In no particular order:

1. It was a tale of two halves with regards to the defense. The second half, the Defense played stellar, the first half like crap. I don't know which defense we will have.

2. Mendoza clearly played better at QB, I hope he is the starting QB moving forward as I believe he earned it.

3. The transfer receivers were a bit of a dud today. After all the hype, Hunter played the best.

4. The left tackle position worries me. They were getting burned.

5. Injuries are already piling up. Multiple Olineman, the first two running backs, this is not good.

golden sloth said:

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In no particular order:

1. It was a tale of two halves with regards to the defense. The second half, the Defense played stellar, the first half like crap. I don't know which defense we will have.

2. Mendoza clearly played better at QB, I hope he is the starting QB moving forward as I believe he earned it.

3. The transfer receivers were a bit of a dud today. After all the hype, Hunter played the best.

4. The left tackle position worries me. They were getting burned.

5. Injuries are already piling up. Multiple Olineman, the first two running backs, this is not good.

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The normal.

Defense: B+ woulda been an easy A but we were asleep in the first half or something.

Offense: C+ hopefully will improve when we settle on Nando as our leader. We could have easily run up the score a bit then let chandler have a chance to show his stuff, swapping them in and out was very meh. Ott looked good, Javian looked decent. Oline is still a question mark.

Special teams (other than kicking) - B- got saved by ball recovered out of bounds on the second squib kick. Major saving grace was the runback for a TD

Kickers - looking pretty good: A

Pitchouts - one very slow developing attempt that got stuffed super hard, unblocked LB makin pancake

Score was nearly 24-17 and I feel like that score is reflective of how we played.

The quarterback strategy was bizarre and did neither qb any favours.

Fernando takes the team down on a nice TD drive on the second offensive possession of the game, believe he was like 5/5 or 6/6 on that drive. The fumble return for a td then occurs, the drive after that begins with 11:30 left in the 2nd quarter and ends in a botch where the O turns a 3rd & 1 into a punt. We then don't see Fernando the rest of the half.

Rogers looked like crap but I struggle to hold it against him given how disjointed the back and forth qb actions were. Give the guy a start to show what he can do if that's the direction you want to go, Otherwise it should be Mendoza's team.

I thought Fernando looked solid given the circumstances. I'd like to see a couple of his throws over again. Particularly the one the announcers referred to him trying to force a square peg into a round hole. It was the smallest of windows and I thought he did a phenomenal job threading the needle and that the receiver could have made a much better play on the ball. Perhaps i'm wrong but if he's capable of making some of those throws on a consistent basis I think there's the potential for something very good with him.

We have a lot of work ahead of us. Injuries are piling up and the bench isn't very deep. I hope Ott can bounce back, but even with that, if there is no O line to create the needed holes. This could be a long season. Time will tell......

golden sloth said:

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In no particular order:

1. It was a tale of two halves with regards to the defense. The second half, the Defense played stellar, the first half like crap. I don't know which defense we will have.

2. Mendoza clearly played better at QB, I hope he is the starting QB moving forward as I believe he earned it.

3. The transfer receivers were a bit of a dud today. After all the hype, Hunter played the best.

4. The left tackle position worries me. They were getting burned.

5. Injuries are already piling up. Multiple Olineman, the first two running backs, this is not good.

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The improvement in the second half is sop for Wilcox. He apparently wants to see what the opponent is doing in the first half, then makes adjustments at half time. Why they can't do that in game during the first half has always been a mystery to me. Isn't that why we pay these guys all that money? to know what to do?

I'm afraid that Wilcox doesn't want to change on the fly because he wants input from all his coaches before making changes. Ya know, like a corporate team building meeting. "You close your eyes and fall backward. We'll catch you."

I don't think left tackle was that bad. It only looked bad what he was expected to block two guys. That's not realistic so something is wrong with scheming. I also don't think the d was stellar in the second half. We got some picks on some terrible throws, but still were getting pushed around on the line and leaving guys wide open at times. definitely improved but not great. Nice to see solid snaps from center all game (although that shouldn't have to be a pleasant surprise). The play calling was garbage and if that's because they are "saving it for Auburn" ok, but Wilcox and Bloesch had better show me some cool **** next weekend. Running ott up the middle not only is stupid strategically, it likely got him hurt (although it looked like it was the turf, which is a whole different issue that gets me). Davis honestly looked good and strong in many aspects except qb yesterday so I wouldn't be surprised if they end up a top 5 fcs team and go deep in the playoffs. Still, we looked crappy to start, and there has to be a reason why 8+ starters are now injured or hurting as it seems to get us EVERY year, and it's gotta be the damn turf.

rkt88edmo said:

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Defense: B+ woulda been an easy A but we were asleep in the first half or something.

Offense: C+ hopefully will improve when we settle on Nando as our leader. We could have easily run up the score a bit then let chandler have a chance to show his stuff, swapping them in and out was very meh. Ott looked good, Javian looked decent. Oline is still a question mark.

Special teams (other than kicking) - B- got saved by ball recovered out of bounds on the second squib kick. Major saving grace was the runback for a TD

Kickers - looking pretty good: A

Pitchouts - one very slow developing attempt that got stuffed super hard, unblocked LB makin pancake

Score was nearly 24-17 and I feel like that score is reflective of how we played.

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Quick passing to 3 wideouts with blocking: Strong F...When will be solve this....Even Davis ran it well.

OdontoBear66 said:

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rkt88edmo said:

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Defense: B+ woulda been an easy A but we were asleep in the first half or something.

Offense: C+ hopefully will improve when we settle on Nando as our leader. We could have easily run up the score a bit then let chandler have a chance to show his stuff, swapping them in and out was very meh. Ott looked good, Javian looked decent. Oline is still a question mark.

Special teams (other than kicking) - B- got saved by ball recovered out of bounds on the second squib kick. Major saving grace was the runback for a TD

Kickers - looking pretty good: A

Pitchouts - one very slow developing attempt that got stuffed super hard, unblocked LB makin pancake

Score was nearly 24-17 and I feel like that score is reflective of how we played.

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Quick passing to 3 wideouts with blocking: Strong F...When will be solve this....Even Davis ran it well.

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watched them the whole time. they're not firing out, just matching force with force = no penetration. if one ol gets a piece of a lb, their rb has room. Did X and Reese play?

btw, some criticized the LOT, but he looked ok to me.

One question I did have: does anyone know if we were playing exclusively zone in the secondary in the first half and switched to man in the 2nd? It seemed like the coverage was really loose in the first half.

The Aggies again provide a decent test for the Bears and would have made it even closer with better special teams execution.