Super happy to come out of this trip with a win. Almost got beat due to sloppy play at times and two UC Davis players Maier and Doss. Doss was their only athlete and we refused to take him away with some sort of double coverage. Definitely a little thin at DB and suspect Webster is playing hurt. It somehow feels like myopic, mind numbing stubbornness. Defense was on the field 37 minutes..
Don't want to leave out the left coast refereeing mantra of making things "fair" by actually making shit up to hamstring the better team. Didn't throw a lot of flags - good in general; didn't throw flags on UC Davis on all the obvious crap -- Bad. Did they call any holding on UC Davis last night? Pass interference (once?)? Blocks in the back? Awful. :roll:
Effort showed all over the field, team looks hungry. OL played well except blitz pick up but sort of understandable and thought defense showed up big. Can someone tell me why Simba isn't going deep more often, he can outrun most FCS defensive players? GG arm strength? Loved watching him pull away on that big score and Limu-Jones started to look like Kaufman to me, just from the TE position. Needed a big receiver when Grady went down. Never felt like Eastern would lose this game due to their obvious adrenaline junky style. We were 3 TO's (3 right?) better than UC Davis..
Many challenges to go before this season is said and done... Next.