[SkiBum80]

Thanks again for the unique, deep-cut insights.  Looking forward to seeing our status as TE U reasserted this weekend...maybe in a shootout if the UA offense lives up to their billing.

Agree, great insights. And yes hoping for a big game for Yurosek et al.
I look forward to these press conferences and am usually disappointed.
But it's my own fault. 
I keep thinking that Coach TT will give a frank and confidential private discussion to us as alumni and fans about the status of the team, who is injured and to what extent, why certain guys are playing and others are not, what broke down in the past game, who in particular really screwed up and why, and most importantly, what will be the specific game plan to come back not only better this week, but how to game plan against this particular upcoming opponent.
This is of course naive and ridiculous for me to expect.
I have to be reminded this is a public interview, watchable by not only his own staff and players, that he'd be unreasonably expected to throw under the bus in public, and more importantly, watchable by the opposing team's players and coaches.
So we rely on reading between the lines as much as possible as evidenced by msqueri's deep analysis.
A couple specific observations, yes I too was struck by Coach TT referring to himself as screwing up in the play calling area.
I don't recall Coach Shaw admitting such (he may have, I have imperfect memory), like with the repeated over and over slow meshes, that more often than not seemed to lead to a negative play.
Also as to defending against the scrambling QB's: I know there's sometimes a Spy assigned to hover around and track their QB and go for him if/when he sprints towards the line of scrimmage.  Seems like we had done that at least once during Sac State game. (I missed watching all of it, was preparing BBQ for out of town family visit). But it doesn't work well if the Spy can't tackle their QB in the open field, which is what I recall seeing.
So that's another challenge for Coach to deal with.

[SkiBum80]

Thanks again for the unique, deep-cut insights.  Looking forward to seeing our status as TE U reasserted this weekend...maybe in a shootout if the UA offense lives up to their billing.

Agree, great insights. And yes hoping for a big game for Yurosek et al.
I look forward to these press conferences and am usually disappointed.
But it's my own fault. 
I keep thinking that Coach TT will give a frank and confidential private discussion to us as alumni and fans about the status of the team, who is injured and to what extent, why certain guys are playing and others are not, what broke down in the past game, who in particular really screwed up and why, and most importantly, what will be the specific game plan to come back not only better this week, but how to game plan against this particular upcoming opponent.
This is of course naive and ridiculous for me to expect.
I have to be reminded this is a public interview, watchable by not only his own staff and players, that he'd be unreasonably expected to throw under the bus in public, and more importantly, watchable by the opposing team's players and coaches.
So we rely on reading between the lines as much as possible as evidenced by msqueri's deep analysis.
A couple specific observations, yes I too was struck by Coach TT referring to himself as screwing up in the play calling area.
I don't recall Coach Shaw admitting such (he may have, I have imperfect memory), like with the repeated over and over slow meshes, that more often than not seemed to lead to a negative play.
Also as to defending against the scrambling QB's: I know there's sometimes a Spy assigned to hover around and track their QB and go for him if/when he sprints towards the line of scrimmage.  Seems like we had done that at least once during Sac State game. (I missed watching all of it, was preparing BBQ for out of town family visit). But it doesn't work well if the Spy can't tackle their QB in the open field, which is what I recall seeing.
So that's another challenge for Coach to deal with.