Maybe they'll get an invite to the Sun Belt and be as irrelevant there as they were in the Big Sky.
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vs. Idaho
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ewueagfan
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Keep hearing #19 being hyped up, but so many drops including one in the end zone that should have been a TD.
Eagle Talon
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This (mostly) proved true with the exception being their offense which was pretty dreadful.
E-Wu Tang Clan
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If you don't believe in statistics then yea.
Eagle Talon
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Not sure what you mean. Our defense controlled them the majority of the game and our offense and special teams outscored them, so.
Idaho was as bad offensively as any team I’ve seen in the conference sans a couple. I remember Cal Poly being egregiously bad offensively a couple years ago, and if you take the way back machine, I remember Idaho State was atrocious at one point.
Seattle Eagle
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It's amazing how much of a difference an elite Qb can make to an offense. I'm convinced this is the reason we've been in this 4-year long rut. We just didn't recruit Qb well after EB3.
E-Wu Tang Clan
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I meant for the season thus far not one game. They were down to their third or fourth string QB? You think we'd do well if we had to bring out some true freshman QB? Shit our old QB is 7-0 at his new team.
And they still got more passing, rushing and total yards. More first downs and third down conversions. Just didn't translate to points. Defense didn't really "control" them they just made plays when it mattered, fourth downs, red zone etc. Idaho was 1 for 5 on fourth down.
Eastern Washington 21-14 Idaho (Oct 18, 2025) Game Stats - ESPN
Complete team stats and game leaders for the Eastern Washington Eagles vs. Idaho Vandals NCAAF game from October 18, 2025 on ESPN.
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Hambone
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Wagner, who is their backup, is a Sophomore who played in 9 games last year so he is not without experience and most definitely has more snaps in college than Nate Bell does. I'm pretty sure Wagner was their QB1 before Joshua Wood transferred in from Fresno State.
The Freshman they played is a running QB who struggles to throw the ball and only came in because Wagner couldn't do anything. The guy they played in the 4th quarter, who was actually decent is also a Sophomore with some experience so I don't know where you're getting this idea that they had to throw a Freshman to the wolves in this game. Even that guy has played in 4 games this year.
We started the game with what was technically our backup QB at the start the season as well who only had two or three real starts prior to the Idaho game but I never saw you use that same excuse for Eastern.
I see tons of excuses being made for Idaho in this game (too much lost talent, too many injuries, we don't have our QB) as if all of those things don't also apply to Eastern. We got gutted in the offseason and have plenty of injuries to key players ourselves.
Idaho's staff lacks experience and got out-coached in this one plain and simple.
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Hambone
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You could make the argument that we didn't recruit enough quality in greater numbers, but we did in fact recruit a QB to replace EB3. He's playing at Idaho right now.
Seattle Eagle
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Fair point. Either way, I hope the QB spot is wide open for competition in the Spring. Bell has done a great job in my opinion, I just wish he could develop a little more as a passer.
True, we didn't really control them all that much. We made the right plays on defense when it counted, that idaho offense is awful. I think at might our defense looked good against a terrible offense. Our front seven seems to have improved but our defensive backfield is regressing.
