Sioux94
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3 minutes ago, SiouxFanSince1990 said:
Schuster needs to be benched.
Because he got stripped of the ball from behind from a guy he couldn't see? Ok.
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Smith needed to follow his blocker on 2nd and goal
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Can't decide if it's better for USD to win or SIU today.
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1 minute ago, gfhockey said:
D is off to a rough start ugh
Was really just one pass play
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Seems like our first offensive play is something quick to the outside. I'm going out on a limb and say we throw a pass 8 yards pass the line of a scrimmage today on our first play!
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For 2023 I'm sure there was this type of list. Not sure if Jerry would have been on it but hopefully he will end up being the best ones of the 2023 class.
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5 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:
I honestly think we thump them for some reason.
It feels like we are due for a solid game after two crappy ones. Although given how the season has gone...I could see us down 3 at half or up 21.....who knows.
Glad Z is resting one more week, we should be able to win this one without him. Need him 100 percent for USD as that game is going to be a physical one.
Would be nice to have Red back this week though and get some of that speed around the edge going.
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14 hours ago, shep said:
Watching the replay last night verified the loss of Z in the backfield is huge.
There were some holes between the tackles where the RB just didn’t see, and I think that is Zs strength.
On Isaiah’s big run he bounced it out and found great perimeter blocking. Maybe could have done more of that.
Also realized Petigo gad a great game.
I recalled at least one run where he either bounced it out or it was designed to go outside and we got a decent game. Made me wonder if we should have run more quick type pitches outside. Will be nice to have Z back. Hope Red is back to 100 percent too to run those quick sweep passes around the edge.
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39 minutes ago, wheelsup said:
So Im not a QB expert but I think Tommy had a mix of good and bad throws and calling him a noodle arm is just poor in my book.
- First long pass to BB first quarter I think.. As I recall it was a bit underthrown or Bo would have run into the endzone.. Drive ended with that stupid fake FG. I think he also hit skokna in the hands on this drive in the endzone but I dont remember.
- 20 yd TD pass to Belqust in Q3.. I remember that being a very nice throw.
- on the game tying drive.. I think he had a super nice pass right into JW hands that was dropped.. He had a nice throw to Klein and scrambled like a boss
- OT TD to Q was a thing of beauty..
You gotta give Tommy some credit. He played very poorly against UNI and for prob 2.75 Quarters on Saturday.. but he also threw for 273 yds and 4 TD and many of those yds and TD's are when it mattered.
By the way.. you can still keep me on the list of people that really wanted to see a significant amount of Feeney last Saturday, but as least some of that fault for the game has to go to the O-line which needs to find its way back to the NDSU game and the play calling which has been substantially not awesome.
I agree with pretty much most of this. While I definitely would have liked to seen Feeney in the UNI game, while Tommy does have some limitations/short comings or whatever you want to call it......he isn't the sole reason for the crappy last two weeks. Main reason is the OL and not being able to run the ball. Don't think I've heard OL coach called out once, but we blame Danny. Which Danny does have to take a large brunt of it. Against UNI Red dropped a pass in end zone. On Saturday on our drive to kick tying FG Tommy rolled to his right and threw a perfect ball 15-20 yards down field on the money to Dennis who was running across the field. Ball was pinpoint exactly where you would want it to be and Dennis dropped it. Fortunately Tommy made a long scramble to pick up about 25 yards after that dropped pass. The long pass to Bo early on the game was definitely underthrown, however a defender was running full steam straight towards Tommy and he couldn't really step into it. Who knows he might have still under thrown it.
Late in the game we had first and goal at the 3 yard line. I think we were all like..... don't get cute Danny just run it in. We handed off to Skokna for 0 yards, might have lost half a yard. Not going to lie, after seeing that I was like crap..... I'm not sure if we can even run it in from here. So Danny did get 'cute" on the next play and it worked and went for a TD.
Bottom line is the OL needs to better for us to be a better team. It seemed so easy against NDSU. Danny might have to stick with it more, however when we get stuffed for zero yards on a handful of plays.....it's easy to abandon that.
Being more wide open in the passing attack may help that though, we need to not be afraid to throw an interception. Honestly I think our offense is best when there are like 2-3 minutes left in second quarter or game.....we've seen to have a lot of quick drives the end of a half or game the past 2 years. Sure part of that is teams don't want to let a deep one by them, but I think part of it is is being more aggressive and taking some chances.
Would like to see Klein in more and get more opportunities.
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6 minutes ago, siouxfan512 said:
Only other thing I didn't mentioned was the play calling and coaching.
What has happened to Danny? Some of the play calls have been unbelievably atrocious!
And I may have missed something, but was there a penalty on ISU's XP that we declined? I was working in the garage and missed what happened, but if that is the case why wouldn't we make them kick again? Or maybe I had the call wrong. I just know there were some moments during the game where I was wondering if Bubba was even watching!
Though maybe Bubba too busy being frustrated with the officiating because that was pretty terrible too. The too many men on the field penalty when they didn't allow us time to change personnel made no sense. There was some other terrible calls as well. Nothing that excused that game ever being that close, overall that was on UND, but wow was it a weird game.
I think the penalty you were thinking of was after the extra point. It was after the play so ISU hard to kick off 15 yards further back when they kicked off, which ended up setting us up on the 40 after Skokna's return. So no coaching mistake there. But the decision to go for 2 early was really dumb and could have cost us.
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1 minute ago, Dustin said:
I’m perplexed by the short yardage throws as well.
Agree, they are pretty predictable at this point. Although on the one late in the game when we were at about mid field and it was 3rd and long ...we threw one of those.....in my mind I was thinking they thought if we got close to the first down we would go for it because we're on their side of the field. But we came up like 4 yards short and punted anyway.
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1 minute ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
could we mix in please
a. using the te
b. screens
c. occasional bombs
d. wildcat/brockstar plays
I am a little surprised we don't run Romfo more in the Wildcat, especially when we are struggling on offense.
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Just now, SIOUXFAN97 said:
do we run screens?
Most haven't worked this year. Which might be due to we don't throw further than 5 yards down field on 95 percent of our plays. Tommy has had to throw a few into the ground because there was nothing there.
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24 minutes ago, forksandspoons said:
NAU beat No. 25 UC Davis
That is definitely good for us. I think towards the end of the game they showed that UND has somewhere around the 6th toughest strength of schedule so far? Thinking it was the schedule so far This season, but not the full season....didn't catch that for sure.
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11 minutes ago, Kab said:
who’s call was that going for 2 when we were up 11
It was Bubba's, if not.....then he's not really the head coach.
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5 minutes ago, homer said:
Your right…..probably wouldn’t look good to the committee cause it was our Super Bowl
I'm not saying it's not a good win, it was a very good win. It will be our only good win though if we lose to USD. If we lose to USD in a close one 7-4 probably gets us in, if it's another 27-0 loss on the road.....I dunno.
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7 minutes ago, Wilbur said:
Okay. 5-3.
@ Murray State.....who knows.
@ South Dakota.....a loss.
Illinois State......ummm.......
They could win all three or lose all three. Not sure 7-4 gets them in any more with the last two weeks.
7-4 our only good win is against NDSU in our SB at home.
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2 minutes ago, wheelsup said:they were daring us to throw the ball over the middle.. they were totally loaded up to stop the bubble screens and short swing passes behind the line of scrimmage.
We HAVE to be more aggressive over the middle and down field. As I said in a post an hour or two ago, I don't care if we end up throwing a pick at some point.
Sure we do get one big play later because defense is all up tight. But we cant continue to throw 22 1 yard passes a game to set up 1 long pass. We can only do that if we are averaging 5 yards up the middle on first down. That semi long completion to Elidor against SU early in the game was an important play to me in that game because it at least gave the impression that we might try and throw over you.
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1 minute ago, Oxbow6 said:Danny needs to take the training wheels off this offense.
I'd rather risk Tommy throwing a pick 15 yards over the middle of the field than 22 1 yard pass plays. Something has to change to open things up if we are unable to pound up the middle on the ground.
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I'd still like to hear from head coach why we went for 2, I'd like to hear the rationale for that. I mean I don't think there is one, seemed to make no sense given the situation. Maybe there is rationale and I'm missing it, so would love to hear it.
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4 minutes ago, Kab said:
Tommy did scramble this week, last week he would have curled up and went down
He did play like the season was on the line at the end there that is for sure. He made plays.
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1 minute ago, gfhockey said:
The D came out flat in the second half. They couldn’t get it up much like me last night and this morning.
At least you have the option of taking a pill for that.
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1 minute ago, Sioux>Bison said:
That comeback showed character even as bad as the 4th qtr was. Lots to build on those lay 47 seconds!
I do agree with that. As crappy as the game was, maybe something miraculously will come out of that comeback and spark us..... we'll see.
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Welp.... we are still on track for 7-4 season.... possible home playoff win and then getting destroyed on the road.
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I didn't either until I saw that stat.