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Slow starts, explosive 2nd quarters: What’s up with Utah’s offense?
Micah Bernard (2) of the Utah Utes runs the ball for a primary down whereas enjoying the San Diego State Aztecs in Salt Lake Metropolis on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. (Ben B. Braun, Deseret Information)
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SALT LAKE CITY — When you wait lengthy sufficient — and recently it hasn’t been that lengthy — Utah’s coaches and gamers will get requested a query about their sluggish begins in video games this season.
The repeated questions are merited and related to the state of this system, however it’s nothing that’s catching the soccer crew abruptly — they know. The movie evaluate and simply being part of the sport are sufficient for anybody concerned to know the offense has to begin sooner.
An acknowledgment of the issue is step one, however till Utah jumps out to a sooner begin it’s going to stay a relentless theme to the 2022 season.
Utah’s offense has solely scored 14 factors within the first quarter by way of their first three video games of the season; however thankfully for the involved events, Utah’s protection has achieved its job and solely allowed 14 factors — a wash on the scoreboard. It hasn’t been an issue to this point … at the very least not but.
“I do not assume it is disaster mode proper now or time to panic,” Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham stated. “It is simply been a pair video games the place we have not began like we needed to.
“We had a drop within the first drive Saturday evening the place should you catch that ball, who is aware of what occurs — we’re off and operating. However it’d be ultimate to begin higher than that on offense, and that is one thing that we will make just a few changes in apply this week to attempt to get just a little extra — jumpstart — early and see if we get it corrected.”
Offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig stated there have been “a number of components” which have led to Utah’s sluggish begins, together with a scarcity of execution, the play-calls have not labored at instances, and the opposing protection is making it arduous early for the offense — “the enemy will get a vote, as nicely, so that they have some issues to do with it,” Ludwig stated.
It has been an issue, and the Utes are engaged on it, however no person appears to be involved simply but. Exterior of its Week 1 opponent, a sluggish begin is hardly a problem, although it isn’t one the crew needs to get comfy with now that the convention slate begins.
Regardless of the purpose for the sluggish begin — and it has been completely different each recreation this season — Utah exacts its revenge within the second quarter, the place it is a fully completely different offense. In its three video games this season, Utah has scored 65 mixed factors within the second quarter and have held opposing groups to simply 7 factors.
As soon as once more, the final two opponents are a big purpose for Utah’s potential to flip the change, however it’s all in how the crew performs, too. Within the first quarter, the offense has appeared sluggish in a single second or rushed in one other; or the complete offense is simply out of sync with no fluidity or finesse to the sport.
After which just like the flip of a change, Utah is unstoppable on offense, with a various playbook the place all members of the crew grow to be harmful weapons towards a protection that’s left reeling.
So why the sudden change?
Some on the roster chalk it as much as momentum — massive performs that spark a resurgence — whereas others see the crew merely regrouping and adjusting their focus. Ludwig referred to as it the “poise and composure” of his offense to not let early errors alter the sport plan.
“It will have been very easy to get actual flustered and annoyed and have issues begin going actual dangerous,” Ludwig stated. “However the guys simply caught collectively and began making performs — enjoying catch and defending the passer — and good issues occur.”
On Saturday, the offense appeared to alter when receiver Solomon Enis caught a 15-yard move from Cam Rising on a third-and-4 down early within the second quarter. The catch opened up a number of performs that acquired Utah into San Diego State territory an a drive that was capped off with a 30-yard landing from Rising to tight finish Brant Kuithe.
“An enormous play can spark you,” Whittingham stated. “If someone makes a play and strikes the chains, and away you go. That very nicely might have been it.”
“That is big for us, like for momentum clever,” added freshman operating again Jaylon Glover. “After we make an enormous play, it is like, OK, it is time to go, , and it is similar to a domino impact. Like coach Lud says: It isn’t concerning the performs, it is concerning the gamers, and we have got some actually proficient gamers on this crew. So when Solo kicked us off, it simply gave us all a lift, and also you see what occurred on Saturday.”
So Utah ought to dial up an enormous play to spark the offense within the first quarter? If solely the sport have been that simple.
Whittingham and Ludwig each stated the offense will make changes this week in apply, however anticipating a momentum-shifting play to happen within the opening minutes of a recreation will not be at all times simple to plan for — or at the very least plan on it working 100% of the time.
The playbook stays the identical, it is on the gamers to execute.
“We simply want to return out loads sooner, however clearly everybody is aware of that,” Glover stated. “However after we have been rolling, I do not assume a number of groups within the nation can cease us.”
“We wish to play nice for 4 quarters,” Ludwig stated. “And once more, we will tackle it with among the issues we’re doing in apply, begin apply just a little bit sooner. And I do know the one factor our gamers do: They reply to challenges.”
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Miles Jacobsen is a friend who saw what the Bradshaws were doing and added his artwork to the box.
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Filling the box is something Katie does with her kids.
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Utah Highway Patrol responds to your suggestions on making Utah roads safer
SALT LAKE CITY — FOX 13 News is Driven to Change and that includes bringing you reports on important topics like road rage, construction, and wrong-way drivers. During our coverage, we continually ask for any questions or concerns you may have along Utah’s roadways.
The feedback has gotten an enormous response, so FOX 13 sat down with Lieutenant Cameron Roden on Good Day Utah to help address input we have been getting, from the perspective of Utah Highway Patrol.
Speeding in Utah, there’s so much of it, and then you can sometimes say that that leads to tailgating, which may lead to road rage incidents. What are you seeing out there in terms of speed and what can we do to lessen the effects of that?
Lt. Cameron Roden: Speed is our number one thing that we see. That’s our number one traffic stop that we make, and we know that it leads to the majority of crashes in the state of Utah. So we definitely put an emphasis on speed and it does lead to other things. Not just crashes. It leads to road rage and other things .So, as far as what changes can we make, we need to start with ourselves, and really say, ‘Hey, do I have a problem?’ You know, we just need to start with ourselves and not think that it’s something else’s problem. If we slow our speeds ourselves, and then it’ll start to to catch on and people will do that speed limit. So, but the legislature has definitely taken some steps to help us address, especially the the speeds that are those excessive speeds where we have that one zero five law now that addresses those speeds and increases fines and and hopefully discourages people from those extreme speeds.
Some of our viewers talked about maybe capping some of the speed limits for truck drivers. Is that something that’s even feasible?
You know, that would be something that would have to go through that, that legislative process to see whether we that would be something that would help. But ultimately, if we we start with ourselves, hopefully that will make that change and reduce crashes and fatalities.
There are things being done to try and intervene and stop wrong-way drivers before they happen. But some of our viewers propose things like spikes. What are your thoughts on implementing something like that?
We’ve had over the last several years, a rash of wrong-way drivers, and it’ll come in onesie twos, and then we’ll go for a period of time without that. And so, but this spike over the last couple of years has caused us to to create a task force to look at wrongly driving what things can be done. And so getting all these stakeholders together between UDOT and Highway Safety, looking at what technologies and things that could be implemented, and and things like, wrong way detection cameras. Those are some things that are being actually used in the state of Utah right now to help us spot those and and advance signage, getting people to realize they’re going the wrong way and turn around. The the spike strips have actually been talked about in our task force a little bit. And if something like that would even be, it is that technology available right now. And as what we could actually implement in the state of Utah, there’s nothing that really fits the bill right now because of our environment. We have our snow plows. We have snow and things like that. Something like that really wouldn’t be practical right now.
Probably the most talked about topic that we’ve received was distracted driving, texting while driving. You went out, I saw on the UHP social media page, that you guys just driving and you look to your right and left and you can find someone texting. What kind of enforcement do we have against distracted driving specifically on your phone?
This is something that we like you said, we see it every day. We go out to crashes,and and we may suspect that a driver may be distracted. And so, it’s something that’s definitely under-reported. It’s it’s a bigger problem than than the numbers really show.And so not only do we address it during our normal patrols.Our officers are seeing it, and addressing it while they’re out there.But we’ll also do targeted patrols where the highway safety office actually gives out additional funds for that targeted enforcement, where we’ll get an unmarked vehicle. We go out driving down the roads where we try to spot these vehicles and and get them stopped because those are those are a big danger on our roadways where our attention and our focus needs to be on driving.
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