Spring Game

[WSTT]

Chavez Pownell Jr. is an idiot and tanner gentry should kick his ass, luke Martinez style. He must be the only guy to get called for targeting and ejected in the history of spring games. If idiots like him are making up our starting backfield we're going to see a lot of dumb penalties and missed assignments this year.

As an aside the hit by Chavez Pownell Jr. was a thing of beauty. Perfectly timed, perfectly struck, the flag and the ensuing ejection was a complete joke. If it were a regular season game the flag and the ejection would have been overturned. Pownell is an absolute predator who plays with a ferociousness this team desperately needs on defense...an identity and physicality that needs to be further enhanced. Pownell was in on most every defensive play and his style of play can be infectious to an entire defense.

Slightly different viewpoints on that play....Haha. Wasn't there so I don't have an opinion but I think I saw one of the papers say it most likely wouldn't have been a penalty and was a clean hit.

Cali2wyo you really need to look at that hit more closely and in slow motion. It was a beautiful hit and completely legal. For the past three years I've been watching soft defensive plays by the pokes. I'm not going to complain about a great defensive play by a young safety who wants to lay a lick on a receiver. If he can do that in games, receivers will think twice about coming over the middle. We wanted Cowboy tough back right? Stop complaining and enjoy the fact that someone on our defense wants to hit someone.

Bang on!

 

[LanderPoke]

As we have spoken about on our radio show this week...Scott Nulph's description of the play in his newspaper account was one of the most egregious examples of irresponsible journalism you will ever see. For the person who read that and did not attend the game (such as many here) Nulph's comments lead one to conclude that the Pokes have a reckless and head-hunting Safety parading around their defensive backfield.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Pownell's hit was as good a hit as I've ever seen. Hold the sauce by the way on not exerting yourself in a spring game...if you believe that you can simply tell a player to leave his instinctive & competitive juices on the sidelines then I'll conclude you have never been involved in high level competitive sports before.

Bravo to Pownell for his aggressive and punishing play - we need that.

Lastly, Pownell is on Wyoming Sports Talk Today this coming Thursday at 4P...

+1

 

[mwc fan]

Pownell is fighting for a starting spot. I think he made a statement with that hit. Although i do not wish any harm to our receivers, it was a purely instinctive play for a quality safety to make that hit. All shoulder to the chest. How many times have we seen receivers catch that ball last year and take it it in for a TD? He's a young player and although standing over Gentry wasn't cool, it's what you get with young players. He will be a good one based off what I've seen and heard. I would love to see that hit against CSU ' s receiver Hollywood Higgins.

 

[BJC]

I'm sure everything is all good in the locker room.......guys compete.....I'm sure they talked afterward.

If not...well...they are all men. Team needs an edge.