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Running Backs
- Thread starter Bryoming
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cowpokeguy
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Really have to feel bad for McNeely...to go through all of the rehab and then injure the knee on the very first carry back. That's rough man.
I hate all of these injuries for a couple reasons:
1) It obviously sucks for the players. They may not all be great football players, but I have no doubt that they put a significant amount of work in towards their craft.
2) It gives Sawvel some semblance of an excuse for the terrible performance this season.
I would hope that the athletic department and UW are able to see that we are still an atrocious football team even at full strength. We are not losing games because of a bunch of injuries. Personally, I don't even think the injuries are contributing to this shit-show in the least. This disastrous season is 100% a coaching failure.
1) It obviously sucks for the players. They may not all be great football players, but I have no doubt that they put a significant amount of work in towards their craft.
2) It gives Sawvel some semblance of an excuse for the terrible performance this season.
I would hope that the athletic department and UW are able to see that we are still an atrocious football team even at full strength. We are not losing games because of a bunch of injuries. Personally, I don't even think the injuries are contributing to this shit-show in the least. This disastrous season is 100% a coaching failure.
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PokeNer
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100% this. With the RBs and defensive injuries that have occurred, I'm just waiting for that to come out as an excuse from Sawvel and Burman for reasoning to keep him beyond this year.
PorkerPoke
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Keep the recruiting strategy in mind.
Bohl gets Ferrell who struggled as an unknown at a JC.
Sawvel grabbed the transfer Jones that struggled to produce at North Carolina so much so he was converted to DB.
For a run dominated team built by Bohl and Sawvel we have problems at the QB and RB position. Nothing personal at all to those players but the stink comes from the coaching staff past and present for assembling the team. Anyone notice UNT was going 5 and 6 deep at RB with a couple of starters out? Maybe because UNT got a super solid QB and skill talent from the portal. The recruiting at Wyoming is so focused on a developmental approach that when anything goes wrong it is a crash not a small setback because there is not enough talent to be a difference maker.
OrediggerPoke
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We are not a run dominated team under Sawvel. Have you watched the first 4 games? We are a crappy example of DC’s spread/zone-read out of shotgun offense.
OrediggerPoke
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My vote is Mitch Anderson. I don’t believe he is 5’8” tall. Doesn’t look that tall to me. But appeared to be a scrappy Danny Woodhead type in the ‘spring game’ with what appeared to be an ability to catch out of the backfield.
Just putting in Sam Scott would be a step in the right direction.
I had heard really good things about DJ Jones, but the difference between him and Sam Scott in the UNT game was night and day. How Scott got his first real shot 4 games into the season is beyond me. Sawvel sees these guys everyday in practice and did not have the right RB playing the first three games.
307barracuda
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We were a prostyle offense that’s been aborted for an RPO/pistol offense that we do not have the skill set or past experience to run. The implementation in 4 games is wildly flawed with false starts, bad snaps, bad reads, missed keys, bad blocking…. This performance is on the coaches, not the 17 returning starters and the rest of the team. Lack of development in too many areas as well is catching up. I now understand those MSU fans expressing sympathy for WYO… stating we didn’t deserve what he would do to our team.
PorkerPoke
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To be honest, it’s hard to tell what is being run because 1/3 of the season in we have passed 105 times which is exactly the rate we finished last year with 300+ attempts.
I say it is run dominated because Sawvel did nothing to strengthen the pass game before supposedly implementing it.
Right now it looks like the clusterf$&k offense.
