Wildfan

USD beats UNI 17-14. UNI went for a FG with 2min left in the 4th and doinked it off the upright. They would get a TD with 41 sec left to pull within 3.

SDSU offense has showed its struggles, their Defense has picked them up. Chase Mason left the game today with lower body (ankle?) and hasn't returned. SDSU hasn't done much. NDSU standout DL Jaxon Duttenhefer was spine boarded on the field, checked by doctors on the sideline while boarded before being transported by ambulance to ER. Believe he showed some movement in all extremities before leaving

im okay with that. Eat clock. Get points like we just. Take away possessions from SIU, make them try to go fast anytime they have the ball. Not eating the clock led to our 2 losses.

stil going with 15-20...

if UND just didn't take the foot off the gas in that game, to allow for some questionable calls/non calls to occur right at the end. 2 losses for a combined 4 points. The thing that still surprising when historically looking at UND and time of possession being able to eat clock to finish out games. Both of those games, and also the 2nd to last UND drive in this first half, had the ball, should've easily been able to finish off the clock if didn't score, and we take off very little clock and give the ball back. Atleast this time we were able to capitalize on the other team trying to get aggressive with short clock.

Also was the WR closest to our sideline and no coach tried telling him to step back?

The problem is now we have to fix those mistakes and give zero room for error. 2 losses already (1 is said not to count as a FBS loss at selection time, but we know that is BS). Have 2 huge games against current #1 and #2, which I think we can win either or both, but if we don't that is already 4 losses. S. Illinois can be tough, and is a road game, and those still aren't going well for us. I think the rest of the games on our schedule outside those three should not even be considered as not a win, but we also know the team has to play the game, and any L's outside of SDSU/NDSU rest of the season will be huge.

Yes shouldn't had even mattered, but it did. There can be multiple things to blame. We could've absolutely took one of those things out of even consideration if we did our job earlier.

Outside of the illegal touching, and a couple false starts, what were the stupid ass penalties? I don't think the horsecollar, or 2/3 DPI on last 2 drives can be considered when they didn't meet the requirements to be called at any other point of the game.

Anyone have a still shot of the line of scrimmage with the illegal touching? I also don't think we attempted that play again after that?

Also interesting that Herder has called out some of these similar type of calls in FCS/FBS matchups, but I doubt he'll mention anything here about just even being questionable or debatable.

I am actually surprised that we didn't get into the further lost points by trying to go for 2 to make up the missed FG.

i can only recall one time not trying for kicks the 4th from the like 3 in the 1st half. The series right before half I think totally expected to be able to get a play off with the 6/7 secs we had, usually that is a attempt at the end zone or throw away to keep clock, think the last play before half was completely Jerry deciding not to spike it thinking he could catch them off guard or thinking the clock would run out if he spiked it.

We also should've had something drawn up to atleast drain any sort of clock when having the FB with the lead under 5 minutes. Same thing at KSU, can't find a way to get anything off the clock leaving tons of time. Also if they were manned up so close in tight how did no receiver find any space on that last series, I would assume they were playing no deeps (unlike UND who played give them open deeps on last drive), and man upped as they were grabbing our guys on flats, was there nothing in the middle at all?

Those would typically be called borderline, if they were the ones that go either way all game long. But when all 2nd half our receivers can be completely wrapped up and no call those can't even be called borderline anymore. That was terrible.

alot of balls in the 2nd half that Jerry didn't even give his receivers a chance. The last 2 that he did the defenders had them all tied up. But numerous throws that were not open or not where the WR was, or was going.

I would say the only terrible series by the D was the last one. The previous scoring drive wall all due to the DPI, that were not called at all before that or after that against Montana. Also the horse collar may have been on last scording drive that was not there. They bailed out the offense all day, until they had to attempt to bail out the offense and fight against the officials.

3 potential penalties on that? 1. D offsides? 2. Obvious DPI, 3. Late hit on QB?

I thought so too.

How in the world is there not a flag on that????

I don't believe anyone wanted him to not just spike it? half the players on the field didn't even play.

That would've been DPI against us. It shouldn't be a DPI, but it would've been. Jerry has been quite inaccurate today.

We take a FG instead of going for it on 4th down earlier we also have lead.

Can there be a reverse 10 second run off, where 10 second add on?

How do we go from solid coverage all game to multiple plays wide open? Did we just decide that we can't get DPI if there isn't a defender on them?