Wk 4 Prediction Thread EWU 50 @ SUU 21

[luckyintheorder]

No brainer. Right?

Between inexplicable offensive and defensive meltdowns in second halves (WIU, Jacksonville St), the altitude and Montana next week; will the Eags be able to stay focused on the game in front of them, be able to put the taste of last week behind them and did they learn how to hydrate in the past few days?

OK. Enough of the fake media headlines. It is so abundantly clear Eastern has far more talent and the only advantage for SUU is the altitude. Assume the Eags want to "remove all doubt" after last week and are relatively healthy. I didn't see any changes on the two deep and the team stats for SUU back up my opinion.

Two Deep: https://goeags.com/documents/2021/9/21/21FBTWODEEP_SUU.pdf

SUU Stats: https://stats.ncaa.org/rankings/ranking_summary (Select Sport (Football), Select Division (FCS), Select Team (SUU or Eastern)) (You can also Select Conference to get a full BigSky view)

Stop their best WR, run away from their best tackler and execute a consistent offensive game plan and Viola!

Defense gets 6 stops, 2 TO's and Shoemaker stops eating carbs at halftime...

Eags 55 - SUU 24

Need I say more?
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naXS1i6ov90[/media]

 

[Seattle Eagle]

Eagles 48 SUU 34

 

[Obzerver]

 

[Rjones61]

56-38

 

[luckyintheorder]

I remember seeing Justice Jackson's recruiting tape and saying:

Still not sure about the RB positions strength/depth for 2020...

Just watched Maurice. Feeling a bit better. Justice is a "for real" threat out of the backfield and Montoya could be special too.

He looks great. Have to give Merritt some credit too, he looked slow this Spring and seems to have some of that burst back again. Happy for the young man who has put so much time and effort into this team. Had to be tough sitting behind Custer and Pierce. A real EKG

 

[ewueagfan]

Eagles 45, T-Birds 24

Defense bounces back.

 

[LDopaPDX]

I guess it all depends on if the defense shows up. If they play like they did for 3 or 4 quarters last weekend, Eastern probably loses. You can't allow a scenario where you've got to hang 60 each week just to win.

Reality set in for me last week. After playing two bad offenses in the first two weeks, the ugly truth that Eastern only plays on one side of the ball is back again.

If Ena shores things up, we win comfortably. I don't have a lot of faith as last season the defense just got progressively worse as the season wore on. You'd hope for incremental improvement each week, but that simply hasn't been our recent history.

 

[LDopaPDX]

Good news is Limu-Jones is back. His size makes him a match-up nightmare for opposing defenses. After seeing him get hurt on the last drive, I was afraid of a worst-case scenario.

 

[Atomic Eagle]

35-21 Eag

 

[eaglesfootball]

every conference road game is tough so I wouldnt count any remaining game as a gimmee. Yes we SHOULD win this game but it depends on if we show up and play any semblance of defense of any form or will they look completely lost again. I have no idea what happened last saturday but it sure would be nice to get an early lead and hold on to it. I have no idea how we consistently play so much better on one side of the ball but it seems like the same discussion almost every year. Does our offensive style just lend itself to the defense being completely gassed by the second half. I dont like getting in track meets with any team in the big sky so i just hope we can get some critical 3rd and 4th down stops and a turnover or two.

EWU 41, So. Ut 35

 

[Hambone]

45-28 Eagles

 

[luckyintheorder]

Weather will be PERFECT in Cedar City today. Looking forward to a good contest with the Eagles pounding a lesser opponent into the sand. I'm not a nervous nelly. Should the outcome differ from the talent on the field that's just a confirmation of the poor feelings I've had for the OC and DC for awhile now, but there is nothing I can do about that. I know everyone on the team wants to perform well and would love to see it come together again this week like the CWU game.

Hope the lads stretched out, hydrated and are ready today. Two weird, middle of no where road trips in two weeks :shock:

Eags big today.

 

[clawman1]

I watched UNLV give Fresno State a good run last night. I'm glad we god the Rebels when we did. Watched the WIU game this morning and was impressed with the Leathernecks, they are a pretty fair team. IMO their lines both O and D were better than ours and they called smarter plays. ex: lots of short swing and over the middle passes to let their athletes do their thing. I say all of that because I don't think we are as good as we can become by seasons end. This could be an upset if the Eagles are overconfident. With good play calling we can be in the 40's and if d-backs learned from the spanking they took in Ill. we should hold them to low 20's.

 

[Obzerver]

clawman watched that UNLV game as well and made some $$ with UNLV getting 30pts. They had a chance to win that game at the end vs a #25 team. WIU had some real good players that's for sure. We still havent put a full game together and even if we do we have a huge upside. After last weeks game can't imagine anybody is overconfident damn near lost....after being up a zillion pts. We are better and I'd love to see a solid win and played well... for the following week.

 

[luckyintheorder]

clawman watched that UNLV game as well and made some $$ with UNLV getting 30pts. They had a chance to win that game at the end vs a #25 team. WIU had some real good players that's for sure. We still havent put a full game together and even if we do we have a huge upside. After last weeks game can't imagine anybody is overconfident damn near lost....after being up a zillion pts. We are better and I'd love to see a solid win and played well... for the following week.

I know diddly about betting or betting sites... Which sites do you prefer?

Just realized this is a late start game. Don't know what the record is like historically on late games but feel like it's not very good with this staff.

 

[luckyintheorder]

clawman watched that UNLV game as well and made some $$ with UNLV getting 30pts. They had a chance to win that game at the end vs a #25 team. WIU had some real good players that's for sure. We still havent put a full game together and even if we do we have a huge upside. After last weeks game can't imagine anybody is overconfident damn near lost....after being up a zillion pts. We are better and I'd love to see a solid win and played well... for the following week.

I know diddly about betting or betting sites... Which sites do you prefer?

Just realized this is a late start game. Don't know what the record is like historically on late games but feel like it's not very good with this staff.

Looks like Eags are giving 10 and the over/under is 80.5... Weird numbers when you see just how bad SUU's offense has been.
Eastern Washington
Southern Utah
-10 -10
80½u

 

[Obzerver]

clawman watched that UNLV game as well and made some $$ with UNLV getting 30pts. They had a chance to win that game at the end vs a #25 team. WIU had some real good players that's for sure. We still havent put a full game together and even if we do we have a huge upside. After last weeks game can't imagine anybody is overconfident damn near lost....after being up a zillion pts. We are better and I'd love to see a solid win and played well... for the following week.

I know diddly about betting or betting sites... Which sites do you prefer?

Just realized this is a late start game. Don't know what the record is like historically on late games but feel like it's not very good with this staff.

Looks like Eags are giving 10 and the over/under is 80.5... Weird numbers when you see just how bad SUU's offense has been.
Eastern Washington
Southern Utah
-10 -10
80½u

We use Bovada...just threw down a bunch at EWU -9.5 and under getting bet as it's down to 76.5

 

[luckyintheorder]

clawman watched that UNLV game as well and made some $$ with UNLV getting 30pts. They had a chance to win that game at the end vs a #25 team. WIU had some real good players that's for sure. We still havent put a full game together and even if we do we have a huge upside. After last weeks game can't imagine anybody is overconfident damn near lost....after being up a zillion pts. We are better and I'd love to see a solid win and played well... for the following week.

I know diddly about betting or betting sites... Which sites do you prefer?

Just realized this is a late start game. Don't know what the record is like historically on late games but feel like it's not very good with this staff.

Looks like Eags are giving 10 and the over/under is 80.5... Weird numbers when you see just how bad SUU's offense has been.
Eastern Washington
Southern Utah
-10 -10
80½u

We use Bovada...just threw down a bunch at EWU -9.5 and under getting bet as it's down to 76.5

Thanks Obzerver. Saw the over/under had dropped. So, Eastern covers 9.5 this week, right? I hope so for you after the B aaaa D beat last week.

 

[Obzerver]

got that right lucky!!!

 

[luckyintheorder]

got that right lucky!!!