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Week 4: Sac State vs Eastern Washington

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Week 4: Sac State vs Eastern Washington

Eastern Washington (1-2) comes into this game off of a non-conference shootout win against Montana State 55-50. EWU had a tough schedule opening up at Oregon (in which they still put up 42 points) followed by a tough road loss at Northern Iowa.

EWU touts a prolific passing offense led by QB Jordan West (68/87, 1,053 yds, 12 TD, 2 INT). He has a plethora of targets featuring the best WR in FCS, Cooper Kupp (36 recs, 626 yds, 8 TD), Kendrick Bourne (17 recs, 226 yds, 4 TD) and Nic Sblendorio (16 recs, 298 yds, 1 TD). If that isn’t enough, RB Jabari Wison (41 car, 248 yds, 2 TD) can get it done as well. It’s early but EWU is doing their thing yet again. The BSC crown is theirs for the taking.

EWU Team Stats: http://www.bigskyconf.com/custompages/football/2015/ewu.htm

Defensively the Eagles are on the opposite end of the spectrum. In fact, they have yet to show up this season. The Eagle defense kept it close at UNI, but are prone to giving up plenty of yards and points on a weekly basis.

The Hornets will need a miracle to keep this game close, let alone having a shot at the upset. Defensively the Hornets can put all 5 DBs on Kupp and he’ll more than likely still put up video game numbers. Defending him is futile. I have no idea what the defensive strategy will be in this one, I guess blitz the house every play and hope for the best. I’m thinking EWU puts up 60 points in this one. I would say they match that with 600 yards, but if the Hornet offense doesn’t move the ball then their scoring drives won’t be much longer than 50 yards a clip.

Offensively the Hornets will need to show signs of life and hopefully rebound from a horrid game a week ago. EWU’s defense is weak and porous so they will not be the reason for lack of offensive production.

This game is a guaranteed loss, but EWU’s prolific offense is worth the price of admission for those on the fence about attending the game. Having an offense show signs of life is probably going to be the only positive to take away from this game when it’s all said and done.

Go Hornets!!!
 
Sankey will be neutralized by the passing game of EWU and Cooper Kupp is going to shred our secondary. This one is going to get ugly - fast.

EWU 55
SAC 10
 
Hornetsports week 4 release is out.

Agude still listed as starter…but so was he last week and didn’t play.
Coulter is out, so Damon Jackson is backing up Harrison at WR.
Aiono back at RG.
Castillo on the 2 deep at DE.
Armstrong on 2 deep at CB.
Nick Payne starting opposite his bro at CB.
Banks still listed even though missing a lot of the WSU game due to “concussion protocol”.
 
Agude was out with concussion last week and coulter has been out a while and hasn't been practicing. Aiono has started 3 games now. Tongue on the other hand is off his suspension and is avail yanking with Castillo and Armstrong. Banks played one play last week. So must not have been a concussion. Crouch was also missing last week. Hopefully he is back.
 
I thought I heard the broadcast say Banks was out due to concussion. Must have said Agude instead and I missed it.
 
Looking better this week, Agude is back, Banks is back. This is a big deal along with Armstrong and Castillo back. More depth is huge. If the Hornets compete this week it will be good
 
28-20 Hornet loss. Respectable showing. Defense played well in a bend but not break fashion. They gave up a ton of yards but somehow found a way to keep the Hornets in it. Only gave up 1 big play but other than that made EWU work for it.
Offense looked ok early but then no-showed in the 2nd half. Kniffin did ok in the 1st half, then look downright awful in the 2nd half...then got hurt late in the game. OL played great in the 1st half, then got dominated in the 2nd half.
Special teams wasn't so special. Hennie muffed a punt that led to EWU's last TD.

All in all there are signs of life...but if Kniffin's injury is serious (not sure how exactly it happened) then we will be seeing Cassel next week.
 
Very disappointing, but with a performance like that I am not giving up on the Hornets or Coach Jody Sears. Next week they have a game they need to win and win big. This team needs to grow up and cut out the little mistakes and they will win that game.
 
Great first half and the hope of beating EWU at home was alive. Bummer that thee running TD by Daniel was negated due to a penalty but a field goal put Sac State up 20-7 against the worst defense in the FCS at the half.

And the 2nd half started off perfect with the Hornets recovering a turnover after kicking off to EWU and then a 51 yard field goal was called off due to a delay of game that would have put the Hornets up 23-7.

and then it was all EWU the rest of the game.

Oh my.

Where did the Hornets go in the 2nd half?

Another nice thing about the first half was the video feed. After half of the first quarter was done with the feed stopping and starting it suddenly was perfect. Not stopping, perfect picture quality, all shots of the plays and the west grand stands showing what looked like a huge crowd again and no shots of the empty east side accept during time outs when their were presentations. Was nice to see a game that did not feature an empty looking stadium with the cameras focusing on the east side . Was surprised to learn that the attendance was 4,500 less than the Eastern Oregon game. But that was the 2nd largest opening season attended game in school history.

It was all perfect.

And then that 51 yard field goal was called off, the Hornets punted and pinned EWU on their 2 yard line and then .............

EWU wins 28-20 as the firework show begins after the game. Fireworks after the game? Not at half to keep an excited fan base pumped up?

Oh well, on to this coming Saturday against UNC where it would be super to see the Hornets play for 4 quarters and keep up the intensity from start to finish. I know they are doing their best and are probably much more frustrated than us fans.

Hope Daniel is OK.

There is going to be a time this season when it all comes together. And hopefully many more times


Go Hornets!!!
 
Hornetsports recap.

State Hornet recap.

I thought there were more than 7200 people there. Home side had a good crowd, EWU usually has a bit more folks then what showed up on Saturday.

Any word on Kniffin?
 
Considering EWU can put up BIG numbers, I'd say the defense did respectable. Holding EWU to 74 rushing yards is awesome, not so much the long TD throws.

The muffed punt turned into an EWU score, that was a costly mental mistake. Offense scored some points, but Kniffin needs to stop the 'heave-ho let anyone catch it' passes.

Was disappointed in attendance for such a highly ranked team, just goes to show how fickle the fan base is when the Hornets get drubbed two weeks in a row. If they lose this weekend, there is no excuse.

PSU, with a first year coach, is doing an excellent job.

Why isn't the stud Baylor track star seeing more time? I bet if he played for EWU he would be in every other down because of his speed and decoy ability.
 
Baylor kid is not in because he can't throw and if you saw him run the two plays vs. Weber ahhhh not a football player. Hornets took a chance on him. Not working out.
 
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