(07-30-2023 08:59 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

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35 points is too much. ECU covers for sure. I’m more interested in the Marshall game the following week to get a better feel for our match up with ECU.

That said, I would love it if ECU got the win over Michigan.

(07-05-2023 06:00 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt says take eCu and the points all day

maybe take a look at the under?

agree 100%

(08-08-2023 10:37 AM)r2pirate Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 06:00 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt says take eCu and the points all day

maybe take a look at the under?

agree 100%

The new clock rules will definitely help us in this game. I wonder what the reduction in the number of plays will be? I also wonder how this will affect the up-tempo offenses; I could argue that it won't hurt them at all when things are going well... but if they are having an off day, it'll prove disastrous.

(08-01-2023 01:33 AM)Goronic Wrote:  35 points is too much. ECU covers for sure. I’m more interested in the Marshall game the following week to get a better feel for our match up with ECU.

That said, I would love it if ECU got the win over Michigan.

If I had faith in our QB situation I'd take the cover easy and might even give us an outside chance of a win. I just don't trust Garcia, and it's not necessarily his fault Houston refused to play him so he hasn't had meaningful snaps since Navy in 2020. That was a long time ago to be fair, but he was purely 1 read and then run at that point, and it sounds like from practice notes he might still have that same issue. Physical talent wise he's a freak. 6'5" 250, better athlete than Holton, and has a cannon of an arm. Quite frankly if his grades had been better in HS and he hadn't been a slight qualifying risk he would have had mega offers. However, the 6 inches between the ears matters way more than any of those physical talents, and that's where my main questions of him reside.

It’s not like Ahlers was a Mensa candidate.

(08-08-2023 03:38 PM)DowdyPirate Wrote:  It’s not like Ahlers was a Mensa candidate.

I think he had a very high football IQ.

Most of that came from the fact that he was at ECU for 11 years.

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(08-08-2023 04:07 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  

(08-08-2023 03:38 PM)DowdyPirate Wrote:  It’s not like Ahlers was a Mensa candidate.

I think he had a very high football IQ.

Most of that came from the fact that he was at ECU for 11 years.

Well we are talking about a guy who wasn’t allowed to change anything at the line of scrimmage until his final season.

The INT against Navy last season was just pure brain fart.

Expect an App St loss or a Utah loss. (Didn’t Utah win at Michigan while in the MWC?)

(08-09-2023 12:22 AM)DowdyPirate Wrote:  

(08-08-2023 04:07 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  

(08-08-2023 03:38 PM)DowdyPirate Wrote:  It’s not like Ahlers was a Mensa candidate.

I think he had a very high football IQ.

Most of that came from the fact that he was at ECU for 11 years.

Well we are talking about a guy who wasn’t allowed to change anything at the line of scrimmage until his final season.

The INT against Navy last season was just pure brain fart.

For the moment, dude is on an NFL roster.

I think this is a case of getting too comfortable with having a good QB. You forget what a bad, or just green, QB looks like. I hope I'm wrong, but you're probably going to be reminded of the difference during Garcia's first season as a starter.

(08-08-2023 03:38 PM)DowdyPirate Wrote:  It’s not like Ahlers was a Mensa candidate.

No, but he'd had about 100 starts so you at least kinda had an idea of what to expect out of him. Garcia who the hell knows he could be Garrard 2.0, Troth 2.0, or just something in between but you have no idea what you are getting.

(08-09-2023 10:04 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  

(08-09-2023 12:22 AM)DowdyPirate Wrote:  

(08-08-2023 04:07 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  

(08-08-2023 03:38 PM)DowdyPirate Wrote:  It’s not like Ahlers was a Mensa candidate.

I think he had a very high football IQ.

Most of that came from the fact that he was at ECU for 11 years.

Well we are talking about a guy who wasn’t allowed to change anything at the line of scrimmage until his final season.

The INT against Navy last season was just pure brain fart.

For the moment, dude is on an NFL roster.

I think this is a case of getting too comfortable with having a good QB. You forget what a bad, or just green, QB looks like. I hope I'm wrong, but you're probably going to be reminded of the difference during Garcia's first season as a starter.

Yep there's been a whole lot of complaining about Holton because it was basically always going to be impossible to live up to the hype he had of being hometown hero 4 star QB picking us over State (was 4 star until after that decision). He would have basically had to put up his Senior year stats or better all 4 years to even match his hype. However, he absolutely was a good college QB, and it's been a lot of years since we had to break in a brand new one, and you actually got to go all the way back to Rio/Carden to find us breaking in a new QB on a team that was otherwise ready to win aside from having a question mark at QB. We found out the hard way at USC E that Rio despite winning the job wasn't actually a D1 QB when the heat was on, but thankfully Carden was or that team would have been bad despite the rest of it being pretty good. We better hope one of Garcia or Flinn is that type of QB, and with our first 3 games being @Michigan, Marshall, @App they'll be tested big time and hopefully one of them passes. Otherwise a team that I think everywhere else on the roster could compete at the top of the league will finish towards the bottom.

The first three-game stretch would make any coach in the nation nervous. App will probably be the easiest one, which is saying something. It's not an ideal time to be breaking in a new QB.

My bet is that we run -a lot- against Michigan; it will be 70-30 run if I were to guess. This is what will keep us in the game and may even be what gives us a chance. I also say this because at this time it appears that the RB is better than the WR room.

The key against Michigan will be our defense. This is an over simplification but if we can keep them from having big plays (bombs over the top) we have at least a puncher's chance.

... and again, the new clock rules will help. We also have no idea what type of team we will have this year due to all of the new faces (which on paper seem like an improvement overall).

I'm sticking with my original pick: MI 34, ECU 17. If ECU wins I will... donate $1000 to Team Boneyard immediately.

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(08-09-2023 12:22 AM)DowdyPirate Wrote:  

(08-08-2023 04:07 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  

(08-08-2023 03:38 PM)DowdyPirate Wrote:  It’s not like Ahlers was a Mensa candidate.

I think he had a very high football IQ.

Most of that came from the fact that he was at ECU for 11 years.

Well we are talking about a guy who wasn’t allowed to change anything at the line of scrimmage until his final season.

The INT against Navy last season was just pure brain fart.

Ahlers was pretty damn good his last 2 seasons. ECU should have won 10 games last year if we had a capable kicker we would have.

(08-09-2023 04:38 PM)Ned Low Wrote:  The first three-game stretch would make any coach in the nation nervous. App will probably be the easiest one, which is saying something. It's not an ideal time to be breaking in a new QB.

My bet is that we run -a lot- against Michigan; it will be 70-30 run if I were to guess. This is what will keep us in the game and may even be what gives us a chance. I also say this because at this time it appears that the RB is better than the WR room.

The key against Michigan will be our defense. This is an over simplification but if we can keep them from having big plays (bombs over the top) we have at least a puncher's chance.

... and again, the new clock rules will help. We also have no idea what type of team we will have this year due to all of the new faces (which on paper seem like an improvement overall).

I'm sticking with my original pick: MI 34, ECU 17. If ECU wins I will... donate $1000 to Team Boneyard immediately.

I imagine Garcia is going to be used a lot like Ben DeNucci was used at JMU. If you look at his 2018 stats, he was a 2,500 yards 16 TD passing, 500 yards 9 TD rushing, 16/12 TD/Int ratio kind of player. True RPO.

We have the same OC, and now have a player that can run that portion of the playbook. We say a little bit of that against Navy in 2020, even though Garcia had zero idea what he was doing and put a lot of balls in the dirt. He was a decent enough scrambler in that game despite Navy knowing after 5 minutes that that is what he'd be doing all day.

For everyone unfamiliar. This kid is a true freshman, 7 weeks into his first (2020 COVID) season, and finds out that he's starting something like 3 days before the game.

Michigan is going to destroy these country bumpkins.

Hopefully conference realignment lands ECU in the FCS sooner than later.

(08-09-2023 08:21 PM)BrooklynRocket Wrote:  Michigan is going to destroy these country bumpkins.

Hopefully conference realignment lands ECU in the FCS sooner than later.

I wasn't aware that Michigan was considered high society. Having said that, if this is a competitive 8 or 9 win team Pirate team we have the potential to make this a game and more.

I just can't say that due to the unknowns at QB and the offense.

Michigan is going to try and run it down our throats, I think that is a mistake. We shall see, pirates cover regardless.