Central Washington

Going into the second week of the season, the loss to Colorado Mesa was heart breaking loss. Knowing that we lined up physically on both sides of the ball and beat them physically is what hurt the most about the loss.

On Sunday afternoon we met as a staff to break down the film and give the guys their grades and then move on. After a tough loss, you can't dwell on it or it will affect your preparation and mind set for the next game. Being a new to coaching, I didn't take the loss to well and it definitely hinder my preparations for Central Washington and might have affected the way the offensive line played. I felt that the offensive line had a great week of practice and we did everything we could as a coaching staff to prepare them for Central. That wasn't the case in the first quarter of the game.

We started out flat and dead. Both sides of the ball were sluggish and unresponsive to the pounding that Central was giving us. Now it could have been the 16 hour bus ride up there, but we could not do anything on the offensive side of the ball. The offensive line looked like a deer in head lights from the start of the game to the end. My anger level was on the high the whole game because we were not performing at the level I knew we could perform at. Maybe I set the level of expectation high for my guys, but that's how I've always been coached and I don't know any other way. We couldn't establish a running game and that killed the momentum of the drives fast. It was also putting our defense into a predicament because they were constantly on the field because of the three and outs.

We went into half time only down 28 to seven which was still a game we could have come back from. Being a young team and only having one returning senior on the offensive line, it was hard to get the guys to rally and come back. Adversity had set in my yelling and cussing at the guys probably didn't help bring their spirits up.

We lost the game 14 to 48. It was a long a bus ride back to St. George. Long enough time that I started to question myself. After losing two straight I had to look at myself first before looking at my guys. Questions set in and trying to figure out a different approach to see if there was something I could do to boost the morale of the guys.