So close!

[Cuttslam]

Beaverpoke and his "fans" comment. No wonder everyone hates your guts

I don't hate BeaverPoke but he is a Douchebag.

[BeaverPoke]

I'm to manage expectations. That said, the missed third and goal still has me amazed.

I honestly think that the endzones camouflage players to an extent. We may need to re-consider our home unis.

Come on you can come up with a better excuse than that.

I don't want to say he was camo'd just to sound like a homer, but my thinking was, no matter how incompetent the QB, anyone even a little kid (literally an 8 year old kid) would have thrown that ball to the WR had he seen him.

There is no way Colby saw him, I fully believe that. Now, was it because he was camo'd? Maybe. Was it because he thought the guy was running a different route? Maybe but not likely considering it was a little rollout.

Regardless, that should not have happened. If he was indeed camo'd we better re-think our endzone or jersey combo's. That cost us a win today.

[BeaverPoke]

Beaverpoke and his "fans" comment. No wonder everyone hates your guts

I don't hate BeaverPoke but he is a Douchebag.

[WyoExpat]

Try and get the Boot along with a bowl game win and bring in Hoffman.

I assume that you mean the transfer from Indiana: "Coffman"?

On a related note, in his biography, the athletic exploits of his family members are listed except for one--his sister. Why not mention that he is her brother given the fact that she was a multi-year letterman for the Cowgirls in volleyball?

[BeaverPoke]

Try and get the Boot along with a bowl game win and bring in Hoffman.

I assume that you mean the transfer from Indiana: "Coffman"?

On a related note, in his biography, the athletic exploits of his family members are listed except for one--his sister. Why not mention that he is her brother given the fact that she was a multi-year letterman for the Cowgirls in volleyball?

Oops! Yep I did mean Coffman! Thanks.

[NowherePoke]

Yes it is another L.
Yes we are falling behind in MWC play.
Yes an ugly win is better than a pretty loss.

Whatever, we were tough out there.

I am actually getting some hope in this team and program again.

Yeah Colby missed the WR in the endzone.
How about that camoflauge? Brown and gold the exact color of the jerseys.

The kick was so close. Wick had to carry the load by himself today.
Weak secondary and we are still competing.

We need to go 3-2 to hit a bowl game this season.

Nothing is a for sure win, nothing is a for sure loss.

Pokes are playing tough and improving. I am buying back in.
Try and get the Boot along with a bowl game win and bring in Hoffman.

Grind it out Wyo.

I am behind Bohl.

BP, we don't agree often, but I fully agree with this post! There is no quit in this team and we are 4 inches away from discussing Colby's 2 really nice throws in the finals seconds of the 4th qtr. Win or lose, this team competes.

I am torn. On the one hand, I don't like the implication that as long as they compete everything is fine (everyone gets a ribbon type mentality). Results matter and our athletic department remains a running joke among other MWC fans. However, one of the things I wanted to see from the Cowboys this year was competing in every game. No more blowouts and complete failures. Thus far, the only game I have been disappointed in the effort as a team was Michigan St (defensive effort was awful against Hawaii though). The test will be the next 4 games. I don't expect any wins, but I do expect competitive contests.

[snowsailor]

Same poop different year. This program will always be the same. 110-120 of all FBS teams. Get used to being a worst tier team Cowboys. Its what we are and always will be.

[Wyovanian]

Yes it is another L.
Yes we are falling behind in MWC play.
Yes an ugly win is better than a pretty loss.

Whatever, we were tough out there.

I am actually getting some hope in this team and program again.

Yeah Colby missed the WR in the endzone.
How about that camoflauge? Brown and gold the exact color of the jerseys.

The kick was so close. Wick had to carry the load by himself today.
Weak secondary and we are still competing.

We need to go 3-2 to hit a bowl game this season.

Nothing is a for sure win, nothing is a for sure loss.

Pokes are playing tough and improving. I am buying back in.
Try and get the Boot along with a bowl game win and bring in Hoffman.

Grind it out Wyo.

I am behind Bohl.

Most simplistic nonsense I've ever read. We are not getting better. We were dominated on both sides of the ball for 3 quarters. The only offensive touchdown was Wick breaking a 4th and 1 where he hit just the right spot of the line.

Nothing is a sure loss? To win ANY of the next 4 games will be a huge upset. We will be double digit underdogs in every one of the next 4 games. In case you didn't look at the schedule, we don't have any more South Dakotas or FAU's.

I beg to differ- a year ago, even with Smith at QB, we lose this game by 21+. DC's teams gave up at halftime like clockwork.

[Wyovanian]

I'm to manage expectations. That said, the missed third and goal still has me amazed.

I honestly think that the endzones camouflage players to an extent. We may need to re-consider our home unis.

Stop with this. The end zone doesn't have arms and legs. The truth is Kirkegaard has pre-determined who he is going to throw it to before the snap. He doesn't go through progressions. He is like a high school quarterback. He stares his receiver down from the snap until the incompletion or interception.

Well, it is pretty hard to do check-down progressions in two seconds. Wick nailed it- the o-line is a bunch of kitty.

[Wyovanian]

Same poop different year. This program will always be the same. 110-120 of all FBS teams. Get used to being a worst tier team Cowboys. Its what we are and always will be.

Know what? "Fans" like you, we don't need.

[joshvanklomp]

I know this won't be accepted by the negative nancies here, but Bohl said after the game that Nzeocha wasn't the first read on the play, it was the RB.

[Wyovanian]

I know this won't be accepted by the negative nancies here, but Bohl said after the game that Nzeocha wasn't the first read on the play, it was the RB.

I think that's everyone's point- Kirkegaard locks onto his first read and that's it.

[mwc fan]

I know this won't be accepted by the negative nancies here, but Bohl said after the game that Nzeocha wasn't the first read on the play, it was the RB.

I think that's everyone's point- Kirkegaard locks onto his first read and that's it.

Yet Colby said in his interview that the Rb was covered. I beg to differ but he wasn't covered and he should have thrown the ball. I wont even bring up the wr. Who was wide open yet he said wasnt part of the progression. He also could've walked in the end zone. But I guess that wasn't part of the progression either.

[HR_Poke]

He's over thinking it if he locks on to the first progression. He's not comfortable in this scheme and it shows. Some of that is the shyty o line not giving him time, but much of it has to do with the skillset he is lacking.

[kansasCowboy]

Everyone is blaming Kirk for this game, because we got only 3'points instead of 7. But let's really think on this, Kirk lead us down field and we got the lead late in the fourth, 20-17. Our D could've held SJS to a 4th and 11, and caused a punt or TO on downs, but Api-Api decided on a little hands to the face action, giving them an automatic 1st down. Where's his blame? So they go down and we hold them to a FG. 20-20. Kirk, who struggled along with litterally everyone else on the O side of the ball leads us down the field with less than a minute to go, and puts us in a great position to Win. Our kicker misses one of the kicks he practices all the time... Where's his blame? Our O Line played abysmal all day and Kirk couldn't go hardly one play without being hit! Where's the blame?
This game had A LOT of cause and effect, but EVERYONE is wanting to hangup on Kirk, and his mistake. Let's say Kirk is getting worse when he's getting hit every single snap and has to get rid of the ball in a hurry. Let's say he's getting worse when his WRs cannot get open at all! Let's say he's getting worse when he pulled a Brett Smith and started running the ball, and it was quite effective. Let's blame Kirk only, when he had zero TOs.
Everyone on the O except for Wick deserves blame for this one. Wick was fighting for yardage from three yards behind the line on. Blame DJ May for breaking team rules!
Stop crapping on Kirk all the time. Why were his numbers bad? Could it be for the same reason Wicks numbers were looking bad before the end of the fourth quarter, O Line not blocking for poop and WR making our O one deminsional by not creating separation and making themselves a viable go to target?

[SDPokeFan]

Everyone is blaming Kirk for this game, because we got only 3'points instead of 7. But let's really think on this, Kirk lead us down field and we got the lead late in the fourth, 20-17. Our D could've held SJS to a 4th and 11, and caused a punt or TO on downs, but Api-Api decided on a little hands to the face action, giving them an automatic 1st down. Where's his blame? So they go down and we hold them to a FG. 20-20. Kirk, who struggled along with litterally everyone else on the O side of the ball leads us down the field with less than a minute to go, and puts us in a great position to Win. Our kicker misses one of the kicks he practices all the time... Where's his blame? Our O Line played abysmal all day and Kirk couldn't go hardly one play without being hit! Where's the blame?
This game had A LOT of cause and effect, but EVERYONE is wanting to hangup on Kirk, and his mistake. Let's say Kirk is getting worse when he's getting hit every single snap and has to get rid of the ball in a hurry. Let's say he's getting worse when his WRs cannot get open at all! Let's say he's getting worse when he pulled a Brett Smith and started running the ball, and it was quite effective. Let's blame Kirk only, when he had zero TOs.
Everyone on the O except for Wick deserves blame for this one. Wick was fighting for yardage from three yards behind the line on. Blame DJ May for breaking team rules!
Stop crapping on Kirk all the time. Why were his numbers bad? Could it be for the same reason Wicks numbers were looking bad before the end of the fourth quarter, O Line not blocking for poop and WR making our O one deminsional by not creating separation and making themselves a viable go to target?

How about the play where he didn't see a wide open receiver standing alone in the end zone? Care to try to defend that?

[HR_Poke]

Or the four or five passes he threw into the turf directly in front of an open receiver. That's the receivers fault? Or the passes where he waited a second too long and instead of hitting the receiver in a transition he hits them in double coverage. That's the receivers fault too? He was 11 for 27 and most of those incompletions are on kirk

[WYCowboy]

Everyone is blaming Kirk for this game, because we got only 3'points instead of 7. But let's really think on this, Kirk lead us down field and we got the lead late in the fourth, 20-17. Our D could've held SJS to a 4th and 11, and caused a punt or TO on downs, but Api-Api decided on a little hands to the face action, giving them an automatic 1st down. Where's his blame? So they go down and we hold them to a FG. 20-20. Kirk, who struggled along with litterally everyone else on the O side of the ball leads us down the field with less than a minute to go, and puts us in a great position to Win. Our kicker misses one of the kicks he practices all the time... Where's his blame? Our O Line played abysmal all day and Kirk couldn't go hardly one play without being hit! Where's the blame?
This game had A LOT of cause and effect, but EVERYONE is wanting to hangup on Kirk, and his mistake. Let's say Kirk is getting worse when he's getting hit every single snap and has to get rid of the ball in a hurry. Let's say he's getting worse when his WRs cannot get open at all! Let's say he's getting worse when he pulled a Brett Smith and started running the ball, and it was quite effective. Let's blame Kirk only, when he had zero TOs.
Everyone on the O except for Wick deserves blame for this one. Wick was fighting for yardage from three yards behind the line on. Blame DJ May for breaking team rules!
Stop crapping on Kirk all the time. Why were his numbers bad? Could it be for the same reason Wicks numbers were looking bad before the end of the fourth quarter, O Line not blocking for poop and WR making our O one deminsional by not creating separation and making themselves a viable go to target?

I'm with KansasCowboy on this - there's enough blame to go around to just about everyone in this game - including the coaching & officiating. On that "Hands in the Face" penalty, the SJSU player had his hands in Api-Api's face mask too, but the officials called it on our man - check it out if you get the chance. We got poor ball spots all game long and SJSU got favorable ball spots on several occasions. We flat out got screwed on that review when it clearly showed the SJSU player who caught the pass fumbled before going down. That call would have been the difference in the game. I have never seen a crowd object so much to a call/review as they did on that one.
SJSU was stacking the box to stop our running game and put more than enough pressure on Kirkegaard to keep him off balance and in a panic mode all game - why weren't we countering that with screen passes, draw plays, reverses, etc?

[kansasCowboy]

Everyone is blaming Kirk for this game, because we got only 3'points instead of 7. But let's really think on this, Kirk lead us down field and we got the lead late in the fourth, 20-17. Our D could've held SJS to a 4th and 11, and caused a punt or TO on downs, but Api-Api decided on a little hands to the face action, giving them an automatic 1st down. Where's his blame? So they go down and we hold them to a FG. 20-20. Kirk, who struggled along with litterally everyone else on the O side of the ball leads us down the field with less than a minute to go, and puts us in a great position to Win. Our kicker misses one of the kicks he practices all the time... Where's his blame? Our O Line played abysmal all day and Kirk couldn't go hardly one play without being hit! Where's the blame?
This game had A LOT of cause and effect, but EVERYONE is wanting to hangup on Kirk, and his mistake. Let's say Kirk is getting worse when he's getting hit every single snap and has to get rid of the ball in a hurry. Let's say he's getting worse when his WRs cannot get open at all! Let's say he's getting worse when he pulled a Brett Smith and started running the ball, and it was quite effective. Let's blame Kirk only, when he had zero TOs.
Everyone on the O except for Wick deserves blame for this one. Wick was fighting for yardage from three yards behind the line on. Blame DJ May for breaking team rules!
Stop crapping on Kirk all the time. Why were his numbers bad? Could it be for the same reason Wicks numbers were looking bad before the end of the fourth quarter, O Line not blocking for poop and WR making our O one deminsional by not creating separation and making themselves a viable go to target?

How about the play where he didn't see a wide open receiver standing alone in the end zone? Care to try to defend that?

That's pretty much the point I started at on my view. Yeah, he missed the guy. And since everyone is always prone to bring up Brett Smith, even though we no longer have him. I watched Brett throw a ton of balls at receivers feet, and also watched him miss wide open receivers as well. Kirk went 11-27, why? Because he was being flushed from the pocket, or mostly, it just caved on him and he was being hit as he was throwing pretty much every throw. That in and of its self is enough to cause several incompletions. When he was throwing on the run, he was throwing against his body which made for weaker throws that hit the ground. Also, it's not up to the QB for the receivers to get open. The receivers were getting jammed at the line almost every play, the exception would be the fourth quarter and that is when we had several open looks down field like Rufran, but before that Kirk had to sit in a pocket and wait, and wait and wait some more for someone to break from their man, it wasn't happening. And when it finally did he was either going down or being hit during the throw.
Yes, I will give you that he missed the guy in the end zone, but he still lead us down the field and got us the lead.
And then lead us down the field AGAIN to put us in position to win the game out right.
But just in between that missed td opportunity and the end of regulation there were A LOT of mistakes made by MANY others that I would say cost us the game moreso. DBS missing coverages and the hands to the face penalty, allowing them to get back into fg range to tie, and then our kicker missing a kick that he practices all the time. Are all of those things that you would like to look past just so you can blame Kirk for "costing us the game"?

[fromolwyoming]

Everyone is blaming Kirk for this game, because we got only 3'points instead of 7. But let's really think on this, Kirk lead us down field and we got the lead late in the fourth, 20-17. Our D could've held SJS to a 4th and 11, and caused a punt or TO on downs, but Api-Api decided on a little hands to the face action, giving them an automatic 1st down. Where's his blame? So they go down and we hold them to a FG. 20-20. Kirk, who struggled along with litterally everyone else on the O side of the ball leads us down the field with less than a minute to go, and puts us in a great position to Win. Our kicker misses one of the kicks he practices all the time... Where's his blame? Our O Line played abysmal all day and Kirk couldn't go hardly one play without being hit! Where's the blame?
This game had A LOT of cause and effect, but EVERYONE is wanting to hangup on Kirk, and his mistake. Let's say Kirk is getting worse when he's getting hit every single snap and has to get rid of the ball in a hurry. Let's say he's getting worse when his WRs cannot get open at all! Let's say he's getting worse when he pulled a Brett Smith and started running the ball, and it was quite effective. Let's blame Kirk only, when he had zero TOs.
Everyone on the O except for Wick deserves blame for this one. Wick was fighting for yardage from three yards behind the line on. Blame DJ May for breaking team rules!
Stop crapping on Kirk all the time. Why were his numbers bad? Could it be for the same reason Wicks numbers were looking bad before the end of the fourth quarter, O Line not blocking for poop and WR making our O one deminsional by not creating separation and making themselves a viable go to target?

I'm with KansasCowboy on this - there's enough blame to go around to just about everyone in this game - including the coaching & officiating. On that "Hands in the Face" penalty, the SJSU player had his hands in Api-Api's face mask too, but the officials called it on our man - check it out if you get the chance. We got poor ball spots all game long and SJSU got favorable ball spots on several occasions. We flat out got screwed on that review when it clearly showed the SJSU player who caught the pass fumbled before going down. That call would have been the difference in the game. I have never seen a crowd object so much to a call/review as they did on that one.
SJSU was stacking the box to stop our running game and put more than enough pressure on Kirkegaard to keep him off balance and in a panic mode all game - why weren't we countering that with screen passes, draw plays, reverses, etc?

Something I've been wondering all season.