Screening report: Western Carolina | So dear blogger

After finishing last season 7-5 in total, the Catamounts de la Caroline de l’Ouest entered the 2025 football season classified n ° 19 in the AFCA coach survey. However, they did not remain classified very long after abandoning their first game of the season in Gardner-Webb in a match which saw WCU blowing an advance of 35-7 in the first half and finally lost 52-45. Let’s take a very fast glance at WCU and see how the DEACs accumulate against them.

The size of the sample is only one match, but the catamots had no trouble scoring points in attack in their first season game against Garnder-Webb, exceeding 45 points and 454 infringements. Until now, their main threat has been the legs of the ball carrier Patrick Boyd Jr., who ran the ball 15 times for 142 yards (9.5 yards per race) and 1 hit last weekend. It is currently 10th in the country in FCS in yards per game and 4th in yards per race.

Regarding the scheme, the catamots seem mainly to use the standard Spread 11 (1 TE, 1 RB) staff, and their offense seems to be mainly fighter rifle transfers and quick passes around the melee line – 18 WCUs’ achievements against Gardner Webb, 6 went to runners for 42 combined yards. The start of the QB Bennett Judy completed only 15 of his 27 passenger attempts for 151 yards, and, on the basis of this match, it is not really a threat in the race attack (5 races, 7 yards). The Catamouts played 2 QB in their first match – the other being Isaac Lee, who only completed 3 of his 9 passes and returned the ball twice. He may have had the best pass of the match on a 69 yards TD bomb in Malik Knight.

The thing 2 QB almost never works and is generally only a sign that none of the QB is very good. I should guess that Judy will get most of the representatives after the way the two played last week.

The only catamout receiver that wake will likely want to slow down is the James’s slot receiver. Tire caught a team of 5 passes for 66 yards and 1 hit against GW and is very good to open in the middle of the field. He was the only WCU receiver to have captured more than 2 assists when opening the season.

On the basis of their first match, I would say that Western is definitely a much better precipitation team than to pass, so if the DEACs can close Patrick Boyd Jr. and Branson Adams (12 races, 66 yards) and force one of the two QBs to beat them by launching the ball, I think they should be able to trap the catamout.

On the defensive side, the opening of the season was a kind of complete disaster for the catamoths. After having built an advance of 35-7 in the first half, WCU allowed Garnder-Web to score out of 7 of their last 10 records (and 1 of the 3 on which they did not score were a missed basket) and finished the match on a race of 45-13. Western had absolutely no answer to GW QB Nate Hampton, who represented 392 infringements and 6 affected. The Catamouts were particularly difficult to stop the QB race, where Hampton ran the ball 28 times for 132 yards and 4 affected.

I would not describe Hampton as particularly fast or elusive, so I imagine that WCU will have even more difficulty containing a much more athletic QB like Robby Ashford. The DEACs as a team did a fairly terrible job running the ball when opening the season against Kennesaw State (130 yards in 47 races), so I am interested in seeing if they can establish the race against a team that abandoned more than 300 yards on the field in its first match of the season. If the DEACs manage to rush on less than 3 meters by postponement this week, go ahead and crush the panic button on the offensive of the year.

In the passenger game, the catamoths held Hampton at the completion of only 12 of his 30 passes, but many of these completions were large games on the ground towards fairly open receivers – 292 yards by the past on 12 completions amount to nearly 25 yards per completion. For me, this would suggest that catamots have weaknesses in secondary school and are subject to blowing blankets on the ground. The DEACs have really not tried to launch the ball very far last weekend, so I would like to see them attack the secondary school on the field instead of installing me for swing passes and fast outings to the tight end the whole match. We can have a better chance of seeing part of this if Deshawn Pordie gets playing time.

It is an FCS team that abandoned more than 600 infraction yards to another FCS team in their first game of the season. I know that Wake Forest’s offensive looked quite horrible against Kennesaw and only succeeded in 10 whole points against a team that was very recently a team from the FCS themselves, but I think it is excessively reacting that Wake will have problems against the catamoths. Even during the first season of Clawson – the one where Wake finished 3-9 with less than 40 yards per match – the DEAs have always beat their FCS opponent by almost 20 points. With a game under their belt and a worst opponent this time, I think Wake will be much better on Saturday.