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Utes played a pretty good game. Not great or even good really.... but not bad at all.

Carrington looked great. Huntley looked pretty good but got hit A LOT. I don't know if there were many sacks but it seemed like the o line allowed guys to pressure Huntley way too much.

WAY too many penalties.

Kicker hitting that 49 yard er was impressive.

Boobie looks like he will return a few for td's. Dude looks electric.

Not that the end outcome of the game, in a win loss sense, would have changed but the north Dakota qb losing his helmet and having to come out of the game might have effected the spread.


Overall I felt disappointed by the utes a little bit..... not a lot, just a little. Byu was much more disappointing imo.
 
If you told me before the game that Utah would outgain ND 500 to 230, I would have been ecstatic, yet somehow it didn't feel that impressive. Some dumb penalties and a few missed red zone opportunities yet again. That being said, I saw enough on offense to think the Troy Taylor hype might just be legit. Gotta clean some stuff up but it was game 1 of a new offense.

Not excited for BYU week. I'm seriously happier when they don't play each other.
 
Next week will be very interesting for both teams. Miss the days of ending the season vs BYU but having this type of game in week 2 is hella fun.
 
jazzman12 said:
If you told me before the game that Utah would outgain ND 500 to 230, I would have been ecstatic, yet somehow it didn't feel that impressive. Some dumb penalties and a few missed red zone opportunities yet again. That being said, I saw enough on offense to think the Troy Taylor hype might just be legit. Gotta clean some stuff up but it was game 1 of a new offense.

Not excited for BYU week. I'm seriously happier when they don't play each other.
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I don't know about the troy Taylor hype but I'm buying the Huntley hype. He made some really impressive throws, is a very explosive runner, is tough, and seems like a good, likeable leader.
 
Huntley had his moments, but he overthrow 3 deep balls in the endzone. 2 of them would have TD's. I expect we'll see a lot of good and a lot of bad this season. I thought the ND QB was more impressive honestly.
 
#7 Jaylon Johnson - He looked incredible. It won't be too long before he's the full time starter and playing every down. We'll definitely see him playing on Sundays.

Blackmon looked good as well. I believe in those two on the outside, but the Utes seem vulnerable against the short passing game. Boobie Hobbs stinks at playing Nickel, and the linebackers look more like beefy run stoppers than coverage guys. Maybe they slide Hansen down to LB again to help out.
 
Kavika Luafatasaga (LB #5) got hurt not sure how serious but was in a boot, worst case may be something broken in his foot and out for the year.

The OL looked as bad as I've ever seen (although I say that most every year about the OL) but then last year in the first game against SUU they looked horrible and they ended up having 4 kids drafted soooo.... what the heck do I know.


Also at the game I couldn't tell if all those penalties were legit or not but it almost felt like the refs were trying to control/keep the game just close enough that it wouldn't get ugly. Really though seems like for a few years at least now the Utes have issues with penalties to start the season, guess that's one thing, the OL didn't have penalties like last year but then they were so bad at blocking they weren't even close enough to be able to hold.
 
//r00t 4 Jazz said:
Kavika Luafatasaga (LB #5) got hurt not sure how serious but was in a boot, worst case may be something broken in his foot and out for the year.

The OL looked as bad as I've ever seen (although I say that most every year about the OL) but then last year in the first game against SUU they looked horrible and they ended up having 4 kids drafted soooo.... what the heck do I know.


Also at the game I couldn't tell if all those penalties were legit or not but it almost felt like the refs were trying to control/keep the game just close enough that it wouldn't get ugly. Really though seems like for a few years at least now the Utes have issues with penalties to start the season, guess that's one thing, the OL didn't have penalties like last year but then they were so bad at blocking they weren't even close enough to be able to hold.
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I remember one game last year when there was false start after false start on the utes. It was insane. Never seen anything like it before. Must have been like 8-10 in the first half alone. Seems like there was a single possession with like 4 false starts.
Anyone else remember the game I'm talking about?
 
fishonjazz said:
I remember one game last year when there was false start after false start on the utes. It was insane. Never seen anything like it before. Must have been like 8-10 in the first half alone. Seems like there was a single possession with like 4 false starts.
Anyone else remember the game I'm talking about?
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It was against Arizona and after the game the Utes claimed the Cats were barking out cadences to get em to jump.
 
tfivas said:
It was against Arizona and after the game the Utes claimed the Cats were barking out cadences to get em to jump.
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Oh ya I remember that. They probably were doing that. Lame
 
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