10-08-2017, 07:50 AM
A win in Rice-Eccles is a quality win. Utah is a quality team. Maybe not an elite team, but in that stadium, at altitude, any win is a quality win.
We won in spite of mediocre QB play and terrible run defense, but were otherwise really really solid. I like the 3-3-5 defensive alignment in much of the second half with Kalambayi, Okereke, and Alfieri at the LB positions. I wonder if maybe they are going to move Alfieri back to OLB?
I was hoping that Shaw would call play action off the read option. Utah's safeties were cheating up so much especially in the second half the deep middle was wide open. Any kind of post from the wideouts or slipping a TE up the seam would be a brobdingnagian gain and would also keep those safeties more honest allowing for more effective running off that play.
I did like that Love got out into the passing game a little bit - I hope we see that 5 or so times a game.
There was also a very solid adjustment late in the game bringing Schultz into the backfield for additional pass protection. Worked like a charm & bought Chryst enough time to find open guys. He still made a few bad throws but he made some good ones too and didn't get picked off. Chryst played well enough to not lose the starting job and Costello didn't play well enough to take it from him. I do wish Shaw had stuck with one guy throughout the second half and I hope we don't continue to see musical QBs going forward.
We won in spite of mediocre QB play and terrible run defense, but were otherwise really really solid. I like the 3-3-5 defensive alignment in much of the second half with Kalambayi, Okereke, and Alfieri at the LB positions. I wonder if maybe they are going to move Alfieri back to OLB?
I was hoping that Shaw would call play action off the read option. Utah's safeties were cheating up so much especially in the second half the deep middle was wide open. Any kind of post from the wideouts or slipping a TE up the seam would be a brobdingnagian gain and would also keep those safeties more honest allowing for more effective running off that play.
I did like that Love got out into the passing game a little bit - I hope we see that 5 or so times a game.
There was also a very solid adjustment late in the game bringing Schultz into the backfield for additional pass protection. Worked like a charm & bought Chryst enough time to find open guys. He still made a few bad throws but he made some good ones too and didn't get picked off. Chryst played well enough to not lose the starting job and Costello didn't play well enough to take it from him. I do wish Shaw had stuck with one guy throughout the second half and I hope we don't continue to see musical QBs going forward.