversation going on in the room around me, so I was unable to get too locked in to the game. Will be going through the tape over the next few days.
I'm doing things a bit differently this year. First of all, I'm doing the entire OL, rather than just select players. Second, the scoring system has changed. Last year, it was binary: players got 1 point for succeeding, 0 for not succeeding. I'm trying for a bit more nuance this year, and will be scoring each lineman on a scale from 0-3 each play.
Through the first quarter:
Schlueter: 86.1% run, 76.2% pass
Andries: 94.4% run, 85.7% pass
Olson: 88.9% run, 100% pass
Dunlap: 97.2% run, 90.5% pass
Faalele: 88.9% run, 90.5% pass
Fairly solid start from our guys, although Schlueter looked a little shaky in pass protection.
A few notes:
• I've raved about TE Jake Paulson's blocking in the past. As has been noted in some other discussions, he made a rather egregious whiff against SDSU. OTOH, if you want to see something fun, go to the tape and watch the play that starts with 13:11 left in the first quarter. Paulson is at the bottom of the screen, and he goes out and just absolutely freakin' DESTROYS LB Longhair. Hits him, drives him back a few yards, puts him on his back and lands on top him with full force. Brings a tear to my eye just thinkin' about it. Unfortunately, the rest of the play did not unfold so well. QB Morgan appeared to make a bad read. We had SDSU outnumbered 5 to 3 at the point of attack on the right side, even though Faalele did not get a good block. Instead of handing off the ball to Mo going right, Morgan kept it and went left, right into two defenders for no gain. The drive ended one play later.
• All in all, I thought it was a pretty solid game from Morgan, other than making a poor decision on the interception and on perhaps one other throw. He was 13-for-18 with receivers dropping one or two. One of those incompletions came during the last drive of the first quarter. The left side allowed pressure, and on the right TE Ko Kieft allowed a twisting DL to get around him and to the QB. Morgan was hit by two guys as he released the ball, which sailed high to an open Tyler Johnson. It went off his fingertips.
Watching live, my impression is that the OL's performance trended downward throughout the game. Will be interesting to see if that's how it scores, and where the breakdowns came.
JTG