So, I admit I was recording this game to watch later due to some family-related "stuff" I couldn't get out of. By the time I tuned in, the game was still going on after the delay and the 4th quarter had just started. The first play I saw had Slaughter coming in on a 3rd down blitz and killing the drive, forcing them to kick a FG. My first thoughts were "Oh S#@&, Its 10-3 in the 4th quarter." My mind immediately started trying to figure out how we had only scored 3 points the entire game. Prior to the game, I had thought we were going to score by running the ball and maybe mixing in 2-3 passes all game. I admit (being the pessimist I am) that we were totally screwed at this point.
I can officially say that Mr. Carson Coffman, about as good a quarterback as I am, has officially earned 1 brownie point from me. I haven't gone back and watched the rest of the game yet, but it sounds like if we hadn't completely sucked for 3 quarters, we wouldn't have needed the 4th quarter we got. However, I can say that since I started watching in the 4th, Coffman looked as sure in the pocket and as accurate as any of our "better" quarterbacks. I saw 4 passes that were put *exactly* where they needed to be and not a lot of his typical dinking around and looking confused in the pocket. He did look momentarily confused on his TD run when it seemed to dawn on him that they really were covering everyone *except* him and he could probably make it.
In the end, its 4-0 and that's really all that matters (ask Texas about how easy UCLA is now). This was a gross game, but I'm glad, more than anything that Coffman has proved to himself, more than anyone else, that "he's got this."
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