Earlier this week, Buffaloes Wire joined Trojans Wire in podcast form to discuss this weekend’s matchup. A lot was discussed but one of the more interesting dive-ins was how this could be an opportunity for Colorado’s offense to get going. USC’s defense has struggled recently and has relinquished over 40 points in two of its last three games. I speculated what offensive changes may work for Colorado and who I’d like to see get involved more.
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The following is a transcript of my response to Trojans Wire editor Matt Zemek asking about CU’s offense:
If CU can duplicate what they did in that first drive in the second half against ASU in terms of spreading out the field a little bit more, and this wasn’t fun to watch the past couple of years, but if they can go more east-west and get some of our talented wideouts going like Brenden Rice or a Dimitri Stanley who, it’s not their fault, but they haven’t really done anything this year. If we can get them more screen passes and the ball in open space not right in the middle of the field, again, taking advantage of going sideline to sideline, then I think that will be better for CU. They did that a little bit with Texas A&M too. That’s a strength of this team I think is our speed with some of our wideouts. And then having a guy like Brady Russell to be one of Brendon Lewis’ checkdowns so he can have that security blanket if something’s going wrong.