Pretty disappointing to hear about the passing game and I have to agree on the tight ends. Would really love to see them get more involved with the offense. I’m not sure how long I’ll be able to put up with the uber conservative passing game. If you don’t occasionally stretch the field,or atleast try to the offense is just going to be as predictable as it has been in years past and the defense will just constantly play the run. I really hoped with our stable of running backs that we could line up and do some creative things. Hope we can run over everyone because it sounds like we are going to have to.

On the other hand props to the defensive backs and linebackers. Sounds like they really did one hell of a job which will come in especially helpful in our pass happy Big 12. What are everyone’s expectations for Kasa’s playing time? Seems like he has a big enough frame that he should be backing up this season and concentrating on putting on a little weight.

Appreciate the report, wish I could have made it up there.

I thought Goodman looked much improved. He was 10-14 with one of his misses coming from 57. Hit the upright from 48 but never had a kick shorter than 30 and had 6 over 42 yards.

I don’t want to nitpick here, rather give the readers a more objective view of scrimmage. I found it hard to assess any of the running backs. We didn’t run much. Scott looked okay, not “great,” Speedy certainly didn’t look “great”, he touched the ball twice for no substantial gains and left scrimmage with hurt hammy. I thought Lockridge looked the best of the bunch. He’ll make some plays for us somehow someway. He had a real nice koff return. Sumler had the best run of the day..probably 30 yards..started left, they turned back right for big gain.

I was very impressed with Hansen. Sure he had some big runs but I thought his patience in the pocket was much improved. I thought he used his feet to buy time for the passing game first rather than just tuck and run. He was 10-15 for 135 and rushed for 57 yards. He averaged 9 yds per pass attempt while Cody averaged 6.3(21-29-185). Personally, I’d still feel better with Cody starting right now but I’d say Hansen has closed the gap considerably and his play was probably the hilite of the scrimmage.

Again, my one wish is they would have run the ball more. It was hard to get real excited about the oline because they really never had much of an opportunity to get the run game going. The scrimmage seemed to focus on passing.

I do agree, Evans won’t figure in the mix this year and Darden and Ussery probably won’t either. Jefferson is getting more looks than those two which is surprising. Also, Simmons was there, in shorts and tank top I guess he’s still waiting. I actually called the Independence Community College Registar’s office and left a message. Basically asked if they had sent his transcripts or not.

Defense was hard to judge, Jimmy Smith started with the 2nd team. It looks like right now Cha’pelle Brown and Ben Burney are your first team corners. Rippy was also running with 2nd team although there was some moving around.

Kasa looked good. Late in scrimmage when it looked like the 3rd teams going against each other, Kasa was iso’d on Jack Harris. Kasa pushed him back and kinda of abused him. Fun to watch. I think Kasa will get some p-t this year.

First scrimmage D should be ahead of the O. Open scrimmage: Kiesau isn’t going to tip ANYTHING!

Anybody who’s “disappointed we looked like last year” should pull their head out of their a**! That was the plan! With an open scrimmage, MAYBE there was a scout or two from, oh…I dunno… FT Fun? Toledo?? WYO??? all taking notes. And right now Fairchild and Christiansen have reports identical to what we all have: CU same as last year, short passes, weak running attack, D line suspect….Gee willikers, Sandy… wotta soo-prise! Cody even admitted they ran only 5% of the offense.

& agree with a lot is stated here wrt to Hansen from the last poster. I thought Hansen looked shaky early and clearly needs to be quicker making decisions. he won’t have the same time back there against the likes of UT that he had yesterday. However, our o-line are beasts and I think they will provide ample protection to whomever is behind center. Expect lots of blitzes from opposing D’s to get to the QB on passing plays this year. My take on Hansen was that although he maybe took awhile to get going, when he settled down, he looked good back there. Cody was obviously more comfortable from the start. However, it seemed to be very similar to last year. I really hope Hansen’s confidence and knowledge of the O continues to improve in practice and we go with him from week one.

Scott looked like the Scott of last year, honestly. Some glimpses of greatness, but he seems to have a bit of heistancy. Speedy looked great until he went to the sideline. Sumler looked fantastic and Lockridge solid.

Defensively, I thought the backers were awesome, as expected, and the D-line was nonexistant. However, I left a little more than halfway through the scrimmage, so I was unable to see the improvement towards the end that is described above. FGs were a huge improvement and elicited the largest applause from the crowd when Goodman made his first kick. Overall, we’ll be much improved on FGs if we kick like we did yesterday. I didn’t take too much stock in the punts and kickoffs – it appears that there was a lot of holding going on, and that stuff can get worked out quickly.

Finally, WRs need to really foces on getting better. That should help the QB.

Great to hear everyone’s thoughts and get some new perspectives! My friends and I missed Simmons on the sideline and couldn’t see him, so glad to hear he was there. I thought the first team oline did a good job of opening up holes for the RBs, not so much the second team and yes they probably could’ve run the ball more, particularly in the second half of the scrimmage. I thought Scott made the big run but it was Sumler so he’s looking better than I remembered. Maybe I just desperately want Scott to be awesome and saw what I wanted to see. I can buy the vanilla offense (makes sense) and pray that things are looking good at closed practices with the secret plays. Maybe I didn’t emphasize it enough, Hansen is tremendously improved and definetely has a better feel for the passing game. I just think he still looks a little too much like last year, i.e. very quick progressions and then run if nothing is immediately open but I really think he could be one of the best Big 12 QBs by the end of his career at CU. Cody just looked more polished than Hansen to us. I agree that Goodman looked a little better particuarly as the practice went on and they definetely gave him numerous opportunities. All of us thought the FG blocking and snap handling can get better which may improve Goodman’s kicking. We’re all spoiled though because we went to CU during the Mason Crosby era so our expectations may be too high.

Who started at Left Guard yesterday?

Yes from all reports it sounded a little boring yesterday, but lets remember this was less than 1 week into fall practice, 3 more to go. I wouldn’t expect to see great execution or lots of complex offensive schemes. Remembering my first week as a freshmen at CU, I was lucky to find the cafeteria, so I’m sure our newcomers have their head spinning right now. I’m just glad no injuries.

I’m much more concerned about Simmons getting on the field. Something doesn’t smell right.