Colorado/CSU
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Do we put our best player one on one with Shenault every play? We’re gonna have our hands full with this dude and Montez.
Hopefully our D line hits up Montez again this season. If we can do that think our secondary is in a better position this season to defend them. I don’t think we’ll shut down Shenault but hopefully they can cover long enough for pressure to do it’s job.
We had 7 sacks or something like that on him last season and they won. We have to cover better..
No question. I’ve seen Montez play 6-7 times that last 2 years and teams that beat CU, put Montez on his backside.
A questionable fumble and pass interference calls aren’t helping CSU either....and they are still in it.
One thing I want to see for Nebraska is a defensive performance against S. Alabama like Wisky and MState showed tonight. cu has more than enough firepower on offense to cause trouble should the Husker D show up in boulder with a less than stellar performance.
Too bad CSU has sputtered with penalties in the return game and those turnovers, they'd have a lead late in the third otherwise.
Too bad CSU has sputtered with penalties in the return game and those turnovers, they'd have a lead late in the third otherwise.
That second turnover cu got on the sideline was iffy, I thought he didn't gain control until he hit out of bounds.
Defense will need a huge performance to beat cu, and a good dose of Special Teams. I'm with Rocky Mtn Husker, it will be a tough game, and I've felt that long before the season started. Nothing wrong with a tough game on the road, win it and it makes the Huskers better.
Defense better show up or we could be looking at two teams in the 50's next week. If Defense does not show up (which there is no guarantee) we will just have to win the shoot-out to get a W. On the road it will not be easy. A defensive performance and Husker win by three TD's..
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Didn’t you know Tucker is gonna revolutionize the PAC 12? He’s already on his way to the championship game...
These announcers were absolutely in love with Tucker. It was kind of gross.
Last year this game was over in the first quarter and Colorado won 45-13. Montez was dominant ,with 4 TD's Shenault had 200 yards and CU ran for 250 yards while giving up 13 points and less than 300 yards total to CSU.
Tonight was a bad deep ball away from being a problem for Colorado. Colorado's run game looks no better than last year and either CSU's offense got massively better despite a new QB and losing their top 2 WRs to graduation (and a 3rd to injury) or Colorado's defense got a lot worse.
Tonight was a bad deep ball away from being a problem for Colorado. Colorado's run game looks no better than last year and either CSU's offense got massively better despite a new QB and losing their top 2 WRs to graduation (and a 3rd to injury) or Colorado's defense got a lot worse.
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Dude, CSUs defense is terrible. The Buffs were gifted a 3 TD win due to stupid CSU turnovers
Colorado's front 7 is complete garbage. Can't count how many times the CSU QB had a clean pocket and missed the throw. Still finished with 300+ passing yards.
Was Stouffer the one who was in love with Bo last week? I seem to remember a thread about that...
Their Nose Tackle literally got no push all night long in pass pro. It was like Mick Stoltenberg reincarnated as a Samoan dude.
Colorado offense is a concern like I thought it would be, but their defense won’t have enough stops to beat us..
Told TopGun, Montez was no slouch.. We really need to put a lot of pressure on him and shut that running game down..
Told TopGun, Montez was no slouch.. We really need to put a lot of pressure on him and shut that running game down..
Hill wasn't a new QB. He started both as a freshman and last year. Sigh, this board. CSU has spent 9 months preparing for this game and had a completely different scheme they had not shown before. They've had no open practices or even a spring game the entire year. They schemed this under cloak and dagger for 9 months knowing the head coach needed to win to save his job. It was that big of a deal.
The run game was definitely better than a year ago. We didn't run the QB as much as in the game a year ago, but it was definitely better. You're way off on that one. Passing game is still sorting itself out but use of the TE for the first time in a decade was great to see. That opened up other things. Offense was efficient even with Montez not being particularly sharp.
It was clearly a game 1 with a new staff where alignments were wrong, assignments were missed on both sides, and the team was out of sync all around. We still won by 21 points going away. Don't care about CSU's yards since over 100 of it came after we were up by 21 and went into prevent mode with backups.
We were not good at all but to be expected in game 1 quite honestly. We put up 52 against a team preparing 9 months under cloak and dagger to beat us without playing well at all. Heck, Viska barely touched the ball. We now have the film we need to figure out our mistakes and fix them quickly before the Red Horde comes to town. We will be fine.
For comparison, Barnett lost his first game to CSU 41-14 in the same environment. Hawkins lost his first to Montana State like 20-10 or something. Embree lost his first game 34-17. Debuts are tough especially away from home against a rival. Outside of Neuheisal inheriting a top 5 team, this was the best debut for a CU coach maybe ever. We will be more than fine going forward and we will play 2x better against Nebraska. My only sobering thought is that we have some weak areas obviously exposed that only talent can fix and that's a year away.