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Not sure who it was but you could see someone on crutches with a boot on in the hallway as they interviewed Berry after the game tonight.

Thought Calder played some center? The late loss of Weatherby definitely leaves some questions down the middle for me. Be real interested to see who gets work on the faceoff dot Saturday.

Any guesses on line combos for Saturday? I'll throw mine out. Schmaltz-Ford-Gaber Budy-Calder-Caulfield Hain-Senden-Portz Kunz-Jamernik-Ness Montgomery-Costantini-Albrecht Sanderson-Frisch Kleven-Jandric Moore-Johnson Bast-Ferner Driscoll Hellsten Feeney Johnson

Really solid game from the Vikings today although I'm not sure how good of team Seattle is. Little surprised the defense limited Wilson as much as they did. Still think the ceiling for this team is about 9 wins though and maybe this year that can win the North with how Green Bay, Chicago, Detroit, and the Vikings have looked.

I'd expect a very good performance from a focused team Saturday at Purdue. If we don't see that we have problems. They will hear all week how bad they are and rightfully so after the embarrassment of yesterday and Fleck is the type of coach that will play it up and use it as motivation for the team perfectly I think. I don't think Morgan looks like the same QB or even close to it right now. I don't think he looks confident in himself at all. I'd be excited to see a change there but I don't believe it will actually happen. Maybe we see more Cole Kramer in that package this week though. On the OL I wonder at times if they are doing too much shifting and would just be better off playing 5 OL together regularly and mixing in the 6/7 OL formations in different situations. Right now they rotate through 6 all the time and you are seeing multiple guys playing the right and left side at different times and Andries moving from G to T as well.

Absolutely atrocious and unacceptable loss a week after dominating Colorado and having 10,000+ fans in Boulder. Hopefully it opens his eyes up to some changes he needs to make in the program. Seems like whenever the Gophers have played a non-major non-conference opponent they have played as vanilla offense as possible and it finally resulted in a loss after a few other close calls. Tanner Morgan also has really struggled the past two seasons after a great 2019, it is time to make a move to Zack Annexstad, Cole Kramer, or Jacob Clark at QB. The other big issue is just how conservative he gets offensively and his "tressel ball" philosophy, they need to go uptempo at times and quit worrying about draining the play clock to under 5 every play doesn't always need to be check with me offense. The last issue is two coordinators. Rob Wenger has done nothing positive in his time as special teams coordinator, only explanation he still has a job is he has to have some kind of dirt on PJ. The other is Mike Sanford as the OC, not sure he is the right man for the job. Morgan's play at QB has taken a big step back since he took over and the route combos always seem kinda weird to me and the offense has become very predictable.

Honestly I'm just more familiar with Minnesota kids because I see a bunch of Minnesota high school hockey being from here and still living in MN. I really don't care where kids come from I just feel like Minnesota produces a ton of talent and it should be a priority pipeline state for us.

I'd put Clark right up there with any of them, he is really really good. We have to start recruiting better in Minnesota.

We have really really struggled landing high end Minnesota kids lately losing a bunch to Minnesota, a couple to Duluth, and I think even one or two to St. Cloud. Minnesota should be a state we are prioritizing and getting a good amount of talent from. Yeah you aren't gonna beat Minnesota head to head a whole lot but I expect us to maybe 1 out of 10 and then getting our pick of those guys that the Gophers aren't.

0-2. 41 seconds on the clock and letting the clock run down for the field goal was stupid of Zim, you would think he'd learn by now. Joseph makes two 50 yarders but misses a extra point and the 37 yarder for the win. Cardinals with an extremely stupid gameplan of playing a lot of 5/6 man boxes in the first half allowing Dalvin to run wild, adjusted like every other team does to loading up the box with 7/8 and sending run blitzes in the 2nd half.

Very undisciplined effort today. Definitely outcoached and ton of poor execution as well. When the Vikes started bad last year I was hoping they'd just keep it up and it would be the end of Rick and Zim and they could get Fields to take over at QB. That didn't happen but after the terrible draft, preseason, and this start I'm even more done with those two and thinking this year will end them. Good chance to start 0-4 after a road game with Arizona next week and then Seattle and Cleveland coming to U.S. Bank. Pretty tough schedule overall this year as well facing the AFC North and NFC West and then getting the Cowboys, Chargers, and Panthers as your other games. Right now I'm thinking about 7-10 as best case and I'd take the under.

Good to see both cut but don't love that they kept Dozier on the practice squad. Losing Irv Smith for the year(likely) is a huge hit. Happy to see they are gonna bring in a backup QB but would've preferred someone other than Mannion.

Well that sucks, I had $100 gift card and was planning on using it there for the Gopher football opener Thursday.

There has been some buzz for Clark to Minnesota for a little while here. Seems like a long time since we have won a battle for a Minnesota kid. Needs to be a priority to land more of those top Minnesota guys. It isn't so much the guys we lose to the Gophers for me it is seeing them go to St. Cloud, Duluth, Wisconsin, and Notre Dame that really bugs me. After Minnesota we should be able to get whoever we want in that next wave.

Absolutely no respect for Weatherby to make a decision like this in August. You commit to the team this spring, the staff is counting on you, the rest of the team is counting on you and then in late August you bail? Absolutely disgusting. Jasper obviously is much more of a ME type player than I ever thought. Couldn't care less what his hockey career looks like the rest of the way.

I'd be pretty surprised to see Dozier make it through cuts this year. Figure maybe 8 or 9 OL kept. You have 7 guarantees with Hill, Cleveland, Bradbury, Udoh, O'Neil, Darrisaw, and Davis. Then you have a group of 4 guys that you are keeping 1 or 2 of with Cole, Samia, Brandel, and Dozier. I'd lean Cole heavily #1 on that list since he has started games for Arizona and can play center and guard and then who knows if you keep another guy.

Biggest problem with the OL is the two new guys Darrisaw and Davis most(myself included) figured would slide in haven't practiced much at all. There is still time for those two to get healthy and win the jobs but Zimmer sounded like a guy going with Hill-Cleveland-Bradbury-Udoh-O'Neil heading right now.

I want all the section 8 talent and as much of the top Minnesota talent as we can get. I've thought Shaugabay to UND was a slam dunk for a long time so I'm pretty surprised to see him pick Duluth.

Now we need to start landing some of the Minnesota kids. Shaugabay, Rinzel, Sawchyn, Whitelaw give me all of them.

Not that there was a lot of question but Zam Plante committed to Duluth this morning.

Would have loved to get an extension done with Berrios but Twins didn't seem willing to meet the price early and then started to seem like Berrios wanted to hit the market as we went on. This is a pretty good get from the Blue Jays. I really thought he would end up with San Diego and that is where I wanted him to go, Toronto would have probably been second on my list though with Boston and Tampa Bay close behind. Twins need to go ahead now and continue the process. How many more trades do we see from the Twins today? At least 2 minimum and could easily see over 5? Pineda? Simmons? Buxton? Maeda? Rogers? Kepler? Donaldson? Robles?

It is like impossible to get ACC/Notre Dame because of their grant of rights contract with the conference. It sounds like the B1G is indeed gonna go big and look to expand west into the PAC with USC, UCLA, Oregon, Colorado, Washington being among the targets. The big tv partner fox is also encouraging this potential move. I'm not sure I'm a huge fan of it as it stretches the conference from literally coast to coast. I get it is football driven but think about like a baseball series you are gonna have Rutgers playing UCLA in a weekend conference series? Would be all kinds of strange.

Berry's been following him since at least this winter. Very well could be another Minnesota/North Dakota battle and we haven't had a whole lot of success in those recruiting battles lately.

Our 2nd pick of the draft and we take a guy who isn't gonna help next year. GTHO Spielman. Could've got a guard to push to start or a really good DE like Perkins.

I was pretty shocked Darrisaw was still there. Still think he should have got more but Darrisaw being there was a pleasant surprise.