UND Football Fan

90’s early 2000’s was Kelly Green. I believe Roger Thomas made that color reference to it back than.

Observation: offense was meh at the beginning. Jerry is improving. Hopefully TE’s get healthy soon. My take on Z is he seems not as much of a bruising back as last few years (maybe lack of reps can do that), last two years he’s been injured down the stretch. I would rather see him play the whole season and have his biggest games during the playoff stretch of the season. Specials were solid, hopefully that carries through to Valley play. Defense gave up that big play, still too many. That being said we are takling better and playing fast. That is a huge improvement from last year. Defensively the challenge will be continuing building depth and continue improving in game adjustments, because with Valley play, once your exposed you need to fix or a season can become a slow death. This has happened a plethora of times over the years.

Could be worse, Matt Millen punch Patriots GM Pat Sullivan after divisional loss in 85 playoffs.

I expect a min of 7 TD’s and less than 2 scores given up even with backups in.

Well we were not the only one to lose or not got to OT because of EP or short FG. Tennessee missed chip shot FG and Notre Dame missed extra point.

Is there a shot on the ref on that side. WR need to look at official to see if they are on or off.

I agree, Bubba team would lose like this to an inferior unranked team on the road.

Had a chance to take the refs out of the game during 2nd quarter. I still thought too many fades when we started to establish a drive after getting a 1st down. Get a 2 yard run and than a fade call put us in 3 and 8 with them playing pass. That extra point miss plain old sucked, we did not chase the point (I think we or 0 for forever when trying to catch extra points). I cannot overly blame the D, when the offense had one sustained drive the 2nd half. A good team will find weaknesses and start finding things that work with more opportunities.

We’ve had special teams or offense putting games away. Let’s have the D do it today!

Let’s force a turnover!

Slow down on fades, crossing patterns were working earlier. I do love TE’s being used!

Jimmy’s Washington Stare losing to North Texas 45-3 in 3rd.

Yes, can’t let Montana do what we did to them last year in wearing out the defense. Good drive and break their spirit!

Decent speed keep in mind Weston Dressler ran a 10.44 at state meet senior year and that speed/quickness was special.

This will be a physical game, if we can scrap together drives like K State we can win this one. However, if we don’t move the ball, our defense, though improved some, may get worn down and we could falter down the stretch due to our depth issues on defense. I believe Montana will be better prepared for our run game, but our passing game will be the X factor for us to win this year.

I agree

Offense: Jerry is the real deal! JTJ though athletic as hell, game has yet to slow down for him (did not look too comfortable) Both QB’a can throw with velocity! Have not seen that in a long long time. RB area we are deep and wideouts and TE’s looked good (Portland State not too good to measure) o-line was solid. Defense communication mistakes must be fixed! It was a long long time seeing us stuff a 4th and less than 1. Once again Portland State is bad, however I felt we looked quick, and our tackling has improved. Special teams solid…..kicker figure it out we need to be solid on FG, especially in a dome. Depth is a lot thinner on defense than offense, with the solid recruiting class we are getting (on paper) that should improve next year. However, I hope we can get it done this year! On to next week!

I was pondering that since there was going to be a tougher look from the front 4 from KSU, the holes would smaller or disappear quicker, a smaller quicker back was be a better option. That is my theory for what it is worth. We will see what happens today.

Defensively I want no fluke big TD plays given up. No backup QB carving our defense. I want a dominant 4 quarter win!

Don’t be our Steve Bartman!

So far it’s refreshing seeing us respond after their 2nd TD and getting a first down after back to back penalties. This team is playing to win!

Yotes down 55-7……I am anticipating us putting up a better fight than that against K State!

If we can run the ball and be effective throwing we can make it interesting. Green kool aid me 27-24 W Middle of the road me we make it interesting and waver 17-34 L negative me 10-41 L

Me Mongo, me pawn in game of life. Me thinks the talk of 3 QB’s is to recognize the efforts they put in. Reality is Simon is a senior. The other two are under classmen. If Simon was head and shoulders superior he would start. If Simon is similar or less to the younger QB’s, you go with youth so they can improve under fire. I think it will be Jerry and Javance in just as the SU’s have used their back up QB’s. Unless blowout wins or losses I can’t imagine 3 QB’s playing. Coming in Schmidt would have to focus on defense because the last few years that has been more of a liability than the offense. Hypothetically Schmidt kept the OC to retain the offensive pieces and get his OC guy for year two….and for me Mongo that’s too much thought. So me thinks to watch Saturday, along with rest of season and see if Schmidty Ball is an improvement from Bubba Ball. Mongo out.