It's good that we play well on the road and have had some really good games at Davis. :thumb:
oldrunner said:Barron completed over 70% of his passes, 4 TDs, and no INTs. I would say he had a pretty good night. The O put up 623 Yards, a great night. The D held the best offensive team in America to about 300 yards under their average and gave up no points in the second half. Once again a pretty good night's work.
We made a few stupid mistakes or it would have been even better. We start to clean up those mistakes and it's going to be a great season. We have still not hit our peak and will just get better.
Next week will be a test at Davis.
We all want perfection, but it rarely happens in real life or sports. Hitting on +70% of your passes is about like shooting 50% from the 3 point line in basketball. It's dang good. Will our O do better in the future? I certainly hope so. We have all been saying that, with our D, any sort of efficiency on O would put us over the top. I think this is what we are now seeing. Not perfect, but working to get better and from a better place right about now. :notworthy:Chex said:oldrunner said:Barron completed over 70% of his passes, 4 TDs, and no INTs. I would say he had a pretty good night. The O put up 623 Yards, a great night. The D held the best offensive team in America to about 300 yards under their average and gave up no points in the second half. Once again a pretty good night's work.
We made a few stupid mistakes or it would have been even better. We start to clean up those mistakes and it's going to be a great season. We have still not hit our peak and will just get better.
Next week will be a test at Davis.
I’m not disputing Barron had a good night, but he still did a couple of throws off his back foot while back petaling that good teams will not fail to intercept those toss ups. He botched a hand off exchange a few times that stalled drives in the red zone…so still some things to work on. They are easy to overlook when playing teams you can put distance between on the scoreboard, but not so much when it will be a game until the end. He’s basically a third year player, so the bad decisions and unforced errors need to happen less and less.
On the good side, he’s showing better touch on his passes and looks like he is fitting into the offensive scheme. Obviously he’s not a runner type QB, so those play calls are limited with him, but he is using effective quick passes.
I am glad the Wildcats beat USU. I think the Aggies are down this year, but beating an FBS team is big! I think UC Davis is a good measuring stick.
Hopefully they will beat another group of Aggies!
oldrunner said:We all want perfection, but it rarely happens in real life or sports. Hitting on +70% of your passes is about like shooting 50% from the 3 point line in basketball. It's dang good. Will our O do better in the future? I certainly hope so. We have all been saying that, with our D, any sort of efficiency on O would put us over the top. I think this is what we are now seeing. Not perfect, but working to get better and from a better place right about now. :notworthy:Chex said:oldrunner said:Barron completed over 70% of his passes, 4 TDs, and no INTs. I would say he had a pretty good night. The O put up 623 Yards, a great night. The D held the best offensive team in America to about 300 yards under their average and gave up no points in the second half. Once again a pretty good night's work.
We made a few stupid mistakes or it would have been even better. We start to clean up those mistakes and it's going to be a great season. We have still not hit our peak and will just get better.
Next week will be a test at Davis.
I’m not disputing Barron had a good night, but he still did a couple of throws off his back foot while back petaling that good teams will not fail to intercept those toss ups. He botched a hand off exchange a few times that stalled drives in the red zone…so still some things to work on. They are easy to overlook when playing teams you can put distance between on the scoreboard, but not so much when it will be a game until the end. He’s basically a third year player, so the bad decisions and unforced errors need to happen less and less.
On the good side, he’s showing better touch on his passes and looks like he is fitting into the offensive scheme. Obviously he’s not a runner type QB, so those play calls are limited with him, but he is using effective quick passes.
I am glad the Wildcats beat USU. I think the Aggies are down this year, but beating an FBS team is big! I think UC Davis is a good measuring stick.
Hopefully they will beat another group of Aggies!
On that near interception, It looked to me like he was trying to through it away and just wasn't able to put enough on it to get it out of bounds. Like you said, he wasn't able to set his feet. At that point in the game, it wouldn't have changed much. Our D was stifling everything The Trailmixers were doing. We definately made some defensive adjustments at the half. By the 4th quarter their QB was rattled and couldn't do much of anything.Chex said:oldrunner said:
Point taken. I guess I’m old school. There are some things in sports that were textbook errors that you were never supposed to do: throw off your back foot while back petaling, inbound a basketball to the coffin corner, trying to pass across your goal in hockey, watch a strike three go straight down the middle, etc. I see these things and I about have a mini stroke when players do this as it was just not done when I played. Things are a little different now and fundamentals are no fun I guess.
It was a great game by Barron. I’m sure he is even more aware of a near interception than a fan in the stands who is trying to keep his kids from becoming a public disturbance. I’m sure he’s reviewing film and making improvements.
A big test this Saturday, but I think we are light years ahead on offense than last year with the new OC.
Go Wildcats!
