Different view forward

[altolug]

I went back to 2015 for open games and how the season played out.
2015 Portland St L24-17...Season 9-4...Sun Bowl W 20-14 vs Miami
2916 EWU L 45-42...Season 8-5...Holiday Bowl L17-12 vs Minnesota
2017 Montana St W 31-0...Season 9-4...Holiday Bowl L42-17 Mich St
2018 Wyoming W 41-19...Season 11-2...Alamo Bowl W 28-26 Iowa
2019 New Mexico St W 58-7...Season 6-7...Cheese It Bowl L 31-21 Air Force
2020 Covid-19 season
We been here before and the season still turned out fine, but still a tough pill to swallow. We can pick apart any one of those opening game losses to a play here or there, but we ended up bowling. A Bowl game is what we shoot for every season. Hopefully this game will motivate coaches, players and fans to move in the right directions.

 

[95coug]

Difference is that in all of those games we had at least some semblance of a coherent strategy. Even in the losses you could see what we were trying to do, we just didn't do it well.

Last night, there did not seem to be a strategy. No game plan. We were all over the place, we weren't executing, and the opponent was one step ahead of us all night.

 

[How_did_this_happen?]

I went back to 2015 for open games and how the season played out.
2015 Portland St L24-17...Season 9-4...Sun Bowl W 20-14 vs Miami
2916 EWU L 45-42...Season 8-5...Holiday Bowl L17-12 vs Minnesota
2017 Montana St W 31-0...Season 9-4...Holiday Bowl L42-17 Mich St
2018 Wyoming W 41-19...Season 11-2...Alamo Bowl W 28-26 Iowa
2019 New Mexico St W 58-7...Season 6-7...Cheese It Bowl L 31-21 Air Force
2020 Covid-19 season
We been here before and the season still turned out fine, but still a tough pill to swallow. We can pick apart any one of those opening game losses to a play here or there, but we ended up bowling. A Bowl game is what we shoot for every season. Hopefully this game will motivate coaches, players and fans to move in the right directions.

The thing is we have a different coach than those seasons. The more appropriate comparison would be to look at how Rolo has done after losses.

 

[BleedCrimsonandGray]

Difference is that in all of those games we had at least some semblance of a coherent strategy. Even in the losses you could see what we were trying to do, we just didn't do it well.

Last night, there did not seem to be a strategy. No game plan. We were all over the place, we weren't executing, and the opponent was one step ahead of us all night.

I'd say there probably is a gameplan, but it gets blown up everytime JDL takes off before the route trees develop.

We saw similar things in 2012/2013 when the players didn't quite know the offense yet, everyone on the board was scratching their heads asking "where's the all 9's? I thought this was a stretch the field offense?" And although that didn't change much over the next 8 years (where's the all 9's?), when Falk took the field the offense looked like what the air raid is supposed to. I hope that's what coming up later this year or next (if Rolo is still around).