Arizona Wildcats vs. New Mexico Lobos (September 13th, 2008)-

[BibbysTowelDude]

3-0 Wildcats!!!!

[azcat49]

Game day baby! This is one I hope the cats don't let off the pedel. I mean as much as the UNM fans think we are smug they are classless.

This game and the ASSU game is the payback I am looking for.

This team has a special look about it. Like the 98 team I hope we don't realize how special this team is before the season is over. All of a sudden that season had ended and we were 12-1 and nobody really got excited. I think a lot had to do with us coming off the NC in BBall.

Well this year its all about football baby!!!!!

Cats roll 31-13

[RCWildcat]

Talking paybacks? Oh man...My list is huge

Lets Go Cats!!!!!

[cactuscat62]

One game at a time...one half at a time...one quarter at a time...and lastly, one play at a time.

Win these battles, and the game is ours.

Stay focused.

[ghostwhitehorse]

1 hour to go!

[iiyani]

Let's Go CATS!!!

[HiCat]

Stoops just said Gronk will play tonight.

[Verdl]

Stoops just said Gronk will play tonight.

Nice-I have a good feeling about the way this team will play today. Looking forward to seeing them for the first time this year. Bear Down!

[Verdl]

AZ looking sharp in their white unis and blue helmets.

[HiCat]

80 degrees

[azpenguin]

Greetings from ABQ. 80 and sunny here in section HH. Cat fans are out in force. Just had a F18 flyover after the anthem. Beautiful day to watch the Cats go to work!

[CBCat]

Has TV coverage started yet on cstv

[lofty]

Gronk! Right on!

[azpenguin]

Their Jumbotron player introd are lame. No feeling at all to them.

[Verdl]

Has TV coverage started yet on cstv

Coming up after final comments from SEC recap.

[Verdl]

Here we go!

[iiyani]

Let's Get it on!!!!

[TheCat]

I think this is going to be close......

[TheCat]

the PAC needs a boost boys.....

[Verdl]

Come on D!

[azpenguin]

There just isn't much energy in this stadium. Completely different gameday feel from AZ Stadium.

[PieceOfMeat]

Good stop :)

[lofty]

Really quick offense for UNM on first possession.. THREE AND OUT, BABY!

[Verdl]

Good stop!

[Verdl]

Whew, gotta' fair catch those...

[PieceOfMeat]

:tup:

[Verdl]

Nice!

[Goaz]

XX starting at corner. Nice to see the production truck is full of interns

[Coop Cat]

XX starting at corner. Nice to see the production truck is full of interns

Just feel fortunate that the game is on TV.

[Goaz]

Money Mike!

[iiyani]

Touchdown!!!

[PieceOfMeat]

Money :D

[Verdl]

YES!!! Awesome run!

[HiCat]

Td!!!

[azpenguin]

TD Thomas after a couple of broken tackles. I think the nearby Lobo fans are gonna hate me soon :)

[HiCat]

Love the start!

[Verdl]

The RAC yards this team puts up are insane! I love it!

[lofty]

Hell, yea! DID YOU HEAR OUR CROWD on that TOUCHDOWN! LOVE THE CROWD. Our boys are showing out in force!

[iiyani]

You can tell that Thomas is very quick and is making moves on the defense.

[Irish27]

That was a great touchdown. Thomas went into the endzone going backwards.

[illcat]

MT back pedals into the end zone!!

[Rockdoc]

TD Thomas after a couple of broken tackles. I think the nearby Lobo fans are gonna hate me soon :)

Good Bro'!
spread the disease.

[Irish27]

Showing replay of the td, great blocking downfield by the receivers.

[Verdl]

Nice job, D!

[Peter Sibley]

Showing replay of the td, great blocking downfield by the receivers.

Agreed, but I feel fortunate Simmons wasn't called for a hold.

[lofty]

Holding call missed on that screen for a first down.

[Irish27]

Damn it, they had like four missed tackles.

[illcat]

Come on D

[The Bird]

Letting them run a bit. Come on Cats!

[Irish27]

Cats defense not looking good. New Mexico is running at will.

[PieceOfMeat]

Come on D

[iiyani]

Interception!!!!

[Irish27]

Interception! Bad pass.

[Goaz]

yeah, baby

[lofty]

Int!!

[PieceOfMeat]

There ya go! INT BABY

[illcat]

Turn over INT

[The Bird]

Int!

[HiCat]

Nice!

[Verdl]

Good pick, but I'm still worried that we only have 1 sack on the year. Step up!

[lofty]

Oh, come on Tui. That was a horrible decision.

[PieceOfMeat]

wow, what a horrible job

[Verdl]

Dammit!

[azpenguin]

Tui looked like a deer in headlights on that one. Yuck.

[Verdl]

We're just lucky that's not 6 points there.

[ghostwhitehorse]

faq.

[lofty]

Come on D.. hold them to a field goal.

[The Bird]

looked a little better against the run there

[lofty]

That a baby, D!

[lofty]

Block the kick!

[Verdl]

Great stop!!

[The Bird]

Nice job D. Way to step up.

[ghostwhitehorse]

Lewis!

[Bison79]

...as bad as Tui's interception was...

Have to be glad that the lobos coaching staff is a bunch of idiots.

[azpenguin]

D cones up big! Held em to 3 on a three and out in the red zone.

[PieceOfMeat]

Welp, Tui's horrible mistake only led to 3 at least

[T-Bone]

Good stop. Hopefully, Tuitama puts that behind him.

[azpenguin]

It seemed like the Cats knew that was coming. Heck, they saw it enough last year.

[Verdl]

Settle down, Tui...

[PieceOfMeat]

MOve those chains

[The Bird]

It's good thing we have Thomas.

[Verdl]

Nice job, I love those passes. I'll take 'em 8-12 yards at a time.

[PieceOfMeat]

lets go O

[PieceOfMeat]

well done criner

[PieceOfMeat]

money mike with the flag :(

@!#$!!

[ghostwhitehorse]

*sigh*

[Verdl]

MT owes me 2 more TDs for that!

[PieceOfMeat]

Had dean open there, but no go.

[PieceOfMeat]

nice punt there crier

[The Bird]

It's a good thing we have Crier.

[Rockdoc]

MT needed to wait a sec on that block

[PieceOfMeat]

come on D

[iiyani]

CBS Sports better fix the audio and feed.

[ghostwhitehorse]

gag. . way to big a hole.

[PieceOfMeat]

carving us up

[Verdl]

Let's go, D!

[ghostwhitehorse]

come on D! :(

[UAFB2]

Sterling Lewis is a beast

[PieceOfMeat]

THey just playground OWNED us

[lofty]

Why the hell didn't they call a taunt on that?

[azpenguin]

D needs to work together better as a unit. They're getting crossed all over each other.

[ghostwhitehorse]

*double sigh . . .*

[Bison79]

Well that was embarassing

[phxcat]

Nice pass.

Way to blow your trick play in the 1st Q.

[UAFB2]

TD NM 10-7 UNM leads :(

[The Bird]

Freaking Boise State, inspiring a generation of tricksters.

[PieceOfMeat]

Well that was embarassing

agreed

[Verdl]

I want to blast this QB on the next series!

[PieceOfMeat]

8 play 77 yard drive....sheesh

in just over 3 minutes.

way to go D.

[ghostwhitehorse]

Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed! To get the running game going.

[tcby480rep]

i'm all for losing the vanilla offense THIS game.

[PieceOfMeat]

Yeesh, looked like noone wanted to block anyone on that return

[UofAlum05]

Grigsby should have kept his mouth shut. One team looks a bit more fired up than the other

[PieceOfMeat]

Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed! To get the running game going.

I think they're going to dare tui to beat them.

With their blitzes, and what not, why wouldn't they.

and we move backwards, way to go

[PieceOfMeat]

Tui checks off. We false start.

Tui checks off. Throws into really good coverage.

Come on now Tui, lets go!

[PieceOfMeat]

Well there ya go GWH, got grigsby a carry. :)

[PieceOfMeat]

10-7 after the first quarter. I wonder how many of our players expected it to be like this?

We've been popped in the mouth, let's see if they can recover.

[Merkin]

Tui looks like Kovalcheck out there checking off the plays. I liked the call though. Tired of the 3 yard Canales passes to the WR.

[Rockdoc]

the youth of the defense showed there. the offense has to carry us (duh)
i think the d will settle down. NM is showing us all they have early.

[PieceOfMeat]

Tui looks like Kovalcheck out there checking off the plays. I liked the call though. Tired of the 3 yard Canales passes to the WR.

I didnt mind passing down the field. but the wr was covered really well by the db on that play.

[PieceOfMeat]

See that people, don't drive negligently!

[Verdl]

Not me-I thought the first half would be close and out spread would wear them down in the 2nd half. I thought their secondary wouldn't be this good, though. Tui's making good passes downfield, out recievers need to make their catches.

[PieceOfMeat]

UNM is outplaying us on both sides of the ball right now.

[ghostwhitehorse]

*sigh*

[Merkin]

Tui not making good choices.

[WildcatBlitz]

Simple as this...We dont run, we wont win. with 6 DB's we need to move to ball on the ground.

[PieceOfMeat]

Delay of game? what the hell.

Come ON CATS

[WildcatBlitz]

Wth....

[Verdl]

Haha! Good fake!

[PieceOfMeat]

wow, we had to pull out the fake punt....

but hell it worked, good job special teams!

[WildcatBlitz]

Punt fake....

[Merkin]

Wow, a Larry Smith call!

[BibbysTowelDude]

Wow. we are just going to give them this game like last year it seems...

[Verdl]

****!

[PieceOfMeat]

tui sacked, fumbled, unm ball.

outplaying us on both sides of the ball.

[RCWildcat]

Hmmmm ..my stream must be lagging.. are we up by 70 yet?

[WildcatBlitz]

Tui......NMU player of the game.....or DC

[illcat]

The wheels are coming off

[Merkin]

How can Tui break Tunnecliff's record when he is playing like the worst UA QB in decades?

[UAFB2]

go D!

[Verdl]

Way too much time. Knowing this team will blitz how can we do that!?

[phxcat]

Senior QB w/ two turnovers deep in territory in three series.

[Bison79]

Wow, remember when these players said they were "angry" about last year, and all that BS?

I think the term "angry" is lost on these younger generations...

[lofty]

$@##@$!@#

Back to the same ole Tui.

[PieceOfMeat]

well unm has under executed the last 2 plays.

thanks unm.

come on D, hold em

[UAFB2]

Sterling Lewis Go

[azpenguin]

Weve secretly replaced Arizonas QB with last years version. Let's see if they notice.

[PieceOfMeat]

Whew, glad the D held

[UAFB2]

D looked good on that 3 and out

[WildcatBlitz]

I call a fake field goal.....just how things are going

[Bison79]

Matt Scott time? :D

[lofty]

#$# Tui. Responsible for 6 UNM points. Basically the lead.

[CatintheHeat]

I see Tui still is unaware of who is around him. He will never have the instincts of a good QB.

[PieceOfMeat]

13-7.

We better start playing a whole lot better, else we're gonna be awefully unhappy in about 2 hours

[Verdl]

We need a solid drive now with lots of yards from Griggs. Let's go!

[BibbysTowelDude]

That fumble is on the o-line.. Every quarterback in the country is going to fumble that ball.

[RCWildcat]

A-Hole kicks it thru

[WildcatBlitz]

Matt Scott time? :D

YES!...get the D on its heels by switching them back and forth.

[HiCat]

Weird game..

[PieceOfMeat]

D looked good on that 3 and out

Yeah well, thankfully UNM helped us out on the first 2 plays of that 3 and out.

1st play they had a bad pitch that held up their rb, second play the misexecuted on a screen.

I'll take the help, believe me, I'm just sayin that I think our D needs to step it up. As does our O, obviously.

[UAFB2]

O-line has been playing pretty poorly against this blitzing defense from new mexico, wide splits coming back to haunt us? Also they are using a TON of misdirection against our d and so far its been pretty successful :(

This is exactly the type of defense you would expect Tuitama to have trouble with.. 4 years of telegraphing passes into DB's hands comes back to bite you at some point. Having said that I fully expect a quick comeback and a TD on the ensuing drive

[dmjcat]

This is a really quite sobering. The Hobos are beating us on BOTH lines of scrimmage. And they are a mid-level MWC team.

[PieceOfMeat]

Ok offense, lets do something positive here!

[scumdevils86]

wow. good to know we're out for revenge this time. our team is so fierce and competitive :rolleyes:

[PieceOfMeat]

nice YAC turner

[azpenguin]

Gronk spotted on the sideline. Appears to be in full pads; no helmet nearby though.

[PieceOfMeat]

neeeeed to pick up the first

[PieceOfMeat]

yay, the drive stays alive

[Verdl]

Good pick up. Keep it going...

[WildcatBlitz]

first down atleast...wait Tui still had more than one con?

[CatintheHeat]

Ever since Tui's been QB Arizona has called way to many early timeouts.

[Verdl]

Good pass. NM looking for the screen.

[PieceOfMeat]

okie dokie

[tstein7240]

Grigsby is being knocked down my our guys as much as NMU players

[CatintheHeat]

The Cats are eating some clock here and keeping the UNM defense on the field.

[PieceOfMeat]

oooh thought grigs was gonna get a few more yards on that

[lofty]

I'm feeling like last year a little. We're better than these guys! Come on.

[PieceOfMeat]

yay first down again. move those chains

[Verdl]

Good. Keep this drive going.

[lofty]

You know what it smacks of? Being outcoached.

[tstein7240]

Double D!

[CatintheHeat]

Yes!! Overall a really good time consuming drive by the Cats.

[BibbysTowelDude]

Great Pitch and Catch to Dean!!!

[PieceOfMeat]

Wow, helluva catch Dean for the TD :)

[Verdl]

YES! Great catch!

[WildcatBlitz]

Wow great catch!

[HiCat]

Nice..TTurner

[lofty]

UNM with some adjustments to our early success.

Let's go Cats! BEAR DOWN!

[azpenguin]

F***ing beautiful TD catch!

[HiCat]

Check that Dean

[UAFB2]

TD Arizona 14-13 UA LEADS! :)

[RCWildcat]

Touchdown...thanks to DD and WT

[Verdl]

Back on top. Good drive there. Need the D to hold again and let us keep building.

[PieceOfMeat]

You know what it smacks of? Being outcoached.

qft

[illcat]

I'm impressed with this Cat offense they have speed, they have hands and there good.

[WildcatBlitz]

Its nice what you do when run works......they play man, and we get them up the middle pass

[lofty]

We need to get Grigsby going. That will really open it up for us. We haven't really tried. It's like UNM has lulled us into this blitz, blitz, blitz.. and they really haven't. Why not run the damn ball?

[Merkin]

Think I picked Dean in my RAP! Hope so...

[UAFB2]

Does anyone have any stats on how many 3 and outs the defense has had this year? I would love to see that :P

COULD USE ANOTHER ONE ON THE NEXT NM DRIVE!

[RCWildcat]

D-Fence D-Fense Lets stop a drive and score again before the half!!!

[scumdevils86]

ok now defense...stop letting them run all over us

[Merkin]

Ever since Tui's been QB Arizona has called way to many early timeouts.


Same with Stoops as HC. Time management has never been even average.

[Verdl]

Let's go, D. Big stop here.

[PieceOfMeat]

yeesh, hold much?

[Verdl]

At least there's a flag. We have GOT to start getting sacks!

[tstein7240]

I think Arizona plays better when their games aren't on TV. It was all Livengoods scheme to get us off to an early 2-0 start that way ;)

[lofty]

No defensive line pressure. Come on boys!

[RCWildcat]

The long haired dude #8 Makes a stop

[RCWildcat]

The long haired dude #8 Makes a stop AGAIN

[Merkin]

UNM sure saw that blitz coming.

[PieceOfMeat]

so much for that stop.

just rope a doped us with that screen lol

[CatintheHeat]

The Cats D doesn't seem to be focused.

[BibbysTowelDude]

The defense has been horrible.

[PieceOfMeat]

unm making it look easy

[lofty]

Come on D. Geez.

[scumdevils86]

ughh f*cking stopppp them

[CatintheHeat]

The defense has been horrible.

What does that say about Mark Stoops?

[Verdl]

These NM players seem to talk a lot of **** after plays. F them.

[phxcat]

Uh, suspect this guy might try to throw short.

[Verdl]

There we go! Good job!

[PieceOfMeat]

hey, a sack!

*falls over in amazement*


Not a quick sack, but a coverage sack :)

[HiCat]

Sacked!

[WildcatBlitz]

finnaly a sack

[RCWildcat]

Sack

[scumdevils86]

jesus dooo something

[PieceOfMeat]

yay a stop!

There ya go D

[Verdl]

Great open field tackle to stop a 1st down. Good job holding, guys!

[CatintheHeat]

The Cats made the stop playing conservatively. Let's score here and get some breathing room.

[PieceOfMeat]

i'll take that bounce

[RCWildcat]

Ya see we had nothing to worry about...D Stops the Slo-Bos

[Merkin]

What does that say about Mark Stoops?

He looks pretty silly calling the defense scheme in?

[Verdl]

80 yard yards. Let's go, O!

[MRUofA]

What does that say about Mark Stoops?

Nothing actually.

If Arizona's defense continues to give up more yards/big plays than they should it will say something about Mark Stoops, until then NM's numbers thus far are just a stat.

[lofty]

God. Terrible overthrow of a wide open receiver.

[Verdl]

We are so close on these deep passes. I think the throws are good, but receivers just can't pull them in.

[PieceOfMeat]

fail

[lofty]

All this crap about UNM being hard to figure out.. changing defenses etc..

Bull****. They're 0-2. TCU and A-M beat them.

Pisses me off.

[PieceOfMeat]

geez

[RCWildcat]

Well that just plain sucks Drive fizzles out

[lofty]

Come on D!

[Verdl]

Awful play calling that series. So much for going down for a score and taking all the time. And then busted coverage on the return. Come on, D!

[scumdevils86]

wow we suck.

[Merkin]

Is Crier still hurt? No height on the punt.

[tempecat]

They are bottom tier MWC team who probably wouldn't be competitive in the WAC.

Says a ton about how prepared we are for the Pac-10 (well UCLA could be in the same boat so maybe we have a "chance").

[PieceOfMeat]

All this crap about UNM being hard to figure out.. changing defenses etc..

Bull****. They're 0-2. TCU and A-M beat them.

Pisses me off.

Well, so far, we're no TCU or A-M....hopefully by the end of the game, we will be.

[tstein7240]

that sucks

[scumdevils86]

i call 20-14 at half :(

[PieceOfMeat]

just great, D...fantastic

[BibbysTowelDude]

Freaking Awful Defense

[azpenguin]

Dammit, fell for that hook line and sinker.