"They've lost four straight but they haven't been exactly close games"

COACHTALK KEYWORDS: Any Given Day, git-go, clean his ears out, long way from being perfect

From the "he's big but he's slow" school, that is what Coach Brandon had to say about Eastern during his presser yesterday.

He took great pains to talk Eastern up, which is just real basic coachtalk when you are playing a team with no I-A wins, and who is getting blown out. He kind of has to say that. And, you know, any given day, etc etc.

All of which is true to an extent (but we should win Saturday. No two ways about it.)

Coach also spent time trying to encourage a big crowd on Saturday for homecoming, tossing in a side dig at Hofstra.

From there, the conversation veered into a discussion of our long snapper situation. Here we learned two things.

1. BG uses two long snappers, a LONG-LONG snapper for punts and a SHORT-LONG punter for field goals, because the LONG-LONG punter sometimes snaps it too hard for the field goals.
2. We recruited the LONG-LONG snapper.

Team is beat up, and AT is day to day. I'm with Ryan, who said in his Bladeblog that AT shouldn't play unless we need him, and we shouldn't need him.

Here's another great coachtalk quote:

"We're a long way from being perfect."

Really? Specific targets of the imperfection were three sacks, two of which were from mental errors, and too many defensive penalties. As for Briggs getting a personal foul because (he says) he didn't hear the whistle, Coach says "we may have to clean his ears out."

The fumble in the red zone where the snap went past Tyler was a FUBAR from the "git-go," Coach said. First, Tyler took a hit and might have been a little woozy. Then the wrong formation was called, the RB was on the wrong side, Coach was trying to call timeout, Tyler dropped his mouthguard, and all the laughter ended in sadness.

He did say he was happy with how we finished drives, something which I do think we can all agree with.

No mention of Jerry Phillips this week.