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Great throw to Bo with a drop followed by a wide open Wes missed by 8 yards for a td…

And it’s not like we are good at adjustments at half…. We have a game plan and continue it regardless of success…. If the d doesn’t decide to show up it doesn’t matter what the offense will do. They look like they had a hell of a Thanksgiving party….

What do we need receivers for? We need running backs that can catch behind the line of scrimmage…

The fact we can’t get off the field on 3rd and long is not an accident. Soft coverage everywhere and we tackle by grabbing the pads rather than hitting anyone…

Our secondary is so ridiculously bad. Stand around in zone and wait to tackle the wide open receiver all day long…

And our lack of balls gives us a behind the line of scrimmage pass on 3rd and 9. Seriously??? Let’s at least pretend we want to win this thing….

Is this really the same defense that beat the bison???? The names seem to be the same but the desire is gone…

Can we let them get to 3rd and 3 so we don’t have to defend 3rd and long. We don’t seem to have an answer to that one….

Awesome. Not one tunnel or bubble screen in the first possession and a march for 7. Keep rolling Danny and Tommy!!!!

Well it’s a good thing our d was ready to go for a playoff game??????

Look past the line of scrimmage and we have options. Only helps the run as well. Keep it up and feed Z when we can…

D needs to tighten up if we are going to have any chance. Our 2 offensive possessions have a net of 0 yards. Can’t make this up….

Seriously Danny. Throw behind the line of scrimmage to Bo for a 5 yard loss. Do we have other plays besides a double reverse flea flicker??? They apparently have seen film on the last 3 of 4 games we couldn’t score a single point…. And kept doing the same thing that didn’t work…

NO MORE tunnel and bubble screens until we back them the hell up. Seriously…. Adjust Danny and Tommy. They have all seen tape…

Kings shot is definitely not a thing of beauty but he does have pretty good vision and looks to create. We have needed that the last couple of years. I think he will continue to improve as they get more used to playing together and knowing each others tendencies.

We anll need to remember we are very young. Kacie is the only experience we have - at all. I’m not counting Davis, as I have never understood that obsession - although she actually hit 2 from the outside last night, which was promising. Last year, teams would give her 10 feet and dare her to shoot. Unfortunately, she is just too small and a turnover waiting to happen. We need to figure out a real point guard to lead this team. The rest of the crew will continue to get better with experience. We had real struggles playing good team defense - not knowing who was covering who after showing on screens and getting back out to cover the 3. Again, that should improve over time with a young team. Pemberton is the real deal. She showed incredible skills and poise for her age and will unquestionably be starting and a key piece of the puzzle. Kacie, Hurst, and Pemberton, once they get a chance to play together, will significantly improve our offensive production. Mallory does, however, need to teach them how to create significantly more movement on offense. I am hoping that is just youth and inexperience, although we fell in that trap last year at times with mostly seniors as well. We didn’t see much of anything for outside shooters last night, but mostly because we didn’t move the ball well enough to get good open looks. Beal is incredibly athletic but still needs to learn the system better. She will be all right. Vanderwal was not overly impressive last night, but you can’t teach 6’7”. They need to figure out how to keep her in the paint defensively. If she gets pulled out to the top of the key all of the time, she won’t make it back in. If we keep her in the paint, she could change shots on the drive with her size. Our other younger recruits just looked young. There were flashes of skill that came out, but they are going to take time to develop.

I would feel bad, but we didn’t deserve this one anyway. Defense was not great, but offense is atrocious. Play calling was god awful and we don’t have coaches capable of making an adjustment - ever….

We will see a steady dose of pass from here on out. They have found our Achilles heel in the secondary…. 38 yards to go and we give it to them easily.

Tommy is 14 for 18 again - for 109 yards. 95% on passes behind the line of scrimmage and 20% past the line of scrimmage, possibly?? All those receivers and tight ends and no ability to throw a crossing route, a seam route, or go deep whatsoever. SD just waiting for the pass behind the line of scrimmage.

You would almost think SD has seen tape on our passes behind the line of scrimmage…..

Sometimes we can’t get out of our way. 3rd and forever with a a deep in the end zone throwing it away and we get a roughing the passer call after he throws it away. seriously????

Huge stop on 4th down for the Defense. Now lets see that swagger from them we saw against the Bison….

We clearly need to want to play defense. This is ridiculous. Iowa is clearly better but you have to at least show up and act like you belong. BJ is our only gamer today with Brooks and Brady at least showing a little effort. Everyone else is along for the ride. Roebuck would have benched everyone and played with 3….

Definitely not the showing we wanted. I still believe we will be a better club at the end of the year than we are now. Lots of new faces to gain experience at this level. I do really hope Sather finds a way to generate quicker ball movement though. Turnovers and absent ball movement holding the damn thing forever every time it’s touched are not going to get us anywhere. Our only offense right now is whatever BJ and Brooks can drive and create. Trey and King look scared to death to do anything…

We did enough to win today, but aren’t playing with the same defensive confidence and swagger that we had against the Bison. We came up hard and met the play against NDSU instead of letting it come to us 5 to 7 yards deep and then not making the open field tackle. We have definitely not done that the last 3 weeks. We need to get that mentality back. Do that and we can make a run. And, of course, the decision to have CJ taking kick returns continues to boggle my mind, which proved today why most of us thought that was a bad idea. Our secondary is already a question mark. Losing CJ is not something we could afford to do. Offense can look good at times, as long as the opposing d doesn’t sell out on the tunnel and bubble screens and we refuse to do anything else. Get a running mix and look downfield once in a while and we have the offensive weapons to score. Just need the defense to do their part. Bring the mentality we had with the Bison to vermillion and let’s see what happens….