Those were just a few of the words used to describe the performance of the Brigham Young football team's offense on Friday afternoon after the Cougars donned full pads for the first time in spring and held a short scrimmage.

For a unit that returns nearly every starter, the offense didn't receive many ringing endorsements. Penalty flags were more common than completions, and backward motion nearly equal to forward progression.

"I just don't think it's great concentration. I don't think its clean play. I don't think it was just focused and being ready for a scrimmage situation, especially with an experienced group," BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall said. "I expected them to transition easily and move the ball up and down the field.

"That is not what happened, and so I think maybe a wake-up call is what you would call this for our offensive side of the ball."

Mendenhall had intended for the scrimmage to last 15 plays, but once he witnessed the lack of sharpness early, he extended it a bit more.

Although receiver Austin Collie attributed part of the sloppiness to "working out the kinks" on the first day in full pads, he didn't use it as an excuse for the offense.

BYU never reached the end zone while rotating starter Max Hall and backups Brenden Gaskins and Kurt McEuen. Hall completed 5 of 7 passes for 120 yards - with 79 yards coming on his final completion to tight end Andrew George.

Displaying his frustration, Hall jogged off the practice field without speaking to reporters.

"We expect perfection, especially Max being the leader of the offense," Collie said. "We have high expectations and we believe we can come out there and dominate and execute and today we didn't show that. Today we played a little bit immature as far as our level of play. It showed our weaknesses."

But Collie doesn't expect a repeat performance next week when BYU holds its second scrimmage.

"We have a lot of things to work on," Collie said. "I think we got a little bit too confident and we have to start back from square one and work on our execution and work on our discipline like I said and come out and play within ourselves."

Briefly: Running back Fui Vakapuna received stitches in the chin after being tackled on a run. His absence provided more carries for Wayne Latu and J.J. DiLuigi while Harvey Unga and Manase Tonga watched and rested.

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