My apologies for the Pulse being MIA last week. Week 5 will forever be about the friends we made along the way. I’m pretty punch drunk from a hell of a couple of weeks at the day job, so I’m in a dumb mood, Dumb and Dumber, that is. Enjoy!
My CFF Teams Got Robbed by a Sweet Old Lady on a Motorized Cart and…
-San Diego State has two different running backs that have reached the century mark in a game, and neither is named Lucky Sutton.
–Bo Jackson hasn’t hit 85 yards rushing in a single game. In fact, he’s actually behind teammate Ja’Kobi Jackson in CFF production
–Savion Hiter has been objectively one of the worst RBs in the P4 with 3.2 YPC, 2.4 yards after contact/attempt, zero runs beyond 15 yards, and just 5 missed tackles forced on 45 attempts. Marshall has been bad, but Hiter has been bad bad.
A Dumb Level of (TD) Efficiency
Wayshawn Parker has 9 TDs on 65 touches. This simply isn’t sustainable. For perspective, he scored 9 TDs last year on 162 touches. He’s averaging the same YPC (6.6) and fewer YPR than last year.
One significant change: Byrd Ficklin had 10 rushing TDs in 12 games last year but has only one through four games this year. Despite Ficklin playing significant snaps, he hasn’t been a goal-line focus, as many of us feared he might be coming into the season. Even still, don’t expect this 13.8% TD rate to continue. This offense is a killer, but this simply isn’t sustainable for Parker.
You owe me (FAAB), Fran Brown
Liar, liar…Fran Brown’s pants are on fire. Less than 4 days after he said Steve Angeli will remain the starting QB, he wisely handed the keys to the Orange offense over to Amari Odom. I imagine I wasn’t the only one who considered picking Odom up for free after he clearly looked like the top option going into the bye week. Instead, he gets the unexpected start, goes ham on UConn, and then forces us to pony up the FAAB budget (which I certainly did). Fran, you owe us, bro.
Stating the Obvious
The Arizona State offense has been total chaos this year, but the most maddening thing has been how much they’ve used Omarion Miller. Despite Miller’s known strength as a deep threat, Dillingham played him in the slot for the first three games. This led to an ADOT of just 4 yards!
Well, Dilly stopped thinking like Harry and Lloyd and made the obvious change – he flipped Vines-Bright to the slot and Miller to the boundary last week. This resulted in a season-high 11.8 ADOT and 17 YPR for Miller as he went 5-85-1 vs. Baylor. Expect this to continue and Miller to finally be a consistent deep threat for Gutter, oops, I mean Cutter, Boley.
The Freshmen We Have Been Impatiently Waiting For
We saw breakouts last week from Jonaz Walton, Kenny Darby, and Trae’Shawn Brown. Those guys likely exited your league’s player pool this week. So, who are the freshmen showing signs of life and could land on next week’s waiver wire reports? I got you:
KJ Edwards, RB – Texas AM
Cardae Mack, RB – Arizona State
Deuce Lawrence, RB – Wake Forest
Solomon Baggett, RB – Arkansas State
Brian Bonner, RB – Washington
Messiah Hampton, WR – Oregon
OU vs. Texas Week
No, it’s not a one-in-a-million chance my Sooners pull off an upset. But it’s close. The Arbuckle offense lacks an identity- all the offseason talk of being a physical run team was quickly pissed into the empty beer bottles from the passenger seat and then served to the Sooner faithful like Lloyd Christmas did to the state trooper. I’m sure the air raid will work great when the guard you start at left tackle and the right tackle both have a PFF pass-blocking grade of 49.2 and have to face Colin Simmons. You simply can’t start any Sooners in this rivalry matchup. It’s about to go from bad to worse. 27-10 Texas.
Cheers and good luck in Week 6!
