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Well our defense better get ready to tighten their helmet straps and play the run. It isn’t that their offense is extremely diverse or even high powered, but their defense puts them in good situations and gives them the ability to stick to their run, run, run game plan. (Warning!! This post is not for the faint of heart. Are you fully invested?…..OK read on.)
Offensive Scheme:
They run a lot out of the spread formations. They run a lot of ride option plays and often align in an …

After watching the film I still believe that New Mexico was a great game to have prior to the TCU game. The defenses are similar and our offense will have realized they need to prepare better for blitzes and man to man pressure.
The TCU defense plays a manipulated 4-3, but instead of using a true defensive end, they use a smaller and faster player who can get a quick speed rush off the edge. They also use their strong safeties as both a strategic outside linebacker and a “rover” safety. …

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The excitement of a big game will finally return. Yeah…I know the coaches say every game is a big one, but even I knew that some games mean more than others. Combine the fact that this game is the first game fans, media, family and friends will again be talking about.  Plus there will be emotion and pressure of it being on a Thursday and I think our team comes out focused and extremely prepared.
The field will be fast, the weather should be nice and the stadium will …

As you gather with friends this evening and begin to talk about what BYU has to do to win, I hope you have 1. read my scouting reports 2. read the first look at TCU and 3. become familiar with the next few paragraphs.
This game is almost the perfect pre-TCU game BYU could have scheduled. In watching the film I have seen a lot of similarities between the teams and I think having UNM this week and a short week to prepare for TCU won’t be bad. Here are my …

Now that a few teams have played some conference opponents I get the chance to watch other league teams in action. Last night I watched the UNM/ TCU game and here are my first thoughts.
Like always the Horned Frogs have great athletes (just so you know I only watched the TCU defense). Their defensive guys have good size but they bank on their speed and ability to get pressure on the quarterback.

I have been thinking about this game for a while now, mostly remembering all the emotions I felt during it….and well, the wound hasn’t healed. What makes remembering this game even worse is the fact that the offense was playing good football, and the defense just couldn’t stop a thing. As stupid as it may sound, the analogy of quicksand from The Replacements is a fitting description of this game. The defense just kept struggling and struggling but couldn’t get out and ended up deeper under ground.
If you asked Coach …

September 16, 2008
I have been keeping up with the ongoing saga of Vince Young and the fans in Tennessee.  Just to catch everyone up, Mr. Young was playing horribly and the fans started booing. Then he threw an interception.  On the sideline he pouted and whined and then refused to take the field when his team went back on offense.  The fans promptly cheered when they thought Vince was being replaced by Kerry Collins.  When he saw Collins going in and the crowd’s reaction, he jumped off the bench, went …

September 11, 2008
I’m sorry this is off topic, but I had to bring it up.  How could you expect your team to be focused on a huge game when you have Snoop Dogg handing gatorade out on the sideline?  I guess the USC AD has 150-200 sideline passes for this weeks game in the Coliseum.  These passes will go to former players (OJ Simpson, please), administration, rappers, movie stars, and who knows who else.  Maybe Lauren from the Hills, just as long as Heidi isn’t there.  I’m not mad at USC, …

After playing in games like this, a good friend used to tell me; “whether you win by one point or one hundred points, they still count the same.” His words have never been more applicable; we left Seattle 2-0 with a win, period.
How did I do?

September 5, 2008
Next time he will definitely get out of bounds a little quicker.  I really am surprised that his helmet stayed on. 
Get a load of his face when the camera zooms in on him,  I am soooo thankful I played defense!!!!!

During the year you are playing six away games, which means six different hotels, plane rides and stadiums.  I was thinking back on those experiences and wanted to post the good, the bad and the ugly about games on the road.
GOOD- The team normally leaves on Friday at around eleven, which means no school on Friday.  I know, you are supposed to be a “student athlete”, but let’s face it; most players are “athlete students”.  Bronco’s goal for academics is much higher than other programs. (a 3.0 average for the …