This is a coaching issue. Fresno State said we will stop your running backs and #85 catching the ball. They did. Ucla did not scheme to stop #5 and he was great. The Bulldog QB threw darts.
Two offsides on 4th down? Allen taking a kick out of the end zone to finish on the 9 yardline? Burning a time out on a PAT? Not spiking the ball afte…
This is a coaching issue. Fresno State said we will stop your running backs and #85 catching the ball. They did. Ucla did not scheme to stop #5 and he was great. The Bulldog QB threw darts.
Two offsides on 4th down? Allen taking a kick out of the end zone to finish on the 9 yardline? Burning a time out on a PAT? Not spiking the ball after a 1st down? Situational preparations completely lacking.
DTR throws a flat deep ball..... Allows defense to get there when short and prevents receiver from getting there when over thrown.
The only thing new was on the last play DTR didn't take a sack or run it.
You can certainly highlight all the individual mess ups and screw ups. Fact is that any team that allows 569 yards of total offense, 455 yards of which were through the air will not win many games unless their respective offense has more yards and points to go along with it, which was not the case here. The better team won, its pretty simple. Kelly's philosophy of simply outscoring the opponents puts way too much pressure on the offense and currently UCLA doesn't have the offense that can withstand that kind of pressure. People tend to pin it on DTR and say "he lost it for us", no he actually played (overall) quite well and well enough to win. No, the defense and especially the defensive coaches lost this one.
I agree with a lot of what you say, BB88. DTR scarcely saw the ball in the first half (due mainly to our horrific defensive scheme that allowed Fresno to possess the ball and run 3 times as many plays as us) and he made a lot of great plays in the second half. Unfortunately, he made (another) critical mistake with the non contact fumble, but if we had a consistent run game, or it our defense (including the coaching staff here) had been minimally competent for the game or made one clutch stop on either drive in the last 3 minutes, then we could have survived one DTR mistake. There is plenty of blame to go around for last night, and anyone who puts this game on DTR is overlooking a host of much bigger problems.
This is a coaching issue. Fresno State said we will stop your running backs and #85 catching the ball. They did. Ucla did not scheme to stop #5 and he was great. The Bulldog QB threw darts.
Two offsides on 4th down? Allen taking a kick out of the end zone to finish on the 9 yardline? Burning a time out on a PAT? Not spiking the ball after a 1st down? Situational preparations completely lacking.
DTR throws a flat deep ball..... Allows defense to get there when short and prevents receiver from getting there when over thrown.
The only thing new was on the last play DTR didn't take a sack or run it.
You can certainly highlight all the individual mess ups and screw ups. Fact is that any team that allows 569 yards of total offense, 455 yards of which were through the air will not win many games unless their respective offense has more yards and points to go along with it, which was not the case here. The better team won, its pretty simple. Kelly's philosophy of simply outscoring the opponents puts way too much pressure on the offense and currently UCLA doesn't have the offense that can withstand that kind of pressure. People tend to pin it on DTR and say "he lost it for us", no he actually played (overall) quite well and well enough to win. No, the defense and especially the defensive coaches lost this one.
I agree with a lot of what you say, BB88. DTR scarcely saw the ball in the first half (due mainly to our horrific defensive scheme that allowed Fresno to possess the ball and run 3 times as many plays as us) and he made a lot of great plays in the second half. Unfortunately, he made (another) critical mistake with the non contact fumble, but if we had a consistent run game, or it our defense (including the coaching staff here) had been minimally competent for the game or made one clutch stop on either drive in the last 3 minutes, then we could have survived one DTR mistake. There is plenty of blame to go around for last night, and anyone who puts this game on DTR is overlooking a host of much bigger problems.