I watched the first half. Three Interceptions, one a pick six and another at midfield that led to a field goal and the third ended a drive deep into Hamilton territory. Except for the Ints Calgary was dominating,

it’s on ESPN+, if you have that.

I wish Tompkins had shown more of an ability to throw on the run. Could Tompkins have made that pass while running? Probably but I’m not sure.
When Tompkins is back and taking the wildcat direct snap and Hastings is moved to receiver, they’ll have to cover Hastings.

[reply="CA Forever;4599 He certainly is one of our best players. And we are seeing some two back sets.
We sometimes start two tight ends, sometimes three wide receivers, maybe we’ll start two running backs some time.

Larison and Poerio didn’t start. But the three wide receivers that did start also had very productive games.
Hutton caught 2 for 64 yards a TD, and added a TD rushing.
Kraft caught 2 for 41 yards and they were tough catches.
Davis caught 4 for 43 yards. Davis is a better player than I thought.

They are near a forest?

It sends the message that a player doesn’t lose a job due to injury. Hard to maintain that in real life, but I recall the Oakland Raiders had that philosophy at one time.

I’m surprised NAU isn’t better this year, as their QB was quite successful as a freshman. NAU running game isn’t productive according to yards, so I looked on the big sky stats and they gain 2.5 yards per rush. Last in the league for both in conference and out of conference games.

The wheels fell off of last years team and they lost those last four in very one sided fashion. This years team is losing respectably to the same quality of team. But, this years team hasn’t played yet at the level Davis did in the opener at Tulsa, and they don’t have a quality win like last years pulled out against Weber.

In 1981, Cal Poly was a scholarship school coming off a D2 national championship year, and had won three of the preceding four meeting with Davis. Davis didn’t play comparable opponents in league, and only tied for the title.

I know this isn’t a new observation, but the depth chart doesn’t bear more than a passing resemblance to the game starters. For instance Cotton has started three of the five games and isn’t in the depth chart. Mouisset has started the last two and he isn’t either.

That’s two press conferences where Hawkins says a player on the punt team calls the play. Hawkins doesn’t know it’s going to happen. They coach it, and turn when to call it over to a player, in this case Smalley.

Those are our two leading receivers in terms of yards, Larison is sixth in catches.
But your point generally is correct, we don’t complete passes down field.
The Montana State commentator on the broadcast indicated they were lining up all within eight yards of the line of scrimmage, to stop the run and the short stuff.
I don’t think Hastings is very accurate with the deep throws.
I don’t think the receivers we're playing are fast for this level of football. Davis, Babb possibly exceptions to that, but the rest are possession receivers,
We’re playing a number of guys who might make yards after catch, Gilliam, Tompkins, Hutton, Larison. Against the teams we’ve played so far with good defense that’s difficult to rely on.

That’s right, probably low on their priority list, I think moving the came to a different package is kind of a rip off, or to be more polite an incentive for people to buy more. Since they’re squeezing fans for money they should deliver.

If we bring another QB into the rotation it would be because he can throw the ball downfield.
When TT is in to take a direct snap, they aren’t trying to fool anyone. When that works it’s because if TT being difficult to tackle. He is unique among our QBs in that respect. Now if he could only pass.

I think the conferences like to have their games in cable packages, so it’s something they seek in negotiations, This game was scheduled that way since June.
https://bigskyconf.com/news/2022/6/28/two-big-sky-football-games-to-air-on-espn-linear-networks-this-fall.aspx

I wouldn’t vote us in the top 25, but at least one based on comparative scores does.
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/college-sports-journal-sagarin-fcs-top-25-oct-2-2/

Only one of the teams listed has had a tougher schedule than Davis, that’s South Dakota.

Three of our losses are to teams in the top 6 and the fourth was to Cal.

We give up too many big plays to be happy with the defense. The pass plays you might chalk up to being thin at cornerback due to injury, but then there are the huge runs.
I think there is enough talent on defense that we should expect better results. We play a lot of guys, maybe they’re not all on the same page.

I don’t know that Speckman’s philosophy, to the extent we employed it was working. I wanted it to work, but the results weren’t there. If you can’t keep defensive linemen from penetrating you can’t have much success with the ball carrier running horizontally.
Babb has got to prove himself after sitting out. The wide receiver coach didn’t watch in 2019.

Both MSU and Sac rely on transfers more than Davis does and I think Davis is a hard place to transfer into either as an undergraduate or graduate student.

Hawkins’ best year was his second, when the team was 10-3. Davis players just seem to not get much better through the years. It’s common for players to have their best years early and then stagnate. We’ve actually had a lot of turnover of assistant coaches.
Davis rarely has the bigger stronger team and relies on scheme to get an advantage and against good teams that have seen them before that doesn’t consistently work. They don’t play meat and potatoes football to use the Eastern Washington coach’s phrase. How much of that is recruiting versus coaching vs player development I don’t know.