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We just simply shot ourselves in the foot in the first half. A fumble on the EMU one going in for a TD, a dropped TD pass in the endzone before the half. That's 14 points we left off the scoreboard right there alone. Add a missed sack that led to an EMU first down coupled with a 15-yard penalty, then giving up a TD pass down the middle on the next play. We are giving EMU every chance to win this game. We have one half to get things corrected or we can kiss any bowl chances we have dancing in our minds goodbye. This inconsistent play week to week is just killing me.

A miscue by an official nearly caused him to kill himself on the opening kick. How in the hell did that guy bite it?

Well, we can add second half miscues to the list now too. Roughing the punter on a drive we stopped them, they get the ball back and score a TD to take the lead. We are doing everything to hand this game over on a plate to EMU. Heck, we even fumbled again inside the 10 and actually scored a TD in the second half that way. We've got 6:00 to figure this game out.

Nice stop by O'Drobinak. Now they can run out the clock.

It's telling that this team could make so many mistakes and still pull out a victory. Last year, that wouldn't have been the case. Both the offense and defense stepped up and made the plays when they had to.

Not to get too Dr. Phil, but BG's most dangerous adversary the rest of the season might be BG.

jacojdm wrote:A miscue by an official nearly caused him to kill himself on the opening kick. How in the hell did that guy bite it?

hahahaha, I thought the same thing. The turf monster came out of no where and got him.

What a frustrating game. We should consider ourselves very fortunate. What the hell are we doing going for it at the end of the first half? A field goal made all the sense in the world and Brandon goes for it? Granted, the dropped pass sucked and it should have been a TD. However, the thinking there was horrid. glad to see the win, but Buffalo will kill us if we play D like that and make decisions like that.

Our defense didn't play well but our offense was unstoppable. No punts and 40 points. How many teams would take that tomorrow? Heck, Michigan only scored 32 points agianst them earlier this season at home for gosh sakes!!

Chalk this one up in the "a win's a win" category. Not pretty, but a successful trip. The stage is set for a monster saturday in Buffalo next week. Can't wait. Let's go out and win this division.

GO BG!

cowboyjoe wrote:Our defense didn't play well but our offense was unstoppable. No punts and 40 points. How many teams would take that tomorrow? Heck, Michigan only scored 32 points agianst them earlier this season at home for gosh sakes!!

Michigan also lost to Appalachian St. on their home field so I don't see the point.

Sure the offense looked good, but the defense is atrocious. We make teams like EMU, Ohio, and Miami look like USC. Defensive motto: strip first, get a costly penalty second, and tackle last.

We might be 6-4 but we are the worst 6-4 team I have ever seen. With the talent we have we should be rolling through this conference. I don't care how good our offense is I could never feel good about a team that plays defense like that. No lead is safe.

I am very pleased to see us find a way to get the win in this game, because we sure made it difficult on ourselves at times with the miscues and costly penalties. We left two TD's off the scoreboard and allowed a drive to continue that resulted in a TD that was essentially a 21-point swing. And we were very fortunate not to lose another TD on another fumbled that we somehow recovered. We must get that straightened out against Buffalo & Toledo.

Lots of teams would like to score over 30 points a game. If we had a great defense to go with it, we would be a BCS type of team...it's hard to have an unstoppable offense and a shut down defense with the recruits we get. I guess we could go back 8-9 years where we were no. 1 in the nation against the run and we scored 14 points a game. Which one do you want? Give me the offense.

cowboyjoe wrote:Lots of teams would like to score over 30 points a game. If we had a great defense to go with it, we would be a BCS type of team...it's hard to have an unstoppable offense and a shut down defense with the recruits we get. I guess we could go back 8-9 years where we were no. 1 in the nation against the run and we scored 14 points a game. Which one do you want? Give me the offense.

What bothers me the most is that we have absolutely no fundamentals. It looks like we don't even practice on defense. The problems never get addressed, instead of improving throughout the season we get worse. Why is that our defense peaked in the first half of the first game of the season? I could live with being not talented on defense, but it really bothers me to ignore basic defensive principles. And the thing is, I think we have some talent on defense. Undersized yes, but there is talent there.

I'm tired of the "we're young" excuse. We heard that last year. If you are using that excuse two years in a row something obviously went wrong at some point.

Interesting stat of the game: BG had 7 penalties and all 7 led to 1st downs for Eastern. Also Nick Iovinelli is becoming like the Maytag repairman, with one punt in the last 2 games.

I scanned the thread and did not see this..but what really hurt us tonight were the streaks of pis poor tackling. Seriously every one on one battle we lost..the back would run right through and get out into the secondary...it was ugly.
then as if out of nowhere we would have a series of 3-4 guys taking care of biz...and then go back to this demonstration of not finishing...guys pulling up only to see the runner go another 10 yards...the coverages were very well called but the guys were not executing at all from what I saw, with any level of consistency.