Did PSU run more than 2 plays in the 2nd half?

[CougPatrol]

I don't have any football coaching experience, but if a team was repeatedly beating me on ONLY read/option and delayed handoffs, I'd make damn sure we stop those plays.

In all my years of watching football, I've never seen linebacking play like that. Undisciplined isn't a strong enough word. We bit on like 85% of their QB fakes and continually lost contain. We must have missed a dozen tackles.

Their QB completed 7 passes, yet we still seemed surprised when he kept the ball and ran. Their was nobody on the edge. That's terrible coaching.

 

[Cougatron]

I noticed it as well. This is what was happening. They'd call a pass play. We'd have it covered. He'd run...our LBs were slow sloshing around to the ball. The more and more I look at it the more I think the weather was a factor. At least that's the excuse I am clinging to after my 7th beer and 3rd shot of whiskey.

 

[CougPatrol]

He weather definitely hurt our offense more than theirs, but I saw our defense biting on fakes and missing tackles more than sloshing around. They got around the edge at least a dozen times.

 

[How_did_this_happen?]

I don't have any football coaching experience, but if a team was repeatedly beating me on ONLY read/option and delayed handoffs, I'd make damn sure we stop those plays.

In all my years of watching football, I've never seen linebacking play like that. Undisciplined isn't a strong enough word. We bit on like 85% of their QB fakes and continually lost contain. We must have missed a dozen tackles.

Their QB completed 7 passes, yet we still seemed surprised when he kept the ball and ran. Their was nobody on the edge. That's terrible coaching.

As one former coach said, "we just got run over by a moped."

They ran the ball down our throats. It was disappointing and astonishing.

 

[Cougatron]

He weather definitely hurt our offense more than theirs, but I saw our defense biting on fakes and missing tackles more than sloshing around. They got around the edge at least a dozen times.

They definitely we're being outwitted by their QB. I did some research on him and this guy was crazy good in Utah. He was the Gatorade Player of the Year. He was on BYU went on mission came back they wanted him to play receiver. He went to Snow College..exploded there..nobody offered but Portland State.

State Records
Kuresa set state records in Utah for total yards (12,917), passing yards (10,951), touchdown passes (101) and completions (751).

So this guy passed for 10k and rushed for 2k and had 100 tds...in highschool.

Now this is just 1 guy, but he seems to be like a Vernon Adams type that is much better than FCS school. Add in rain and maybe that's why we were beat on the edge. This guy maybe is just one of those it guys who knows how to win, and in the rain he just played us. Still doesn't excuse the poor tackling and things, but this QB of Portland State maybe really good. Like too good for them good. And we ran into him in the rain.

 

[YakiCoug]

I noticed it as well. This is what was happening. They'd call a pass play. We'd have it covered. He'd run...our LBs were slow sloshing around to the ball. The more and more I look at it the more I think the weather was a factor. At least that's the excuse I am clinging to after my 7th beer and 3rd shot of whiskey.

It was painful watching Pelluer and Taliulu. If the defensive coaches are going to make some personnel changes, they should start right there. And the scheme in the second half was poorly suited to what PSU was doing. When you combine those breakdowns with Falk's timidity/indecision, nothing good happens. As quirky as he is, Halliday would have passed for 600 plus yards today simply because he gets the ball out in a hurry. Bender is the only QB who can come close to that, but he's going to make some big mistakes as well. Not a good day for Cougar football to say the least. Leach needs to man up.