Ladies and Gentlemen, We have a bad football team!

[Geddes]

Is young eriul finally grasping the fact that stats really mean dick in football?

Now baseball? You will cream your panties..

 

[PDXGrizzly]

Look. We have a good football team. We are just not the best in our conference this year. I for one loved what I saw--for the most part--and cannot wait to see us play next year. Stitt has my vote!

What about the last two weeks looked good to you? I'm curious because I have the polar opposite take on this as you. Besides the "not the best in our conference" part.

We turned the ball over a lot versus NAU. This game I expected a loss--they beat WASU after all. What about the games against Sac St., MVSU, UNI, and CPSLO? What did you not like? You all are treating a loss against a real good team as the end of the world. Don't.

It's more like an inability to compete against teams with any semblance of talent and coaching. Also an inability to have any fire or focus on the road.

Two games in a row where the Griz have been out coached, out hustled, and out focused. This is beginning to be a pattern.

Why shouldn't we expect a win or even a competitive effort against a high ranked opponent? The Griz have, supposedly, all the tools in place to be competitive.

 

[bearister]

Disagree, respectfully. Sac St is a bad football team. We have a lot of talented football players who as yet have not consistently played up to their potential against good competition. I think they have the talent to make some noise in the playoffs - if they make the playoffs.


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[HelenaHandBasket]

The Griz have, supposedly, all the tools in place to be competitive.

That is where your argument fails. And the Griz have not been a good road team since BH.

 

[PDXGrizzly]

The Griz have, supposedly, all the tools in place to be competitive.

That is where your argument fails. And the Griz have not been a good road team since BH.

What do you think the difference is? What did BH do that no one else can? There are good athletes on both sides of the ball, but they crap the bed after leaving Missoula. Besides, it was more of a lament than an argument.

 

[RobGriz]

None. We will probably end up in 4th place. I don't think they will take 4 from the BSC.

Conference rankings do not matter in playoff selection. The only conference ranking that matters is who wins the conference and gets the automatic bid

exactly. it's amazing to me how many people don't understand this concept and are claiming to be football fans. All their goals are still in front of them. Win the next 3, that you should win, and finish 8-3 with a home playoff game. My only worry is they might not win their next 3. A 7-4 team with their SRS isn't going to cut it (aka UND last year).

+1

 

[grizpsych]

Look. We have a good football team. We are just not the best in our conference this year. I for one loved what I saw--for the most part--and cannot wait to see us play next year. Stitt has my vote!

What about the last two weeks looked good to you? I'm curious because I have the polar opposite take on this as you. Besides the "not the best in our conference" part.

We turned the ball over a lot versus NAU. This game I expected a loss--they beat WASU after all. What about the games against Sac St., MVSU, UNI, and CPSLO? What did you not like? You all are treating a loss against a real good team as the end of the world. Don't.

It's more like an inability to compete against teams with any semblance of talent and coaching. Also an inability to have any fire or focus on the road.

Two games in a row where the Griz have been out coached, out hustled, and out focused. This is beginning to be a pattern.

Why shouldn't we expect a win or even a competitive effort against a high ranked opponent? The Griz have, supposedly, all the tools in place to be competitive.

Unlike against NAU, I felt we competed today. We just lost. I know it's weird being A Griz fan. But, we lost. We didn't beat ourselves or play below expectations. We lost. Plain and simple. So what? We are going to win out.

 

[HelenaHandBasket]

The Griz have, supposedly, all the tools in place to be competitive.

That is where your argument fails. And the Griz have not been a good road team since BH.

What do you think the difference is? What did BH do that no one else can? There are good athletes on both sides of the ball, but they crap the bed after leaving Missoula. Besides, it was more of a lament than an argument.

BH's team was going to punch you in the mouth all game until you quit and most teams did. The current Griz offense lacks toughness.

 

[PDXGrizzly]

The Griz have, supposedly, all the tools in place to be competitive.

That is where your argument fails. And the Griz have not been a good road team since BH.

What do you think the difference is? What did BH do that no one else can? There are good athletes on both sides of the ball, but they crap the bed after leaving Missoula. Besides, it was more of a lament than an argument.

BH's team was going to punch you in the mouth all game until you quit and most teams did. The current Griz offense lacks toughness.

On that we can agree.

 

[grizpsych]

The Griz have, supposedly, all the tools in place to be competitive.

That is where your argument fails. And the Griz have not been a good road team since BH.

What do you think the difference is? What did BH do that no one else can? There are good athletes on both sides of the ball, but they crap the bed after leaving Missoula. Besides, it was more of a lament than an argument.

BH's team was going to punch you in the mouth all game until you quit and most teams did. The current Griz offense lacks toughness.

Bullshit! I never saw a lack of toughness in this game.

 

[HelenaHandBasket]

RobGriz may be able to give a different perspective, but it also seems that the Griz lack a leader on offense. I don't see BG as a leader.

 

[HelenaHandBasket]

That is where your argument fails. And the Griz have not been a good road team since BH.

What do you think the difference is? What did BH do that no one else can? There are good athletes on both sides of the ball, but they crap the bed after leaving Missoula. Besides, it was more of a lament than an argument.

BH's team was going to punch you in the mouth all game until you quit and most teams did. The current Griz offense lacks toughness.

Bullshit! I never saw a lack of toughness in this game.

Your opinion, but this offense is all about finesse and most defenses, including what most would call a below average EWU team, beat them up along the line of scrimmage.

 

[PDXGrizzly]

What about the last two weeks looked good to you? I'm curious because I have the polar opposite take on this as you. Besides the "not the best in our conference" part.

We turned the ball over a lot versus NAU. This game I expected a loss--they beat WASU after all. What about the games against Sac St., MVSU, UNI, and CPSLO? What did you not like? You all are treating a loss against a real good team as the end of the world. Don't.

It's more like an inability to compete against teams with any semblance of talent and coaching. Also an inability to have any fire or focus on the road.

Two games in a row where the Griz have been out coached, out hustled, and out focused. This is beginning to be a pattern.

Why shouldn't we expect a win or even a competitive effort against a high ranked opponent? The Griz have, supposedly, all the tools in place to be competitive.

Unlike against NAU, I felt we competed today. We just lost. I know it's weird being A Griz fan. But, we lost. We didn't beat ourselves or play below expectations. We lost. Plain and simple. So what? We are going to win out.

You are missing that we did play below expectations. The Griz should have put much more points on a statistically inferior D. Too many dropped balls, trips to the red zone without points, the list goes on. This had all the makings of a track meet. The offense flat did not show up today. They haven't when they have been on the road.

 

[John Galt]

Team didn't want to be on the field.

 

[jodcon]

I have a question and I didn't watch the game:

how the f*** for the second week in a row do we outgain the opponent by over 100 yards and lose by over two scores.


How do you look at these numbers and come away with the Griz only scoring 16 and losing by 19?
Matchup : Griz EWU
1st Downs 25 19
3rd down efficiency 10-22 4-12
4th down efficiency 2-3 1-1
Total Yards 540 455
Passing 398 381
Comp-Att 45-64 22-38
Yards per pass 6.2 10.0
Interceptions thrown 2 2
Rushing 142 74
Rushing Attempts 30 24
Yards per rush 4.7 3.1
Penalties 9-84 2-17
Turnovers 2 2
Fumbles lost 0 0
Interceptions thrown 2 2
Possession 34:55 25:0

Watch the first quarter and it will become clear. We owned the entire quarter but pissed away scoring chances and let Kupp get behind the secondary (again) late and the quarter that we should have been up by 14 or 21 to 0 ended up 7-7-. After that it was just a matter of time until EWU woke up and started scoring, we on the other hand drove to the red zone (when the receivers weren't dropping perfect passes) and came up with a variety of quick outs and screens from 1st and goal instead of giving the fucking ball to Calhoun until he scored, and came away with 3 or nothing most of the time.

We also fall for every trick play out there, that doesn't help. And our secondary is much worse than we thought it was a few weeks ago.

 

[PDXGrizzly]

Team didn't want to be on the field.

That field gives me a migraine. I wouldn't want to be on it either.

 

[UMGriz75]

I have a question and I didn't watch the game:

how the f*** for the second week in a row do we outgain the opponent by over 100 yards and lose by over

It says the talent is there. The strategy is not.

 

[Paytonlives]

I have a question and I didn't watch the game:

how the f*** for the second week in a row do we outgain the opponent by over 100 yards and lose by over two scores.


How do you look at these numbers and come away with the Griz only scoring 16 and losing by 19?
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UM has been out big played
And has generally had very poor field position.

Hence out scored but yet has a lot more yardage.

 

[HelenaHandBasket]

I have a question and I didn't watch the game:

how the f*** for the second week in a row do we outgain the opponent by over 100 yards and lose by over

It says the talent is there. The strategy is not.

Or maybe the strategy is making up for a lack of talent? Stats are a funny thing.

 

[Retiredram1]

I am disappointed with today's loss but am also offended by a thread title that the GRIZ are a bad team. How comfortable to be able to sit at home or a sports bar, eat and drink and complained about young men getting the shit kicked out of them.