I wish we pressed more for sure. But I love how people say that what works for one team should naturally work for every team. As if their personnel is exactly the same. To boot, I'm sure BYU focused all week on press coverage and how to beat it and I'm sure they put together a game plan for it. The coaches know their personnel in and out, if they felt their best way to win was bend don't break, force a freshman to make and complete many throws per drive without turning the ball over, then I'm all for it. With that said, I think we should have brought more pressure with the blitz later in the game when it was obvious that our offense was struggling. This could've put ends to some of their longer drives and maybe created an extra TO or two.
As far as dropping deep hind sights always 20/20. I think we limited their point total for sure. Our offense turned the ball over and gave up short field position costing us 7 and we gave them short field position on an onside kick as well for another 7. I definitely would've dropped a little less on the corners considering we didn't even really make Magnum throw into windows, it was simple pitch and catch for 5 to 8 yards for many of those throws. If we were getting pressure with a 4 man front than maybe our depth would've been fine. But we do not have the pass rushers to do so.
