Some Thoughts About the BYU-NMSU Game

First of all, the major thought on my mind is Matt Edwards is a champion. One catch, one touchdown in his last home game. As my brother Geoff said, if there was a WR rating for a game, Matt's would be like 10000. That was awesome.

He even outran someone to get in!!!

Secondly, about Jake Heaps (it always seems to come back to him). He is such an enigma. It's infuriating. One play, he'll look off the defender and throw a beautiful pass right in the receiver's chest. The next play he'll stare at the WR and throw it 100 MPH and out of reach. That's why his final completion percentage for each game is average while he also has some good youtube highlights. Another major problem is that he completes a lot of four yard passes. Those are terrible.

Everybody keeps saying that Doman keeps calling only outs and timing routes for Heaps and that's why he's struggling. I've learned from an insider (I've always wanted to say that) that there are plenty of routes called over the middle for Heaps but he struggles looking that way. The interception he threw in this game was an out that he never took his eyes off of Apo. When Jake does keep teams honest with the utilization of the middle we're a much more effective team. That last TD to Falslev keeps hope alive that Jake might finally put it together (how many times have we said that before?)

Such good form...why can't you complete them at a higher percentage?

Third, our defense is really tough. I wanted to go back through the season and see how many TDs given up were actually the defense's fault. The only TD Ole Miss scored was on defense. Against Texas, they had a scoring drive of 19 yards after Jake's pick. BYU gave up multiple defensive TDs to Utah and the U had a drive that was 3 yards and a drive that was only 35 yards after turnovers. One of UCF's TD was scored on a 17 yard drive after a Heaps pick. While Utah State's drives to the end zone wee long, it can be argued that the defense spending exorbitant time on the field due to offensive ineptness contributed to that. Against Oregon St, Riley had a pick six. TCU had four touchdown drives under 50 yards (including one that was only 8 yards). Factor this all in, and it's pretty impressive how few points the team has given up overall.

One of my all time favorite BYU pics.

Fourth, I feel like it has been a pretty good year, so far. We've won every game we should have. We have a good record. We have a chance to beat a decent Hawaii team next Saturday and then we'll probably play Tulsa in the Armed Forces Bowl. Tulsa is a quality opponent who I think will be a good measuring stick for how far we've come. Hopefully, we'll get enough momentum going to have a year to really remember, next year.