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Hogan does not have the receivers he had a year ago.  The star TEs (Ertz,, Toilolo) are gone.  Cajuste is hurt.  Fortunately a now-healthy Montgomery is fulfilling our earlier hopes for him.  Other receivers no doubt will step up but people don't become Ertz overnight.  Yet somehow Hogan took us 71 yards in less than a minute to go up 7-3 at halftime.

I too noticed the empty backfield on 3rd and 4 or 5 when we might've been better off having an RB in the backfield to make OSU respect the run.  But I liked the use of the end around with Young and Montgomery. 

Shaw continues to want to give Dallas Lloyd playing time when the outcome is in doubt.  That's okay and I'm sure Lloyd is a very capable player but last night it really backfired on us.  If we had scored early it likely would've given us momentum that we didn't get until the improbable drive to close the half.  I can still see the ball spinning on the ground.  Changing QBs during a drive is a dangerous thing. 

Overall I am not complaining (except that the game kept me up until 11:00 biting what's left of my fingernails and I had to get up at 4:00 to see my spouse off on a business trip).  OSU and their fans were at an emotional fever pitch and our guys went in there and won when the outcome could've been another Utah.  To me, a win in those circumstances is impressive.  Shaw still gets the Meade award for "did well enough to win."  Next week we may need him to win the Lee award for "won when nobody thought you could possibly do it."

Last night Murphy was the most dominant D player I've seen in a long time.  He should be everybody's player of the week. How could he not be an All-American?

Looking ahead, I don't know how anybody can possibly cope with the Mongol Horde from up north and their hundred ways to kill you, including wicked trick plays.  But I couldn't see how we could do it last year either and somehow we did.  Maybe with the bye we can heal up, get ready and pull off a win like Marse Robert's.

[Oasis]

Hogan does not have the receivers he had a year ago.  The star TEs (Ertz,, Toilolo) are gone.  Cajuste is hurt.  Fortunately a now-healthy Montgomery is fulfilling our earlier hopes for him.  Other receivers no doubt will step up but people don't become Ertz overnight.  Yet somehow Hogan took us 71 yards in less than a minute to go up 7-3 at halftime.

I too noticed the empty backfield on 3rd and 4 or 5 when we might've been better off having an RB in the backfield to make OSU respect the run.  But I liked the use of the end around with Young and Montgomery. 

Shaw continues to want to give Dallas Lloyd playing time when the outcome is in doubt.  That's okay and I'm sure Lloyd is a very capable player but last night it really backfired on us.  If we had scored early it likely would've given us momentum that we didn't get until the improbable drive to close the half.  I can still see the ball spinning on the ground.  Changing QBs during a drive is a dangerous thing. 

Overall I am not complaining (except that the game kept me up until 11:00 biting what's left of my fingernails and I had to get up at 4:00 to see my spouse off on a business trip).  OSU and their fans were at an emotional fever pitch and our guys went in there and won when the outcome could've been another Utah.  To me, a win in those circumstances is impressive.  Shaw still gets the Meade award for "did well enough to win."  Next week we may need him to win the Lee award for "won when nobody thought you could possibly do it."

Last night Murphy was the most dominant D player I've seen in a long time.  He should be everybody's player of the week. How could he not be an All-American?

Looking ahead, I don't know how anybody can possibly cope with the Mongol Horde from up north and their hundred ways to kill you, including wicked trick plays.  But I couldn't see how we could do it last year either and somehow we did.  Maybe with the bye we can heal up, get ready and pull off a win like Marse Robert's.