@ MSU Game Day Thread

[Crabcakes&Football]

It's great to have a reliable defense and run game this year. I have tons of confidence in any of the 4 top running backs to take care of business. Receivers were terrible today. I would like to see more of Limu-Jones and Jayson Williams.

 

[marceagfan5]

Good win!! We left about 14-20 pts off the board with bad receiver play but that was a good win. Our running game is rolling...

Surprised MSU wasn’t better, considering it’s Choate’s 3rd year you’d think they’d improve a bit more...

Hmm, I thought they were a pretty good team. Bear in mind we are msu’s kryptonite. Today makes it 7 straight against them going back to 2011.

Maybe, but they are not a playoff caliber team. Time will tell, and it’s good for the conference when the bobcats are good, we will see.

 

[EWURanger]

Good win!! We left about 14-20 pts off the board with bad receiver play but that was a good win. Our running game is rolling...

Surprised MSU wasn’t better, considering it’s Choate’s 3rd year you’d think they’d improve a bit more...

Hmm, I thought they were a pretty good team. Bear in mind we are msu’s kryptonite. Today makes it 7 straight against them going back to 2011.

Maybe, but they are not a playoff caliber team. Time will tell, and it’s good for the conference when the bobcats are good, we will see.

I think they could be, actually, depending on how the rest of their season pans out. If they get marginal improvement from their offense they’re probably good enough to play ball control with most of the league, and that includes UM, who I think they will beat.

 

[GSmith42]

The MSU defense was “ok.” They certainly disn’t account for our WR’s dropping 10-15 balls they’d normally catch. That was on our offense.

 

[ewueagfan]

I took a peak at the Bobcat board and many of them are complaining that poor officiating cost them the game. For Realz?

 

[LDopaPDX]

I'd rate that a B performance. Quite good, not great. Kind of like our NAU game, but a little bit better.

Receivers were atrocious. Not just the dropped balls, but several penalties. Grady really had a tough outing.

All in all, we played well. The only real concern I have is we had several opportunities to blow the game wide open and kept getting dropped passes and penalties end our drives.

 

[eaglemachine]

I’d like to see more of Limu Jones on the field especially when our other guys are struggling like they were today. It was great to see CK out at the game supporting his brother and alma mater.

 

[EWURanger]

I took a peak at the Bobcat board and many of them are complaining that poor officiating cost them the game. For Realz?

Only the douchey ones that can’t handle a loss.

 

[LDopaPDX]

I took a peak at the Bobcat board and many of them are complaining that poor officiating cost them the game. For Realz?

Only the douchey ones that can’t handle a loss.

I'll have to see why they are complaining. I don't remember any bad calls off the top of my head. Pretty much every call on either team was a self-inflicted wound; none were objectionable. I did notice there were a few holding non-calls early in the game, but none of those plays amounted to much so it never impacted the game. Honestly, compared to the WSU and NAU games, it was very well officiated.

 

[clawman1]

I took a peak at the Bobcat board and many of them are complaining that poor officiating cost them the game. For Realz?

They were complaining but I didn't see any that it cost them the game, just butt hurt because maybe Troy A isn't going to save Bobcat football. :lol:

 

[luckyintheorder]

Great workman like win for the Eags at a tough road venue against a good MSU team. Hard to complain, it's been noted on what needs to be cleaned up, quite a few points left on the field with poor WR play and far too many penalties AGAIN. Was alarmed early by the slow start on defense but by the end of the first quarter never doubted Eastern winning this game. They controlled the contest.

After reading Choate's comments, not sure if this team will ever be better than a +1 over .500 team, it's just a "sense" in the tone of his comments. He's recruited well. Guess time will tell.

Looking forward to running the table in the BigSky. Someone is going to have to explain ISU to me when the time comes, they are not a good team but keep getting it done.

 

[KHB_Eagle4Life]

Another great defensive performance by our D! Once they got Anderson figured out, the Bobcats couldn’t do much. Anderson is an absolute athlete! I can see why they put him on both sides of ball, but wow, what a risk they take!

Our run game is the best it’s been in a long time; but I am a tiny bit concerned on how our receiving core is. They seem to be lacking confidence again. Not sure what’s going on there, or if I’m reading that wrong. But GG gave them passes right to them, and dropped. I’ve seen them lose some aggression, too. Not going to get balls, and expecting some of the balls to come to
Them? Maybe that’s just me, and I am blind?

Take away some penalties, and dropped balls... and we are near perfect! Of course, there is much to improve on; but I’d bet on this team everyday.

 

[luckyintheorder]

Conan, What is best in life...?

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[EWURanger]

I took a peak at the Bobcat board and many of them are complaining that poor officiating cost them the game. For Realz?

Only the douchey ones that can’t handle a loss.

I'll have to see why they are complaining. I don't remember any bad calls off the top of my head. Pretty much every call on either team was a self-inflicted wound; none were objectionable. I did notice there were a few holding non-calls early in the game, but none of those plays amounted to much so it never impacted the game. Honestly, compared to the WSU and NAU games, it was very well officiated.

The big one was the targeting call, which, clearly is a misunderstanding of the rule. As it's written, lowering the crown of the helmet into opposing player's helmet = targeting.

We can debate whether or not that should be the rule, but that is another issue.

 

[LDopaPDX]

I took a peak at the Bobcat board and many of them are complaining that poor officiating cost them the game. For Realz?

Only the douchey ones that can’t handle a loss.

I'll have to see why they are complaining. I don't remember any bad calls off the top of my head. Pretty much every call on either team was a self-inflicted wound; none were objectionable. I did notice there were a few holding non-calls early in the game, but none of those plays amounted to much so it never impacted the game. Honestly, compared to the WSU and NAU games, it was very well officiated.

The big one was the targeting call, which, clearly is a misunderstanding of the rule. As it's written, lowering the crown of the helmet into opposing player's helmet = targeting.

We can debate whether or not that should be the rule, but that is another issue.

Absolutely, positively, 100% targeting. And I always defend the defensive player. But the guy went high, to the head, with the top of his helmet. That doesn't just meet one criterion for targeting, it meets all of the criteria.

Even if targeting gets modified at some point to allow helmet to helmet contact when a player leans into the hit, they'll never take the high head-shot to an upright ball carrier out of the rules. Even before the modern targeting rule, that would have been an illegal helmet contact penalty.

 

[LDopaPDX]

FWIW, I didn't think the Montana State guy was malicious with the shot. He was just trying to make a play any way he could. Unfortunately, that's the case with far too many ejections these days.. The defensive player isn't doing anything intentionally, it's just a speed of game problem.

But again, that was 100% targeting.

 

[EWURanger]

FWIW, I didn't think the Montana State guy was malicious with the shot. He was just trying to make a play any way he could. Unfortunately, that's the case with far too many ejections these days.. The defensive player isn't doing anything intentionally, it's just a speed of game problem.

But again, that was 100% targeting.

Yup, wasn’t egregious. But anyone with a rudementary understanding of the rule wouldn’t try to argue against that call being made on the field of play.