Colorado State Snowflakes - The Enemy

Another outstanding preview by our mGoTeam.  I thought the Rams were a little bit worse than expected; but our D, man, our D was much better than I thought!

I left at halftime. Got a call that my beloved pet passed away. Called him Freddy but his full name was Friedrich Nietzsche Jr. He was an Eastern Gray Squirrel with a melanistic pigment which made him entirely black. His favorite kind of nut was the acorn that dropped from my Northern Red Oak, which I believe has reached an age in which it is preparing to pass into the afterlife. It's dropped fewer and fewer acorns in the last several years and I believe that its spirit has moved on. 

I'm the epitome, a public enemy. Used, abused without clues, I refused to blow a fuse.
They even had it on the news.

They were pretty much as expected 

I was behind two CSU player parents in a concession line. They did not have good things to say about Addazio. They also mentioned Atteberry and Gentry since they are both from Colorado and made a comment about how CSU didn't bother to recruit either one because they had bigger aspirations in their choice of school.

Ft. Collins remains an excellent college town IMO. 

I expected CSU to hit more of those underneath routes that they only got maybe 3 or 4 of today. It’ll be interesting to see if we took a lot of stuff away from them in the UFR. Otherwise it was roughly what I thought if Id expected the D line to be that dominant

I actually think CSU looked a lot better than a 51-7 team. They didn't show anything that translates to the stat line, but if they all learn to play together, they could be a solid, if not too spectacular, team. Their QB made some good choices, although he did help our sack total by not taking an outlet pass once or twice. Their defense stood their ground, though they clearly lack the speed and athleticism to keep up with our offense. They didn't do anything spectacular, but they could get closer to being a good team in a few weeks. I was actually surprised as I watched their team efforts against Olu and Mazi in the first quarter and they performed adequately well. Mazi was nonexistent and couldn't get much push, until the one time when he broke them (i think in the second quarter) and then he and the line just took the game over. Olu seemed to be whiffing (perhaps this was by design, as he is incredibly athletic for his size) and at least for a few plays in the early going, he was searching for someone to block in the second level. I didn't see any major bust of note, but it seemed like they knew enough to double up and stuff Mazi and then to try to make Olu look for something other than a straight ahead block. Both of those are probably good strategies. Frustrate our bigs in the middle and see who else comes at you.

Trajectories can change in a moment during a grueling college football season, but they didn't lack for individual effort. They just need to better complement one another and, for the most part, be confident during their conference slate.