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2015 Arizona Highlight - stupac2 - 10-14-2015

https://vimeo.com/142451896

I liked the inclusion of the guy who runs to pick up the tee after a kickoff.

Re: 2015 Arizona Highlight - GoodGrief - 10-14-2015

(10-14-2015, 08:06 PM)stupac2 link Wrote:I liked the inclusion of the guy who runs to pick up the tee after a kickoff.

Way to go tee-picker-upper! Definitely an important job that I have never thought about before. (the kickoff followed by the tee-guy starts at 1:50)

Re: 2015 Arizona Highlight - terry - 10-15-2015

Back when we were in the old stadium, at the last home game of a season, Stanford was getting ready for the kickoff. A lady stood up several rows in front of me and got the attention of everyone around her. She said her son had been the tee-picker-upper for four years and this was his last game. She pleaded with all of us to give him a big cheer when he picked up the tee. When that kid ran out and grabbed the tee, our little pocket of fans went wild. Other fans were looking at us wondering what had happened and what they had missed. But the tee-picker-upper guy knew. He had his moment of glory. . . .

Re: 2015 Arizona Highlight - BostonCard - 10-15-2015

My only complaint was that you blink and you miss Chryst's pancake block.  I was expecting it to get the full slow-mo highlight treatment, but I guess that sideline camera didn't have a good view.

BC

Re: 2015 Arizona Highlight - GoodGrief - 10-15-2015

(10-15-2015, 11:51 AM)terry link Wrote:Back when we were in the old stadium, at the last home game of a season, Stanford was getting ready for the kickoff. A lady stood up several rows in front of me and got the attention of everyone around her. She said her son had been the tee-picker-upper for four years and this was his last game. She pleaded with all of us to give him a big cheer when he picked up the tee. When that kid ran out and grabbed the tee, our little pocket of fans went wild. Other fans were looking at us wondering what had happened and what they had missed. But the tee-picker-upper guy knew. He had his moment of glory. . . .

That is an awesome story. I'm so going to watch for the tee-picker-upper from now on.

Re: 2015 Arizona Highlight - CornFed - 10-16-2015

He is extremely capable and adaptable.  Watched him tonight and, not only was he perfect on kicking tee pick-ups, twice (not once, mind you) he went out and picked up stray towels that had dropped on the field.  Had to be a totally improvised play and he picked the towel up perfectly both times.  It is a part of the game I had previously overlooked. 

Re: 2015 Arizona Highlight - BostonCard - 10-16-2015

I'm really looking forward to the highlight package for next week.

BC

Re: 2015 Arizona Highlight - stupac2 - 10-16-2015

(10-16-2015, 12:35 AM)Boston Card link Wrote:I'm really looking forward to the highlight package for next week.

BC

I said that as we were leaving the stadium. "Goddamn that highlight video is going to be magnificent."

Have we ever had a game that had such ridiculous fireworks before? From the pick-6, the sacks, the circus catches, the long runs, McCaffrey setting a record, it was nutty.

Re: 2015 Arizona Highlight - martyup - 10-16-2015

As crazy one sided as it looked, UCLA had more total yards then us and an equal number of first downs.  From the game stats, you would have never guessed the score.  In hindsight, it kind of sucks that they put 35 points on our D.  I think our D played very well in the key moments necessary to keep the momentum in our favor.  We gave up that easy score on the long pass and the garbage score at the end.  Perkins and Rosen are players, no doubt.  We were just the more talented and explosive team.  C-Mac better get the Pac-12 POW.

Re: 2015 Arizona Highlight - stupac2 - 10-16-2015

At least 14 of those points were in garbage time. Our defense did a pretty good job against a good offense.

Re: 2015 Arizona Highlight - washingtonismoney - 10-16-2015

The defense played one really good quarter and got a pick-six -- that was enough to put the game way out of distance. But I wouldn't say it's *good*, per se, overall. It's like those Duck defenses of the early part of Chip's run: stop them a little bit, and that's good enough for a dominant offense. (Hopefully. It's perhaps an upset-susceptible formula.)

The question is, will the defense improve? There's some reason for optimism. Justin Reid seems to be overtaking Dallas Lloyd -- I'd guesstimate the snaps were divided 40/60 or 50/50 last night. Hopefully there's youthful upside there. The DBs, in general, should continue to develop; Holder looks excellent at times. And then the return of Noor Davis or Kevin Anderson would provide nicely-sized boosts. In the meantime, the absences are allowing us to develop depth -- Alfieri had probably his best game of his career, and Mike Tyler was active as well.

On the other hand, I think last night's game illustrated why things are precarious as well. Jordan Perez still looks confused whenever he gets in. Obviously the defensive line situation needs no elaboration. And while I like both Harris and Holder, I'm not sure about the corners beyond that.

Re: 2015 Arizona Highlight - stupac2 - 10-16-2015

You're right, looking at the stats UCLA was over their season-averages of YPP in both passing and rushing. It does feel like this is an Oregon situation, although I think Oregon was more intentionally risk-taking, playing aggressively knowing that if they screwed up and the other team scored it didn't matter, but if they made a great play then they'd be digging the hole deeper and deeper.

Anyway, this is what we expected, right? The defense doesn't need to be great, just "good enough". And it was definitely "good enough". In another thread Hulk posted that we were over 3 ypp greater than UCLA through 3 quarters (the 4th was an exercise in futility for UCLA). That's really impressive.

Re: 2015 Arizona Highlight - washingtonismoney - 10-16-2015

(10-16-2015, 10:37 AM)stupac2 link Wrote:You're right, looking at the stats UCLA was over their season-averages of YPP in both passing and rushing. It does feel like this is an Oregon situation, although I think Oregon was more intentionally risk-taking, playing aggressively knowing that if they screwed up and the other team scored it didn't matter, but if they made a great play then they'd be digging the hole deeper and deeper.

Anyway, this is what we expected, right? The defense doesn't need to be great, just "good enough". And it was definitely "good enough". In another thread Hulk posted that we were over 3 ypp greater than UCLA through 3 quarters (the 4th was an exercise in futility for UCLA). That's really impressive.

Yup, these are high-class problems to discuss, of course. But I'm still a bit cautious about the team for that reason. The defense will need to chip in against N.D. (which looks like the lone complete team on the schedule). Against the rest of the teams on the schedule, I think most have prominent enough strengths that we can't afford a total off game from the offense. And because of that, you want to have diversified strengths. Can the defense bring it and hold a decent offense to, like 10 points and destroy their souls (a la the 2012-14 defenses?) I doubt it. Maybe with some in-season development. Certainly the outlook for next year has some promise.

Re: 2015 Arizona Highlight - stupac2 - 10-16-2015

This defense certainly isn't holding any competent offense to 10 points. It's possible we see it next week against Washington, but otherwise teams will certainly score on us. If we had last year's defense with this year's offense I wouldn't be afraid going into any game, but sadly the stars didn't quite align for us that well. I still think we'd benefit from a mentality switch on defense, being more aggressive. IIRC we hardly blitz, and since we're not getting a ton of pressure with 4 I'd like to see it more often. But if the offense is going to put up 40+ every game, we can certainly afford to concede a few TDs.

Re: 2015 Arizona Highlight - BostonCard - 10-16-2015

I think the best description of the defense last night was "uneven".  On the one hand, they had a couple great interceptions, including the pic-6 and Whitfield's athletic grab (you think he might have been a former wide receiver on that play), and we came up with key stops of the Bruins at key times.  On the other hand, they had some really tough moments, like the blown coverage on the long touchdown drive, and their stats benefitted a lot from unforced Bruin errors -- drops and penalties.  You wonder what the score might have been had the Bruins played a clean game.

I agree with WIM.  Though not great at the moment, the future does look bright.  Holder and Alfieri had break-out games. I saw Reid in there a lot. Even Lohn and Ratto had some nice plays in garbage time that make me a bit more comfortable about the depth at DL (it's now cardboard thin, instead of paper thin). Anderson and Davis should be back for UW.

But they will be challenged by WSU, Cal and Notre Dame (and if they ever figure it out, Oregon could still be dangerous).

BC

Re: 2015 Arizona Highlight - CrazedZooChimp - 10-16-2015

Don't forget Palma was out for more than half the game.  And on the drive to end the half where UCLA scored, both Palma and Martinez were out.  That's really rough, especially against Perkins.  Hopefully Palma is back soon, apparently Shaw was cautiously optimistic in the post game press conference he should be back next week.