Reginald Vick

They've been close to getting it five times already.

RJ Vick had like a 99-yarder.

and a 93-yard game.

But Jackson Harper with 102 versus Southern Utah, Terrence Smith Jr., 102 versus UTSA, and Tommy Maher most recently, 108 receiving yards.

To be fair, a lot of that had to do with injuries.

You know, we didn't even get to see Jackson Harper in the spring.

RJ Vick really popped more in camp.

I felt pretty good about him coming into the year.

The team is made for shootouts with him at the controls.

And by the way, that's without their top wide receiver, RJ Vick, who's expected to be back this week after being scratched as a game time decision against the Aztecs.

So I have supreme confidence that this offense, if everything goes right, can score 35 points against Utah State.

The Aggies have some good numbers on paper defensively, but I direct our listeners to that Boise game and that Utah game.

Jackson Harper's looked really good at times.

You're hopeful that RJ Vick is back.

He's listed as questionable, so maybe another week until we get him.

Certainly getting him back in the picture would be big.

But, yeah, you've got Colorado State.

You've got, you know, Darrell Robinson, Reginald Vick, Kassan Farrar, who didn't have a good game last week, but the week before did.

And then, obviously, Lucky Sutton, as we talked about before, is a smash play for me this week.

So...

I do think it'll be good, though, to get your starting quarterback back.

Hopefully, RJ Vick will be back in the lineup.

We'll play a clip of him talking about that.

But we'll talk about all kinds of stuff that Mora got into today.

The question is, how much can you improve defensively? We're going to play some clips of Maura talking about that over the next 10 to 15 minutes.

Let's start, though, with Jim Mora kind of answering my questions about whether he had these defensive concerns in fall camp.

And then he gives some injury updates as well, talking about Haas Haney and RJ Vick.

Would be huge to have those guys back for this San Diego State game.

He spread the ball around.

It was great to see Jackson Harper and Tommy Maher and a couple of these guys get involved, especially without R.J. Vick, which is another factor in this, right? You're missing your top wide receiver in the game.

All these challenges only add up.

I still don't think Mel Brown's 100% healthy based on how little we saw him in this game, although good to see a little bit more Oliver Lundberg-Coleman.

Didn't have a ton of opportunities, but you did capitalize on the one turnover you created.

Uh, Jackson Harper, Tommy Maher combined for about nine catches for 150 yards.

Good to see those guys step up and make some plays for you down the field, especially without R.J. Vick, who is kind of your, your deep threat and your big play guy this year.

Uh, Churchy seems to make a few plays every game.

Um, 22 targets on the season and, um, you're looking at a guy that, like, while that doesn't sound a lot, um, he had seven targets against UTSA, two last game.

So he is kind of coming on strong, and R.J. Vick has missed some time recently.

So R- R.J. Vick is their, uh, their number-one target guy.

If Vick's out for this game, you gotta feel like that's gonna continue to give a little bit of boost to Terrence Smith, and you gotta feel like it's gonna give a little bit of a boost to Jaxon Harper as well.

Um, in the most recent games, uh, Harper has went nine targets against Southern Utah, nine targets against BYU, and then six targets against UTSA.

He did not have a target in that Oregon State game, however, um, so that's a little concerning, but he, he really was coming on strong before that game.

And then Tommy Maher is also a part of this as well, um, four target-- or four catches, 29 yards in the last game against Oregon State.

So yeah, this wide receiver corps is a little bit of a mess.

I do want to kind of set the scene right here at the beginning of the show by saying, 2-4 is probably realistic, especially if you're not going to have your starting quarterback again.

Also sounds like RJ Vick is going to miss this game, so you're down one of the top three receivers in the Pac-12 plus your starting quarterback.

That's not exactly a recipe for success, trying to go out on the road and pull the upset.

But I do think there's reason to believe in this offense.