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I think in your haste to make a snide reply you just didn't read carefully enough.
Think I read it pretty clearly. You made excuses for Utah but covered it up by making excuses for California too.
Placing blame on refs is pretty clearly an excuse. Even if you didn't come out and say "I think this game was the refs fault" you are insinuating it by pointing out their mistakes instead of what Utah did to lose the game.
prodigy
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I don't want to re-watch it but I'm not so sure the TE gets in even if he caught it, there was a defender pretty close.
Tough loss, I don't know if it gets any tougher than that. We had a really good chance to win and we couldn't finish. ouch.
Going back, if we had converted the 2 pt conversion we could have just kicked the field goal and gone to OT and who knows.Instead we go to my least favorite play - the fade route which rarely works.
That play call just really bugged me, win or lose.
Tough loss, I don't know if it gets any tougher than that. We had a really good chance to win and we couldn't finish. ouch.
Going back, if we had converted the 2 pt conversion we could have just kicked the field goal and gone to OT and who knows.Instead we go to my least favorite play - the fade route which rarely works.
That play call just really bugged me, win or lose.
prodigy
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So according to Whittingham he was yelling at the ref to look at him for a timeout if after the play the clock is running and according to him the ref just called the timeout
Maybe the ref misheard him, I'm not entirely sure but just run the damn play and if you need a timeout than run on the field and yell at them if you have to.
The whole thing was just odd.
Thee Jazz Fan
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fumble or no, as i understand it it is incomplete if his arm is going forward while the qb maintains possession. what say u?
I remember during the game one of the commentators saying that if the qb is losing control before forward motion but the ball is still in possession during forward motion it's supposed to be a fumble. He was at least losing controle before forward motion.
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//r00t 4 Jazz
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I don't like going into the "what if's" because what if the U WR's didn't drop at least 4 or 5 passes, what if Andy Phillips wasn't a tubby piece of what used to be a good FG kicker (missed that 45yrd FG if he made that then the U could've kicked the FG at the end to win), what if the OLine didn't whiff on so many blocks in the 4th Qtr, I also hate the one of what if coach Whit doesn't go for it on 4th down (the one they didn't convert in the middle of the 4th qtr) and kicks the FG. I also didn't like how some of the player personnel packages were used, like on the dropped TD pass (yes the pass should've been better) but Harrison Handley is the better pass catcher so you would think he should've been in and then on that earlier 4th down conversion they had Handley in on the run play and he (along with an OL) totally missed on his blocking assignment and left the DL unblocked to make an easy stop, when Moeai is the better run blocker.
Overall the Utes made WAY to many mistakes to win the game (offensively, defensively and coaching) and it cost them, so they didn't deserve to win the game, plane and simple, this was their first true road test of the season and they failed. Also Utes are used to dominating on special teams, they still did with the punter but everything else on special teams has been poor and especially in this game, FG kicking, punt returning, kick off returning all very very sub par especially to how it has been and how the U has become accustomed to.
Trying to look on the bright side, starting C retires in spring ball, then the new starting C gets hurt just minutes into the game, Utes were minus 2 or 3 WR's, Patrick went down early, Butler-Byrd was out for the game (think I heard he stayed back for the birth of his first child) and then Fulks gets hurt in the 2nd half, also starting CB Reggie Porter was not but not sure why, I wont get into the defensive line injuries just because they happened in previous weeks and every team has injuries. My point is I'm trying to be positive that the U can have a chance to win (and really should've) despite missing 3 out of their 4 best WR's (and projected starting RB retires) the U's offensive talent has come a long way, if all these happened in previous seasons I couldn't imagine how bad the offense would look.
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Definitely should be a fumble imo. Was it called an incomplete?
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7StraightIsGreat
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Everybody puts 50 on Cal. Except us. For all the hoopla, our offense isn't making the necessary strides. This is an 8-4 football team. There will be some exciting wins the rest of the way and some losses that look an awful lot like what we just saw. Oh, and Andy Phillips is the most overrated kicker I've ever seen.
prodigy
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Despite not putting up a ton of points think the offense did what it was supposed to do, keep the clock running, the ball out of the cal's offense, don't turn the ball over. we had nearly twice as many plays as them! you tell me that beforehand and I think we win comfortably. Unfortunately we didn't finish drives, case in point at the end of the half we get the ball near mid field after the INT where we have all the momentum and we end up missing a field goal and get 0 points out of it. There were just too many things like that that ended up costing us the game.