What did we learn UCLA edition

[gobiggergoredder]

I learned that im done for the rest of the year.  I am just tired of this, just so dam tired of fixing mistakes only to highlight new ones.  Im tired of losing to teams we should stomp.  Im tired of the hype videos and dramatic media coverage.  Im so sorry to say but im also tired of Rhule coach speak.  I can give time to beat ranked teams, i can give time to beat the higher talented teams but what i cant give any more time for is this horses#!t that was put on the field yesterday.  I have better things to do with my time and energy than just piss it away every saturday and watch what is carted out there.  Maybe some are right, maybe we should have never came here.  It’s not talent, it’s coaching.  How could bo do more with less.  It’s coaching, plane and simple.  

How do we continue to find coaches that can’t win six games?  We continue to lower our expectations only to be kicked in the d!(k again.

USC, who constantly gets out coached, will out coach us.  Iowa has an offense folks.  They made changes.  That won’t be fun.  Then we will do 65 dumb things to loose to Wisky while we focus on a few bad calls the refs made.

side note:  I appreciate the refs on our 3 TD drives yesterday.

 

[Archy1221]

I don’t think the coaches overlook anyone. I think the coaches made a bad plan 

Seems to be habit forming.  Wish NU would find the coaches that make good plans. 

 

[BigRedBuster]

I was at the game sitting in the north endzone. I like endzone seats because I like the view of the plays happening. 
 

What I learned is that Raiola is either not seeing wide open receivers or choosing not to throw to them. His head is nowhere it was when the season started. 

 

[krc1995]

I think the UCLA coaches made an extraordinarily good plan.  I saw it on-field, and there are a couple of articles about that plan in the Sunday Journal Star.  Their D plan was effective and unchanged for all 4 quarters.  It worked.  And here we are with an unexpected loss here at Memorial Stadium (again).  I do agree with the anemic way our O is run, saying bad plan about that seems an understatement as we watch our team sink as the season wears on (again).

Agree. The easy thing to say is that the coaches overlooked an opponent. The hard thing to admit is that they didn’t overlook them. 

 

[gobiggergoredder]

I was at the game sitting in the north endzone. I like endzone seats because I like the view of the plays happening. 
 

What I learned is that Raiola is either not seeing wide open receivers or choosing not to throw to them. His head is nowhere it was when the season started. 

The endzone is the bast place for this!

This is why I bailed on Adrian Martinez.  I sat in endzone at Ohio State game and we had multiple guys on nearly every play open.

DR has to anticipate and he’s not doing that.  He’s a true freshman so I get it, but it’s going to get worse if it’s not corrected.  Teams are just going to keep sending pressure and we will have the same offensive result we’ve had for decade.

I think a QB that gets rid of the ball quick and semi accurate could turn this thing around.

 

[PaulCrewe]

I was at the game sitting in the north endzone. I like endzone seats because I like the view of the plays happening. 
 

What I learned is that Raiola is either not seeing wide open receivers or choosing not to throw to them. His head is nowhere it was when the season started. 

Was there as well, and as you said there were numerous plays that had multiple short/intermediate routes open.  It was alarming though how so many of the pass plays have long developing routes requiring a tougher, low percentage throw.  And these routes always seem to be DRs first couple of reads.  By the time he does start progressing back to the shorter open routes the sieve OL had been destroyed and DR begins his poor self preservation actions

The continued chunk run plays that are ran to left of the line that disappear in needed moments in favor of runs to the right behind the two worse performing lineman is comical as well

 

[BigRedBuster]

The endzone is the bast place for this!

This is why I bailed on Adrian Martinez.  I sat in endzone at Ohio State game and we had multiple guys on nearly every play open.

DR has to anticipate and he’s not doing that.  He’s a true freshman so I get it, but it’s going to get worse if it’s not corrected.  Teams are just going to keep sending pressure and we will have the same offensive result we’ve had for decade.

I think a QB that gets rid of the ball quick and semi accurate could turn this thing around.

I would be in favor of seeing Kaelin in the last three games. 

 

[Mavric]

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[BigRedBuster]

It’s also interesting that you can pretty much tell how the game is going to go by the first drive. 

 

[Archy1221]

It’s pretty telling that we seem to have just anointed a true freshman as one of the key leaders. Regardless if he’s a 5 star- we seem to really lack any form of accountability from a player perspective.

perhaps this is just the end result when said upperclassmen players that typically serve this role have displayed nothing but a losing culture here.  

I was annoyed at that too.   It’s dumb talk for Rhule when he was saying the other players need to keep up and catch up to Dylan.   He doesn’t need that pressure and the team doesn’t need a true freshman as its “leader”.   DR has been getting a dose of humble pie lately and I put the reasoning squarely on the coaches for feeding into that hype.   He will be a good/great player in time with good coaching.  Let the kid be led for a bit and learn.  He will get there.

it was also annoying to me too when this happened with Adrian.  If I remember right, he was a team captain as a sophomore which is ridiculous.  And I don’t care if players voted in it,  how is that not a JR/SR player thing 

 

[Mavric]

I was at the game sitting in the north endzone. I like endzone seats because I like the view of the plays happening. 
 

What I learned is that Raiola is either not seeing wide open receivers or choosing not to throw to them. His head is nowhere it was when the season started. 

This.  I've thought for a few games that he was just trying to force the ball down the field and wasn't seeing the easy routes underneath. 

But yesterday he wasn't even throwing to his primary read when they were open.  The TE down the seam was the primary read on the Pick Six.  It was open.  Wouldn't throw it.  On 4th & goal we had a rub route that was going to be open.  He bailed on that.  

When you can't even get a guy to throw to his open primary receiver, it makes things basically impossible.

 

[gobiggergoredder]

I would be in favor of seeing Kaelin in the last three games. 

I got beat up for this last week, but I’m doubling down……

Im not sold on DR as a teammate.  He does things that, in my opinion, show he is about himself.  Running out on the field by yourself in front of the team.  Standing by yourself outside the huddle during breaks.  It’s a behavior I find odd.  You add the tremendous amount of money he is getting and I could see this all ending poorly.

Going back out on the field yesterday was dumb.  It wasn’t being a warrior.  My wife, who doesn’t give two s#!ts about football said “Why is he back out there?  It’s a photo Op”.  I think this was another fail on our coaches actually.

Im not trying to crap on the kid, but I’d like to see him be a leader rather than a social media style influencer.
 

 

[Archy1221]

The endzone is the bast place for this!

This is why I bailed on Adrian Martinez.  I sat in endzone at Ohio State game and we had multiple guys on nearly every play open.

DR has to anticipate and he’s not doing that.  He’s a true freshman so I get it, but it’s going to get worse if it’s not corrected.  Teams are just going to keep sending pressure and we will have the same offensive result we’ve had for decade.

I think a QB that gets rid of the ball quick and semi accurate could turn this thing around.

This is what I was afraid of when he was named starter.  I was buying into the hype that he could overcome the speed of the college game vs HS quickly but it ain’t happening this year.

he really needed a program that would have sat him for a year to learn and watch.  He is shell shocked at this point and the coaches aren’t helping him any by continuing to call slow moving passing plays especially when it’s third and blitz.   These teams are bringing pressure up the middle and most of the pass plays do not have the closest receiving option replacing those middle blitzers for an easy dump off and coach DR to do it.  
 

Give him some easy out route throws or slant throws.  

 

[Mavric]

Standing by yourself outside the huddle during breaks.  

Quarterbacks are supposed to do this.  Make sure there are only 10 other guys in the huddle before you step in.  Make sure all the substitutions are done.  Easy way to avoid a penalty.

Going back out on the field yesterday was dumb.  It wasn’t being a warrior.  My wife, who doesn’t give two s#!ts about football said “Why is he back out there?  It’s a photo Op”.  I think this was another fail on our coaches actually.

This was really odd.  I wasn't totally convinced we didn't send him back out there to fall down and stop the clock.

 

[skers83]

I said yesterday.. might as well get Kaelin ready as I am guessing Dylan won't be back anyway.