Comments about ‘BYU football: Terrible special teams play dooms Cougars against TCU’

Give them a little bit of a break.

This was their trap game.

Sandwiched between the Idaho State game and Idaho game.

"BYUs secondary enjoyed one of its best outings of the season against a solid passing attack."
NO WAY. Two blown coverages led to two easy touchdowns. Were you watching the same game as me?

Both blown coverages were on Ogletree (a linebacker), not on the secondary. I would agree that the secondary probably had one of their best games tonight.

Ogletree is a hard nosed football player but he makes costly mistakes and I am quite certain he leads the team in major penalties. and most of these penalties are very untimely and change the course of the game. He plays very undisciplined and cost BYU several scores tonight. Just like Nelson's repeated mental mistakes, Ogltree's repeated mental mistakes to large degree fall on the heads of the coaches .

Idablu, good point. I was thinking "pass defense" instead of "secondary." I stand corrected.

Bronco doesn't know how to prepare for big games. Football is 5th and he was more concerned about securing a location for his fireside in Hawaii than the game at hand.

For once I'd like to see Bronco look likes he cares when he is coaching. I think he cares more for the boys than he does about coaching football - admirable, but he's not their Bishop or YM President. AND - you can care for the boys while coaching them to be a better football team. Don't you think Patterson cares for his team? He has them playing like a band of brothers, questing for perfection and all.

Move on, short memory in victory and defeat. Yes plenty of stuff to work on this next week, mental discipline appears to stand out as the 400lb gorilla in the room.

Details to work on, Catch the ball from the center, Keep your head by avoiding personnel fouls, do not press or force plays that are not there.

Own the details and then apply yourself.

BYU should have won this game. Standard punt execution -- vs. two (two!) fumbles and a shanked kick -- would have eliminated at least one and possibly two of TCU's 3 touchdowns following those muffs. Nelson just letting himself be sacked instead of throwing his two dumb "I'm going down" passes -- one into the endzone (interception) and one backwards(!) (fumble recovery) -- would have resulted in at least one and probably two field goals. TCU didn't win this game -- BYU lost it.

And, yes, the secondary played its best game of the season. But I'm still waiting for the whole team to play a complete game. ..bruce..