3 pm start, Maalik Murphy set to start. BSU said to be a little weak defending the pass (rank 129 of 138) will that matter?
Go Beavs!!
3 pm start, Maalik Murphy set to start. BSU said to be a little weak defending the pass (rank 129 of 138) will that matter?
Go Beavs!!
Just hoping to not get embarrassed!
Go beavs
Second!
Wasn’t Texas state like 138th against the pass?
So why is Murphy starting over Atkinson? Performance or injury?
Broken hand
Damn!
Has that been confirmed?
Confirmed that he is out for today, I’ve not seen any report of a “broken” hand. Since he was listed as possible mid-week I doubt it’s a serious break.
Thx, that’s what I remember reading too.. With a broken hand, he wouldn’t have been questionable.
No it hasn’t. He was listed as questionable as of Thursday.
Way too many rumors floating out there
Unfortunately, I have to think Boise is going to take us to the woodshed because our lack of a decent run defense. Our only hope is if Murphy is on fire, we can score early, and keep scoring. Have to play from ahead. I hate those a-holes from Boise Community College.
Go Beavs!
A balanced attack would be nice to take pressure off Murphy.
Maybe, just maybe this coaching staff is better at preparing Murphy than last years staff. He was pretty good at Duke so he’s shown he can make passes. Can he find a connection with Legree and co?
Can the O-line keep him upright?
Nope
At this point if they can keep it competitive for the first half I’ll be happy. Just want to see some coaching adjustments. They went from a top offense nationally to getting outcoached and schemed with no answers.
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I see Faber keeping it classy and the coaching staff wearing brown sweatshirts today. Thinly veiled dig at Michigan?
Boise was just a pee stop on the Oregon trail.
Portland says hold my microbeer
This game is all on the coaches. Season is spinning out of control. Not expecting them to win, but they need to make it a competitive football game.
They need to prove that they can make coaching adjustments that actually work. Can’t have an offense that is great until someone figures out how to defend it and then flips to one of the worst.
The secret is already out. Play press man coverage on beavs wr’s. They can’t get separation and Atkinson doesnt make good decisions. Especially because the O line doesnt give him time.
Fresno did this. Texas State saw it worked and did the same.
Until we have a decent O line OR face a weak D line, it won’t change.
OR the qb is a running threat
The degenerate gambler strikes again
Up 14-7 at home. 4th and goal at the 2. What would you do?
Water under the bridge as he’s dead to Beaver Nation.
Murphy is known to throw deep passes that float out there and aren’t particularly accurate. Predicting several Boise INTs as we try to stay in the game by gambling with long bombs too frequently.
My hope is we’d settle for more short passes and let the receivers make up extra yardage with YAC and sound downfield blocking.
The good news for Murphy is he won’t need to handle punting duties like he did last year
Good point about downfield blocking, it was pretty reliable earlier in this season.
So far, so good. This is what we needed from Maalik. Now don’t let up!
Anyone understand why OSU was just charged a timeout for a player injury?
Never seen that before.
If a player goes down after the ball is spotted then you are charged a timeout.
Thanks, that didn’t seem to be what happened given that the announcers saw him down immediately.
That’s why I was confused. Maybe the got that ball spotted real quick.
MM has missed two wide open guys and then throws into coverage off his back foot. Dahlen has to dummy down the passing game for MM meaning high % routes for 8-10 yards.
BIG JIM advised “just go for the PAT, don’t chase at this point in the game”
Nobody listened
Stupid to chase 2 points this early. Thought we got rid of the gambler.
So their pass defense is supposed to be worse than ours???