Sioux94

Since last year I've felt that Brady should be the RB on the opening drive to pound the rock, because he almost always gets positive yards and it's important not to go 3 and out your first series. Pound them the first drive with Brady and JJ, maybe first two drives....then put Santiago in for change of pace as RB. But yes also have Santiago in out wide or something when Brady or JJ are in backfield. If Santiago is still a little dinged up, if he was out there as somewhat of a decoy out wide and not getting contact, he would still draw attention. Santiago did have a 139 yards against Washington and a 60 yard run, for whomever was asking when his last run of over 40 yards was. Only Santiago would have made that run. The OL has really started to come together...I think there are some big runs for Santiago to be had now. However I also agree......stick with what is working now! Weber is physical, let Brady and JJ run them over.

Yeah that definitely had a big role in that, I don't think they hold EWU to 6 if Gubrud is playing, but I think they have still been pretty potent with their backup in and Weber shut them down. First one to 17 on Saturday probably wins!

If we win this game, we may become thought of as the new Weber. Super boring offense that just plugs away and does score some points, and a really good defense. Man if we just had at least average special teams! Weber shut down EWU, but I'm hoping maybe our style of play translates better? We'll see. Hopefully we get one OL man back this week, OL playing well against a tough defense will be important. If we win the turnover battle, and 3rd down conversion percentages I say we win the game.

If we go 9-2 we should get a top 8 seed in my opinion and I think we will unless ISU craps the bed the rest of the year. We do need some other teams we beat, Like Montana to finish strong to help. If we only have 1 FCS loss, and that was to a team who in my opinion would probably roll most teams outside the top 15, don't get a top 8 seed that is crap. ISU totally should have beaten Davis. Man who would have thought a missed 27 yard FG by another team may cost us. We have a long ways to go yet, so I will worry about that problem if we do go 9-2. Weber is going to be a battle, playing at NAU is also going to be a difficult game too. I feel if we beat Weber and we lose another one to go 8-3 we are absolutely in the playoffs without a doubt and would be ridiculous if we weren't. Beating SHSU at their place....and the fact we crushed Montana...……..that will still matter come playoff selection.

I agree, this is likely to be a 20-17 type of game, both good defenses. Not being able to make FG's is going to hurt. This is the type of game where if we had a legit kicker I could see 3 FG's. I hope the kid gets his head somewhat straightened out this week to be able to at least make short ones when when needed.

So do many adults about this. Had a buddy that lives in Fargo down in AZ for work last week and met up with him. He is mostly hockey guy (season tickets)......he said he won't buy Fighting Hawks stuff. I told him as much as I hated getting rid of Fighting Sioux, I've pretty much let it go at this point.

That's right....those guys two years ago were hilarious!! The main guy yesterday was alright.......but yeah color guy yesterday that was supposed to add stuff, yeah he wasn't that good. Sounded like they pulled the JV coach from a local high school team to add commentary.

Outside of it really being cemented how bad our kicker is, I am kind of glad things didn't go quite as planned out of the gate and we faced some adversity against a team that we should beat. These type of games have swallowed us up in the past. The guys kept playing hard and just powered through it. The final score still ended up being roughly what most of us predicted.

Too bad Leach wasn't a freshman last year since it was wasted year anyway. I mean how do we even attempt a FG try over 40 yards this year.

Yeah with two OLB out for the year now.....can't move him. So next year is Gordon going back to RB? We will be sitting pretty good next year even though Santiago and Brady are graduating. JJ, Gordon, and Weah.

My Pluto was actually pretty good tonight......never froze and was good all the way through.

Think might have been Tank.

I was noticing that too.

Ok our OL has massively outperformed this year. We have two starters out and we have 450 yards on the ground.

He's always so damn close.....nice to see him break one like that and take it all the way!

I do feel bad for him too. But also feel bad for us....we basically don't have a kicker this year and eventually it will cost us. This will be his last year of college football in my amateur opinion. I don't think he'd make many NAIA teams at this point.

Can we get a kicker to transfer mid season? Ugh so ugly!

I don't either, I could see him getting injured.

And I would agree with doing that. With Santiago already a little banged up, if JJ or Brady get hurt we will need somebody.

I did

Nice block....we needed something positive! Big play on offense here now would be nice to swing this back the other way.

This game just has a bad feel. I no longer care about a two score win. I think we are going to have to claw and scrap to win this game. We've GOTTA get a win here tonight!

This looks like it's going to be one of those type of games, ugh.

Have we even run a screen since week 1?