What a horrendous sequence of events. We're over engineering some of these plays for being rusty in general.

Excellent stand by the D

Yep Harrell all alone in the endzone

Good drive! Touchdown!

Those time outs seemed like a bad idea. Nice pick to prevent points. Gotta come out and have a good first drive.

TOUCHDOWN AGGIES!

Rough play calling there

Rodrigues starting

Tompkins is probably the most athletic QB on the roster. He rushed for 1000 yards his senior season in addition to eye popping passing stats.

If I had to guess having no knowledge of the actual situation I would probably say Rodrigues due to senority and (minimally) actual on field experience. I think if we see more than 1 QB it will be for wildcat, gimmick, etc type plays.

Let's go get that W! Go Ags! Beat the Vandals!

I'm hoping for more than serviceable too, I'm just saying the offense should still work with play that's just okay. I'll always be rooting for them to play lights out though.

You are correct. If whoever plays QB looks serviceable the offense should be at the very least decent if not good. We lose Preece at TE but we have Thrope and brought in Castles. WR is loaded with capable guys. Gilliam is a monster, but having more options for relief is always a good thing. I'm still very curious to see what Coombs has done with the defense.

Good thing we have a punter that's not half bad as well.

Welcome and good luck to you guys as well. A lot of unknowns for us starting this season, but if our QB looks competent I think it'll be a good game. We have a lot of depth at WR, Gilliam is a beast out of the backfield, and we return several starters on the line. Defense is also an unknown as we have a new DC, but Hawkins has raved about our depth on that side of the ball. I imagine that LB Nick Eaton and DB Devon King will still be some of the cornerstones of the defense, but we did get some DL transfers and a couple of NT freshman that are 350 pounders.

Maybe they opted out due to covid concerns? With a new DC though I think that he would have an objective outlook on picking starters. He didn't necessarily have any specific loyalties to the previous starters.

I think Dan has even stated in news articles that the offense is changing very little right now. Cody is basically running Plough's playbook with a few personal twists. What I'm hoping to see from Cody is management of tempo. It will be tough with a new QB and OC, but I think if we can run up tempo out of the gate it could catch Idaho off guard.

In regard to the defensive youth, I'm sure Coombs is putting us in the best position to win some games. If Hawk had a wildly different opinion on guys starting we'd see him intervene. Youth doesn't necessarily mean unprepared, but I agree that there is A LOT of youth in that 2-4 deep.

My initial impression were not a ton of surprises on offense. A lot of returners on the line, wide receiver, and running back. The biggest question continues to be who will play quarterback on Saturday. On defense we listed a lot of youth for sure. Our nose tackles are huge even by nose tackle standards. Ambagtsheer is now listed on the D line after initially being recruited for TE. Will be interesting to see who actually gets the start here in a couple of days.

Game 1 Notes are up

https://ucdavisaggies.com/documents/2021/3/2/Game_1_Notes_Idaho.pdf

The folks at the Idaho forum just put up their prediction thread and the first individual picked 42-10 Vandals. I have a hard time believing that will happen, but I suppose you never know. Aggies by 1 score.