Bear Down Wildcats

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If I'm not mistaken, this is going to be the first sellout since the LSFF project was completed. It's time to see just how loud Arizona Stadium can get. This is Arizona's big chance to finally break through. This is the biggest game possibly in Arizona Stadium history to this point (stay with me her...

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I'm not sure if Neal is still at 100% yet. But like I said, I still don't feel like RR has really started opening the playbook yet.

Tyrell Johnson is going to break one for a TD this year. That speed is just ridiculous.

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Maybe so but Arizona is a P5 conference team that's 5-0 and just knocked off the #2 team in the country in their house. That's going to be hard to ignore, especially with the "5-0" next to the name in the standing.

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If the Cats beat USC, I'm guessing there are going to be a lot of tickets sold for the last three games in a hurry. It would be about damn time, too; I don't think people really understand what Rodriguez has been building here.

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I will be very curious to see how ASU does running the ball tomorrow. If USC doesn't shore up their run defense then Arizona will have a great opportunity to exploit that. They have a ball hawking secondary, but if the Cats establish the run at all then those DBs are going to have a tough time tryin...

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For as down as we've been on McKnight, he's still playing hard as hell and he's made a couple of huge plays that have been under the radar. There was that TD saving tackle last night that kept 4 points off the board for Oregon, and he had a huge pass breakup on third down on Nevada's final drive. Ex...

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One thing for certain, RR took Helfitch to the woodshed for the second year in a row. I mean flat out embarresed him from a coaching perspective. No greater example then when we ran that wheel route to TJG on the right side of the field and then about 2 plays later we ran it to the left side and NW...

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Last year after Oregon we were crushed by asu. 2 years ago we followed up the okie state win with 3 straight losses (after our scrimmage vs. Sc state). No more letdown. No more wsu home losses. Beat usc and then we know special things can happen rather than our one token upset per year. Three strai...

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Think RichRod's starting to have a little bit of fun here?

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I tend to thing #2 is closer to the truth. These coaches do a ton of evaluation and offer guys they like early; often other programs follow suit after UA has done the leg work for them. They are after a lot of speed demons and it's looking like they know what they're doing evaluating guys. Arizona ...

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NorCalCat wrote:Apparently I have a new 2014 superstition that's gonna be tough to maintain:

Fireball Fourth Quarter

I'm suddenly skeptical of your chances to survive the season.

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In the "great game" category, I'd also nominate Ebbele. The Cats were able to run those plays around right end because he was a brick wall sealing off that side of the field. He was mauling Oregon's D-linemen.

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That's a mantra Rodriguez preaches all the time. Now you see why. After having to grind out a win against UTSA on a tough night on the road, after having to survive some self-inflicted wounds against Nevada, after a comeback for the ages against Cal, you saw it again tonight. No panic in San Antonio...

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Alieberman wrote:That game sealing run by Grigsby was amazing

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The Hill Mary will forever go down as one of the greatest moments in Tucson sports history. But when Scooby got up with the football, that was almost as much as a "am I really seeing this?!?" moment.

Oh and @nick_pants does great work.

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Irish27 wrote:Gameday?

Not much of a chance... but there's gotta be at least some chance now.

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Just cause it's the first time I've seen it on a sports website (not counting this forum) http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/77948/instant-analysis-arizona-31-oregon-24 What it means: Good question. Let’s not all act surprised that the Pac-12 is eating itself alive. We’ve seen this year after ...

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You have to play Oregon on containment first, aggressiveness second. If they get long completions, that's fine as long as you keep them in front of you. If they get a speedy ball carrier to the outside, give up the yards, but escort him out of bounds instead of attacking. Sometimes you concede some ...

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The Samajie Grant c*ckblock. I was laughing so hard I hurt after that.

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ANG, you've been all over this game this week throwing a lot of good words in for Arizona. Enjoy this, and yes, Gimino should be front and center covering U of A sports at the Star.

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Katzenfreund wrote:

Oh damn do I love this gif.

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Both of them were money tonight. But Jones-Grigsby reminded me of another Grigsby, grinding out a really hard first down late in the fourth to seal the game against #2 Oregon. This is the kind of running back that Rich Rodriguez develops. TJG was stuck behind Ka'Deem and Jenkins all this time. He's ...

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Why. Not. Arizona.

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...but Michigan TOTALLY made the right call to fire Rich Rod after only three years.

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azcat49 wrote:I have a feeling this thread will heat up by the end of Thursday evening

...bump.

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8 or 9 wins? Wow. I'd be glad with 6. I truly believe that the Cal win was imperative for our bowl chances. Look at the remaining schedule with what we know after 5 weeks. Oregon - likely loss. USC - toss up. They have the star recruits but Arizona has a lot of firepower and may be a more cohesive ...

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Worth mentioning - It's not like they haven't been recruiting. Tabor and Hale committed after a lot of work by the staff, and then backed out. That's two CBs right there. We've lost guys due to career ending injuries.

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I'll be curious to see what the defensive stats across the Pac-12 are as the year rolls along. Once the year is done it'll be interesting to see how Arizona's defense stacks up numbers wise against the rest of the Pac-12, which will be more telling than how P12 teams stack up nationally. The confere...

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I meant eligible for the NFL draft My apologies Salty, I thought we were talking about the UofA. As for the NFL, I'm with you, I'm not sure either. He is draft-eligible after this year. The NFL rules require you to be three years out of high school, so juniors and redshirt sophomores are fair game....

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Last year was definitely an unlikely win. This year, it's unlikely as well. But, RichRod said it best: Why not Arizona?

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The Pac may be as tough or tougher than ever, but there's no way this team loses six more games. They're going to improve as the year goes along. 6-6 implies that Solomon gets worse instead of better this year, and considering the kid's past and what he's made of... no way.

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Is it just a matter of the defense disguising its looks and tripping him up and him needing the time to figure it out? Pretty much. You can practice all you want but there's no teacher like game experience. All defenses will try to disguise their coverage in one way or another. The thing for Arizon...

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Solomon's the future and that's how they're playing it. They're giving him a long leash now so that he can be a lot better later.

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I actually had a really good view from the upper deck. I normally sit in the middle of 201, but with all of the people leaving I moved over to a much better seat in 204 about 8 rows up. Here's the thing - I have watched so many attempts at late desperate comebacks over the years, usually falling sho...

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GC found us - everyone hide! (JK, glad to see ya round these parts) I'm not sure how rattled Anu will be. There's no great surprise if he is, but really, the non-conference schedule played out as perfectly as it could have to break in a freshman QB. He had to grind a game out against UTSA in a loud ...

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If you'll recall dc saying more than once that Jones was making jaws drop every day on practice... yeah, he just may have been onto something there.

Something that became clear during Nevada and then confirmed against Cal is this one simple rule: When it doubt, throw the ball to Cayleb Jones.

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Well deserved. He almost single-handedly kept Arizona in the game.

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I'm sure they will have something worked out for TY's game but Anu's ability to run when you least expect it makes our O even tougher for the Ducks then LY. It's not just that he runs when you don't expect it. It's also that he is so damned elusive. You think they've got him and suddenly he's two o...

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Yeah I'm more concerned that our run game was shut down and that cal was able to run at will on us with the rush offense people on here called nonexistent. Cal stacked the box and dared Solomon to throw. When Solomon was overthrowing everyone it worked, but once he got in a little rythmn their defe...

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Arizona lose by 14 in a relatively low scoring game (28-14). With such vanilla run calling (1 fly sweep the past two games?), Oregon will play mostly man. I also expect Anu to have issues against Oregon at Oregon, like he did at UTSA. Oregon is going to be loud, and Oregon is really good at mixing ...

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Oregon 51-31. The Ducks are good for one really flat quarter per game, but Mariota isn't hampered by his knee this year like he was last year. Arizona is going to be walking into the angriest stadium they'll see all year. The Ducks have the playmakers but they also have the composure that Cal did no...

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UA almost always sends more than 3. Just because they only line up with 3 down linemen (which 3-4 defenses also do), doesn't mean that's all they send. Part of the 3-3-5 is disguising where the LBs are coming from, and UA usually sends 4 or 5 on pass rushes, sometimes 6. I would agree that they hav...

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UAEebs86 wrote:

Gah. That game. We were talking after the game, though, and we were thinking this was payback for 1994.

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With greater fan support comes the issue of living under a microscope and having every single mistake over analyzed and so on. He had enough of that at UM, I'm guessing.

30-21 Cats.

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Ok, I'll bite on the threadjack... He's said that he was disappointed that he didn't get to finish what he started at Michigan. When he was asked about the season UM was having, he said that those were his guys, that he didn't get to see it through. Brady Hoke took RRs guys and won 11 games his firs...

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Wilson already has more rushing yards than Ka'deem did his freshman year. Combination of Nick being solid and Carey being criminally underutilized.

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Merkin wrote:That's even less convincing than what Larry Smith told the Tucson press the day before he took the redeye to LAX.

Football business is football business, same as it's ever been. (I think he's here for a while, though; he's not likely to let history repeat itself.)

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Not quite sure I understand the "bone-headed mistakes" based on Anu's passing efficiency. It's clearly documented in the stats that he has 1 INT and his total yards is very respectable. I assume they haven't watched our games. He did have two glaring ones Saturday. It's almost like he's a freshman ...

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I said it before the season, I don't think Cal is going to be anywhere near the dumpster fire they were last year. People think that they're going to have a 2-3 win season, but I think they are better, 5 wins, maybe not a bowl team, but they'll fight. I figure Arizona will win this one, it won't be ...

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