I was working at the same time so I didn't see every play.

I love watching the Skycam! Can really see how the OL is doing.

Ryker Mathews & Tuni Kanuch were the first two OL subs in the game. Edward Fusi was the only other OL sub to play iirc. Kearsley was on the sidelines, not suited out. So the rotation was down to 8 guys, which seemed to work well. Mathews played LT, then RT, then LT again, then RT again, then LG, then tackle again. Kanuch mostly played RG but he did play LG for at least one series. Fusi only played Center. I thought Mathews while not perfect played really well. First game back too. When he was at LG, he looked like a physical player.

I'm no OL coach or anything but a couple times it looked like Wesley took his kick-step at too deep of an angle, which caused him to end up with the guy he was blocking near Taysom too soon. He needs to take a wider angle on his drop. Not sure on that, just looked like it to me.

Lapuaho got down on a fumble to recover it way faster than I would have thought he could move. Impressive.

DT/NT got through Fusi at Center 2 times just by Fusi not moving quick enough to get fully in-front of the defender, so the defender just had to attack half of fusi's body to get through. Messed up timing of the plays. I can definitely see why Koroma is the starter, just off of quickness alone. But Fusi is good too, especially when he does get the whole defenders body and starts to drive him back or side to side.

Johnson played very intelligently and if he was just a little bit stronger would be really really good. He made the perfect read and block on a Jamaal run up the middle but Jamaal was stoped for very little gain cause even though Johnson did everything perfect, he still got bounced by the defender and the defender made the tackle anyway.

Kanuch is improving and made both some good and not so good plays. He was at his best when we were running inside the 10 yard line. He did get driven back on one run play I saw, which kinda surprised me. Obviously happens to everyone though at one time or another though, and more.

A low percentage of the pressure that got to Taysom was simply due to any of the OL getting beat by their defender one-on-one. It was usually due to one of two things. Fist, the RB/FB would miss or misread their assignment. Like went out for a pass after waiting for a second, when they should have stayed to protect against the delayed blitz, so the blitz didn't get picked up. Or they did stay to block and reacted to the unblocked man too late. Or they did stay to block, reacted in time, but just got beat on the block anyway and they got pressure on Taysom. It looks very tough to stop a guy who is coming full speed up the middle or from the outside and you're just standing there, trying to stop his forward momentum.

The other reason pressure got to Taysom was due to the tackle and guard having to decide which two guys to take out of three possible people and the guy they decided not to block ending up being the one who comes through. For example, one time there was a DE with an OLB lined up outside of and just behind him, and then a MLB lined up inside and pretty far behind the DE. At the snap, Wesley took the OLB, and Stringham slid over and took the DE, leaving the MLB untouched up the middle. Then another time, same D formation, Wesley took the DE and Stringham took the blitzing MLB which left the OLB open on the end to get quick pressure on Taysom again. Seems very tough to be an OL to say the least.

The good news is our guys weren't just getting beat by their man like last year. Our line just needs more pt together so they can start to think like one out there.

I loved watching on the skycam our kick-off team as it had to the left of our kicker (Mikkelsen)- Alisa, then Langi, then Takitaki. So the left side went: Povey-Takitaki-Langi-Alisa-Mikkelsen. Langi got put on his back by a Houston double team and it looked painful but freed up the other guys to make the tackle. Takitaki-Langi-Alisa looked like a sweet combination.

Jamaal showed some sweet vision on his runs. A few runs that he made yards on would have been no gain by our other RB's. Taysom had some great vision on a few of his runs too.

I haven't seen any glaring weaknesses by out D yet. I hope that continues vs Virginia. We only had one sack, but we got enough pressure on O'korn on a lot of plays that ruined them for Houston.

Other than the two plays everyone noticed, Rob Daniel played really well. He helped stop their outside WR screen passes early by beating his blocker so Houston stopped going to those plays compared to how much they ran them last year. Even on the TD in the south EZ, Rob recovered well after getting beat off the snap and it took a perfect throw and a one handed catch by Greenberry to get the TD.

Speaking of that timing pass from O'korn to Greenberry, I don't think Taysom would have even thrown that pass. Taysom would have waited too long instead of trying to throw early, and/or trying to throw him open to a spot in the EZ. O'korn threw that ball sooo early, it was a beautiful play.

Taysom may have been able to hit Mitch Mathews in the back corner of the EZ but needed to throw it early like O'korn did to Greenberry. Taysom doesn't like to throw certain patterns until he sees his man is breaking open or will for sure be open. I guess that could at certain times cut down on turnovers in crucial situations, and Taysom getting 10 yards on a scramble is safer when we have the lead than a possible pick. But that won't cut it against really good teams or when we are behind.

Our WR's seem to get open better/easier when they are not lined up so spread out in traditional formations, but are lined up in bunches and crossing each-other off the line.

It seems very difficult to get open when you are an outside WR running a simple post pattern, especially when you are covered by the corner on you and then you run right into the safety.

I saw 3-4 plays where Taysom could have stepped up in the pocket like he did, but instead of tucking the ball before he crossed the line of scrimmage, kept it out in throwing position, with his eyes down field, then he could have hit some long pass plays while just behind the line. One of them, Blackmon was breaking wide open deep behind the CB and Safety, and Taysom may have been able to hit him for a TD before he crossed the line-of-scrimmage. Most of the time though, the WR's were indeed covered, so it was great Taysom scrambled and made so many positive plays with his running ability.

Pre-season, I was worried about how our OL was seemingly averaging 5 yards a carry against our DL in camp. But thus far that seems to have been more of an indication of our OL's good run blocking ability than our D being poor against the run. That and a lot of our D starters were held out of most scrimmages. Having given that complement to our OL, we did have way too many runs for a gain of 1 yard on first downs.

Loved Takitaki blitzing off the edge. Seemed even better at it at this stage than Hinds. But Hinds hasn't played ball in two years and Takitaki has.

Langi showed some great potential on MLB blitzes, on the last Houston drive of the game. I think it was their last drive anyway.

I'm ready for some more Blackmon. (Line up correctly please. And keep catching the punts like you did against Houston and not like the muffed kick-off returns in the last open stadium scrimmage we had. I know you will.)

We need Algie Brown back.

When Kurtz gets back, I think our O will really start humming. (If he looks like he did in camp, in games right away.)

Taysom is one tough dude. Warrior.