PlayerRep said:I can understand what you are saying, I sometimes have the same feelings, and you may be right. However, I think Stitt and Semore have good potential, and the players here now and coming in are of high quality. The coaches seem to know how to recruit. When they were arriving, I wondered if they would be in over their heads. I don't think they are at all. The lost schollies are coming back. Like many, I am not completely sold on the offense. When it's clicking, it's great. But it seems to be prone to inconsistency and mistake. Maybe that is still the players and their execution. Semore is young and not experienced as a DC. He has alot of good ideas and innovation. He will improve with time. A great DC is not born overnight. It takes years of experience to be able to be consistently a good DC. We saw the same thing with TG. He seemed to improve each year.
One game, either way, doesn't make a season. It's always a struggle and one game at a time. While maybe this game shows that UM isn't good enough to compete with EWU, I still like our chances and think we can compete. NAU had a very good gameplan and played very well. We shall see. That's what's nice and fun about sport.
Allezchat said:So I haven't been paying much attention, I see someone said Counts didn't play. Has he played at all since he came back?
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PlayerRep said:The Cats outplayed EWU in the first half, probably on both sides of the ball. The Cats could have had a bigger lead going toward the end of the half, but didn't capitalize. Then the Cats fumbled an exchange on their 15 and 20, which led to an easy EWU TD and the lead. EWU came alive and kicks the Cats' butts in the second half.
EWU is very good on offense and has a very good qb. It has 2 or 3 great receivers. However, EWU's top 5 or 6 receivers are not as good as NAU's top 5/6. It's good to have JR back. He seemed to play well, despite presumably being rusty. He will be better next Saturday. I don't know how much man coverage UM played on Saturday, but seemed like a lot to me. It makes me nervous to play so much man against top passing teams with accurate qb's and big fast good receivers. There's just too much risk of giving up big plays too much of the time. Our guys are good cover guys, but this isn't the NFL (where the corners and secondary are incredibly good). Jeez, even I couldn't have shut down the NAU/EWU receivers on every play, back in the day (nor on any play). Ha.
OK, the CPSLO game last year was non-conf; my bad. I will fix.HookedonGriz said:kemajic said:Stitt is 7-5 in conference, headed for 7-6.
Lost me.....he was 6-2 last year and 2-2 so far this year. That is 8-4.
PlayerRep said:The Cats outplayed EWU in the first half, probably on both sides of the ball. The Cats could have had a bigger lead going toward the end of the half, but didn't capitalize. Then the Cats fumbled an exchange on their 15 and 20, which led to an easy EWU TD and the lead. EWU came alive and kicks the Cats' butts in the second half.
EWU is very good on offense and has a very good qb. It has 2 or 3 great receivers. However, EWU's top 5 or 6 receivers are not as good as NAU's top 5/6. It's good to have JR back. He seemed to play well, despite presumably being rusty. He will be better next Saturday. I don't know how much man coverage UM played on Saturday, but seemed like a lot to me. It makes me nervous to play so much man against top passing teams with accurate qb's and big fast good receivers. There's just too much risk of giving up big plays too much of the time. Our guys are good cover guys, but this isn't the NFL (where the corners and secondary are incredibly good). Jeez, even I couldn't have shut down the NAU/EWU receivers on every play, back in the day (nor on any play). Ha.
It's amazing how little pressure we put on Kemp.G-BEARS said:In order to beat Eastern, we need to get a lot more pressure on the QB then we did against NAU. If Gubrud has time in the pocket, he will simply pick us apart.
PlayerRep said:I can understand what you are saying, I sometimes have the same feelings, and you may be right. However, I think Stitt and Semore have good potential, and the players here now and coming in are of high quality. The coaches seem to know how to recruit. When they were arriving, I wondered if they would be in over their heads. I don't think they are at all. The lost schollies are coming back. Like many, I am not completely sold on the offense. When it's clicking, it's great. But it seems to be prone to inconsistency and mistake. Maybe that is still the players and their execution. Semore is young and not experienced as a DC. He has alot of good ideas and innovation. He will improve with time. A great DC is not born overnight. It takes years of experience to be able to be consistently a good DC. We saw the same thing with TG. He seemed to improve each year.
One game, either way, doesn't make a season. It's always a struggle and one game at a time. While maybe this game shows that UM isn't good enough to compete with EWU, I still like our chances and think we can compete. NAU had a very good gameplan and played very well. We shall see. That's what's nice and fun about sport.
Not sure it's that simple. He didn't have all day to throw. Their game plan was simply to get the ball out as fast as possible, whether it was a quick out or cross, or just chucking it up and letting their receivers run under the jump balls. They used rollouts really really well yesterday, too.juiceboxboy said:NAU has a solid and disciplined O line
The D line was not prepared with doing different things to the O line.
I would have done a full on blitz two or three times in the first quarter to nail the NAU QB to get him jumpy
When a QB gets jumpy he will not throw it accurately (most of the time) and that can lead to the secondary being able to get picks.
This was done several times to St. Francis, UNI, Sac St.
Also when this happens the whole defense feeds off of each other's energy and this in turn ignites the offense.
I'm not really buying that this is a culture thing. We've got the attitude back. I think it's more of a QB, OL, and Safety issue. Also lack of pass rush, which was surprising.uofmman1122 said:Not being ready for games has been a problem that has plagued our program since Hauck left.
It's a culture problem.
You don't turn that around overnight.
Having a QB that can get us back into a game without panicking would help, though.
PlayerRep said:I don't know how much man coverage UM played on Saturday, but seemed like a lot to me. It makes me nervous to play so much man against top passing teams with accurate qb's and big fast good receivers. There's just too much risk of giving up big plays too much of the time. Our guys are good cover guys, but this isn't the NFL (where the corners and secondary are incredibly good). Jeez, even I couldn't have shut down the NAU/EWU receivers on every play, back in the day (nor on any play). Ha.
grizcountry420 said:AZGrizFan said:That's quite a judgement to make after 20 games
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Geez, how many games you gonna give him? 100?
I definitely agree that we have a better attitude, but even with that, from the very beginning it looked like our guys (especially the defense) didn't want to be there.brewskis said:I'm not really buying that this is a culture thing. We've got the attitude back. I think it's more of a QB, OL, and Safety issue. Also lack of pass rush, which was surprising.uofmman1122 said:Not being ready for games has been a problem that has plagued our program since Hauck left.
It's a culture problem.
You don't turn that around overnight.
Having a QB that can get us back into a game without panicking would help, though.
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grizcountry420 said:Jaymerz said:Please. If Gustafson doesn't over-throw receivers the entire game, including the 4th down conversion attempts, everyone on this board says the coach is a genius. Players play the game, and the truth is that Gustafson is an inconsistent passer. Until Stitt gets a more reliable passer in the QB spot, his game plan will always be at risk of outcomes like this NAU game.
Please.. Was Gus the one who gave up 45 points? I think that our defense needs to be held some what accountable for this lose, not Gus.