Brady Quinn - What the Hell Was Colorado Doing Throwing on 1st and 10?

yeah college football is back yeah and it put on a show last night yeah now should we start with Colorado and Prime and that whole scene I mean that's the headline right yeah of course it is everybody was going to watch cuz shador is fun as hell to watch man and makes he's makes plays man Travis Hunter is fun as hell to watch yeah he makes play I just hope those guys make it through healthy that's it it's all I'm wondering if one of them goes down I don't know that I mean horn horn balled out too horn horn Jr horn Jr Jim Jim yeah um yeah Jimmy horn Jr Jimmy horn Jr yeah that he bowled out too but uh I guess I guess you always can we can always give props to where the props are doing and and the Stars showed up for Colorado in that game but I still think the concerns of last year year are still some of the concerns of this year right the the quarterback for for uh North Dakota had too much time at times he he was too elusive for the defense I say that was was an issue they they were able to make plays when they needed to make plays against Colorado's defense I just think the biggest storyline in in that game coming out of that game is one if if shador if shador can do what he did in this opening game which you assume them taking a a tougher opponent even though it's not a big big opponent as a tougher opponent they did take on a competitive opponent first games are going to be difficult but if shador and and Travis Hunter and Horn if they can deliver that way this team should be in pretty much every game that they play in they need a running game they they definitely need to find their running game because that's going to be something that's important in in the in the Big 12 and their defense has to be better I mean that was those were my takeaways from the game well I'll say this um quickly they will always have a shot because of shador Sanders I mean I I'll continue to keep saying this the quarterback position that the college level will always give your team a chance and he's one of the best in college football we we kind of talked about this I don't know if it was earlier this week or maybe last week but you know it'll be Carson Beck it'll be him and maybe there'll be some others that we talk about in regards to the top of the first round but you know that's the type of talent he is and Travis Hunter and Jimmy horn Jr and a few the the players too on their roster are good enough at the skill possession to help them win some football games but as you as you're basically touching on is this this team hasn't really changed a ton from last year it's a team that's built off of shador Sanders carrying them and then being able to do enough defensively to win a game and that was a game where I think every single weakness you saw in Colorado last year is still there the protection at times wasn't great I mean that was North Dakota State it's not Nebraska who they play next week North Dakota State and the great that's a a really good program at that level but they're going to be in for a big time challenge if the offensive line doesn't improve and on the outside Nebraska will be able to match up better Nebraska should be able to take away certain pieces of of that offense so all the things you touched on they're going to have to do if they want to keep continue to keep building momentum because that's the one thing I'd say that's so big in college football is momentum and and you see it throughout games you know I really thought Colorado in the fourth quarter started to take away the momentum but the thing that stood out too that's a bit of an issue is what the hell were they doing throwing on First and 10 no kidding they could have kneeled the ball three times game was over they could have you know and and North Dakota state would even had a shot at the very end it was I mean it's those sorts of decisions that we could talk about the glitz the glamour whatever the program and then there's just talking ball and and you leave people scratch their heads going why' they do that they literally had the game in hand they never had to punt the ball back that's the sort of thing that maybe maybe North Dakota State won't beat you someone will beat you if you give them another opportunity like that if they're able to handle it better so you know look Colorado is going to be a team that's bull eligible I I think think they'll win more than six games but if they really want to be one of the top in the Big 12 they've got to do a better job coaching they got some help I thought from the refs for some no calls they at the end of the game they spotted the ball and the clock was stopped at 15 seconds the ref then picks it up to move it back it takes another 6 seconds off the clock from northa State then to snap the ball and and Spike it it was one of the most egregious things I've seen an official do amongst a bunch of other Miss calls so there's a lot of things that helped Colorado get that win last night at the end it doesn't matter but they need some big time improvement from week one to week two uh Deion Sanders spoke afterwards about the decision to throw on that final drive I mean you got to understand you got to take what people give you you can't take what you want and it's not there I mean what is it what do you throw for 445 yards you think we upset who upset so yo they have a running game well the passing game look pretty darn good today so let's let's let's be appreciative and thankful that that we we got one of the Premier guys in college football spinning it we're going to run the ball we're going to do that we're going to have a lot more balance today was just that type of day you got to take what they give you but in that situation on t St you want to run the clock down I mean you want for no no you want first downs right if you want to run the clock down they got a fiveman box that mean they got five five down like you got to look out there and say okay okay I got one-onone right here and I haven't seen one-on one the whole game so I got to do what I got to do to to move these chains and that's what that is well I mean I'll let you have that q i I mean I I understand what what he's saying I do understand like getting a first down the game is over but I I'll let you have a Q I'll let you have it I mean it's just it's math it's it's not complicated it's math I mean they could have ran the clock out I everyone understands objective but you still could have ran the clock out given their lack of timeouts and given where you had the football yeah I I I I mean if your reasoning is it's five men down because you know they're going to tr the ball KN dur in Victory formation um yeah and and that's that's that's what I'll say and and he's right he spends it and Q you you've mentioned it shador shador spins the ball I mean he he can he can play he can also run too right he's all right at running I mean he can he can buy himself some time I mean the one thing that really stood out to me that really jumped out at me about shador Sanders is that he's he was delivering he was delivering some beautiful balls under some serious duress like he was getting hit like a couple of the big plays he made during this game he was getting hit the same time he was releasing the ball he looks bigger doesn't he he bulked up right he looks a little bigger like he's growing a little bit yeah I mean I I thought they were impressive I I I thought the offense in the passing game was impressive um I was not and and and Prime said it coach Prime said listen they they need to improve their running game I I looked at some of the plays I looked over them again a little bit some of the plays that and and it was interesting being in I'm here in State College and I was with some of my you know some of the old heads yeah yeah we are um matter of fact you know Q will talk about that Q's in Morgan Town so he's going to see my dudes um hell yeah but uh there were some former players in I was at a spikes baseball game yesterday uh shouts out to the State College Spikes and and the first thing that guys were saying which I thought was an interesting observation was once they if you want to see the difference or understand the difference between a major and and a mid like a power five um versus like a a mid major and and like lower levels you'd see like plays where there'd be they were taking advantage of one-on-one situations and the defender would actually be close enough for it to be a non-factor play but they were still turning into bigger plays and you're looking at you're like see that linebacker right there if that's if that's a power four five linebacker that's a that's a catch and that's a tackle and that wasn't happening in the game last evening there were catches there were plays and those linebackers or those Corners they weren't able to they were they were in position like give give South Dakota their their props they were in North North why I keep Mi mixing them up they were in position to make the plays they were just m they they were M this is why you're here and not at a power five school and that was like now that became the debate was when you get into the bigger games and the coverages are the coverages and the plays are the plays and Dion said it look you're going to take what the defense gives you if you got linebackers that can handle the matchups and you're able to drop it off to them in in the flares as a check a check down and they're able to make bigger plays out of that because you can't make that tackle or you're throwing quick screen out to the uh out into the the you know the edges of the defense if they can't make those tackles then you you take what they're going to give you but I I just think that those were certain things that popped out and that were being discussed when defenses have the guys that can match up are they going to be able to are they going to have enough offense are they going to have enough you know good calls in order to be able to have the success and and again can the defensive front can can the defense as a whole can they put can they put more pressure on the quarterback and can they make bigger plays you know versus you know stopping stopping quarterbacks from being able to run and stopping the Run altogether their defensive front has a lot to prove there was a kind of a lot left on the table in terms of saying okay they came out this was a dominant performance this guy you know kind of established himself as the go two guy that's something that you're still going to look for out of Buffalo moving forward I mean at least they uh were thinking about the people who had money on Colorado at the end you know throwing the ball like that giving them a chance you know like everyone thinking oh this BET's over then they're slinging it we we do realize Colorado call a timeout with 38 seconds left right with that fourth down like that like that's what I'm trying to say is the reporter should have followed up and said no we understand the first first down you got in that drive but you then had the opportunity had you not thrown on first down to be able to have run the clock out just to see what the followup was because that's the reality of it and and like for all the things you just said Lavar here's the truth is is this team any different from last year my my answer is no offensive line was still issued didn't have a running game defense struggled like we already know knew that shidu Sanders was one of the top quarterbacks we know that Travis Hunter is one of the best players in college football we know Jimmy horn Jr is one of their Playmakers we like we know they have weapons on the outside there is nothing that's really changed for them they there's still the they're still going to be fun to watch they're going to be fun to watch the entire season because they're going to be in dog fights and they're going to be able to come back in games because their passing game and because their skill players because they if you look at Travis Hunter and Jimmy horn Jr those are two of the better players in college football so it doesn't matter you know what defenses do what the matchups are they're still going to get theirs it just comes down to like can this team help those guys out enough and and on the point of shador the best thing about his game and this is something that I felt watching him last year and was talked about and discussed a ton he's he's accurate he's all the things you're looking for in a quarterback his Poise when you talk about the ability to deliver a ball while getting hit and by the way happening time and time again his Poise is what always just stood out to me most quarterbacks when they get hit as often as he does they eventually start to feel it their pocket presence how they play throughout the course of a game or a season they sort to not trust that offensive line he continually hangs in there hangs in there and he'll he'll wait until someone gets open he wait till someone separates delivers a strike take a take a shot get right back up I mean it it's pretty impressive to watch that's the one thing that you know I think if you look at him compared to any other quarterback in college football he's got that over everyone we watched it all last year and so far it looks like it's going to be that way this year so if they're the same team they were last year but the competition's a lot stiffer this year than last year then the results are going to be worse than last year ultimately I don't I don't think it's stiffer you know I think it's about the same but I think there there's Els where you feel like they they'll be able to win to me at least six or more games because of shador like I just I think if you if you're matching up whoever they're playing at quarterback you know Dylan rol who they play next week is a freshman talented player he he could go off this year maybe but that's a guy that I think if you're saying who would you take right now you take shador Sanders that that quarterback matchup every single week he's going to have the advantage and there's going to be few times I mean maybe outside of Utah you might say okay Cam rising's been playing college football forever I think he's 25 now yeah like outside of maybe that matchup you'd say yeah I take shador Sanders so if that's the case they always have a punching chance