UC-Davis Game Day Thread

[Nidaros]

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According to the program, Moore is the special teams coach.

That is correct. Handiling deep punts and KO's seems to be the big hang up and I am sure they will work on it. Getting Sumners thumb healed seems to be a bigger concern in my mind. We might end up seeming more of Eric Kline if this situation continues to fester.

[bub94]

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Stig is the special teams coach

According to the program, Moore is the special teams coach.

[Nidaros]

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Yes JeRyan started,and his mama was there ! Not sure what happened with David though.

Good for Je Ryan. Offically 4 tackles. I hope we see more of him.

[Nidaros]

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Yes JeRyan started,and his mama was there ! Not sure what happened with David though.

I was impressed with JeRyan as with TJ Lolley and other R-Fr. I believe we have some talent coming and some are getting to their chance to shine early in the season.

[FeistyRedheadAZ]

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I noticed today that Ja Ron Butler was playing right corner back instead of David Godley. Ja Ron looked great in his debute. Is Godley hurt by chance?

Yes JeRyan started,and his mama was there ! Not sure what happened with David though.

[Kemo]

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I'll take an ugly win over a good looking lose any day.

I am cautiously optimistic after the first 3 games, for the looming question marks coming into the season were: 1) can we play defense 2) can we run the ball.

I think the answer is "yes" to both of those.

One thing I didn't question coming into the season was the talent we had in the passing game, and I still don't. It's still there, it just hasn't gotten in sync yet. It's also important to remember we still have a banged up QB, plus our top receiver and 2 starting linemen didn't play in the game either.

[goon]

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Basically our offense should only get better. We are not as good as we should be but will be able to put points on I think enoigh to win most games.

Defense will need to be amazing most games need to make some turnovers but have the bend don't break and an aggressive.

Speical temas punt and kick coverage is solid kick return decent but punt return sadly will cost us a few games this year if they don't turn it around. Either in giving us bad field position or turning it over muffed punts. What I wouldn't do to see paul annenson returning punts for us again. If this doesn't improve it will give us a losing record in confrence play.

[JackFan96]

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I thought our defense was simply spectacular. So was Zenner, and the offensive line had a lot to do with that, of course. Sumner was not. He missed a lot of receivers and took too many sacks. I think some of the accuracy issues still have to do with the injury. Hope so, anyhow. He missed an open receiver the play before the pick six, and those two plays combined with the previous fumble caused me to lose it. The punt receiving was humiliatingly bad. Two fair catches inside the 10 and one at the 12, plus the panic cover up at the 2 or 3. I simply don't know what else to say about that. To not know better and be playing Division I football is...I just don't know how it can be. It's just sheer stupidity. Our punting, on the other hand, was very good. I think slogged out a victory against a not-terribly-good opponent today. We'll have to play much, much better offensively to compete in most conference games. Yards will need to be converted to points, and we'll have to force more turnovers on defense.

Really disappointed in the crowd. It was a great day for football. Nearly every seat should have been filled. The students were fired up, but everybody else just kind of sat there. Of course, there wasn't a heap to cheer for from the offense...not in the scoring department, anyhow.

Just for the heck of it, I'll toss out some grades offhand here.

Pass offense: C-
Run offense: A-
Run defense: A+
Pass defense: B-
Special teams/kicking: B+
Special teams/receiving: F
Coaching: C
Crowd: C-

[goon]

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Here is my take. D played great. Glad to see we were agressive. Got in the back field a lot got a lot of pressure. Good coverage for the most part. Line kept containment well. LB were amazing I thought. Just every where it seemed.

Punt team was a joke. Embaressing. Why are you back pedaling to catch it over your head inside the 10. Why when we are in punt return we don't communicate a short punt where our guy was unaware it was going right for him until he got hit. Lucky we kept the ball there.

Offense was so so. Great run blocking poor pass blocking. But some of that was Wrs not breaking coverage and summer not doing check downs and holding to long when the play wasn't there. Zenner was amazing. We could be watching something we will be talking about for a long time. Need sumner to play smarter and do his checks. Missed several wide out guys. Still would like to see more vareity with play calling and formations. But with a young group of play makers that can happen. Glad to see tight ends used more. The timing for the seam routes seems to go well.

Crowd didn't have a lot to get excitied. What was the attendance? I'm just going to say we need a new stadium. Its so crowded in the season ticket seats. We are on the alise and its just stinks literallt sitting shoulder to shoulder and knees in the back. If we want more attendance we need more room and seats.

As a former band member it sure looked like the band has gotten smaller. The black pants are not flattering and don't fit in with the colors at all. Look way to plain. Miss the cape too. Hey jude sounded really good.

[slosho]

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Something about the game-day atmosphere was missing. The crowd didn't get into the game very well. The play on the field seemed to be pedestrian much of the time altough I think we'll have to credit the defenses for some of that (maybe we're getting too accustomed to games in which both sides score four or five touchdowns).

Something is wrong with the sound system. It was most noticeable when music was played. To me, it sounds like it's time to replace the speakers because the low base notes sounded like the speakers were worn out and riddled with holes.

And what was with the scoreboard? Was it bring your kid to work day? Example: in the fourth quarter, the scoreboard showed:


The fifth quarter? Let's see...quarter means...

Then, when the person or persons pushing the buttons or spilling their coffee on the control panel, fixed the number of quarters, they messed up the time outs left. After each team had taken its second time out, the wizard behind the curtain must have reset the timeouts: the scoreboard showed both teams having three (that was corrected a couple of minutes later to "1" each).



The PA guy had one or two minor bumps but otherwise did a good job (I'm always thankful we don't have a cheerleader-type for the PA announcer like is more common at lower division schools as well as NDSU. )

I saw 2 different Scoreboard controllers being being ran up and down CAS so, my guess is that there were issues they were trying to fix.

[Nidaros]

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Scoreboard? I told my son that if we got out of the 5th quarter with a lead we had a good chance of winning

Good one, snickering as I post.

[Nidaros]

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I noticed today that Ja Ron Butler was playing right corner back instead of David Godley. Ja Ron looked great in his debute. Is Godley hurt by chance?

[Prairiehaas]

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Defense looked good. Z-squared (to the power of) is a beast. Sumner looks to be still having problems with release and should improve. Why are we catching punts inside the 5? Stigs wouldn't comment on special teams receiving, post game. As for crowd, I was a bit parched in the second half after concessions ran out of water (significant fail).

Scoreboard? I told my son that if we got out of the 5th quarter with a lead we had a good chance of winning

[bubbajack]

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I go incognito in Chrome to access TV's chat. I've done it the past 2 weeks

[Prairiehaas]

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Argus has apparently figured out how to shut down non-paying access to Vandrovec's live chat--the delete-cookies-trick no longer works.

Try Ccleaner Filbert.