Conner Weigman<\/a> in the second quarter, the offense stalled on most of its drives, but there was a sign pointing in the right direction for the star athlete from Cypress, Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cConner Weigman is in concussion protocol but is doing pretty darn well,\u201d Fritz said. \u201cHe\u2019ll work back in tomorrow and the next day and should be full speed to protocol for the process they go through. We are looking forward to him playing for us on Saturday.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Attributing the slow starts to specific areas was an area that Fritz touched on, including taking responsibility for why the offense hasn\u2019t produced the numbers it should.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI gotta do a better job of coaching them up and making sure the script is correct,\u201d Fritz said. \u201cAlso, we just gotta execute. At the point of attack, as far as blocking was concerned, we just weren\u2019t firm in our protection, so we gotta do a better job.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Although it was not the outcome the coaching staff was anticipating, Fritz & Co. had positive takeaways from both sides of the ball. Being put in challenging situations and facing some adverse ones were a few areas that Fritz mentioned the Cougars can build off of.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tackling was a negative aspect that the defense has to improve on if it wants a shot at staying in the Big 12 Championship race. Fritz added that using the arms and legs to bring players to the ground was tough and that Houston has to do better.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe talk all the time about getting your near head in the hoop, attacking the near hip, attacking with your leverage, and we were just a little bit too far away when we initiated our tackling technique,\u201d Fritz said. \u201cYou gotta do a great job of using your arms, and you either get two arms around two legs or two arms around torso, getting them down. Some of them were tough. Sometimes you don\u2019t make that tackle, possibly. We had a tough time on a couple of those.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there is a coach who can make adjustments after an ugly loss, it\u2019s coach Willie Fritz, who…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":282843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-282842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115330104079939200","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}