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On the DL, what bothers me is they are getting zero push. They're on skates more often than not. They're too experienced for that to happen. But they also all need to get much bigger and stronger across the board for next year.

Freeney is 6'1" 268 lbs. Both our guys are taller than him and about 40 lbs lighter. Noah Johnson last season was our best DE and he was 6'2" 270.

Obviously, there are the injuries. But currently, we are on pace to have our worst defensive performance as a team since joining the Big Sky. Worse than those last two Mussman teams that people look to as the standard for defensive ineptitude. 33.7 - 2013 34.5 - 2012 36.5 - 2017. The guys need to step it up or they may turn in the worst defensive season in program history. Doesn't matter who's out there. We have two of the best teams on our schedule to end the year. It's not going to be easy but they need to figure it out. We're playing for pride at this point.

Half the time Bennett and Wilson are on skates because they aren't strong enough. They have good speed and agility but they don't help us much against the run. Stats on a bad defense are misleading. Those two need to be above 250lbs.

I really hope they are looking at some JUCO and FBS guys. A couple DBs, an OLB, an ILB, and a WR or two with height and speed. We need a handful of instant impact upperclassman transfers if we want to bounce back next year.

The bars at the ends are a nice touch, and ahead of their time, but the overall capacity should have been much higher.

I've heard Ralph wanted 15,000 at the beginning but small minded people talked the number down.

Also, it should have been built with 15,000 seats.

That building was designed to last longer than that.

There's no reason to not compete. The teams we're playing aren't that good. Sac St is not good, we need to win that game no matter who is playing.

He needs to empty the chocolate milk fridge after every workout. At least 6 if not 8 milks every workout. 5 large meals a day. Extra lifts in his spare time. When Rattelle came in he was 230 and didn’t look like he had room for another ounce of muscle. He left UND at about 255. And he got faster. Rastas and a bunch of his teammates need to commit to that lifestyle, it sucks but it’s worth it.

Judging by how skinny he is, Rastas could put on 30 lbs and get around 220. He would be faster and have a little more burst with that added strength. I hope he can get it done because I like his heart.

He’s our leading tackler now. He gets better each game. If he can even gain 20 lbs this winter that would be huge.

Rastas redshirted last year.

When I read his comment I was thinking national championships. Not sure if he meant it that way.

We won a lot of games in spite of our offense against a collection of teams with average defenses at best. The offense was painful last year at times. The d bailed them out with turnovers again and again.

Zim is our most efficient qb according to the stats.

You’re thinking of Blake Williams from Winnipeg I think. Rashad, Beck, and Camy weren’t D1 players. Slaight never showed up. Those 5 are on recruiting. Adams, they took a flyer on him but his knee wasn’t able to get where it needed to be. Can’t coach a knee. Same with Francis, and Merz. Injuries forced them out. Taylor was apparently an idiot. Grady had his issues and life responsibilities. Can’t really put any of these on a coach. But what about Dan Bell, Matt Cox Brandon Miller, Adam Steiner, and Blair? All underachieving. Have to put that on the coach.

Who’s this donell Smith guy?

Usually a position groups success and failure is attributed to the position coach.

Because the upperclassman can’t hang after 3 years of his coaching.

One thing that really bothers me about Rudy's playcalling is the jet sweep action. Not so much that it exists because it can be a great tool if used properly but how he uses it. Firstly, he often has one of our slow plodding WR's attempt it. That's never going to work. 6'3"-6'4" slow WR's are not the jet sweep body type, maybe Randy Moss, but not our guys. Running it with Izzy is a better option as we saw on Saturday. Secondly, the use of the jet sweep action followed by smashing the RB right up the middle blows my mind. All that does is bring another body into the already stacked box. It just doesn't make sense. No team respects our jet sweeps. They don't need to. Maybe next year with Izzy, Griebel, and McKinney it will be more successful, especially if it's a different OC.

They could bring in Mussman to coach the OL and it would be a huge upgrade.

3rd and 10 but still. I could live with it on second down but not third in that circumstance.

Exactly. He was a bum.