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9/3/2016 Washington State
9/10/2016 North Dakota State
9/17/2016 Northern Iowa
9/24/2016 Northern Arizona
10/1/2016 UC Davis
10/8/2016 Northern Colorado
10/22/2016 Montana State
10/29/2016 Montana
11/5/2016 Cal Poly
11/12/2016 Idaho State
11/18/2016 Portland State

Gotta beat the best, to be the best I suppose.

Ouch

Well it look like they won't be the best then.

I may be at the NDSU game. Depends on if I go to the Chuck South game or not. Any Eagles fans heading to Fargo?

Grizalltheway wrote:Well it look like they won't be the best then.

Yeah, I give us maybe a 10% chance of beating NDSU in Fargo. Maybe less.

I don't know what UNI is looking like this year, but I give us a decent shot to beat them in Cheney.

I also think the offense will be good enough to win quite a few Big Sky games.

Ouch City, Population EWU

EWURanger wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:Well it look like they won't be the best then.

Yeah, I give us maybe a 10% chance of beating NDSU in Fargo. Maybe less.

I don't know what UNI is looking like this year, but I give us a decent shot to beat them in Cheney.

I also think the offense will be good enough to win quite a few Big Sky games.

NAU is an absolute crucial game for us assuming we start out 1-2. Case Cookus and Emmanuel Butler are back and I think they return a young rb who was pretty good and couple of defensive standouts as well. Plus the WSD is a tough place to win. After that, we get a little breather.

Beat the Jacks and manage a split between NDSU, UNI, Montana, and PSU and we'll be in good shape. Tall order though.

kalm wrote:

EWURanger wrote:
Yeah, I give us maybe a 10% chance of beating NDSU in Fargo. Maybe less.

I don't know what UNI is looking like this year, but I give us a decent shot to beat them in Cheney.

I also think the offense will be good enough to win quite a few Big Sky games.

NAU is an absolute crucial game for us assuming we start out 1-2. Case Cookus and Emmanuel Butler are back and I think they return a young rb who was pretty good and couple of defensive standouts as well. Plus the WSD is a tough place to win. After that, we get a little breather.

Beat the Jacks and manage a split between NDSU, UNI, Montana, and PSU and we'll be in good shape. Tall order though.

How crucial is NAU when you start out 0-3? There's a very high likelihood that come 10/29, EWU will be 3-4 when they face the Griz.

And bully to UNI for scheduling the only two real teams IN the BSC in the same year. Their schedule ain't no picnic either...

AZGrizFan wrote:

kalm wrote:
NAU is an absolute crucial game for us assuming we start out 1-2. Case Cookus and Emmanuel Butler are back and I think they return a young rb who was pretty good and couple of defensive standouts as well. Plus the WSD is a tough place to win. After that, we get a little breather.

Beat the Jacks and manage a split between NDSU, UNI, Montana, and PSU and we'll be in good shape. Tall order though.

How crucial is NAU when you start out 0-3? There's a very high likelihood that come 10/29, EWU will be 3-4 when they face the Griz.

And bully to UNI for scheduling the only two real teams IN the BSC in the same year. Their schedule ain't no picnic either...

Well then it becomes even more crucial.

kalm wrote:

AZGrizFan wrote:
How crucial is NAU when you start out 0-3? There's a very high likelihood that come 10/29, EWU will be 3-4 when they face the Griz.

And bully to UNI for scheduling the only two real teams IN the BSC in the same year. Their schedule ain't no picnic either...

Well then it becomes even more crucial.

And how crucial is the UC Davis game when you start out 0-4?

AZGrizFan wrote:

kalm wrote:
Well then it becomes even more crucial.

And how crucial is the UC Davis game when you start out 0-4?

Not very

EWURanger wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:Well it look like they won't be the best then.

Yeah, I give us maybe a 10% chance of beating NDSU in Fargo. Maybe less.

I don't know what UNI is looking like this year, but I give us a decent shot to beat them in Cheney.

I also think the offense will be good enough to win quite a few Big Sky games.

UNI hasn't lost a road OOC FCS game since 1997 (@ McNeese) and is 34-2 OOC vs the FCS in the regular season since that OOC loss to McNeese. The only two losses were home losses vs SFA in 04 and 10.

UNI's defense will give up yards to Kupp, it's impossible not too.
UNI's offense last year was a complete mess. It returns pretty much everything and will boast an improved passing game.

Can EWU's defense stop an offense that returns two 1,000 yard rushers and a QB that completes 60% of his passes and has spent an entire off season focusing only on improving, so much so that the coaches blow the play dead during practice any time he leaves the tackle box to force him to get better as passing?


I think UNI wins that one in a close game.

AZGrizFan wrote:
And bully to UNI for scheduling the only two real teams IN the BSC in the same year. Their schedule ain't no picnic either...

Farley firmly believes "anyone, anywhere, anytime".

OOC the last few years has been EWU, Cal Poly, McNeese State, SUU, Stephen F Austin (When they were good), Montana twice going forward.

Schedule this year goes

@ Iowa State
vs Montana
@ Eastern Washington
Conference play
vs SIU
@ USD
@ YSU
vs MSU
then finish
vs NDSU
@ ISU
@ WIU
vs SDSU

Better than last year when we went
@ Iowa State
vs EWU
@ Cal Poly
@ Illinois State
@ North Dakota State
vs Western Illinois
@ South Dakota State

clenz wrote:

EWURanger wrote:
Yeah, I give us maybe a 10% chance of beating NDSU in Fargo. Maybe less.

I don't know what UNI is looking like this year, but I give us a decent shot to beat them in Cheney.

I also think the offense will be good enough to win quite a few Big Sky games.

UNI hasn't lost a road OOC FCS game since 1997 (@ McNeese) and is 34-2 OOC vs the FCS in the regular season since that OOC loss to McNeese. The only two losses were home losses vs SFA in 04 and 10.

UNI's defense will give up yards to Kupp, it's impossible not too.
UNI's offense last year was a complete mess. It returns pretty much everything and will boast an improved passing game.

Can EWU's defense stop an offense that returns two 1,000 yard rushers and a QB that completes 60% of his passes and has spent an entire off season focusing only on improving, so much so that the coaches blow the play dead during practice any time he leaves the tackle box to force him to get better as passing?


I think UNI wins that one in a close game.

Well if he's spent an entire off season focusing only on improving than we are fucked!

kalm wrote:

clenz wrote: UNI hasn't lost a road OOC FCS game since 1997 (@ McNeese) and is 34-2 OOC vs the FCS in the regular season since that OOC loss to McNeese. The only two losses were home losses vs SFA in 04 and 10.

UNI's defense will give up yards to Kupp, it's impossible not too.
UNI's offense last year was a complete mess. It returns pretty much everything and will boast an improved passing game.

Can EWU's defense stop an offense that returns two 1,000 yard rushers and a QB that completes 60% of his passes and has spent an entire off season focusing only on improving, so much so that the coaches blow the play dead during practice any time he leaves the tackle box to force him to get better as passing?


I think UNI wins that one in a close game.

Well if he's spent an entire off season focusing only on improving than we are fucked!

Considering how just god awful he was last year and UNI managed to win, I'd say yes.

kalm wrote:

clenz wrote: UNI hasn't lost a road OOC FCS game since 1997 (@ McNeese) and is 34-2 OOC vs the FCS in the regular season since that OOC loss to McNeese. The only two losses were home losses vs SFA in 04 and 10.

UNI's defense will give up yards to Kupp, it's impossible not too.
UNI's offense last year was a complete mess. It returns pretty much everything and will boast an improved passing game.

Can EWU's defense stop an offense that returns two 1,000 yard rushers and a QB that completes 60% of his passes and has spent an entire off season focusing only on improving, so much so that the coaches blow the play dead during practice any time he leaves the tackle box to force him to get better as passing?


I think UNI wins that one in a close game.

Well if he's spent an entire off season focusing only on improving than we are fucked!

I KNOW. I wish our guys would do that. Fucking lazy bastards.

clenz wrote:

kalm wrote:
Well if he's spent an entire off season focusing only on improving than we are fucked!

Considering how just god awful he was last year and UNI managed to win, I'd say yes.

Well we only lost by 3 on the road to you with a pick 6 late. Our QB's have spent the entire off season focusing on only not throwing late pick 6's and our defense has been focusing only on stopping the run and improving QB's. So...

BOOM!

kalm wrote:

clenz wrote: Considering how just god awful he was last year and UNI managed to win, I'd say yes.

Well we only lost by 3 on the road to you with a pick 6 late. Our QB's have spent the entire off season focusing on only not throwing late pick 6's and our defense has been focusing only on stopping the run and improving QB's. So...

BOOM!

You're defense has a fuck of a lot further to go than UNI's QB

clenz wrote:

kalm wrote:
Well we only lost by 3 on the road to you with a pick 6 late. Our QB's have spent the entire off season focusing on only not throwing late pick 6's and our defense has been focusing only on stopping the run and improving QB's. So...

BOOM!

You're defense has a fuck of a lot further to go than UNI's QB

4 points.

kalm wrote:

clenz wrote: You're defense has a fuck of a lot further to go than UNI's QB

4 points.

57

Grizalltheway wrote:

kalm wrote:
4 points.

57

I hate you! Fuck!

kalm wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:
57

I hate you! Fuck!

My job here is done, folks.

clenz wrote:

kalm wrote:
Well we only lost by 3 on the road to you with a pick 6 late. Our QB's have spent the entire off season focusing on only not throwing late pick 6's and our defense has been focusing only on stopping the run and improving QB's. So...

BOOM!

You're defense has a **** of a lot further to go than UNI's QB

The good news is that almost all of the kids playing on defense last year were Freshmen or Sophomores playing in a new system. It's going to be a better group collectively. I think the bigger concern is how fast our Offensive Line comes along. It'll be all new starters across the board, and a few of those guys redshirted last year...so. Fantastic size, though. Guess we'll see. We don't lose a lot at home.

kalm wrote:

EWURanger wrote:
Yeah, I give us maybe a 10% chance of beating NDSU in Fargo. Maybe less.

I don't know what UNI is looking like this year, but I give us a decent shot to beat them in Cheney.

I also think the offense will be good enough to win quite a few Big Sky games.

NAU is an absolute crucial game for us assuming we start out 1-2. Case Cookus and Emmanuel Butler are back and I think they return a young rb who was pretty good and couple of defensive standouts as well. Plus the WSD is a tough place to win. After that, we get a little breather.

Beat the Jacks and manage a split between NDSU, UNI, Montana, and PSU and we'll be in good shape. Tall order though.

Yep. I think NAU is well positioned to make a conference title this year. They've got the best QB in the league.

EWURanger wrote:

clenz wrote: You're defense has a **** of a lot further to go than UNI's QB

The good news is that almost all of the kids playing on defense last year were Freshmen or Sophomores playing in a new system. It's going to be a better group collectively. I think the bigger concern is how fast our Offensive Line comes along. It'll be all new starters across the board, and a few of those guys redshirted last year...so. Fantastic size, though. Guess we'll see. We don't lose a lot at home.

All new front 5 with the way UNI and NDSU get into the backfield? Oh really