Keeler: Steve Addazio’s CSU Rams have 0-12 written all over them

FORT COLLINS — Find a win. Seriously.

At Toledo this weekend? Please. At Iowa? The Hawkeyes volition bash things to CSU that are amerciable successful 38 states.

At New Mexico connected Oct. 16? Do you deliberation the Lobos are freaking retired implicit a Rams’ troupe that conscionable gave up 24 points astatine location to Vanderbilt? The aforesaid Vandy posse that had managed conscionable 3 points successful their ain backyard against East Tennessee State?

“People privation to say, ‘Hey, aren’t you going to consciousness atrocious for (yourself)?’” Rams manager Steve Addazio said aft a 24-21 location nonaccomplishment precocious Saturday nighttime to the Commodores dropped CSU to 0-2.

“I don’t consciousness atrocious for myself due to the fact that I’m not going to driblet my head. There ain’t a manager successful this programme that’ll driblet their head. So it’s my occupation to marque definite we conscionable support swinging away, due to the fact that that’s each loser stuff.”

You cognize what else is loser stuff?

• Racking up 11 penalties for 115 yards successful losses. At Canvas Stadium.

• A mendacious commencement during a made tract extremity effort that past leads to a missed tract goal.

• Two targeting calls.

• A location decision to Vanderbilt, the Washington Generals of assemblage football. America’s homecoming guest. A shot school. A shot programme that hadn’t won a non-conference roadworthy crippled since September 2017.

Find a win. Somewhere. Anywhere.

CSU came retired Saturday nighttime firing connected each 3 cylinders. Opening drive: 75 yards traveled connected 5 plays successful conscionable 2:03. Rams backmost Todd Centeio completed his archetypal 3 throws. Zip. Zip. Zip. Six-nil. ‘Dores connected the ropes.

Vandy — Vandy! — outscored CSU 24-14 the remainder of the way.

“We took steps (Saturday),” said Centeio, who completed conscionable 17 of his 35 throws aft that archetypal series. “We took steps.”

Find a win. Find 1 with a consecutive face.

CSU has been outscored 28-14 successful the archetypal fractional implicit its archetypal 2 games, a sure-fire motion of iffy mentation and coaching. The Rams person been outscored 28-0 successful the 3rd 4th since Week 1, which speaks volumes astir adjustments and coaching. They’re 1-for-4 connected tract extremity attempts, a reddish emblem erstwhile it comes to details and coaching.

“It’ll beryllium my occupation to enactment connected apical of that,” Addazio continued. “If you privation to play big-time assemblage football, and you suffer 2 games, and you privation to speech about, ‘Oh, are you acrophobic you’re going to suffer the locker room?’ Naw, I’m not acrophobic of losing the locker room.

“We’ll spell down to Toledo with 32 people, if we request too, OK? That’s conscionable the mode that’s going to be.”

When a newsman started to inquire Addazio astir tailback David Bailey’s 116 full yards and 2 scores for CSU, Daz jumped the question.

“Let’s speech astir immoderate of the affirmative things that happened retired determination today,” the Rams manager snarled, measurement rising to lucifer his humor pressure. “Let’s speech astir however hard those kids played today. Let’s speech astir the explosiveness of immoderate of those plays. Let’s speech astir that.”

Actually, let’s not.

If you’ve got a Stalwart Ram wrong arm’s reach, springiness him oregon her a hug. Or a stiff drink. Because based connected the past fortnight, they’re going to request plentifulness of some implicit the adjacent 2 months.