I thought it was a good win, lots of stuff need to be worked on, but it was still a good win.
Minshew really got much sharper in the second half, and I think his ball placement was spotty in the middle of the game (as well as receivers not helping him out by holding on to the ball) He did great and finished about where I thought he would be 300 yards 3 Tds.
I think Calvin played the best out of the receivers, and Patmon / Winston had some big plays, I think Tay Martin was good when Tay martin played like Tay Martin can play. He can be better, but he was serviceable.
The o-line seemed to block better as the game progressed, and asside from Borghi's fumble I think the backs were great. James Williams had a fantastic game, and Borghi showed all the spark that we had hoped to see.
The special teams screwup with the snap and punt out of bounds really killed the momentum we had earned in the first half, but things seemed to be cleaned up and I didn't see too much that was "bad" on special teams after that horrible lull.
Defensively I think Claey's called an excellent game and really did what I was hoping he would do. Load the box, let our experienced corners make their RS QB suffer/work for it, and that's exactly what he did.
Sean Harper, Strong etc. played great. The only time they got us on the outside was with jet sweeps, and well that's actually good play calling/blocking by them. We need to shed blocks better, but asside from those plays the outside was solid.
Inside Wyoming couldn't do too much, they did have some nice runs up the seams, and I don't know which LB was getting blocked out but when they did break through it was always because the LBs were out positioned and blocked out. The secondary did a nice job of catching things before it got ugly, but you kind of don't want that being your savior, you want the backers to plug those holes.
The DL did a great job. Oguayo, Comfort, Begg, Hobbs all did well, but really Silvels was the guy that really surprised me. He had a hell of game playing Rush and seemed to be everywhere.
A great first game and the Cougs are now 1-0
Minshew really got much sharper in the second half, and I think his ball placement was spotty in the middle of the game (as well as receivers not helping him out by holding on to the ball) He did great and finished about where I thought he would be 300 yards 3 Tds.
I think Calvin played the best out of the receivers, and Patmon / Winston had some big plays, I think Tay Martin was good when Tay martin played like Tay Martin can play. He can be better, but he was serviceable.
The o-line seemed to block better as the game progressed, and asside from Borghi's fumble I think the backs were great. James Williams had a fantastic game, and Borghi showed all the spark that we had hoped to see.
The special teams screwup with the snap and punt out of bounds really killed the momentum we had earned in the first half, but things seemed to be cleaned up and I didn't see too much that was "bad" on special teams after that horrible lull.
Defensively I think Claey's called an excellent game and really did what I was hoping he would do. Load the box, let our experienced corners make their RS QB suffer/work for it, and that's exactly what he did.
Sean Harper, Strong etc. played great. The only time they got us on the outside was with jet sweeps, and well that's actually good play calling/blocking by them. We need to shed blocks better, but asside from those plays the outside was solid.
Inside Wyoming couldn't do too much, they did have some nice runs up the seams, and I don't know which LB was getting blocked out but when they did break through it was always because the LBs were out positioned and blocked out. The secondary did a nice job of catching things before it got ugly, but you kind of don't want that being your savior, you want the backers to plug those holes.
The DL did a great job. Oguayo, Comfort, Begg, Hobbs all did well, but really Silvels was the guy that really surprised me. He had a hell of game playing Rush and seemed to be everywhere.
A great first game and the Cougs are now 1-0