As usual, J Hill figures his shizz out at halftime and his D comes out ready to play.
D did EVERYTHING it had to do to put the offense in a position to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Again.
ARod’s failure to compute ruins another first half full of weirdly conservative plays.
Out of desperation, we open things up and the offense is great in the second half.
Until……final drive: Jake overthrows Lassiter by 5 yards and is nearly picked. Jake has Jojo walking into the end zone unguarded and airmails it by 5 yards. Then on a simple 6 yard quick slant, Jake somehow—and I’ve never seen this happen as egregiously as inside today—throws it a couple yards high and outside when Lassiter is unguarded, for the game losing pick.
We get a second last ditch chance, and Jake only needs to do one thing: throw it into the end zone. Nope. Two weeks in a row he botches the last play by not even giving his guys a chance.
Yes I’m being hard on the QB, but this was Oklahoma and Kansas all over again. Like he doesn’t learn. The QB makes the most money and gets the most glory, so he also gets the blame for just awful mistakes in crunch time, especially when it’s over and over and over again.
Yeah, sort of the season in a nutshell this game. BYU looking awful, BYU making a comeback, the difference being that the last two games they didn’t have the miracle. Not sure why this team feels the need to make every game script look like this but they do.
These are the very reasons they don’t pass the eye test. They can’t look good for a full game. The defense did it against SMU, the defense and special teams did it against KSU but the offense hasn’t done it one game this season. They have not played a complete game where they actually had good play calling combined with good quarterback play, combined with good offensive line play, etc. Not one game have all those things come together for an entire game to complete a win, yet here they are at 9-2 and it will appear that they had a great year.
I can’t argue with that, but I can’t concur with it either.
They have had a great year. Win games they should have lost. That’s what winners do. I’m looking forward to Retzlaff his senior year. Work with Beck and improve his throwing even more. I expect to have an experienced team next year and be even better.
He comes out at the beginning of the year, with new wrinkles, win several games making us fans happy and hopeful, then when the remaining teams watch film and figures out how to counter his offense, he becomes all conservative and insist on making running plays when they obviously don’t work. Which at the end of season BYU offense caves and loses the last games.
I think Houston will beat BYU for a 3 game losing streak…just like of last year/
We will beat Houston. You will see.
Your analogy is correct. But it’s true for all teams. It’s the teams that can adjust during the season that finish well. We will respond better next year like we did this year. Only 2nd year in a P4 league is great with a probable 10-2 from a 5-7 last year.
No it isn’t. You just throw that out there because it makes your comments appear to be valid. All teams DO NOT start out 9-0 and then lose 2 of their last 3 games or 4-1 and then lose 6 of their last 7 (several being very winnable) games and lose bowl eligibility. Most teams DO NOT do that, but BYU did.
BYU should beat Houston. They are tough at home and not so tough on the road. They lost last night and were eliminated from bowl eligibility. They really have nothing to play for. They are good defensively and that keeps them in some games. Not good at all on offense.
So what? What a great year! We won games we would have lost last year. We learned from last year to win more games this year. More higher star players are being recruited. It’s a work in progress but far ahead of what anyone thought we could be.
