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Thank GOD.. not a good effort.

LDopaPDX

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REALLY BAD officiating. What's up with the "mystery" fumble, the weird PI call, and the defensive holding call that negated our TD? Three bad calls kept them in it late, but we still should've beaten them much worse.
 
Especially Anthony Larry and Taiwan Jones...

Bad effort all around tonight. With some bad calls thrown in on top of our mediocre performance, and we damn near lost that one.

We'll have to improve by 5 TDs to beat Montana next week.
 
LDopaPDX said:
Especially Anthony Larry and Taiwan Jones...

Bad effort all around tonight. With some bad calls thrown in on top of our mediocre performance, and we damn near lost that one.

We'll have to improve by 5 TDs to beat Montana next week.

Agreed on the first two posts except for the latter part of this one. Montana not looking too good against CP, looking like they will lose. Almost over, they're down by 2.
 
He said that it was a possible mild concussion. Also said that Taiwan wanted to come back in the game, but that they weren't going to mess around with it. So we probably won't know anything about it for a few days. Hopefully he was just a little loopy and will be ok for next game.

Other than Taiwan, other players I remember going out, but not sure if they came back in.

Renard WIlliams
Anthony Larry
Nikolai Meyers
Zach Johnson (did he come back into the game?)

I think there were a few others, but I can't remember off the top of my head.

Hope all these guys are squared away because we will need everyone next week.
 
EWURanger said:
He said that it was a possible mild concussion. Also said that Taiwan wanted to come back in the game, but that they weren't going to mess around with it. So we probably won't know anything about it for a few days. Hopefully he was just a little loopy and will be ok for next game.

Other than Taiwan, other players I remember going out, but not sure if they came back in.

Renard WIlliams
Anthony Larry
Nikolai Meyers
Zach Johnson (did he come back into the game?)

I think there were a few others, but I can't remember off the top of my head.

Hope all these guys are squared away because we will need everyone next week.

Renard and Nikolai made it back but Anthony and Zach did not
 
Zach has just had some bad luck with injuries......I thought he made it back out, but guess I was wrong.

Taiwan is one tough mutha, and if he has anything to say about it he'll be back next week. Unfortunately, he may not have the final say. Let's just hope it was a real minor one that will just keep him out of practice for a few days.
 
I'm pretty sure Zach Johnson came back in... the only guys who went out and never returned were Taiwan and Anthony Larry. Larry looked to have a knee or ankle injury, so that's probably going to require some time. They said Taiwan had his helmet on and was running around on the sideline, so I'd say the preliminary reports must be OK. If they suspected something serious, he'd have left the stadium

We need to get more consistency from our offense, although we looked much better in the second half. Mitchell is still missing a lot of easy balls, especially the fly route on the outside- usually to Kaufman. Our defense just looks like a sieve at times... CWU shredded us when they needed to and went 9/15 on 3rd down, many times from 3rd and long. Our safeties play SO far back, receivers get underneath for 7-10 yards a lot.

Straight up, I thought Toby Turpin was a beast for CWU.
 
My take on the EWU/CWU game is that it's a lose/lose scenario for Eastern. You play a very tough D-II team in Central, but your supposed to win, so when you do, it's Ho Humm. But you lose, and it's like the end of the world. Yes, EWU made its share of mistakes tonight on offense and defense, but they did get the W against a powerhouse IN-STATE RIVAL, who will go a long way this season in D-II football. Central was very good underneath, but Eastern gave up nothing long, a positive. I'm no expert here, but was at the game and took away alot a positives. That being said, EWU will need to be better next week to beat Montana. The first home game of the year on the red-turf should be at worth 14 points, hopefully that will make the difference. I hope Tawain will be good to go as it looked like a mild concussion late in the game with EWU on top, and he wanted to go back in but was held out. Central was very good, and moved the ball and stopped the EWU offense at times, but Central made too many mistakes and still gave up to many big plays. A very close game, closer than it should have been IMO. GO EAGS!!
 
talon38 said:
My take on the EWU/CWU game is that it's a lose/lose scenario for Eastern. You play a very tough D-II team in Central, but your supposed to win, so when you do, it's Ho Humm. But you lose, and it's like the end of the world. Yes, EWU made its share of mistakes tonight on offense and defense, but they did get the W against a powerhouse IN-STATE RIVAL, who will go a long way this season in D-II football. Central was very good underneath, but Eastern gave up nothing long, a positive. I'm no expert here, but was at the game and took away alot a positives. That being said, EWU will need to be better next week to beat Montana. The first home game of the year on the red-turf should be at worth 14 points, hopefully that will make the difference. I hope Tawain will be good to go as it looked like a mild concussion late in the game with EWU on top, and he wanted to go back in but was held out. Central was very good, and moved the ball and stopped the EWU offense at times, but Central made too many mistakes and still gave up to many big plays. A very close game, closer than it should have been IMO. GO EAGS!!

Difference in the game was turn-over margin, our 2, compared to their 3. That was the deciding factor.

A couple strange calls in this one.......the phantom fumble (was never any sort of indication and then after the injuries were sorted out they just gave them the ball????), the dis-allowed TD by Ceja, the call for leading with the head on Johnson when he never even made contact with the head........all very questionable, but I also thought CWU picked up a couple of ticky-tack penalties. The hardest bits to swallow defensively were early on in the game when their big RB was just running it down our throats, then we seem to adjust and then their QB proceeds to pick us apart late in the game.

Not sure if I mentioned it before, but, despite the poor effort collectively, at least our D made that stop late in the game on 4th down when they needed to. Props to Jolley on that one.
 
I agree the officiating was bad, not biased. We get to see biased next week. I understand the league is preparing its apologies in advance.

Random observations.
Love Kauf's downfield blocking in front of TJ, both last week and this week.

Kick coverage could be better.

Catch punts that are to land outside the 10, don't let them roll.

BLM and his receivers still aren't clicking on downfield routes. When they do, watch out!

Nevada 51 Colorado State 6.
 
Saw that too with Kauf. He's a big kid; it'd be nice to figure out a way to capitalize on his size against some smaller db's. I did notice, both in the Nevada game, and the TD catch yesterday, he has out-jumped some people in the end-zone. Nice to see. :D
 
First post on here so here it goes...

Beaumonte needs to get more carries. The guy is a freight train and would be a 1000yrd rusher if he wasn't overshadowed by TJ. Although TJ is tough, he does get injured. Even 10 carries a game by Beaumonte would not only lessen the chance of TJ getting injured, it would give the defense yet another thing to worry about (no one likes to tackle Beaumonte).

Graham needs to go. Enough said.

And finally...where's the best tail gate spot? I'll be up there on Saturday!

FTG
 
I'll echo the sentiment that I didn't like this game on our schedule. I don't dislike the idea of playing a game on the west side but hopefully next year it will be Portland State. Our play yesterday was problematic in several areas and we will really need to up our game prior to league play. Right now there's no reason to believe that we are a top 25 FCS team and if we can't get things figured out offensively we won't win many games this year because that is always our strength. I'm not abandoning ship but the coaches need to get control of this situation. There's no reason that a team with as much talent as ours should be playing as poorly as we did last night.
 
EWUeag said:
Graham needs to go. Enough said.

I'm not sure if I'll go that far but it stands to reason that he should have done a better job in preparing the defense against CWU which he spent 13 years at.
 

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