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Looking @ Colorado Buffaloes Football

While we're all busy looking ahead to OU, musing about our basketball team like Topekans in February, and expressing wonder at how the football gods continue to ease our path to Dallas and Pasadena

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(I'm now convinced that the Alabama and Florida team buses will crash into each other four hours before kickoff of the SEC championship game), I checked our schedule and it turns out that we're playing Colorado on Saturday.

In football. Home game apparently. So that's nice. Let's watch it?

Colorado Offense

Colorado will be a borderline useful game for us. Our defensive statistics against pass-heavy teams have lulled us into the statistician's mistake of confusing infrequency with efficacy with respect to the running game. This is the same phenomenon by which people who take tae-kwon-do convince themselves that they can fight by hanging out with other people taking tae-kwon-do. So it's time to leave the suburban strip mall slapfest and go pick a fight with a biker. In Colorado's case, by biker, I mean a cyclist.

A female cyclist. A mouthy one with hirsute armpits.

Win that and then you work up from there.

We will finally get to see a semi-traditional running game - I won't insult you by arguing that it's a good one - but it will feature things like a big OL firing out, backs attempting to run downhill, blocking fullbacks, and exotic things like TEs and - wait for it - sometimes TWO TEs. And off of that madness, they will attempt to do things like run play action...and run clock. So that we beat them 34-7 rather than 52-10.

They will do these things at some level higher than our scout teams can, it will be in a game environment, and it's a good prep for OU and OSU. We need to work on controlling gaps, maintaining low pads, and having our LBs read keys beyond that of an inside slot receiver. If you were at our Fiesta Bowl game against Ohio State you saw first hand how the Big 12 is poor preparation for a traditional running game. It took us a while to acclimate. Consider Colorado a hike up to 5500 feet before an Everest Base Camp push.

This "running" will happen until we stop them and then Cody Hawkins will throw every down, like a paperboy with palsy.

Cody Hawkins is an object lesson in the perils of nepotism (145-98-1087-7td-7int; 12 carries, -84 yards). He has a weak arm, isn't fast, stands under 6 feet and is generally what you end up with when you recruit a Todd Reesing-type instead of the actual Todd Reesing. His only reliable targets are Scotty McKnight (29-325-3 td) - only the name Chalky McDutch better screams reliable route runner - and TE Riar Geer (20-208-1). McKnight is a guy that would be a #2 receiver (or #3) at every other school in the Big 12 and he's CU's best offensive player. Ouch.

The OL, for all of their recruiting hype, has been a disappointment. RBs Rodney Stewart, Darrell Scott, and Demetrius Sumler all looked a lot better in preseason magazines than on the field. Stewart, to his credit, does run hard and basically approximates Jahvid Best...with a pulled hamstring.

CU has scored 70 of their 103 points this year in the 2nd half. This means CU is a second half team! Against 2nd teamers or disinterested 1st teamers with sizeable leads. If Colorado manages more than 13 points, then someone fumbled inside our ten.

Colorado Defense

Going against Colorado's defense is a little like getting a date with Angelina Jolie. It's just a question of which way you'd like to screw them. You probably end up getting bored and trying Caligulan amusements at some point. We should dress up Fozzy Whitaker like a satyr.

If you're a schadenfreude type, read this Buff Blogger's rationalization of the West Virginia game:

Despite the 11-point spread at the end of the game, the Buffs were barely outscored in only two quarters. Granted, the last CU touchdown was scored with 3 seconds left in the game when Simas caught his first collegiate TD pass, and the Buffs were 18 points behind before that catch

I honestly don't have the words.

I enjoyed this too:

CU has plenty of team speed. What the Buffs stlll struggle with at times is being out of position too often and not making the plays when they are in position. And they need to be coached into playing fast.

Can ignorant Colorado bloggers be coached into blogging smart? Colorado is slow. Believe your eyes. It actually gets more absurd from there, so I'll stop out of mercy.


CU Defensive Team Meeting

Some fun statistics and facts I dug up for you:

When the CB blitz is your pass-rushing staple you know that you're giving up 28+ points per game. 5 foot 7 inch cornerback Cha'pelle Brown l'eads the te'am in sa'cks with thr'ee.

Set the tone early? Toledo, West Virginia and Colorado State had game opening drives of 91, 80, and 77 yards respectively. All TDs.

In four games, CU has given up eleven plays of 40+ yards. Colorado's offense has managed two.

CU's defense is balanced: they give up 201 yards rushing and 207 yards passing per game. You can only get that sort of balance with meditation, harmony, and five white starters from Durango.

CU features exactly 100% more Caucasians at safety than is advisable (two). I'm not talking about mean country white boys. I mean Cau-casian. We're talking 4.85 40, My Child Is An Honor Student At Longmont High bumper sticker, espresso makers in their dorm room. Peter Bean of BurntOrangeNation and I spent the entire Toledo game text messaging each other Mehhhhnnkee! when another Toledo Rust Belt midget would sprint by him. I literally had tears in my eyes from laughing at this Texas circa 1987 abomination. LB Shaun Mohler competed hard for the title of Most Like A Tree Sloth, but Mehnke pulled it through late.

The CU LBs are not up to their standard. Not sure I'd ever type that given their tradition there, but there it is. Jeff Smart is OK, I guess.

The DL comprises DL. They have them. Names next to positions on the depth chart and everything.

For our offense, this game is a chance for Colt to show that he is consistently back to being Good Colt. Not Bad Colt. We don't want to see Bad Colt, who kept throwing interceptions and eating socks out of the sock drawer. Lets keep him on track. It'll be good for our pre-OU nerves.

Special Teams

CU has outstanding kickoff coverage! Really. I'm being serious. So this is the battle we've all been waiting for, I think. WHO WILL PREVAIL!?!?!

Colorado FG kicker Aric Goodman has missed 38 consecutive field goals. I'm almost certain of this statistic, though, admittedly, I did not look it up.

Conclusion:

We will win big. I have no idea about this covering a 32.5 point line business as Colorado has an extraordinary ability to score mercy touchdowns against bored defenses. Let's call it a 42-9 victory. Then we can get this season started.

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Great writeup. Watching the Hawkins duo puff out their chests when Cody chalks up a couple late 4th quarter TDs against Frank Solich Ohio U rejects is quite comical. Daddy Hawk has the look of a vindicated limousine liberal when Colorado finally turned into a blue state. Little Hawk gives an awkward Rock Band scream coupled with a cracker chest bump with his bass player, Scottie McK. He then struts off the field like someone who has just escaped a pending ass beating upon return to the People’s Repulblic of Boulder at the hands of some violent hackysackers.

You’ll have to forgive the CU blogger. The only Coloradoans that know anything about football are the Latinos and white folks that have never seen a ski resort. These anomalies choose the recreational pastime of squandering their paychecks on Bronco season tickets and $9 Bud Lights.

by coloradoag on Oct 8, 2009 7:02 AM CDT reply actions  

Colorado wins out, gets to the magic 10 in a good bowl, and appeases The Busey.

It starts in Austin.

by parlinhall on Oct 8, 2009 7:34 AM CDT reply actions  

Scip, you always inform, but the entertainment value is what sets you apart. And you don’t recycle your bullshit as so many of your cohorts do. We’ll do’ne.

If Gideon were on this Buff defense he would be far the best DB as well as the fastest.

What I want to see this Saturday is a dominating performance on both sides of the LOL and a totally grooved Colt. I want to see him make more off schedule plays which was the hallmark of God Colt in 2008.

by beowulf on Oct 8, 2009 8:15 AM CDT reply actions  

The first quarter-and-a-half was when the team squandered too many opportunities to put the game away. If Aric Goodman goes 3-for-4 on FGs, as he did up until the W Va game, instead of 1-for-4, the Buffs have 6 more points. If Hawkins and Geer connect on the long pass in the first quarter, the Buffs have 7 more points. And if the CU defense, or, in one case, offense, picks up one of those four Mountaineer fumbles and returns it for a TD, OR if the offense capitalizes on just one of the four recoveries with a touchdown, the Buffs have another 7 points. If the Buffs had not left 20 points on the field in the first half and had walked back out onto Mountaineer Field to start the second half with a lead of 30-14, do you think the game might have turned out differently? That’s the difference two kicks, one pass and one defensive play can make in a game.

That is a glass half full kind a guy if ever I’ve heard one.

by Hiphopopotamus on Oct 8, 2009 8:37 AM CDT reply actions  

Hiphopopotamus- that guy was really daddy hawkins talking to the boosters after the game.

by Travis on Oct 8, 2009 8:54 AM CDT reply actions  

He will forever be Chalky McDutch to me.

by nordberg on Oct 8, 2009 9:07 AM CDT reply actions  

The good news for Colorado – they will hold DJ Monroe 25 yards below his KR average.

The bad news – that will add 25 yards to our offensive totals each time.

by henley on Oct 8, 2009 9:24 AM CDT reply actions  

Mahnke’s official bio says he ran an 11.4 100 in high school. Reminds me of the line from Raising Arizona.

“Now don’t print that, son. If his mama reads that she’s just gonna lose all hope.”

by HenryJames on Oct 8, 2009 9:36 AM CDT reply actions  

What I want to see this Saturday is a dominating performance on both sides of the LOL

Sounds like a gameday texting duel with HenryJames.

Nice preview of the imminent sacrifice, Scipio. I plan on watching Mehnke on pretty much every down. It has become high comedy watching him try to do anything on a football field given his physical limitations. A career at Meineke can’t be far away.

As far as the date with Angelina Jolie goes, I think you script the first 15 seconds with reverse cowboy and reassess from there.

by Vasherized on Oct 8, 2009 9:41 AM CDT reply actions  

Nailed me, Vash. lol

by beowulf on Oct 8, 2009 9:51 AM CDT reply actions  

“I literally had tears in my eyes from laughing at this Texas circa 1987 abomination.”

John Hagy cries a single tear.

by Eskimohorn on Oct 8, 2009 9:57 AM CDT reply actions  

A reverse cowboy reference. This site is growing up.

by Trips Right on Oct 8, 2009 10:22 AM CDT reply actions  

I want to see one thing and one thing only. A kill shot on D. Scott graciously provided by Mr. Muck. Not that the Curse of Mack Brown hasn’t already stalled Scott’s once bright future, but this would be lovely.

As far as Angie goes, what starts in the mouth finishes in the mouth.

by magnusbleuveigner on Oct 8, 2009 10:23 AM CDT reply actions  

Trips,

Didn’t you just say a couple of weeks ago that you would “eat that ass with fava beans and a nice Chianti.”

Yeah that was you. It was concerning that hot ass b that wore that Tebow shirt. I remember because I was going to say that I would “eat that ass with jelly beans and box wine.”

You must have gotten a scolding from your wife recently regarding maturity issues.

by magnusbleuveigner on Oct 8, 2009 10:27 AM CDT reply actions  

Reverse COWGIRL you homos.

by Minnesotahorn on Oct 8, 2009 10:58 AM CDT reply actions  

ha,ha,ha,ha…..Man I’m feeling a little less masculine for not catching that….

by magnusbleuveigner on Oct 8, 2009 11:04 AM CDT reply actions  

this kid disagrees with you scipio


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by Tim\'s Bleeding Vagina on Oct 8, 2009 11:18 AM CDT reply actions  

Thank you Minnesotahorn. I caught that as well.

Freud says Hai guyzzz!

by t1climb1 on Oct 8, 2009 11:21 AM CDT reply actions  

Ha. Nice catch, Minny.

The reverse cowboy is actually a move Trips invented at the Spearmint Rhino in Vegas. You have to see it to believe it.

by Vasherized on Oct 8, 2009 11:36 AM CDT reply actions  

Well, hello there!

by Brokeback on Oct 8, 2009 11:42 AM CDT reply actions  

The over on the game is 62. Take it. You can probably count on 2 garbage time CU TDs per their usual m.o. Texas should be good for 50. The backs will be ripping 50-60 yard runs from scrimmage. That D line is horrendous.

by yojimbox on Oct 8, 2009 12:35 PM CDT reply actions  

By the way, Scipio Tex, you must have missed closing out an ITALICS tag somewhere in your article. ;)

by yojimbox on Oct 8, 2009 12:37 PM CDT reply actions  

Awesome.

by UTIceberg on Oct 8, 2009 12:38 PM CDT reply actions  

Coloradoag:
 
Thanks for the nice words. The point you make about the Broncos is a good one. Coloradans have a genuine deep passion for that team from Elway to Sammy Winder and I know several Colorado grads who would rather go to a Broncos-Chiefs game than Colorado-Nebraska. It’s odd that Boulder – the ultimate college environment – has sporting tastes more on par with Cleveland or Buffalo.
 
beowulf:
 
Thanks, dude. I agree that Blake Gideon would be a major upgrade at safety for them.
 
hiphop:
 
I just started laughing when I hit that section. Oh, well. There but for the Grace of God go I. I’m sure I had those sorts of self-dialogues back in 1993.
 
norberg:
 
Let it be known henceforth that anyone calling NAME REDACTED anything but Chalky McDutch will be cast out of Barking Carnival.
 
HJ –
 
I saw that. I was reminded of an English friend who, while trying to get me into soccer, pointed out that English player Michael Owen had “world class speed.” When I asked him what that meant, he exulted, “11.1 in the 100 meters!” Apparently that will win you some ribbons in Sheffield-Upon-Avon.

by Scipio Tex on Oct 8, 2009 2:02 PM CDT reply actions  

I cringed when I read that article from the Ralphie Report. Most CU fans know it wasn’t that close. It’s just pathetic what the expectations have become. Silver lining in a 3 score loss to a Big East team with no defense.

I like the commentary at safety but with Perkins and Burney there now, we are starting 2 non-caucasians, one of which happens to be our 3rd/4th CB. I know that strikes fear in your hearts. No way Mahnke runs a sub 5.0 forty…no way.

There is actually some decent, young talent most of whom watch the game from the sidelines behind walk-on receivers who are playbook experts.

Beatty, Rippy and Major will be a solid LB corp n the years to come if we can ever get rid of Ron Collins.

Easily the weakest WR corp in the Big 12. McKnight would be a great slot receiver on a team with 2 big targets. No speed here. Move along

by buffs15 on Oct 8, 2009 3:19 PM CDT reply actions  

very funny stuff.

by scum of the earth on Oct 8, 2009 3:36 PM CDT reply actions  

“5 foot 7 inch cornerback Cha’pelle Brown l’eads the te’am in sa’cks with thr’ee.”

Brilliant.

by blackscholes on Oct 8, 2009 8:10 PM CDT reply actions  

magnusbleuveigner……………
kill shot?
Hard to believe Scott has inflicted so much pain without even carrying the ball.
Sounds like the comments on strip mall tai kwon do may have been about you.
Truth be known a lot of us are also hoping for something similar to a “kill shot” from Texas but not on Scott.

by outragedcoloadofan on Oct 8, 2009 11:19 PM CDT reply actions  

5 foot 7 inch cornerback Cha’pelle Brown l’eads the te’am in sa’cks with thr’ee.

This is made of Nguyen.

by spider on Oct 9, 2009 12:54 PM CDT reply actions  

The CU LBs are not up to their standard. Not sure I’d ever type that given their tradition there, but there it is.

In their defense, I’m not sure Coach Hawkins even has a daughter.

by spider on Oct 9, 2009 12:57 PM CDT reply actions  

Comparing little Hawkins to Todd Reesing is an insult to wood nymphs everywhere.

by Notapuke on Oct 9, 2009 2:08 PM CDT reply actions  

“Truth be known a lot of us are also hoping for something similar to a "kill shot" from Texas but not on Scott.”

Sorry, outragedcolo®adofan, but Sergio already got the memo from Muschamp: Tackle Hawkins, but don’t damage him too much. We don’t want the backup (whoever the heck he is) in there.

by BEHorn on Oct 9, 2009 7:34 PM CDT reply actions  

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