The most unofficial Bobcat gameday thread - Eastern Washington

[91catAlum]

Would've liked to see a stronger showing from the defense today but the bottom line is that we won. And the fact that it was close instead of another blowout will probably serve this team well in the long run.

I'm old enough to remember when 14 points was considered 'not close'.

That's a cool story but the game was within 7 points until the last 3 or 4 minutes.

MSU had a 75%+ win probability for 45 minutes of the game. The game was close at 28-28 for about 7 seconds with a minute left in the 3rd, after that, EWU never had the ball with a chance to take the lead for the entire 4th.

This was NOT anything resembling a 'close' game.


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They had the ball several times with a chance to tie or take the lead.
Not sure what you're smoking but can I have some?

[wbtfg]

Would've liked to see a stronger showing from the defense today but the bottom line is that we won. And the fact that it was close instead of another blowout will probably serve this team well in the long run.

I'm old enough to remember when 14 points was considered 'not close'.

That's a cool story but the game was within 7 points until the last 3 or 4 minutes.

MSU had a 75%+ win probability for 45 minutes of the game. The game was close at 28-28 for about 7 seconds with a minute left in the 3rd, after that, EWU never had the ball with a chance to take the lead for the entire 4th.

This was NOT anything resembling a 'close' game.


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If we convert the 4th and 1 in the third quarter, this game is even more of a runaway.

[Long Time Cat]

Maybe it’s different when you’re at the game, but I never felt like the Cats were in danger of losing that game. And the Ewoo fans that were sitting around us didn’t act like they thought they were going to win the game. Even when they tied it up in the third quarter it just felt like they were not good enough to beat us. After Tommy reeled off his 75 yard touchdown run the defense finally fired up which really improved my confidence and maybe it’s just me, most of my life I’ve been accused of being too optimistic.

[TomCat88]

These guys had better get their poop in a group because if they play like this at Davis they're toast.

Totally different teams, more of a pro-style offense, not the +QB run game Eastern was running today. Much easier to defend a statue at QB.

Nope, if we aren't perfect against every team that means the season is over.

You think they looked like a championship team today? You think they could beat the Dakotas today? Or Davis at home? No, they don't need to be perfect, but it's the end of the season and they need to be as perfect as they can get at this point and looking one whole heck of a lot better than they looked today or they'll come up short. Again.

It was their worst FCS loss of the season and it came on their home field. MSU looked bad for one quarter. The Bobcats looked like they were on the ropes in the third quarter but like many championship teams they came through at crunch time. I think someone was complaining that MSU hasn’t played in any close games and therefore won’t know what to do in a close game, so they were hoping for a game like this. So that person is happy.

[GoldstoneCat]

These guys had better get their poop in a group because if they play like this at Davis they're toast.

Totally different teams, more of a pro-style offense, not the +QB run game Eastern was running today. Much easier to defend a statue at QB.

Nope, if we aren't perfect against every team that means the season is over.

You think they looked like a championship team today? You think they could beat the Dakotas today? Or Davis at home? No, they don't need to be perfect, but it's the end of the season and they need to be as perfect as they can get at this point and looking one whole heck of a lot better than they looked today or they'll come up short. Again.

Off days happen. We're fine.

[MSUBRONCO]

After watching replay I'm ALMOST glad was at work and couldn't watch, would of been nerve wracking being tied

[coloradocat]

Maybe it’s different when you’re at the game, but I never felt like the Cats were in danger of losing that game. And the Ewoo fans that were sitting around us didn’t act like they thought they were going to win the game. Even when they tied it up in the third quarter it just felt like they were not good enough to beat us. After Tommy reeled off his 75 yard touchdown run the defense finally fired up which really improved my confidence and maybe it’s just me, most of my life I’ve been accused of being too optimistic.

See your problem is that you didn't want to feel like the Cats were in danger of losing. If you're not unhappy with winning are you even a real fan??

[Long Time Cat]

One concern from the game is that Brody was limping pretty noticeably in the second half. He didn’t ever sit out entirely, but they did sub him out quite a bit. Hope he’s OK.

[tetoncat]

Would've liked to see a stronger showing from the defense today but the bottom line is that we won. And the fact that it was close instead of another blowout will probably serve this team well in the long run.

I'm old enough to remember when 14 points was considered 'not close'.

That's a cool story but the game was within 7 points until the last 3 or 4 minutes.

MSU had a 75%+ win probability for 45 minutes of the game. The game was close at 28-28 for about 7 seconds with a minute left in the 3rd, after that, EWU never had the ball with a chance to take the lead for the entire 4th.

This was NOT anything resembling a 'close' game.


https://www.espn.com/college-football/g ... washington

They had the ball several times with a chance to tie or take the lead.
Not sure what you're smoking but can I have some?

Take lead if they go for 2. And Tommy ended that on 1 play.

[BleedingBLue]

One concern from the game is that Brody was limping pretty noticeably in the second half. He didn’t ever sit out entirely, but they did sub him out quite a bit. Hope he’s OK.

I think he's limping and sucking wind late in games a lot. He plays his a$$ off every snap and let's it all hang out every play.

[BelligerentBobcat]

Well…the linebackers will have a lot of teachable moments from this game.

With that said, I don’t think this game was as bad as I originally thought. Sounds like the team prepared for the starting QB, and EWU played a lot different with Taylor in. A lot of QB run obviously. That’s a tough transition to make schematically that late in the game for a defense. By and large, most of the big EWU plays came via “trickery”, gadget stuff, lots of eye candy. Super reminiscent of our offense under Choate. Very difficult to defend when unprepared. And honestly, Eastern played darn well on offense and defense. Have to give them credit, they played really well, and we probably played our B game. We’re a darn good team.

[onceacat]

Would've liked to see a stronger showing from the defense today but the bottom line is that we won. And the fact that it was close instead of another blowout will probably serve this team well in the long run.

I'm old enough to remember when 14 points was considered 'not close'.

That's a cool story but the game was within 7 points until the last 3 or 4 minutes.

MSU had a 75%+ win probability for 45 minutes of the game. The game was close at 28-28 for about 7 seconds with a minute left in the 3rd, after that, EWU never had the ball with a chance to take the lead for the entire 4th.

This was NOT anything resembling a 'close' game.


https://www.espn.com/college-football/g ... washington

They had the ball several times with a chance to tie or take the lead.
Not sure what you're smoking but can I have some?

A chance to tie? Yes. A chance to take the lead? No.

EWU never lead the entire game. After the 1st MSU score, EWU managed to tie up the game for a grand total of 14 seconds. One play.

Thats not a close game. It's not the blowouts the Cats have been treated to over the season so far, but it was a convincing 2 score win.

It wasn't close.

[catatac]

Cat D is really flat in this game so far, unusually flat. Sitting 4 rows up and there is ZERO juice from the D on the field, haven’t seen the D play like this so far this year. Hoping for an uptick in the 2nd half….

Gave up 14, 1 long play, got a turnover. Need a stop 1st drive, Cats score, 3 possession lead. Doesn't look like EWU can stop much

Yup. Hoping to see amore inspired and fired up D in the 2nd half. But, let's say EWU scores 14 in the 2nd half too... that's still way less than the 50 or whatever they put on against the Griz.

Nailed it! 28 points, lol. The Cat defense definitely was not at their best tonight but they did stand up and get stops when it really mattered. Kudos.

[catsrback76]

I was only able to watch the last half of the 2nd quarter, but I knew the game wasn’t over at half. Eastern at home has always been a challenge historically. It was great to see the final score wasn’t close, but that the game was through the 3rd. I much prefer seeing the team get challenged and to respond through it. This is BIG BOY MONTH, and we’re not done having some challenges this month, but, 9-0 is a historic mark and now onto 10-0 next week! Go Bobcats go!

[tetoncat]

We are definitely are going to be tested at UC Davis. It always feels like teams that come off a bye week tend to struggle. If we can pack the house next week and the defense gets back into their groove, I think we can definitely roll into Davis with some huge momentum. The Brawl is going to be nerve racking, until we have a 20+ point lead.

We should be tested by a top 5 team at their place. Would you expect anything less. Did NDSU, SDSU, USD not get tested against each other.

[onceacat]

Well…the linebackers will have a lot of teachable moments from this game.

With that said, I don’t think this game was as bad as I originally thought. Sounds like the team prepared for the starting QB, and EWU played a lot different with Taylor in. A lot of QB run obviously. That’s a tough transition to make schematically that late in the game for a defense. By and large, most of the big EWU plays came via “trickery”, gadget stuff, lots of eye candy. Super reminiscent of our offense under Choate. Very difficult to defend when unprepared. And honestly, Eastern played darn well on offense and defense. Have to give them credit, they played really well, and we probably played our B game. We’re a darn good team.

Yeah, Ewoo had 3 rushes over 20 yards, one for 75. And the eagles still only averaged 5.8 ypc. Letting a RB bust out a 75 yarder is totally uncharacteristic of this defense.

EWU is a pretty decent team...losses to a really solid Drake team (6-1) SELA (5-3 all losses to ranked teams) UM, Davis, and Idaho, all top 10 Teams. In their home games they put up 42, 32, 49, & 38...MSU D held them to 2 TDs below their average.

Honestly, if EWOO had MSUs schedule they'd probably be a top 25 team instead of on the verge of firing all their coaches.

Cats were far from perfect (seriously, a delay of game on the first snap?) but they rolled a better than average team. On the road. Again.

[Colter_Nuanez]

[snarf]

Well…the linebackers will have a lot of teachable moments from this game.

With that said, I don’t think this game was as bad as I originally thought. Sounds like the team prepared for the starting QB, and EWU played a lot different with Taylor in. A lot of QB run obviously. That’s a tough transition to make schematically that late in the game for a defense. By and large, most of the big EWU plays came via “trickery”, gadget stuff, lots of eye candy. Super reminiscent of our offense under Choate. Very difficult to defend when unprepared. And honestly, Eastern played darn well on offense and defense. Have to give them credit, they played really well, and we probably played our B game. We’re a darn good team.

Yeah, Ewoo had 3 rushes over 20 yards, one for 75. And the eagles still only averaged 5.8 ypc. Letting a RB bust out a 75 yarder is totally uncharacteristic of this defense.

EWU is a pretty decent team...losses to a really solid Drake team (6-1) SELA (5-3 all losses to ranked teams) UM, Davis, and Idaho, all top 10 Teams. In their home games they put up 42, 32, 49, & 38...MSU D held them to 2 TDs below their average.

Honestly, if EWOO had MSUs schedule they'd probably be a top 25 team instead of on the verge of firing all their coaches.

Cats were far from perfect (seriously, a delay of game on the first snap?) but they rolled a better than average team. On the road. Again.

I wouldn’t say that big play is completely uncharacteristic. The one consistent weakness I have seen from our defense is a tendency to be caught out of position on change of direction plays from the backfield. Overall, our defense has been lights out, but starting with the qb fake and bootleg with New Mexico, a decent chunk of the big plays we have given up have been similar in nature.

[91catAlum]

Would've liked to see a stronger showing from the defense today but the bottom line is that we won. And the fact that it was close instead of another blowout will probably serve this team well in the long run.

I'm old enough to remember when 14 points was considered 'not close'.

That's a cool story but the game was within 7 points until the last 3 or 4 minutes.

MSU had a 75%+ win probability for 45 minutes of the game. The game was close at 28-28 for about 7 seconds with a minute left in the 3rd, after that, EWU never had the ball with a chance to take the lead for the entire 4th.

This was NOT anything resembling a 'close' game.


https://www.espn.com/college-football/g ... washington

They had the ball several times with a chance to tie or take the lead.
Not sure what you're smoking but can I have some?

Take lead if they go for 2. And Tommy ended that on 1 play.

It was tied at 28 when Tommy scored. That put us up by 7.
We didn't go up by 14 until there was under 4 minutes left in the game.

[tetoncat]

Would've liked to see a stronger showing from the defense today but the bottom line is that we won. And the fact that it was close instead of another blowout will probably serve this team well in the long run.

I'm old enough to remember when 14 points was considered 'not close'.

That's a cool story but the game was within 7 points until the last 3 or 4 minutes.

MSU had a 75%+ win probability for 45 minutes of the game. The game was close at 28-28 for about 7 seconds with a minute left in the 3rd, after that, EWU never had the ball with a chance to take the lead for the entire 4th.

This was NOT anything resembling a 'close' game.


https://www.espn.com/college-football/g ... washington

They had the ball several times with a chance to tie or take the lead.
Not sure what you're smoking but can I have some?

Take lead if they go for 2. And Tommy ended that on 1 play.

It was tied at 28 when Tommy scored. That put us up by 7.
We didn't go up by 14 until there was under 4 minutes left in the game.

So when did they have chance to take the lead? Unless they went for 2, they never had one.