Watched the game a second time

I watched the game again this morning just to see if there was anything I missed that may be worrisome or a positive.

A few thoughts:

The offense ran less than 10 plays total. A lot of jet sweeps and runs off tackle. When we passed, it was a basic route tree, just different parts of the field.

What this tells me is that Canada and O came in with a plan to not show their hand too early in the season and just focus on execution. It's impressive to see a team with 40+ minutes of possession time not dig deep into the play book. Outside of the deep ball to Chark, there were very few vertical pass plays and very few screens. I have to give O a lot of credit for that. He knew to keep his foot on the pedal, but not too the floor.

Defense was dominant as always. What was most impressive to me were the down lineman. BYU's oline was no slouch. That was big arse dudes. Our Dline held gaps as good as you can on runs and put pressure right up the gut on just about every pass play. This group is better than last years. I came away extremely impressed with the young DBs. For their first game starting, they were pretty damn close to being impossible to throw on.

All in all, I came away impressed and think the improvement between this week and next is going to be pretty significant. This team has a lot of potential. We'll see just how good they can be when we see State in a few weeks.

Geaux Tigers!