UND Football Fan

We need to win road games against the playoff teams. Best road wins (excluding Great West) were Portland State only playoff teams road win (9-3) 2015, 2018 Sam Houston (6-5) and Youngstown (7-4) 2022. Looking at that, that lack of success with teams with winning records says it all. UNI win was great, but not a playoff team. Team needs to refocus and not have a letdown after our first road win in nearly two years. With new systems and better depth this team is better but needs to continue to improve. Self inflected wounds would be losses if on road against legit playoff teams or bubble teams.

That QB is their offense, he throw or ran for all their plays but seven according to the box score.

Idaho State is beating Montana 24-18 in the 2nd quarter

The Oracle of Delphi said either we win big, or get a shut out victory. I misinterpreted the Pythia. Last year the Pythia was spot on going into the ISU Blue game.

Nice to see us overcoming shooting our selves in the foot with the FG and Fumble. This is a great first step, now on to next week.

I don’t want to jinx it, but I believe this could be our first road shut out in D1 era.

Need to put the doubt into UNI.

Also the connections are made so if athlete enters portal they may be more inclined to go to school that recruited them.

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