Sioux94

He has definitely pulled out the Stoney Brook offensive game plan since the first quarter, hopefully it will hold out.

Yeah....I was just going to say...you can feel the ole momentum changing here......ugh.

Yeah 31 straight runs, should definitely be able to surprise them with a pass sometime here and get a completion. I can't complain too much about all of the running though as hey it's working. Although now they just scored.....we can't sit on the lead the whole game. Just gotta find that perfect time to dial up a nice pass play.

I can't remember the last time we had a TD run that long!

Wow!!

When you can run for 4 yards on first down....the offensive coordinator looks brilliant! Wow another sack for the defense!

That was a pretty nice push by the line to get the TD....when everybody knew a run was coming.

Up 7-0...gotta love that!

NAU 27 UND 9

I think there are few games where the playing calling was pretty decent, and I agree there have been some others that have been questionable at times. Play calling has to be tough with this offense, especially now when you don't really trust much of anything. The first play with Studsrud.......guess what he did...he threw a pass (I bet you didn't see that one coming). But when you start throwing picks you have to dial it back. I know what your saying though, find some plays that fit him and find some things to keep the defense off balance, short passes.....whatever. I think he did start doing that in a few games in the middle of the season, and we were just starting to make some progress. It's almost like the chicken and the egg.....which one has to be good first? Do they actually have to execute and catch the ball and get a first down to improve the play calling, or does the play calling have to improve to get us a first down. I blame a majority of it on execution. If you start running the ball at 3-4 yards a crack, catch the ball when you are wide open and get a first down......that sure makes things a lot easier. Calling plays for the train wreck of an offense at this point can't be easy, I have no ties to Rudolph at all......but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.......for now.

We won't be nearly as bad in week 3 next year as we are right now (due to all of the injuries etc.). What I'm hoping for is that by week 3 next year that we are a little better than we were mid seasonish when we played Montana and Portland State. With a healthy team and hopefully some improvement on offense I think we can be, and if we are we'll have a chance to make it a fairly competitive game. It really stinks though having zero momentum going into next season......we had some going for a little while but with injuries and everything else we have taken a big step back. Once we are healthy again I don't think it will take long for us to take another step forward.

I'm off to try and pick up some tickets to the ASU - Notre Dame game and try and make it to that ......I'll try and keep an eye on this thread to get score updates.

With this offense it may take a minor miracle to win today, hopefully the defense of special teams can make some big plays

Well hopefully they are the ones who are dropping all of the balls, if so maybe it won't be that bad of a thing. But yeah either way, dropping out 2/3 through the season is pretty lame unless there are some special circumstances. Kinda kidding about it not being a bad thing, we are kind of thin all the way around and any departures at this point is not good. Although I guess if they are going to quit at the end of the season anyway, and they were getting some playing time.....actually better off without them and getting somebody younger in to get some game experience.....it's not like we are playoff bound or anything this year. Think I contradicted myself twice..... I should re-write all of that but oh well....I was just typing out loud.

I agree.... and it sucks to have no expectations of anything from our offense this late in the year. I feel like now we have jumped back to where we were in week three or so. Things were starting to come around just a bit, but now we've taken what seems like a huge step backwards. I hope we can take a step forward this coming weekend.

I I agree and was going to make that point earlier. If all three are healthy next year.....and Keaton is still the #3....or even #2...that doesn't bode well for his future. I don't think anybody is thinking Bartels and Mollberg have really been lighting things up in their careers so far. So if Keaton can't beat them out, that means he's not as good as them, so I sure hope that in 2-3 more years we have a younger QB coming up that is better than Mollberg and Bartels have been who would beat out Keaton anyway. If Keaton does beat them all out next fall, well then I guess it is a partial waste of a year....however he will gain experience starting a few games this year which will help him early next year.

To top it off.....EWU got upset last week and I'm sure was pretty pissed off about that, they were going to come out with a lot of purpose today.

Apparently the commentator thinks we still have a chance to win and should have gone for it on 4th down. Ummm yeah lets give EWU another short field to work with, we are just trying to get this game over with at this point.

Lets hope that Bubba doesn't sit there with a grin on his face and brag up the other team like USD's coach last week in the press conference after the game. (I'm being sarcastic here....I know he's not going to do that)

Their defense supposedly stinks...and we have 3 points at half.

We are getting our a$$ handed to us. Our offense can't do crap, the whole damn game has been played at our end of the field.

Let's hold them to a field goal and hope we can only be down 20-0 at half.

He's got the guy in the flat wide open....just take the short throw!!

We are shutting them down pretty well on the run, we just can't make that one big stop on 3rd or 4th down. However giving EWU 4 downs.....hard to stop that offense on 4 downs.

Like we really need more injuries to key people!!