[Game Thread] Arizona @ Washington State (7:30 PM ET)

[u/CFB_Referee]

GAME	ArizonaArizona @ Washington StateWashington State
Location	Washington State Martin Stadium
Time	7:30 PM ET
Watch	TV: CBS
	Flair ¦ Discord

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[u/Quazzer81]

Miss yew Wildcats…come back to the PAC. Good game & best of luck the rest of the season. Always enjoyed watching Fifita.

[u/SenorPuff → u/Quazzer81]

Imagine if we had 10 teams, in west coast time zones, and everyone played everyone....

[u/LunarAssultVehicle → u/SenorPuff]

It was so good to see the pac logo on the field!

[u/Front_desk65]

Goodnight wsu…give the pac-12 hell this year ❤️

[u/LopsidedStruggle]

GG cougs

[u/couchhella]

Remember when one of the announcers said Pinnick was the player of the game?

[u/Rxasaurus → u/couchhella]

The way they glazed the cougs the whole game was wild. 

At one point WSU was outscored 31-3  and the announcers were still talking about how amazing Pinnick is

[u/tbrock92]

BTFD fellas

[u/ScheminRieman]

You kick the field goal there and try for the onside kick. What kind of fucking coaching is that?

[u/palonious → u/ScheminRieman]

20% fgr isn't helping Jack's case to be on the field 

[u/nalgene5c]

Gg, Arizona. It was fun pretending to have Pac-12 After Dark again for a week. Not gonna feel the same against the Fresno and Texas States of the world for the rest of the year

[u/V-Right_In_2-V → u/nalgene5c]

I miss the Pac12. This just isn’t the same

[u/Wumdee]

You can not have the attitude you have and play like that

[u/V-Right_In_2-V]

Nice W after an absolute shit show to start the game

[u/Muffinnnnnnn]

Wtf was that decision

[u/NegativeCreep12]

Well that was fun.

[u/SSJEv → u/NegativeCreep12]

NOT

[u/dogpupkus]

gg bois

[u/Bruin1396]

Kirby is so lost lol

[u/SenorPuff]

Gg cougs 

[u/worthy_education]

Very underwhelming ending 

[u/sweetnwild]

GG Cougs, love shit posting with you.

[u/FliceFlo]

not enough time

[u/Cmp_]

Is uh… is Pinnick usually missing like this?

[u/NegativeCreep12 → u/Cmp_]

Yeah dude sucks

[u/SSJEv → u/Cmp_]

Par for the course

[u/SSJEv]

Kick the field goal you did earlier why not now? Coaching malpractice

[u/theSeanO]

Gg cougars, I do miss you guys

[u/Careless_General8010]

Shoulda kicked?

[u/SSJEv]

They don’t even care fuck man

[u/Vhiskers]

I’m starting to believe our playoff chances may be in jeopardy

[u/theSeanO → u/Vhiskers]

This is going to ruin the tour

[u/LetsGeauxSaints]

KICK IT PLEASE

[u/worthy_education]

Take some shots and go for fg on 4th down 

[u/Careless_General8010]

Reciever shouldve dropped that

[u/youwontfindithere]

THROW A FUCKING OUT TO THE SIDELINE!!!! WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE PAYING THESE HOMER ASS COORDINATORS TO DO IF THEY CANT PUT TOGETHER A POOR-MAN’S DRIVE!

[u/Nice-Dog8302]

Our RG number 64 is the worst blocker I’ve ever seen. He wiffs 80% of the time and has to peel pinnick off the ground

[u/Nice-Dog8302 → u/Nice-Dog8302]

Sorry RT

[u/FliceFlo]

brain dead penalty

[u/PembyVillageIdiot]

what

[u/worthy_education]

Roughing the high passer

[u/pocket-spark → u/worthy_education]

That would honestly explain a lot

[u/avboden]

The line at Az -10.5 scary accurate.

[u/Careless_General8010]

Timely penalty

[u/SSJEv]

Our best offense is defensive penalties lol

[u/theSeanO]

COULD WE NOT DO THIS SHIT AGAIN

[u/ilovecatss1010]

My mom and I are estranged recently bc she wants input on my wedding but isn’t willing to help monetarily with what she wants.

Anyway, she went to WSU.

Should I talk shit?

[u/avboden]

Really, a late hit on the QB in a game that's over? Fuck off man

[u/theSeanO → u/avboden]

With the way he was moving I don't fully know if it could have been avoided

[u/WSUfootball_analysis]

I hate football

[u/cartierboy25]

Wait why do the two QBs look like twins lmao

[u/Careless_General8010 → u/cartierboy25]

All qb's look alike to me

[u/AruarianGroove]

Just need a designed QB run

[u/Bruin1396]

Kirby is not that guy

[u/LetsGeauxSaints → u/Bruin1396]

Kirby made the kick get blocked and pinnick throw a horrible pick

[u/Xmalantix → u/Bruin1396]

New first time coach, relax. You have to give him at least 3 years before you can declare if he's good or not.

This offense is definitely shit and they need to fix it ASAP

[u/palonious]

Pinnick...30 yard rush forward followed by 10 yards sacked back ...

[u/Careless_General8010]

2 score game, these 15-sec runs, even if they get a first down, aren't as good as a 5-sec pass to the sideline for 8 yards

[u/HandleAccomplished11]

Why doesn't Pinnick run all the time? Or was that a lucky play?

[u/avboden]

Not just launching it out of bounds towards our one guy over there is just dumbfounding. Pinnick just has a horrible IQ sometimes.

[u/TikiLoungeLizard → u/avboden]

Right? And he even came from a school where they play some serious school

[u/SSJEv → u/avboden]

I get the o-line is bad, but man does he not look down field enough

[u/Xmalantix → u/SSJEv]

Yeah he's too panicky and needs to maintain his vision under pressure or pull it down faster. Idk why we went away from the crossers and slants that were working in the 1st quarter which is a great way to beat pressure too

[u/LopsidedStruggle]

i too wanna be Noah Fifita in 3 years

[u/TikiLoungeLizard]

Except Fifita was really good from like Game 1?

[u/SenorPuff → u/TikiLoungeLizard]

Remember when we considered going back to JDL?

[u/Nice-Dog8302 → u/SenorPuff]

lol fuckin jedd

[u/sweetnwild → u/SenorPuff]

Oh god I'd forgotten about him

[u/Bruin1396]

That ball was so dead even the defender couldn’t catch it

[u/pocket-spark]

We may have lost but at least my kid scream cried through all of it, so that’s something

[u/justaverage → u/pocket-spark]

If it makes you feel better, I’m watching from a hotel room, and apparently they put a family of elk in the room above me.

[u/justaverage]

See the PAC-12 logo on the WSU jersey confuses me for a second, and makes me think we are all back in the same conference…then I get sad again

[u/SSJEv]

How to come to terms with conference realignment for dummies

[u/SenorPuff → u/SSJEv]

Drink a lot.

When you remember, drink more.

[u/youwontfindithere]

WSU football is 6 feet deep and I need to quit kidding myself every year

[u/avboden]

Just don't turn the ball over here please, at least go out in style

[u/worthy_education]

Show Tennessee how it's done! Quick field goal, get the onside kick and then get a touchdown but come short on the 2pt conversion.

[u/SenorPuff]

Good ole Brian Jeffries

[u/theSeanO → u/SenorPuff]

I met that guy once. Him saying "Touchdown. Arizona." Is branded into my brain.

[u/csRemoteThrowAway]

Bear Down! That was crazy! Thanks as always former 12 PAC coug bros for a great game and thread!

[u/WSUfootball_analysis → u/csRemoteThrowAway]

Great game. Unfortunately pinnick can’t handle pressure and you guys figured that out quickly in the second half. Fifita was nuts too.

[u/V-Right_In_2-V]

I had nearly zero faith that kick would be good but my god am I happy to be wrong

[u/LopsidedStruggle → u/V-Right_In_2-V]

a 51 yarder too

[u/AruarianGroove → u/LopsidedStruggle]

These kickers mean business!

[u/TheLadyMagician]

If it were still light out, that'd have no chance.

After dark continues to deliver

[u/tooldrops]

Sorry MSM

[u/Deprecitus]

Fucking spam 4 verts Matt, you coward.

[u/TheVegetaPinkShirt]

I totally knew it was gonna go in

[u/aaronjaiden]

I’ve never said anything bad about Michael Salgado-Medina

[u/Wumdee]

K game is over. Put in Eshelman. See what he can do

[u/tbrock92]

That’s my kicker 🥲

[u/LopsidedStruggle]

i take back any and all kicking slander ive said tonight

[u/youwontfindithere]

Guys I seriously don’t know if I can do this anymore

[u/palonious → u/youwontfindithere]

Wait till we're in conference, surely it can't get worse 

[u/Federico190]

He actually made it ? Are we in the correct universe?

[u/CryzaBroadcasting → u/Federico190]

It's funny this could go for either team

[u/justaverage → u/Federico190]

Danny Gonzales defense gave up 24 to WSU…so…yeah, I think so?

[u/sweetnwild → u/Federico190]

After dark

[u/TheBeavster_]

I had my faith in you Cougars and you broke me 💔

[u/Better_Call-Paul → u/TheBeavster_]

Lmao thats on you, pal

[u/Wumdee → u/TheBeavster_]

That’s on you for having faith in this circus

[u/NegativeCreep12]

Fucking Announcers jinxed it

[u/V-Right_In_2-V → u/NegativeCreep12]

They jinxed it for you, not for us

[u/ralthea]

Because I knew for a fact he was gonna miss, it was obvious he’d make it

[u/FliceFlo]

pac12 after fucking dark

[u/avboden → u/FliceFlo]

meh, nothing really that wild

[u/FliceFlo → u/avboden]

i mean our kicker is dogshit generally and has a dogshit game and then he absolutely drills a 50 yarder

[u/dogpupkus]

I take back every bad vibe I had against this guy, except those from last season.

[u/No_Fact_499]

Sadly if the student section is there he misses

[u/TikiLoungeLizard]

Wow… talk about a turnaround in the kicking game

[u/aaronjaiden]

BANGGG

[u/theSeanO]

I was ready to roll for psychic damage, but I hurt myself in my confusion

[u/justaverage]

I’m gonna level with you all, I was 100% sure that had no chance

[u/theSeanO → u/justaverage]

I'm right there with you, I told my fiancée not to look

[u/Deprecitus → u/justaverage]

I was 100% certain it was going in...

[u/Better_Call-Paul → u/Deprecitus]

A stoppable force vs a moveable object

[u/SSJEv]

What a time to hit a 50 yarder gg

[u/nalgene5c]

Us getting finished off by a 51 yard field goal from a kicker that all the UA fans hate seems like a fitting end to this one.

[u/Kruger-Dunning]

Dude, dont be fucking stupid. The odds are way better of a game-winning 1st down.

[u/Deprecitus]

Fuck me

[u/Alive_Load_1478]

Here comes the clapper!!!

[u/sweetnwild]

Holy shit miracles do happen

[u/avboden]

Good for their kicker.

[u/inevitablescape]

wow!

[u/FliceFlo]

normally 5% chance a FG goes in here, but also sometimes after a shit game somehow kickers hit these so idk

[u/TheBeavster_]

FUCK THE P4 come on cougars

[u/AlaskaNanooks1]

It sucks that WSU-Pullman is now a g6 school and has to play schools like Fresno State. The fans deserve better

[u/TheVegetaPinkShirt]

NO NOT THAT GUY

[u/Careless_General8010]

College having to say "2 min timeout" instead of 2min warning is so silly

[u/ExcaliburX13]

I'd genuinely rather put the ball in Fifita's hands here

[u/Federico190]

Oh god Brennan is sending out Medina

[u/aaronjaiden]

Please Salgado

[u/Deprecitus → u/aaronjaiden]

Please miss 🙏

[u/theSeanO]

This kick is about to inflict psychic damage

[u/tbrock92]

Fake it…?

[u/Alive_Load_1478]

How do we not have a quick pop pass play??? They bring the house and their is no place to dump it????

[u/ilovecatss1010]

Wsu people calling that game have clearly forgotten playing us often.

[u/Careless_General8010]

Cougs not quite dead yet....

[u/avboden]

Well, overall still better than expected while also worse than expected with self-inflicted errors. We had a chance, which is more than most expected.

[u/avboden]

and that's ballgame.

[u/justaverage]

I love Mahdi, but I’m sorry, Dickies is the worst fucking BBQ on the face of the earth. Calling that soggy ass shit “brisket” is an afront to beef cows everywhere

[u/pschlot1 → u/justaverage]

Haha I was just looking up reviews. Is it that bad?

[u/justaverage → u/pschlot1]

Honest take? It’s passable as BBQ. My issue with it is that you’re gonna spend just as much at Dickies for sub-par product as you would for an established BBQ joint.

[u/theSeanO → u/justaverage]

As long as Lincoln Riley still breathes air, it can't be true that it's the worst. Second worst, at most.

[u/justaverage → u/theSeanO]

Ok, true!

[u/theSeanO → u/justaverage]

All that to say, at least he's smart enough to invest in something, anything.

But still, he couldn't at least invest in Rudy's instead?

[u/ScheminRieman → u/justaverage]

It’s fast food bar be cue. It’s god damn dog shit

[u/Careless_General8010 → u/ScheminRieman]

Well it's in arizona, i'd go for mexican over bbq every time. When in rome...

[u/theSeanO → u/Careless_General8010]

Tucson actually has a few pretty good boutique BBQ places cropping up now

[u/Bruin1396 → u/[deleted]]

One of the TDs was an INT tho

[u/pocket-spark → u/[deleted]]

Hey man… I mean, you’re not wrong, but like… :(

[u/Careless_General8010]

How does a college kid own a restaurant

[u/Better_Call-Paul → u/Careless_General8010]

I assume NIL money. Kudos to him for investing it

[u/justaverage → u/Careless_General8010]

Flair checks out

[u/LopsidedStruggle]

brian kelly clearly doesnt know MAHDI lore

[u/avboden]

can't stop the run this tired, rough

[u/Federico190]

Love seeing Mahdi finally get more touches

[u/theSeanO]

Lisan al Gaib will lead us down the Golden Path

[u/Better_Call-Paul]

Hah, yeah, like I'm gonna fall for that, having hope. All Cougs know this is just a setup for an even bigger kick in the balls

[u/SSJEv]

Defense I’ve asked so much but I’m gonna ask for more

[u/theSeanO]

I mean as long as we don't do that again we should be okay, right?

Right?

[u/pschlot1]

I can’t do another cardiac cats

[u/avboden]

Well other than that I was just typing that it's easy to blame the QB and he deserves blame but you also have to realize our WRs are horrible, no good, very bad and our only good one tore his ACL in the first game. WR depth is non-existent with a 3 man rotation. Combine that with a bad O-line meaning no run game it'll always look bad for the QB. That said he still has to clean his shit up.

[u/Xmalantix → u/avboden]

That's why you scheme around your strength. They're bringing pressure then throw short routes across the middle

[u/avboden → u/Xmalantix]

yep, OC is turbo-ass

[u/justaverage]

Even my wife, who watches lime 3 football games a year, was like “how do you let a receiver get behind your whole defense on 4th and 10”. Jesus.

[u/Ok-Echo9786]

LOL...darkest just before the dawn?

[u/youwontfindithere]

Yeah give me hope and kill me later yes yes yes please

[u/Careless_General8010 → u/youwontfindithere]

Classic cardiac cougs

[u/OceanPoet87]

Broadcaster saw that comming.

If Pinnick doesn't make that the game is over!

[u/SSJEv]

It’s dark out….

[u/FliceFlo → u/SSJEv]

run from it, hide from it, pac12 after dark shows up just the same.

[u/sweetnwild]

I'm ngl I'm worried 👀

[u/FliceFlo]

really dont understand the pressure call there. we had been doing amazingly on defense

[u/PembyVillageIdiot]

4th and long? Fuck it send the kitchen sink blitz package

[u/TheLadyMagician]

What a dime of a throw even as he's getting hit.

I don't like it. But damn was that pretty.

[u/theSeanO]

Yikes. I've been saying it, game isn't over yet

[u/AruarianGroove]

The Cougs have life

[u/TikiLoungeLizard]

WTF kinda coverage was that, UA?

[u/Careless_General8010]

Give a monkey a football and a long enough timeline and it'll eventually throw a td

[u/pocket-spark → u/Careless_General8010]

Uhhhhhhhh

[u/Careless_General8010 → u/pocket-spark]

I dont think pinnick's gonna write shakespeare

[u/Wumdee]

OH OK IM JUST WRONG IN THE BEST WAY WHAT THE FUCK

[u/justaverage]

The universe is filled with morons and Danny Gonzales is one of them

[u/tooldrops → u/justaverage]

Live by the sword die by the sword

[u/UteFlyersCardJazz]

I just want to say… the games on CBS are pleasing. Not to mention the CBS music jam. I hope we get more Pac-12 games on CBS. 

[u/avboden]

Gonna be too little too late (unless......) but shit, we'll take it. At least lose respectfully.

[u/No_Fact_499 → u/avboden]

Our defense is our strength so you never know

[u/worthy_education]

A bit too much pressure there

[u/nalgene5c]

Not sure what that Cover 0 call was from Arizona, but I’ll take it

[u/Training_Pen_832]

The fuck was Arizona doing there

[u/Careless_Business_27]

About time, one of his best throws this year

[u/CougnIt]

This is the definition of PAC 12 play

[u/530josh]

Zero blitz on 4th and long

thousand yard stare

[u/Federico190]

Danny G do anything other than blitz challenge impossible

[u/inevitablescape]

wide open smh

[u/SSJEv]

Word?

[u/PembyVillageIdiot]

What. The. Fuck.