(09-29-2014 12:15 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

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(09-29-2014 11:53 AM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

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(09-29-2014 11:40 AM)blunderbuss Wrote:  The good news is that Cincy plays Memphis this weekend. That will sort things out a bit. Then Temple plays Memphis later in the season. Temple / Memphis will be a big game if Memphis can somehow slow down Cincy's offense. I don't know much about Memphis' offense other than Ole Miss did everything they could to give that game to the Tigers and they still couldn't capitalize.

Oh my gawd!!! ECU are such ***holes. Nothing we did worked against that defense that worked against UCLA. Ole Miss D is legit.

You're really sensitive. I said I don't know much about Memphis' offense for starters. What I said was the truth.

Why make a statement if you have nothing to back it up? It's funny when ECU tell other fans to not be sensitive

I've got plenty to back it up. Pray tell, how many TO's Ole Miss committed on Saturday? By my count it was 4. 2 of which were returned / recovered in Ole Miss territory. Ole Miss also missed 2 FG's. If that's not doing everything they can to give Memphis a shot at a win I don't know what is.

Just for the record, I don't think ECU fans are ***holes. In this situation do you think its reasonably possible that the problems Ole Miss had holding on to the ball might have been somewhat related to the Memphis Defense? If so - that sort of negates your argument. In fact, the Memphis D earned that shot at a win.

As a Pirate fan who is coming up for the game in Philly, Temple makes me nervous, I think in average they have played as well as Memphis, UCF, Cincy and ECU at times this season. Hopefully I can see a good game and get a good cheesesteak. Go Pirates!


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Cincy, UCF, Temple, and Memphis don't have any really impressive wins, but they don't have any embarrassing losses yet either so any of them could be #2.

(09-29-2014 12:15 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 12:05 PM)Ramen_Tiger Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 11:53 AM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 11:45 AM)Ramen_Tiger Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 11:40 AM)blunderbuss Wrote:  The good news is that Cincy plays Memphis this weekend. That will sort things out a bit. Then Temple plays Memphis later in the season. Temple / Memphis will be a big game if Memphis can somehow slow down Cincy's offense. I don't know much about Memphis' offense other than Ole Miss did everything they could to give that game to the Tigers and they still couldn't capitalize.

Oh my gawd!!! ECU are such ***holes. Nothing we did worked against that defense that worked against UCLA. Ole Miss D is legit.

You're really sensitive. I said I don't know much about Memphis' offense for starters. What I said was the truth.

Why make a statement if you have nothing to back it up? It's funny when ECU tell other fans to not be sensitive

I've got plenty to back it up. Pray tell, how many TO's Ole Miss committed on Saturday? By my count it was 4. 2 of which were returned / recovered in Ole Miss territory. Ole Miss also missed 2 FG's. If that's not doing everything they can to give Memphis a shot at a win I don't know what is.

You seem to be basing your opinion of our offense on the Ole Miss game only. I take it you didn't see the 63-0 APSU win, the 42-35 loss to UCLA, or the 36-17 victory over MTSU.

Until the OM game, our fan base was concerned about the D, not the O.

Plus, by most accounts, Ole Miss has a top 5 or so defense. So, I would wait until after we play UC and UH before making any judgments.

Not to mention, our schedule is front loaded. After UH, our remaining schedule is @SMU, Tulsa, @Temple, @Tulane, USF and UConn.

The improvement on D is definitely obvious. #3 in INTs, tied for #1 in RZ D, #5 in scoring D, #13 in total D, #2 in turnover margin.

The problem is that the offense isn't there yet. PJ's numbers aren't bad, but he hasn't played as well as he did last year. Still lacks touch on deep balls, overthrows receivers, and holds onto the ball to wait for a big play rather than throwing to his checkdowns. The playcalling has been horrendous IMO, with an over-reliance on throws to WRs at the LOS, and outside runs instead of off tackle. Too much throwing laterally rather than slants, shallow crosses and basic corner routes. We're not trotting out the biggest WRs, so they need to create separation by keeping the DBs guessing. There isn't enough motion on offense to do so. We're still completely ignoring our TEs. Hopefully, with Colin Thompson healthy that will change. The OL needs to run block significantly better and we need a RB to step up. Too many runs stopped on first contact.

We should be able to win 6 or 7 games, but the offense needs to improve significantly.

An obvious #2? There is no obvious #2 whatsoever. Based off of schedule play, Memphis is a more likely #2 than Cincy is. Should be a good indicator come Saturday.

(09-29-2014 12:07 PM)pesik Wrote:  temple hasnt played 1 team that passes yet , what was were they were horrible at last year..everyone left on their schedule minus ucf and memphis are heavy pass teams...tulsa will actually tell us a lot, they are a bad team, but are still a pass heavy offense, if temples pass d is as bad as last year, tulsa (or any passing team) will expose them quickly

Then how do they have 8 ints with 6 different guys if no one is trying to pass on them?

Temple is a pretty good football team. That might be the scariest game ECU has left. UCF will obviously be tough but it's at home. Cincy will be tough but they don't appear to play any defense. Temple has some defense and a QB that can make plays with both his arm and legs, and it's a road game.

Too early to tell what UCF is right now. We know we can't match up with the SEC-East's current leader, and we probably should have beaten Penn St. We will know what's up after @Houston and BYU.


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(09-29-2014 02:15 PM)sfink16 Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 12:07 PM)pesik Wrote:  temple hasnt played 1 team that passes yet , what was were they were horrible at last year..everyone left on their schedule minus ucf and memphis are heavy pass teams...tulsa will actually tell us a lot, they are a bad team, but are still a pass heavy offense, if temples pass d is as bad as last year, tulsa (or any passing team) will expose them quickly

Then how do they have 8 ints with 6 different guys if no one is trying to pass on them?

a good portion of that was from the fcs..and you are missing the point.. about the quality of passing offense and the amount of passing they do per game

that is like stoping smu and wazzu from running to less than 2 yards a carry and trying to justify that as a reason you have a good rush defense..ignoring they are horrific running teams

navy doesnt pass, delaware state was just a bad team, vandy is not only a run first but didnt have a decent qb on roster when they played you and tried 4 different qbs and uconn is just as bad at throwing
here are all their respective passing ranking vandy 117, navy 126, uconn 104..100% of your remaining schedule is top 90..tulsa is 31

im just simpling noting that temple couldnt stop a forward pass last year to save its life (ranked 121 in pass defense)..front loading your schedule with teams that cant pass, doesnt necessarily mean you have improved on pass defense (vice versa isnt true either) why i said tulsa will tell us alot about temple

(09-29-2014 02:24 PM)NothingButKnight Wrote:  Too early to tell what UCF is right now. We know we can't match up with the SEC-East's current leader, and we probably should have beaten Penn St. We will know what's up after @Houston and BYU.


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That Penn State game was so critical.

(09-29-2014 02:29 PM)pesik Wrote:  im just simpling noting that temple couldnt stop a forward pass last year to save its life (ranked 121 in pass defense)..front loading your schedule with teams that cant pass, doesnt necessarily mean you have improved on pass defense (vice versa isnt true either) why i said tulsa will tell us alot about temple

It would really help if you actually watched us rather than just looking at names and passing ratings. No one is saying we're Michigan State, but you'd have to be an absolute idiot to not notice our secondary is better, and that is with JUCO All American Alex Wells out for most of the year.

(09-29-2014 02:39 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 02:29 PM)pesik Wrote:  im just simpling noting that temple couldnt stop a forward pass last year to save its life (ranked 121 in pass defense)..front loading your schedule with teams that cant pass, doesnt necessarily mean you have improved on pass defense (vice versa isnt true either) why i said tulsa will tell us alot about temple

It would really help if you actually watched us rather than just looking at names and passing ratings. No one is saying we're Michigan State, but you'd have to be an absolute idiot to not notice our secondary is better, and that is with JUCO All American Alex Wells out for most of the year.

youd have to be an absolute idiot to base how good a passing defense is on playing vandy, uconn and navy (triple option)..i watched the games, but watching is irrelavnat to the fact those are horrible passing teams.. those are just facts ...
again im not saying temple hasnt improved..but you are counting your chickens to soon, like i said tulsa will tell us alot, they dont know how to score but they do know how to throw the ball around...

(09-29-2014 02:47 PM)pesik Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 02:39 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 02:29 PM)pesik Wrote:  im just simpling noting that temple couldnt stop a forward pass last year to save its life (ranked 121 in pass defense)..front loading your schedule with teams that cant pass, doesnt necessarily mean you have improved on pass defense (vice versa isnt true either) why i said tulsa will tell us alot about temple

It would really help if you actually watched us rather than just looking at names and passing ratings. No one is saying we're Michigan State, but you'd have to be an absolute idiot to not notice our secondary is better, and that is with JUCO All American Alex Wells out for most of the year.

youd have to be an absolute idiot to base how good a passing defense is on playing vandy, uconn and navy (triple option)..i watched the games, but watching is irrelavnat to the fact those are horrible passing teams.. those are just facts ...
again im not saying temple hasnt improved..but you are counting your chickens to soon, like i said tulsa will tell us alot, they dont know how to score but they do know how to throw the ball around...

JHG is an idiot. He makes every Temple fan look bad.

(09-29-2014 02:54 PM)templefan1 Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 02:47 PM)pesik Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 02:39 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 02:29 PM)pesik Wrote:  im just simpling noting that temple couldnt stop a forward pass last year to save its life (ranked 121 in pass defense)..front loading your schedule with teams that cant pass, doesnt necessarily mean you have improved on pass defense (vice versa isnt true either) why i said tulsa will tell us alot about temple

It would really help if you actually watched us rather than just looking at names and passing ratings. No one is saying we're Michigan State, but you'd have to be an absolute idiot to not notice our secondary is better, and that is with JUCO All American Alex Wells out for most of the year.

youd have to be an absolute idiot to base how good a passing defense is on playing vandy, uconn and navy (triple option)..i watched the games, but watching is irrelavnat to the fact those are horrible passing teams.. those are just facts ...
again im not saying temple hasnt improved..but you are counting your chickens to soon, like i said tulsa will tell us alot, they dont know how to score but they do know how to throw the ball around...

JHG is an idiot. He makes every Temple fan look bad.

Ok dude. Thanks for another great post.

It seems we missed the boat when we named the conference. It should have been ECU and the rest of the non-football playing mf's!

ECU might beat Cincy this year.


Cincy will beat USF this year. lol

(09-29-2014 12:05 PM)Ramen_Tiger Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 11:53 AM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

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(09-29-2014 11:40 AM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 11:35 AM)NestaKnight1 Wrote:  This^^^^. How is it that UC is the obvious #2. Right now I'd say ECU #1, everyone else is #2.

The good news is that Cincy plays Memphis this weekend. That will sort things out a bit. Then Temple plays Memphis later in the season. Temple / Memphis will be a big game if Memphis can somehow slow down Cincy's offense. I don't know much about Memphis' offense other than Ole Miss did everything they could to give that game to the Tigers and they still couldn't capitalize.

Oh my gawd!!! ECU are such ***holes. Nothing we did worked against that defense that worked against UCLA. Ole Miss D is legit.

You're really sensitive. I said I don't know much about Memphis' offense for starters. What I said was the truth.

Why make a statement if you have nothing to back it up? It's funny when ECU tell other fans to not be sensitive

It's funny when sensitive people always lump entire fan bases versus calling out the individual posters. And yes, I've done it myself!

(09-29-2014 03:20 PM)Reekinhavoc Wrote:  It seems we missed the boat when we named the conference. It should have been ECU and the rest of the non-football playing mf's!

Your right, ECU is a joke.

I would like to thank all of ya'll(not really ya'll) for letting ECU in this conference of powerhouse football teams. ECU should be humbled to be in hot bed of talent. Hopefully ECU can live up to the standards of the AAC. Maybe one year we can have more P5 wins than the entire conference.

Until that day we should just sit in the back seat while everyone else leads the bus for this conference.

(09-29-2014 02:47 PM)pesik Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 02:39 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 02:29 PM)pesik Wrote:  im just simpling noting that temple couldnt stop a forward pass last year to save its life (ranked 121 in pass defense)..front loading your schedule with teams that cant pass, doesnt necessarily mean you have improved on pass defense (vice versa isnt true either) why i said tulsa will tell us alot about temple

It would really help if you actually watched us rather than just looking at names and passing ratings. No one is saying we're Michigan State, but you'd have to be an absolute idiot to not notice our secondary is better, and that is with JUCO All American Alex Wells out for most of the year.

youd have to be an absolute idiot to base how good a passing defense is on playing vandy, uconn and navy (triple option)..i watched the games, but watching is irrelavnat to the fact those are horrible passing teams.. those are just facts ...
again im not saying temple hasnt improved..but you are counting your chickens to soon, like i said tulsa will tell us alot, they dont know how to score but they do know how to throw the ball around...

Actually I think Temple v. Houston will tell us a lot more about Temple.