I was not able to attend the game and listening on the radio gives me a heart attack. What the hell happened that they gained over 500 yds against us? I apologize in advance if this has already been covered. If we play defense like this the last few games we will not be happy with the result.

"I'd rather be a Texas Aggie"

We were torched in the Secodary. Appel did not play, not sure how much that hurt.

Big plays in the running game, but othersies kept in check a little.

They threw to their TEs over the middle of the field all day, mainly.

Purify and their TE ate us up.

we have been playing without keelan jackson for a while...when you now take away appel, your pass defense has suddenly become considerably weaker.

from listening on the radio it sounded like there were a bunch of missed tackles and some very good plays by the colorado receivers.

I think the enormous amount of snaps that our defense has been on the field for the last few games is starting to catch up to us in the injury and fatigue departments.


I hope Appel and Keelan are back for OU.

Nothing worse than listening to Dave South trying to figure out if the ball was caught, yet you already know from the crowd's reaction.

get off it

If we play like this against ou, tt, or tu we're going to lose. Period.

Holding our guys always adds extra yards...

their TE's (89 and 83) caught just about everything thrown at them...and they weren't easy to bring down.

Purify was tough to bring down on first contact. he would carry you for 3-4 yards before going down.

when we did blitz, we didn't do it very well.

Appel is the QB of the secondary and calls coverages. It might have hurt us more than we think.

Franchione had the #1 defense in the nation in 2000 at TCU and the #3 defense in the nation in 2002 at Alabama.
THE WRECKING CREW IS COMING!
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"Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women."

Even though we gave up 500 yards, we still won. That's all that matters. If we're going to have a bend but don't break defense, our offense has to come out strong. We'll still have a chance against our last three as long as our offense takes care of business.

Agree with everything said, but I think the main reason is that Colorado completely controlled the line of scrimmage (on both sides of the ball, really). We're going to have to step it up a notch for the rest of the season.

On a positive note, I think it is really good for our team to have had to win this game like they did. If we kick their butts, we're more likely to be overconfident. Also, we gain the confidence to handle adversity in future games.

Hell we could DOMINATE the line of scrimmage every game if we were allowed to hold like they were! Seriously their receivers have some rather sticky hands, they made so many third-down plays that extended drives. Purify is a slithery little mother, made tons of our guys fire & miss, probably the best opposing back we've seen yet this year. They simply managed to sustain most all their drives, and we couldn't.....hence 500-something yards.

Listening to the Daves, I was starting to think that every CU completion was an unbelievable catch. DSouth was pretty much in shock after every 3rd down conversion.

If we can't handle a big RB and some swift TEs then tu will be a track meet.

One of their tight ends got literally 2 or 3 balls with one hand. The dude caught every pass thrown his way. I think one of them had over 100 yards receving. Add purify running all over us and our dline getting dominated and you can see why we had so many problems

I've heard you all say how our D broke down, but remember our offense sputtered for most of the first half, and take away the trick play, we wouldnt have any points in the first two quarters. We were horrendous on third down but CU was incredible. Of course we stopped the bleeding in the 2nd half, but we need to step it up everywhere.

The Wrecking Crew is back. Fortunately, they don't have to face Purify again this season.

I couldn't believe that purify didn't have nearly 200 yards just rushing not even considering catches. He ran all over us.

for those of you that think the Crew is back.. you better put it to rest awhile.. the Crew that i once knew wouldnt give up on average around 250 a game.. most of the time less.. we got a long way to go and these guys are still young.. but Wrecking Crew we aint..

yet..

their blocing scheme, i meant illegal holding scheme got us good....

They netted 254 yards on 69 of their plays. They netted 256 yards on their other 10 plays.

Purify was good, averaging 4.6 on 19 of his carries for 89 yards. He ran 41 on his other carry.

Where they killed us was during the stretch of moving from 6-7 to 19-7 by converting on eight of nine third downs.

Every screen pass they ran also went for 10+ yards. KSU, OSU, and now CU have all been successful running that against us. OU, tt, and tu are going to kill us with it if we don't learn to defend it better.

Has the holding definition changed? I saw a bunch by the osu OL but it was only called twice. On the cu replays I saw there was obvious holding. It seems that we get more holding penalties that the opposition.

"I'd rather be a Texas Aggie"

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They threw to their TEs over the middle of the field all day, mainly

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Texas' first drive from the '03 T+1 play-by-play:

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V 1-10 V44 TEXAS drive start at 14:01 (1st).
V 1-10 V44 PENALTY UT false start 5 yards to the UT39.
V 1-15 V39 Young, Vince rush for 1 yard to the UT40 (Smith, Linnis;Jasmin, Marcus).
V 2-14 V40 Young, Vince pass complete to Thomas, David for 60 yards to the TA0, 1ST
DOWN UT, TOUCHDOWN, clock 13:15.

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If the Aggie secondary has problems with TE's up the middle then T+1 '04 is going to get ugly early.

From my perspective in The Zone.

That trip set killed us. When they would line up 3 wides to one side, we would counter with 1 CB, 1 safety over the top, and 1 LB cheating inside (not covering or even coming close). They absolutely ate us alive for 3 quarters with that set until we finally started bringing in an extra DB.

As for Purify, he is a very shifty back and made several tacklers miss him in the backfield. Add that to the fact that they were holding our DE's on EVERY play and you'll get some good rushing yardage.

Whoever said that Colorado dominated the line of scrimmage wasn't watching the game I was watching. Our kids were in the Colorado backfield all game long. Klatt was rolling out on every pass play from the very first snap and he had company on all of them. We had at least 1 or 2 guys on his heels at all times.

Contrast that with the time that Reggie got in the pocket. Sure he was rushed a few times, but overall he had time. Several times I thought he should have taken off with the ball, but he didn't.

Play calling was an issue. On 4th and inches we throw the ball? Huh? We just seemed out of rhythm altogether in the 1st half.

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Holding our guys always adds extra yards

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Chris Valetta was really hammering this near the end of the game. At one point he said Colorado was one of the best teams he has ever seen at holding and getting away with it.
Not that the plays in which there was uncalled holding accounted for all that yardage, but some of those uncalled penalties were on 3rd downs.