Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - Three Takeaways From Kansas Jayhawks Football's Loss to ASU: The Blame Pie Has Many Slices & More

Episode Date: October 8, 2024

Three takeaways from Kansas Jayhawks Football's 35-31 loss at Arizona State Sun Devils from the blame share going around well beyond Jalon Daniels and Jeff Grimes to much more on what's happened this season, the young guys needing to get more playing time for Lance Leipold and why they may just regret not making some promotions from the KU past coaching staff in the offseason. Plus top and bottom performers per Pro Football Focus for KU from Devin Neal to Bryce Foster, Quentin Skinner and more.For your next listen, check out the Locked On College Football podcast! From NIL deals to never ending conference realignment rumors, Spencer McLaughlin gets you ready for an exciting season on the gridiron! Click HERE to listen now. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Your Team. Every Day.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!ROYDownload Roy for iOS or Android and enter referral code LOCKED ON and you’ll automatically be entered into a sweepstakes to win $5,000 cash. Visit JoinRoy.com for additional details. No purchase necessary, void where prohibited. Get off the sidelines and into the NIL game with Roy.ZBioticsGo to zbiotics.com/LOCKEDONCOLLEGE to learn more and get 15% off your first order when you use LOCKEDONCOLLEGE at checkout. ZBiotics is backed with 100% money back guarantee so if you’re unsatisfied for any reason, they’ll refund your money, no questions asked. RobinhoodRobinhood Gold provides the privileges of a high net worth for any net worth. These generous benefits are now available for only $5/month. The new gold standard is here with Robinhood Gold.Sign up at robinhood.com/goldTerms apply, for product specific disclosures visit robinhood.com/gold. Investing involves risk. Rate may change. Gold membership is offered by Robinhood Gold, LLC.LinkedInThese days every new potential hire can feel like a high stakes wager for your small business. That’s why LinkedIn Jobs helps find the right people for your team, faster and for free.Post your job for free atLinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONCOLLEGE. Terms and conditions apply.GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime.FanDuelYou can start the season with a big return on FanDuel. Place your first FIVE DOLLAR bet and you’ll get started with TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in BONUS BETS - guaranteed ! Visit FANDUEL.COM to get started. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

On today's Locked on Jayhawks, three biggest takeaways from KU's loss to Arizona State, including why the blame pie has a bigger share this go-around. You are Locked on Jayhawks, your daily podcast on the Kansas Jayhawks. Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. I'm Derek Johnson. You can find me on Twitter at DJohnsonRadio, and this is Locked On Jayhawks. You can find our show anywhere you get your podcast,

including on our YouTube page where you can like and subscribe to the show. Thank you to the everydayers catching each and every episode. Thank you for making LOJ your first listen every day. We're going to be talking three biggest takeaways from the KU loss to Arizona State about the blame game, titles in the coaching game, and why it's time for the young guys to get a little bit more PT. Plus, we'll get to the top and bottom performers,

according to PFF, in the KU game against Arizona State. This episode is brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook, where you can make every moment more. Place your first $5 bet, and you'll get started with $200 in bonus bets, guaranteed. Visit FanDuel.com to get started today. Okay, so our first takeaway from the loss to Arizona State is the blame game or the blame pie, however you want to share it out. And our takeaway here is that this team has too many problems to pin the blame on one or two guys, at least

any more. There are other issues at hand, and that's part of the problem too, that you can't just look at one or two specific things and say that is everything. Right now, it is basically a little bit of everything. Maybe you can like, like there are a few things here or there where it's like, yeah, that's not really the problem, but there are more problems than there are not problems basically. And that's how you wind up at one and five. And honestly, I do think early in the season, like it was an accurate assessment to be like, you know, the blame pie probably was mostly on a short amount of things. Like, yes, the KU defense could have done a better job in crunch time in the Illinois

and UNLV games but like overall the bigger blame pie was kind of on the lack of passing game and the quarterback and the offense coordinator and stuff like that um I think that was an honest assessment at the time but you look back and now the West Virginia loss the TCU loss this one against Arizona State like it either shifted the blame, it added blame, or it spread out the blame. Or maybe it did all three of all of those. Like specifically, you look at the Arizona State game. Jalen Daniels played an overall fine to solid game. Like he actually played pretty well for the most part.

He did have a couple passes he missed. Everybody's going to miss passes though, right? I mean, there was a couple that maybe could have been intercepted. They weren't got a little bit lucky there, but still you had the one that was incomplete to Quentin Skinner in the end zone. And again, you would like to have those back in an ideal world. You would hit all of those, right? But overall, it was still a positive performance from where things have been for Jalen Daniels. Good enough to win, even through some of those mistakes.

I think this is the way you put it. Like, same thing for Jeff Grimes. Like, probably had far from a perfect game play calling, right? You think about the third down at the end of the half where you run on third and five and you just basically give the football back. Far from a perfect play calling game. But was it an overall fine game? Was it a passable game for Jeff Grimes play calling? Yeah, it probably was. So if both of

them were, yeah, they weren't a pluses, but they were passable. It wasn't just those guys. And it hasn't been really these last three weeks. It hasn't just been about, you know, cause again, in the Illinois game and the UNLV game, like if Jeff Grimes has a better play calling day or Jalen Daniels has a better day, you know, avoiding interceptions or just passing the football overall, they win either or both of those football games. These last three, it's more than that. These last three, it goes above and beyond that. And the blame pie gets shared around a little bit more. At this point, there's a ton of holes in the ship, and that's leading it to sink for KU, if we're going to go with this kind of boat metaphor.

Maybe at first there was one or two big holes, but now a bunch of other ones have kind of popped up. The defense keeps falling apart at the end of games. That was something where in the Illinois and the UNLV game, it happened, but it was on a smaller scale than the West Virginia game and I guess really this last week with the Arizona State game like the UNLV game was one long drive where you had a weird fumble thing happen and they converted a couple close fourth down plays the Illinois one was hey you couldn't really get off the field at the end of the game and you kind of got weirded out by that weird punt that could have been a safety, whatever, dumb rule, right? The West Virginia one was you gave up two touchdowns

in the final four minutes. The TCU one was you just kind of got shredded all day long. On this past weekend against Arizona State was you just gave up two quick touchdowns. You know, you give up, what, 21 points? I have that right? Yeah, 21 points in the fourth quarter. And you give up, you know, touchdown basically in a minute and a half

with all running plays except for one on the final play of the drive. So, like, it's another level, and you're falling apart at the end of games. It's getting worse. The tackling and the pass rush was missing all game in the game against Arizona State specifically. The pass rush hasn't been great, I think, all season long, but it has certainly been tanking over these last, like, I think probably since the UNLV, probably since you've started conference play. The pass rush hasn't really been there for KU.

The game management or the struggle in game management has kind of caught up to KU. Like, I've always thought that KU hasn't been aggressive or as aggressive as they should be. We've gone over some of the numbers. I thought with Jeff Grimes calling plays because he came from, you know, being very aggressive at Baylor. I'm sure some of that was Dave Aranda. Maybe some of that was him.

I don't know. Certainly what we've seen so far, Kansas, that hasn't translated over. I thought it was going to in the early part of the season. That hasn't been the case. Kansas is not one of those teams that's going for a lot of fourth down tries. And it's just little game management things, whether it's that, whether it's using a timeout in a bad situation, or I don't know, this or that. There have been little things throughout the season, throughout the games, whatever it is, that if you're talking about

margin for error, they haven't always hurt Kansas because maybe some of their wins in years past, they're winning by 10, 14 points, and it didn't come back to haunt them. But so far this season, when you lose four one-score games, and now dating back to last year, you've lost six consecutive one-score games. Every small decision adds up, every small decision matters. And so I think the game management issues that we've pointed out occasionally on recaps, even when they've won, is catching up on them. So, you know, more blame posse. You have the defense. You have the tackling and pass rush.

You have the game management stuff. Also, that was KU's worst run-blocking game of the season, according to Pro Football Focus. And it's not even close for what the next worst is. A 48 run-block grade for KU in that game against Arizona State. The next lowest this season, they had a 67 against West Virginia. So a 67, if that's your worst, like that's still an above average passable grade by PFF, like 60s is basically average. So if you're in the 40s, you know, that is by far their worst. So now you have more blame pie going around to that.

Overall, it has evolved to a point where it's not just about one or two guys. It's not just about one coach. It's about a lot of things. It's about a lot of guys. It's about a lot of players, a lot of coaches, a lot of combination of things. And so for KU to fix things, that now means for right after the Illinois game, after the UNLV game, the fix was, hey, just keep doing everything you're doing. Fix the quarterback, fix the offensive coordinator. You're good. Right? Now it's like, okay, well, it looks like you're starting to fix those things maybe, or maybe they just had good games, whatever it is, but now you have these other things to fix too. And even if you fix one thing to extend that boat analogy that we kind of gave earlier,

it feels like you're plugging one hole only for another one to pop up. It's like one of those old-timey cartoons. It's like, oh, you know, corked up this hole, and then all of a sudden a new one pops up, and all of a sudden the boat keeps sinking. And now there's more and more holes, and eventually you just can't catch up anymore. And that's what scares me for the rest of the season, in that this thing is closer than you'd think to Kansas being five and one or to being six and oh but it's also close to having the bubble burst or the boat again continue with that analogy going completely underwater where now because you've had the negative result in all of these the lack of wanting to continue to try to fill these holes and

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national titles? Titles? What are you talking about here? No, KU might be regretting titles of coaches, rather specifically, because I think probably should have, I don't know, hindsight's 20-20 here. For some people, this wasn't even hindsight, though, right? Some people were kind of on the forefront of this. You probably should have just made Jordan Peterson the full-time DC.

Like if you wanted to keep it as co-DC, because you didn't want to demote Brian Borland, right? The defense still was getting better statistically each and every year. Jordan Peterson should have been the DC in terms of calling the plays, right? You promoted Jordan Peterson, deservedly so, the former defensive backs coach. And he was the one who filled in for the Missouri State game last year and called the plays as the defensive coordinator. He did an excellent job recruiting, did an excellent job with the DBs, yada, yada, yada.

So he gets promoted to co-defensive coordinator. He eventually takes the job at Texas A&M as co-defensive coordinator with Texas A&M. But even though he was co-defensive coordinator at Kansas, that was more of a, hey, we're going to give you a title bump, and with it probably a pay bump, I would assume. But you're not actually going to be calling the plays. You're not actually like the defensive coordinator who is calling the plays, right?

And so that ends up being Brian Borland. And so I have to think, I guess you don't really know because it is important to bring up again, like Texas A&M is Jordan Peterson's alma mater. So there's a chance that even if you do this, he still would have left, and that's entirely possible, right? But let's say you made him co-defensive coordinator with Brian Borland and you kept that title for Borland, but you said, no, Jordan Peterson, we're going to have you call the plays now.

Probably makes it a little bit easier for him to stick around at Kansas as opposed to going to A&M where he's also the co-defensive coordinator, but he's also not calling plays. That would be something that he has an advantage on versus A&M was able to offer him basically the same job and probably more money. But if you have a better job of him actually calling plays, probably sticks around. I don't know, maybe.

And so obviously that would help with your recruiting. Like the biggest difference between this recruiting class and last year's, at least on paper with some of the ratings, is last year's had a couple extra like studs, like the four stars, the DJ Warners, the Dak on paper with some of the ratings, is last year's had a couple extra studs, like the Four Stars, the DJ Warners, the Dak Brinkley's of the world, the Desert Edge kids. Those were Jordan Peterson. And beyond that, when we look at the KU defense,

I feel like the biggest frustration I've seen from fans, and this has been a personal frustration that I've had, it feels like KU is either too slow to adjust or doesn't adjust in general. And I don't know for sure that the defense would be that different or the play calling would be that different or the adjustments would be that different, Jordan Peterson. I don't know for sure. But I would like to think for a guy who survived the transition, I should say, from the Les

Miles staff to the Lance Leipold staff, that he's a pretty adjustable guy, that he has to be adjustable to stick through those positions. And if he's an adjustable guy, maybe he'd be more willing to make those adjustments. Maybe like you don't give up 38 points at TCU. I don't know. Then beyond that, as we're talking about titles with coaches, should have given Andy Kotelnicki the head coach and waiting tag. So again, this is the same thing with the Jordan Peterson one, where there's a

chance if you do all that, he still goes because he wants to go to his alma mater. I think there was a mention at some point this offseason, Andy Kotelnicki, that this was kind of a dream job for him to some degree with the Penn State one. And they offered him a ton of money and stuff like that. I do believe actually, credit to Travis Goff and Lance Leipold for doing this, but and I guess the donors and whoever else was involved, that I do believe they actually offered similar money to what Penn State offered. I actually heard from somebody that said they offered more than what Penn State offered.

So let's just say it's similar money. If you give him the head coach in waiting, does that change his mind in any way? Again, there's a chance he still just goes to Penn State because from his perspective, he wants to be a future head coach. And what better way than to go to a school like Penn State, where if you lift up where the offense has been, I mean, they've been on the, they've been 9, 10, 11 wins year in and year out. They just haven't been able to win the big one.

So if you help them win the big one, or you help them make, you know, run to the semifinals of the college football playoff, what better stage is there than that to get a head coaching position at a pretty good power five school, right? Whereas if you're at Kansas, you know, maybe that, that head coaching offer comes in the Mac or something like that. Maybe you want to make a bigger jump than that right away. So you can understand that. But from what I was told is that Kansas did not make that offer of head coach and waiting again, might be true. Might be not. I don't know if it is true. They should have done it. And you can say, Oh oh I don't know if he'd be a good head

coach or not I certainly would have my reservations I think Andy Kotelnik he's an outstanding offense coordinator hasn't been a great recruiter so how does that affect you know the head coaching side the head coaching side is isn't just about how good are you as a play caller it's about you know how good of a CEO are you in controlling making these other coaching hires organizing everything and those you you never really know until the guy gets the job. But I've also seen enough guys who have been named head coach in waiting

that never actually become the head coach. The one that I always remember is like the poster boy for this is Will Muschamp. He was the defense coordinator at Texas when I think they went to the national championship game against like Alabama. He was named head coach in waiting or for Mack Brown.

He ends up leaving before he was even named the head coach. Cause he's like, I don't know, Mac Brown could be here. Who knows how long and ends up taking the head coaching job of Florida. Like there's a chance you could have named Andy Kotelicki head coaching and waiting. And then in two years from now, anyway, he takes another head coaching job that it's not even really a thing. And so I guess what is the downside? If you did name him head coach and waiting, eventually he becomes your head coach. and let's say it doesn't work out. Would it be that much worse than this season that's happening right now? But this season right now would probably be better than the one that was happening.

And so if you look at it and say, okay, Kansas was able to offer around the same money, maybe even more than what Penn State offered, but you're offering head coach and waiting and Penn State didn't do it. Maybe that would have been the difference in him saying, and if you still had Andy Konolecki and you still had Jordan Peterson, I feel like you'd have the recruiting side with Peterson, maybe more adjustability on defense, and I think we know that the offense would be a lot better for KU.

Now, I know Penn State, it's impossible to know just how good the offense has been. I think it's important to point out they only scored 21 on that same Illinois team. I do think they've been keeping some stuff offensively if you've been watching some of the games because they're saving them for the big games when they really need them. That said, I guess there's no guarantee about, you know, this or that with what happens, but I do think that is a bit of a regret. That was a bit of a long one. Number three, time to give the young guys more run. We've talked about takeaways the past couple of weeks about how some of the young guys have been playing a little bit better. Now it's time to give them

more playing time. Number one to this can't get much worse, right? Can't get much worse. You're losing every game. What's the big deal? Two, a lot, not all of the veterans, but a lot, maybe a lot is too much, a decent amount of some of the veterans have underperformed or by performance have been a part of KU getting to this point of why they're one in five to this point in the season and it's a lost cause again not everybody for sure three some of the young guys are figuring it out right like Blake Harold's been playing well DJ Warner just had a big uh one of his better games last week in terms of like most snaps and stuff now you have the bye week to improve even more and get more comfortable with earning a bigger role for fans at this point, want something to watch for and give them hope for

both the future and for the 2025 season. And I don't know, maybe that is, maybe that isn't the difference of, of adding some extra fans to Arrowhead. Couldn't hurt. But what better way than to see the young guys step up? Now, this is not me saying that just like, oh, you'll play every start, every freshman and don't play any of the veterans and they shouldn't play at all. No, that's not what I'm saying. And also like guys like Devin Neal and Colby Bryant and players like that,

like you know which ones I'm talking about. They have earned their right to play till they don't want to play. Whether it's to cement their draft status or for legacy awards and honors and rounding out their KU careers that could end up in the ring of honor and trying to get a few more wins at Kansas. Like they have earned that.

They have earned that at the very least. I'm not saying take away anything from them. Let them do what they want to do. But the spots where you're playing veterans who are just kind of there because of seniority, or maybe there's a little bit better, maybe they're just like a little bit better than the younger guy behind them on the depth chart, but it's kind of splitting hairs and you're just going with the guy with the seniority and they've kind of struggled a little bit. Again, not saying they should just completely not play, but maybe they should start getting their playing time eaten into by the young guys, right?

Maybe the young guys should start getting more of those snaps off the top. So, yeah, guys like Devin Neal and Kobe Bryant, keep them out there, right? Let them do their thing. They have earned that. But at some point in time with some of the older guys, you know, like for instance, with Tyrone Berryhill, he's struggling right now. What good does it do for you for 2025 why not play a little bit more of logan brantley right logan brantley might not be really ready right now but it might help

you more in 2025 and it's not like the guy in front of him has been doing that much better so like examples like that now what does that mean a quarterback i don't entirely know because jalen had his best performance last week but if he's not going to be back in 2025 and 2024 is a lost cause, doesn't it make more sense to give those reps elsewhere? Or maybe you wait till after K-State. Maybe you say, hey, Jalen, we're going to give you the starting nod for the Houston game, the K-State game. And then after that, you only have four games remaining anyway. Then you can rip the Band-Aid off Isaiah Marshall.

You keep his red shirt anyway, and then you get the young guy reps for the next season. Or maybe they talk with Jalen Daniels, and he's open to coming back in 2025, but with a smaller NIL deal, who knows, but that one seems to be a different discussion altogether. So maybe we'll leave that for another episode. All right. Top bottom PFF performers that next,

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runner and stuff putting his body on the line there Bryce Foster was third a 71.5 he continues to be a mainstay on this list he was a 73 and pass block 68 and run block uh not a great run blocking day for the linemen for KU. He was one exception who was, I guess, above average at it. Daniel Hyshaw was fourth at 71, and then Luke Graham was fifth with a 69 grade. I do want to mention Jalen Daniels was seventh, so he was not far off here. Tevita Noah got 12 snaps, a little bit more than we've seen recently. He was sixth. The bad news, though, the guys who were sixth and seventh on offense were low 60s, so it doesn't speak well to how well everything went for KU,

but it's nice to see both those names up there. As far as the bottom performers, Trevor Cardell played 22 snaps. So you wonder if Tavita Noah's starting to eat in his playing time. He had just a 35 grade, 14 and pass block on three attempts and a 40 and run block in 12 attempts. So that didn't go well. Kobe Baines played 59 snaps. He had just a 47 grade, only a 43 in run block, which normally he's a road grader inside. Calvin Clements played 11 snaps. He had a 51 grade, but he wasn't 82 in pass block. And that's also a small sample size.

Torrey Laughlin played 13 snaps at a 52 grade. And then Leighton Cure played 15 snaps with a 52 grade. So those were kind of your bottom ones. Also, Jared Casey was the next at six. That means three or bottom six were tight ends. Again, is that just they're not utilizing them right and it's hurting them in the grading process? Or is there something to it that's kind of leading to that? As far as the snap counts, I do think that is interesting, though, that Noah played 12, Kier played 15, Cardell played 22, Casey played 40. Feels like they're

starting to use more of the multi-tight end sets, and they're trying to get different guys on there to get different looks or maybe figure out where the playing time exactly needs to be. Also, Shane Bumgarner, only seven snaps. He only had a six pass block grade, so that's probably why. But he was starting to get a lot more snaps in the previous week, so that kind of becomes a little bit interesting that that went back down for him in this game.

Defensive side of the football your top performers I was surprised this guy was so high up there Mello Dotson was number one he had a 74 grade he had a 78 in coverage if you watch the broadcast the broadcast kept making mention though that he was being picked on in coverage he ended up being targeted nine times over the course of the game gave up five catches for 48 yards so honestly you know nine targets giving up 48 yards is not that bad he did give up a touchdown um but yeah I was surprised that it ended up being that high I guess it helped that he forced that fumble in there too Dean Miller was second at a 73 so we thought on first watch he had a pretty good game and that turns to be true. Tommy Dunn had a 69 Jalen Todd in 16 snaps. That's good to see hit a 67. And then OJ

Burrows had a 67, but just a 58 coverage. He was a fifth. Not great that guys who ranked sixth through let's see, well, technically tied eighth, but it's really, let's see, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. So essentially your sixth through like your 13th guy or your 12th guy, I guess is how the math would work out there were all players who played single digit snaps. So that's not great. As far as the bottom five, Tywon Berryhill was the lowest. He led the defense in snaps, I believe. And he had a 35 grade. That's not great. Marvin Grant had just a 40 grade. Mac Muller only played one snap, so whatever on that. Keenan Caldwell had a 47-grade, and then by Job, he was making good progress.

So unfortunate to see that that went back down the other way, was bottom five here at a 48-grade. And overall for Kansas, not a lot of pressures, a lot of missed tackles. They had 16 missed tackles, seven pressures. Not great when you have double the missed tackles as you do quarterback pressures. All right, that'll do it for this episode of Locked on Jayhawks. You can find our show anywhere you get your podcasts, including on our YouTube page.

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