With Arkansas coming to town this week — a team that likes to run the ball and control the game — another slow start could result in a third loss and a season slowly slipping away. “Bottom line is we have to focus better and be ready to play.'
BYU Cougars wide receiver Puka Nacua, left, runs the football behind blocking teammates running back Christopher Brooks and offensive lineman Vae Soifua during an NCAA football game on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022 in Las Vegas.Aaron Roderick is a man who prefers to deal with issues head on — maybe to the extreme.
Collectively, BYU is taking a page out of Roderick’s playbook of trying to embrace the problem at hand. The coaching staff as a whole is latching on to pretty much any detail throughout the day that can reverse the trend. “Simple as that, you got to start dialing it up at 7:45 in the morning, not 4:45 in the afternoon. We just started that.”“If I knew the answer, we would have fixed it a long time ago,” Roderick said, acknowledging the staff is grasping at straws to see what works. “It’s a program-wide thing.”
Moreover, its rushing attack is spearheaded by its quarterback, KJ Jefferson. BYU defensive coordinator Iliasa Tuiaki compared the offense to the Cam Newton attack at Auburn. So this is going to be a complex, heavy running team. Not exactly what BYU would like to see as a defense giving up 4.2 yards per carry this year and ranked No. 116 in run defense by Pro Football Focus.
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