geaux_sioux

I'm thinking our secondary will continue to improve, look at the improvement from Portland to last night. The difference is night and day. Passing out of the option is really hard to defend on the other hand.... I'm more confident in them this year though. 3-4 is going to do what it was created to do

They aren't as good as their record or their ranking. Give them a few weeks to be exposed

Cal Poly is back for more this year in the Alerus. These games are always close and always entertaining. They are a team that we all are very familiar with and their offense is a very interesting matchup with our defense. Their QB is Snoop Doggs nephew and is very good at orchestrating the option. They score 32.5 points/game vs allowing 18points/game They run for 324 yards/game and pass for 84.5 yards/game Leading rusher Deonte Williams 148 yards/game 1TD long of 74 QB Andre Broadous has passed for 169 yards and 3 TDs at 61% This game should be a good one, Poly is our top rival in the Big Sky as of now. The Alerus should be packed. Prediction (as of now): PAIN

I'm thinking/hoping that the reason for the woes of the run defense is a result of being spread out by Sac St PSU and SDSU. SDSU didn't spread as much as the other two but they were also FBS. I'm thinking that against a more compact alignment such as Poly Mont and NAU the run defense will improve greatly. Luckily the 3-4 was designed for the option (Poly) so next week we should be in position to hold them down in the stats but for that to happen we need to tackle. If I'm wrong about the spread thing than we've got a big problem if we can't force alot of turnovers ala the Saints defense recently.

I'm a big homer as far as Hendrickson is concerned, always have been, but what I saw from Hansen cannot be on the bench. The offense with Hanson at the helm is like a finely tuned Swiss watch. He's clinical in his reads and has a more than deft touch on his passes. His arm is strong enough to make 95% of the throws that we've seen Marcus make so thats not much of an issue. I know Marcus can scramble when he needs but Braden will complete more passes and get us into better/shorter 3rd down situations where we can just hand the ball off instead of rely on a 9 yard run by the QB. I wish Marcus had played lights out last night and forced his way into the start next week but he didn't. He was pretty average last night and missed alot of throws. Once again Hanson will have to prove himself worthy to the Hendrickson Bandwagoneers. He will have his own bandwagon soon enough for those people top get on because if he's 90% going into Poly we are in very very good hands. Hanson '12

I'd hate to see them over-coach this situation and ruin offensive rhythm

I wish Marcus would have at least made the discussion hard on the coaches, he showed why Braden is the dude, it's all about the consistancy. We do have one hell of a backup QB though,

I'm kinda glad that the offense left the eye liner at home this week and pounded their D into submission. The D looked better in the second half but still...... almost 500 yards again -492 it think- is ridiculous. I know they had long fields to drive and all but the run D missed tackles again but did show some glimpses of what they should be. The D line needs to step it up and get sacks when they get pressure. We didn't seem too aggressive with the pass rush with our LBs, I don't like that even though I do understand that they were spreading it out alot making blitzing more difficult. At least we showed that we can still win ugly like last year, all good teams need to be able to do that.

Turnovers and bad field position equals alot of yards and a loss

Cal Poly will destroy our D if they play like that again.... Maybe the passing game and running game will click and allow us to dictate the entire game

and then that happens

So sloppy, we need to pick it up

Sweet two tone high top in the crowd

didn't see him just like at SDSU, he's obviously now going to explode like that game too

The defense just pulled a Leprechaun out of their ass on a muffed snap

BS PI, saved them on 3rd and 4

Huge dude in a walking boot just made some chubby guy look silly for trying to fight someone in the crowd, awesome

I just saw the first proper run block by the line against a D1 team. Bout damn time. TD Sutton by the way, he's starting to run well.

Big Sky Tv should stop using a sepia filter on the cameras, its like a commercial from the early 70s.

Sparks, just saying, you never know. If he made the trip that is...

3rd and 5, the run game is pretty average right now

100 yard rusher already.............. wow

Marcus needs to pick it up in a big way if he wants to have any shot of keeping his job. Maybe he needs to throw a pick 6 and settle in

The lack of penetration is starting to piss me off. These same players made those plays last year.

Coach Mannausau can only put them into position to make plays, after that it's on them. Just like that 10 yard run.... guys at the line and the back gets through for a first down. The linebackers aren't nasty enough they need to step it up