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- Stephen Igoe says East Carolina has defended designed runs well through its first two 2026 games. He expects the defensive front to challenge Old Dominion's run-first offense, but makes limiting explosive plays the condition for that advantage translating into stops. - Peyton Brady reports that ECU has emphasized cleaner third-down execution during the week. James Giglio remains unconvinced by the Pirates' offense and play calling. The article presents continued offensive inconsistency as a current concern, not a confirmed personnel or play-caller change. - ODU was around a three-point favorite when this 2026 preview was published. Staff score projections differ: Stephen Igoe and Peyton Brady each pick ECU 27-24, while James Giglio picks ODU 23-21. These are attributed predictions, not game results or a unanimous staff position.

- Pick/market: It's been a tough start to the 2026 season for the East Carolina football team.

- Pick/market: I’m going to bow out here after this as we are getting nowhere- and that’s ok!…but what you are posting are the rules most closely used in the NFL- and certainly didn’t come from...

- Pick/market: Dearest Mother — The mountain men have departed Greenville.

- Pick/market: The athletic department budget numbers are correct, App is not maxing out the rev share (nor are we).

- Pick/market: Mitch Griffis has been the better player in practice by a good margin.

- Pick/market: It may not make sense on the surface but I think you're underselling the amount of damage our decade of faceplanting did to our fanbase and whatever brand recognition we had.

- Pick/market: I don't think its failing, but what do we expect when we get steamrolled in a blowout on the opening game of the season.

- Pick/market: Winning helps, but Boone has a population of 20,000 and App has 17,000 undergrads.

- Pick/market: We just lost to app at home with a team many thought would win the aac and make the cfp I predicted 7-5

- Pick/market: You can absolutely laugh in my face if you want, but i still think it's too soon to say whether we've missed out on talent eval on a lot of our guys.

- Pick/market: We have a real problem with pass protection at LT.

- Pick/market: Encroachment does not work the same in college football as the NFL- in fact it’s an offensive penalty.

- Pick/market: you’re talking about patience when we are predicted to go 0-3 right now, there is NO MORE TIME FOR PATIENCE.

- Injury: East Carolina and Old Dominion are set to do battle in Week 3 of the college football season on Saturday in Norfolk, Va., inside S.B.

- Pick/market: Again...not being argumentative, but many people just don't know the rules in college for defensive offsides.

- Injury: Griffis took a beating but he was back out practicing today.

- Injury: Our fan base runs on “punching about our weight” chip on shoulder.

- QB/TE: Just remember, people wanted Holton to play TE and start Mason Garcia.

- Pick/market: 27 to 17 ODU hope I'm way wrong on this but our O has not prooved that they can score consistantly with such lousey play calling and a QB that has issues throwing over...

- Pick/market: 35-24 ODU, just don't think our defense can contain their QB and don't think we can score.

- QB: Joe Montana, LT, Daryl Green, The Kelsey brothers, Art Monk to name a few….

- QB/OL: Agree, but without pass protection from the OL, the QB is a cat on a hot tin roof.

- QB: Not sure he would be, but Griffis isn’t a QB who can win anything that matters.

- QB/OL: No he was just the better quarterback all around in practice consistently.

- Pick/market: Based on Neolien’s skill set he seems like he’s a better fit for RT than LT.

- Pick/market: (sorry if this is a repeat) 1.

- QB: We were told it was Gilbert being tight with Shannon Dawson that got the ball rolling.

- QB/LB: Probably the best way to describe what I've seen thus far.

- QB/LB: I do want to give props to him for clearly running for hard yards late in the game in an effort to show the team what toughness is.

- QB: If you have a QB that can't throw over the middle because of height issues, then you can't run the raid.

- QB/OL: The QB always garners the most attention and is always the scapegoat for most fans after a loss.

- QB/LB: You're not wrong, but man o man if we are dogs to odu, the AAC slate doesn't look workable

- Coaching: To me our best pass rush was last year and we have been very average to bad in that category for most of BH's tenure otherwise.

- Intel: my prognosis on the Rayray issue, and probably some of the ID issues of Mitch finding people during plays (when he has any time): probably at least somewhat due to not picking the fulltime...

- Blake Harrell said Emory Williams is earning an opportunity at quarterback and that the week of practice would help determine who gives East Carolina the best chance to win. He also said Mitch must improve. This leaves competition open ahead of Old Dominion; Harrell did not announce a new starter, a fixed two-quarterback rotation or an injury-driven change. - Starting center Brandon had swelling from what Harrell described as a likely high ankle sprain and dressed but did not practice Monday. Karson Jones has practiced at center and replaced him during the game. Harrell expects Brandon back Saturday, not a confirmed clearance. Landon will be eased back cautiously after missing late-week work and still feeling discomfort in warmups; Brock Spalding is moving better but is not practicing. - East Carolina's run game improved to almost 200 yards against App State, led by Ashton Gray, but downfield passing still needs better protection and full-speed routes. Harrell said late use of running-back and tight-end chips helped the tackles. Jeremiah Melvin needs better conditioning and rotation to stay fresh late; Harrell also wants more targets for tight ends whose practice work has improved. - Harrell praised edge play from Julien Davis and Kendrick DuJour, improved tackling and ten tackles for loss, but said ECU still has no takeaways. Explosive gains exposed Cover 3 spacing, dive-versus-quarterback assignment errors and two inexperienced defenders on a reverse flea-flicker. Better third-down defense and preventing one mistake from becoming consecutive breakdowns remain specific corrections.

- OL: Also worth pointing out most of the free rushers came after Best was out of the game.

- Pick/market: Short answer is yes.

- QB: Yet we have a coach who has a better w/l record through 20 games than any other coach in this programs history and people are calling for his head.

- OL: Their o-line sucks too.

- OL/DL: SI We got beat bad on the line of scrimmage offense after best went out and d line all day, tackling was bad and seems to get worse as the game goes on.

- OL: I marvel at App's ability to just play the basics better than ECU consistently over various coaching tenures.

- Offense: No I don't think that's it.

- Intel: The only junior pirate club perk this year was for the NCCU game.

- Intel: Bottom line, the administration could care less.

- LB: I dont know if I even want to watch this game live or wait to see the outcome and if we win, I will watch the replay.

- Intel: When it comes to attendance, tv is killing most programs.

- KICKER: Apparently it was co-founded by former ECU Punter Worth Gregory.

- Intel: “No P4 team should ever again play an FCS team.” I can agree with that.

- Intel: It does not, but I'm just pointing out how we got to the point where App St.