April 6 – Moscow – Music released in Dome Kibbie P1FU and the players shouted in the intense confrontation between the offensive and the defense.
But the only thing that sounded everything in the whole stadium? Shoulder shoulders and helmets conflict.
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The Idaho football team played in its first padded melee on spring on Saturday. Here’s how it went for the vandals:
Dominance defensive
There was a notable difference in quality of play between the offensive and the defense. The defense stolen and made games, whether interceptions or bags on the quarter-tree.
Meanwhile, the offense often had trouble moving the ball to the field and did not mark a single touch in its entirety of the fray.
But the disparity was not entirely unexpected.
Idaho’s first year’s coach Thomas Ford Jr.
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The fight was for various reasons: the installation of the offensive takes more time than the installation of a defense and the fact that the offensive played several offensive lines with several quarters.
“And offensively, we don’t have everything yet,” said Ford. “We haven’t even done the red zone, so you can see when we arrived in the red zone: of course, we do not move the ball too because we have done nothing.
“So really, today, it was more a question of going out here in competition. Seeing some of these guys in a live setting, seeing the guys getting attacked was a great thing that I wanted to see of our defensive group and I thought they had done very good things today. I went and I certainly had a lot of effort and physical play.”
Some players stood out defensively:
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The first-year security, Jacob Turagavou, has resumed a second-year-old quarterrier Holden Bea pass on a deep route on the left side of the field.
The senior transfer of Washington Maurice Heims disrupted the defensive line and collected a pair of bags.
The senior defensive line Donovan Parham, a transfer from the state of the Mississippi valley, also wreaked havoc for the offensive line and also added some bags.
The second-year defensive line player Matyus Mclain returned to the middle of the field and intercepted the second-year quarter of the second year Nick Josifek to explode the defensive side of the praise, including Ford, who congratulated McLlain for a good spring camp after the fray.
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Junior secondary Dylan Layne said he was proud of young players who were fired and flying on the defensive, but he granted credit to the defensive coordinator Cort Dennison for the way the defense is designed.
“The Dennis coach is a brain; we probably have 40 calls in our call sheet. So when we all do our job, doing it correctly, it can become pretty mean,” said Layne. “The offense does not know how to block us sometimes. It was really fun.”
Post battles
As any good spring camp is coming, the same goes for position battles. The biggest for the vandals is quarterly.
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Second-year students Jack Wagner and Josifek were the focal point of this quarter-back battle on Saturday.
“Everyone wants to know the battle of the quarter. I think you see Nick (Josifek) and Jack (Wagner) separate from the other two guys. I imagine that these guys would continue to get more representatives when we continue with Spring Ball to see who will really win this work.”
Although none of the two players are clearly heading throughout the fray, Wagner had a depth on a game pass with the second-year wide year receiver Emmerson Cortez-Menjivar for almost 60 meters to put them in the red zone. Wagner said it was one of the vandals longer game games and that he loved his match. When he saw the security go down to cover a revolutionary route, he knew he was going to throw him in Cortez-Menjivar and fired.
As for the quarter hall, Wagner said they had to be responsible for the offensive difficulties.
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“I know I need to play better, I know I can make the right calls. But it starts with the implementation of people in the right position,” said Wagner. “So I think we have to stand responsible first and we are more prepared. The defense came to play and we are a little too anxious and it took a little to enter good records.”
Nothing to fear
Ford said he was excited for his appearance on Saturday. The defense obtained the upper hand in the fray, but it makes the offensive difficult without any film to study.
“I think we do a lot of things and what fascinates me is that these guys manage it. You know, we give our offense all kinds of looks and it’s really difficult when you are not complaining.
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Wagner granted the Defense credit and said that from the team’s point of view, it is encouraging to see.
“Our defense has played very well and it is exciting to see as an entire team. I mean, we are not going to play our own team in the regular season. So, it’s good to see how they are in competition,” said Wagner.
Layne said the offense will go well. He said it was generally a back and forth with each practice. He said that the defense had also hampered some training and that it was generally a sign of a good global team. He said that with the new faces of the team, they will just take time to freeze and learn to play together.
“This is the nature of FCS football these days. For each team, it is also a brand new 11 on each side of the ball and new coaches,” said Layne. “It is also the pleasure. It is also the team that could meet the fastest, the best, can freeze and control the program is the team that will win. So, if we can continue to focus on this and focus on the mental side – to learn the diagram and Jelling, to play with each other – so we will be quite good.”
Junt can be reached at 208-848-2258, [email protected] or on x (formerly twitter) @trevorjunt.
