MinnDak

MN player of the year, Wisconsin player of the year, Michigan player of the year, state champions, all state players, state champion wrestlers, best receiver in MV, FBS players on and on and this is the product. Somebody please call Trey Feeney because he looks like a genius right now.

Any coach on staff that watched this meltdown the past 7 games and didn’t call anyone out including each other, smash a few clip boards and make some changes doesn’t deserve anything.

This is a pretty decent first game of the high school football season.

Almost everyone who left last year went FBS. McNaboe on a roll tonight for Ohio. Ventrelli in CFL. A couple quit football at the top of their game. Talent is not the problem. Is the talent all on the field and playing and being put in the best position? Is rushing 1 or 2 guys on defense a good strategy? Is being able to throw a football important at certain positions? McNaboe just had another tackle.

If only he could see how well we are all putting our grammar to such great use typing with our thumbs.

I googled it. English teacher in GF it appears. I’ll do my best to correct everyone’s grammar the next 7 days in his honor. After that, it’s on to cheering for any other team still playing as the Hawks season is done.

Yes, thank you for catching my joke. I remember when we used to be able to talk game X’s and O’s. About 5-7 games ago.

A 6’4” QB with a cannon arm and two Ben McNaboes were the real off season need. Maybe one other guy too but he’s under contract.

Other than Montana, the wins this year made the Hawks look way better than they are. I cannot say I saw one change or adjustment that made any coaches look good. A few passes to Bo and some of the big runs were the highlights of the year. The defense should have been shelved a long time ago. This 4 game skid is going to be hard to overcome the next year or two without big changes.

Watching ND and MN State playoffs. Beautifully executed offensive plays with precise blocking crosses, powers and traps. QBs look like QBs and have great arms and throw beautiful passes and receiver make great catches in stride. Slants, posts, flare patterns. Aggressive defenses going after the ball every play. Players on both sides saying how hard they have worked and how they competed on the team and gave it their all. Win or lose they talk and show they left in all on the field. —Good luck to the Hawks today—

Fortunately we stuck with the game plan right to the end.

Exactly. Watching yesterday after 2 awful losses thinking the same thing. Second half first play don’t you start plugging in some players that can at least try to maybe a difference. Line is getting rolled on both sides of the ball again. O-line couldn’t stop a 3-4 man rush. We have one good run Smith breaks 1-2 tackles and beats everyone to the end zone again to make O line look good for the week. Do we not have any D line man on the team? QB is swamped every play and can’t throw. Deng Deng on the team? Tai? Bo has 2.5 games left so let’s save him for playoffs. SDSU obviously scouted and exploited every weakness. SDSU corner end zone passes were a work of art. I wonder if we have a QB that could do that? No sense trying that play. How do all the coaches go along with it 3 weeks in a row and just say “yep, this is the best anyone can do.”

Yes and yes.

Yes O line is getting bigger. I meant more D side. Also the old O line coach was obsessed with being under sized/weight. A little more historical I should say. And the roster isn’t always accurate.

And if you start the game off with a pick 6 at this point in the season you head to the bench and out comes #11 for the rest of the year and get some competition back on this team.

Agree. It’s obvious the D is too small. We refuse to play any 300 lb D or O lineman. If you tall and are skinny and look like an outside linebacker you play interior D line here. Orlando and Beach should never come off the field except to rest. Gotta rush the ball with at least 4 or the result is we make every quick QB look like Lamar Jackson. Our 280 to 320 lb recruits never see the field. Back to offense Bo Belquist isn’t too bad either and we have 4 backs that could run for any team including FBS.

That’s not taking anything away from Bison so not sure what you are implying?

Offense is stacked. They might not be on the field if you follow that. There is more than a few that should be starting. I also hear chatter that’s some O and D lineman could move on either side of the ball and aren’t utilized. Minnesota and Wisconsin player of the year both never found the field yet. Multiple lineman on both sides of the ball recruited by other big schools including the Iowa’s. Some have not found the field either. Kilty looks like a man possessed at KState. Ventrelli was best in FCS. Bryant starts at San Diego. On and on and on.

Sorry to break it to you all but he zzzzzzzzzz in meetings all the time. I’ve been there.

Play one different player on the sideline and we win by 3. Play a few more on the sideline and we win by 17. Quit whatever we call that defense and pressure the ball like every other football team in the country and we win by 31.

And then we played Youngstown. (I’ll ignore the NDSU game).

Just got here. What did I miss today?

The game is a lot more interesting and more on the line than it was a few days ago.

Plays that rely on blocking the path of the ball are 50/50 at best. Our best runs are continually block left and run right or flip the other way.

Quincy’s TD against Northern Iowa nobody blocks and he breaks two tackles and scores and it’s a great play and nothing to worry about. 2pt conversion yesterday and they have two guys on the RB flare and again nobody blocks and Quincy gets swallowed up and we all wonder why it didn’t work.