Waiting to catch an airplane home so I emptied my recorder and scanned back through my notebook from Wyoming’s 22-10 loss at Utah Saturday night:
“I think he played pretty well overall. He’s got to get more help around him,” UW coach Dave Christensen on the play of true freshman quarterback Austyn Carta-Samuels, who was 19 of 30 for 121 yards and an interception, caught a 30-yard touchdown pass and managed nine yards rushing. He was sacked five times.
“Our defense played well today, as usual. We’ve just got to pick it up on offense,” senior receiver Greg Bolling. The offense had just 202 yards of total offense and crossed mid-field just once on the second half.
“We held them out for a long time but they finally got in in the fourth quarter,” senior nose guard Fred Givens on allowing two Utah touchdowns in the fourth quarter.
“We had one that probably would have went 90 yards for at touchdown,” Christensen on the drop true freshman cornerback Kenny Browder had on a pass attempt by Utah true freshman quarterback Jordan Wynn in the third quarter.
“You see the game much better going from quarterback to receiver. You understand defenses and schemes,” junior backup quarterback Robert Benjamin, who caught three passes for 17 yards in his debut at receiver.
“It’s too early to determine,” Utah coach Kyle Whittingham on whether or not Wynn will start at quarterback in Utah’s next game against New Mexico. Wynn replaced junior Terrance Cain in the second half.
“We knew that all they had was the quarterback scramble. That’s how they got their yards in the first half. So we made sure we contained the quarterback, we pursued and stestopped missing tackles we were missing in the first half,” said Utah senior linebacker Stevenson Sylvester to The Salt Lake Tribune on how his defense held UW to zero points and 74 yards of total offense in the second half. Utah also had all five of its sacks on Carta-Samuels in the second half.
For more on the UW-Utah game, see Monday’s paper.
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The Cowboys (4-4, 2-2) host Brigham Young (6-2, 3-1) Saturday and the Cougars should have speedy receiver McKay Jacobson back. He has missed the last three games with a hamstring injury.
Jacobson is important to BYU’s passing game because he can stretch defenses with his speed, which opens up the middle for the Cougars’ talented tight ends led by senior Dennis Pitta.
BYU didn’t play this weekend.
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The quote of the day from around the Mountain West Conference had to have been from UNLV coach Mike Sanford, whose team was shutout 41-0 at No. 8 TCU.
“I don’t remember ever in my career playing against as good a defense as that,” he said.
TCU held UNLV to seven first downs and 42 yards passing.
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Rg,
Watching the game yesterday I was pleased in some ways and very frustrated in others. They seemed to be playing at a better level than in past years and seem to be making strides. I talked to you about our D line last week, at time we could get pressure but not consistent. That is one thing Utah did all night lone. I wish we could get a 4 man front…maybe you could ask David about next year. You would think that they put in a few more plays over the bye week. We seem to run the same plays… Offense are we still at 60 % installed… seems like they have ran enough of the same plays to add the other 30% in…
Hi Steve,
I will ask about going to a four-man defensive front after the season. Your points are very valid there.
As far as the offense I think the plays being called are a case of what UW’s personnel can do. It’s no secret that there are not a lot of weapons on offense right now and I think the coaches want to run what they can and do it well. I will ask around more this week on that subject.
I am pretty sure the entire offense isn’t in, but with so many young players I’m not sure it’s wise to throw it all at them and then not run half, a third or whatever anyway. At this point, until more weapons can be found or developed, it may be wise to run what the offense can execute.
However, I agree that it would be nice to see some different kinds of plays executed. That’s what the coaches are being paid to do. Will be interesting to see what happens this week.
Thanks again for the comment Steve.
RG