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So the defense has obviously been a disappointment this year. Snowball effect of having young corners on one end and also just not getting much pressure on the QB to help out the secondary. Holinka at times in the past, many of us thought he was maybe better than Schmidt so far as defensive coordinator and/or thought maybe he would be the one to get the nod as head coach over Freund when that time came. I don't think a coach goes from being a good coordinator one year to a bad coordinator the next year. Since I don't think a coach goes from being good to bad in a year, are the players just not making plays? I think it is probably more that than anything. I don't know the answers or what can be done to change it, but usually when the defense performs poorly you look at DC, so you do have to look at that in a sense (I don't mean canning Holinka). As some others have said, at this point in the season we are what we are, and our defense just isn't that good......and we are going to have to win despite of it, get some timely stops....etc.. Thoughts?

I wouldn't say you really stuck your neck out. You said 6-5...but if we go 7-4 we make the playoffs and everyone is happy and your comment is mostly forgotten. But if we do go 6-5 you get to rail on it...on a weekly basis the entire off season about how you are the only one who has high expectations etc. etc. etc. Very low risk high reward statement for you saying we will go 6-5. If we do end up 6-5, you won't be the only one who is pretty pissed off/upset.

ISU lost by 6 points or less to NDSU, UNI, Illinois State, and Youngstown. And we all know we don't do easy, so I would expect this will be another 4 quarter game. Whatever it takes....just win!

Normally my favorite uniform is the traditional green jersey with white pants. But I forgot how much I don't like those new green tops with the dumb white on the shoulders. I think our black jerseys are our best ones now at this point. Game was far from perfect, but a win is a win.

I think he ran one early? But ya can't believe he wasn't in down by the goal line

Ok thanks for the update. Let me know if they do get it on.

Seriously??? Wtf. Keep me posted if they put it on.

Anybody from here over at the Beerhaus for the watch party? I'm probably going to head over there at halftime

Hoping we have a good start.

Can you give it a rest.....for like an hour.

Oh we know we won't catch you off guard by blitzing, I'm sure your coaches are preparing for it. But handling a wide variety of blitzing in live action can be a different thing. You could burn is a few times on it, but from our end we'll hope we get home a few times in big spots. Our sack numbers have been lower than expected this year though so we'll see.

Even though the crowd will be a lot less this week, I want to see our players come out fired up and ready to play right out of the gate......and continue playing with fire the whole game. Their OL is young, blitz the heck out of them as Kelly mentioned in the podcast. And oh yeah....Kelly....we like your rants on the podcast....no need to cut them short!

What are the records of the other QB's in the MFVC other than the SU's since 2020, or include the SU's if you want. My guess there would probably be 3....maybe 4 that are better.

I think most everyone would say SDSU at this point has bigger/more talented players than us. at this point. However, we did beat them in Spring 2020 and very close on the road last fall. Actually, to me that says our coaches must be pretty good if we have slightly inferior talent but can still win. Hopefully that means as they continue to build the quality of that talent and when we are equal in talent we will be able to win more often than we lose when we play the SU's. Just because I'm saying that doesn't mean I think that I think Bubba is the best coach in the world. I actually don't think his contract should have been extended when it was, and unless we have some playoff success this year and next year, I hope it's not. But I'm not going to rip on the coaches every single time a player makes a mistake etc.. But because some of us don't rip on the coaches and program non-stop, a few of you love claiming that the rest of us love .500 football. Which is about as true as when we say you aren't a real fan. Neither of those are true, we are all big fans, we all want and expect to start getting some conference titles and ultimately a National Championship. Actually I think this fall you haven't been that bad. Last year you were ripping on Tommy and his arm....3-4 times a week. Tommy has shown he is a pretty productive FCS QB, especially this year now that he is running a little more and I think even you see he's a pretty good QB. Doesn't mean he is perfect, deep balls are still a struggle for sure and that has been frustrating. And the thing is, it's not necessarily due to arm strength all of the time. The first play against SDSU he over threw the ball so it wasn't that.

I might be wrong but I think that was his 4th game. Unless they plan on using him a lot more I hope they don't burn it. However I think since they have already played him 4 games I think they are going to burn it.

There was only 1 defender within 5 yards of the LOS. There is no route to jump if the WR even gets a slight block on the DB. Even if DB does a crappy block, it's probably a completion but a gain of only 1 or 2 yards. But if the WR gets half way decent block it's an easy gain of 3-5 yards.

Even though I started wondering if we would be in at 7-4, I think we are in. That year we didn't get in....I believe was the year we had the crappy loss to a 1-2 win Idaho State team at home. We have zero bad losses this year and will have beaten everyone we should have. Also, us pounding Missouri State may have set in the for them the beginning of their demise.

Finally went back and watched the Pick 6 play. Yeah...wow what a mess up by the WR who should have blocked the guy right in front of him. That was not a bad decision by Tommy, if the WR blocks that guy just a little we get 4-5 yards on that play.

As much as I hate to say it, thinking we might be better off with NDSU winning the next 3 weeks to make our game against them bigger/more important. If they get beat again before we play them, and then we get beat by them.....that loss looks worse. Do we want UNI to win or lose? USD beating SIU makes our loss seem a little worse, if UNI beats them also...also helps makes that loss not look good. UNI still plays SDSU, so I don't think they will beat SDSU and therefore wouldn't get to 7-4. Although if SIU loses, and then lose to NDSU then they are at 6-5 and would be out. I think SIU will be fired up back at home next weekend and likely win. SIU plays at Youngstown the last game of the season, that will be a pivotal game if Youngstown is sitting at 6 wins going into that one.

If I remember correctly, 2 OLineman decided not to come back for their extra fall season, plus Hergel had left as well. Losing those 3 starters on the OL had a huge impact, we could not gain a yard on the ground when we needed to. We probably averaged -1 yard on 2nd and short running plays. We were in all of the games, but lost too many of them....fumbles etc..

Getting YSU to 7 wins would be nice as that would then be a high quality road win for us. Seems crazy people are saying the MVFC would only get 3 teams in. Like really....some of the other teams in those cream puff conferences should get in over the 4th best MVFC team? I wouldn't mind getting some style points in at least one of the games the next three weeks. That said, I'm more worried about us slipping up somewhere....but at least two of them are at home. Also have to show we belong when we play at NDSU, an upset would be even better.

My thoughts.....as others mentioned.....them getting so much pressure with just their front four really made us ineffective. Although, not sure why we were so much more effective in the first half. Obviously they made some adjustments, but would be curious what their major adjustment was. I'm hoping this game eats at our players.......and makes us a better team the rest of the way. Defense played better than expected, I'm not taking any moral victories but that was good to see because we've still got 4 games left, and we need to win at least 3 of them. SDSU is just flat out a good team and deserves #1 ranking. We had such a great start, but obviously way...way too many mistakes to beat a team as talented as they are. A few weeks ago I said we are for sure in at 7-4, but it has been such a weird season this year. At the time us destroying Missouri State I thought was huge.....now it doesn't really mean much. The NDSU game will probably have some impact on the selection committee, if we lose....is the game tight, or do we get bulled over right from the start. Obviously I want to win, but we have to look like we belong when we play them the last week of the season. Agree with some of the others as far as my feelings about SDSU, watching that dude smile on the sidelines and their other personal fouls etc.. I might now be rooting for them to choke again, unless it's against NDSU. We'll see how the team responds next weekend when the crowd will be much smaller and not nearly the hype for the game, will the team be lethargic or will they come out fired up. Don't let this SDSU loss beat you twice!

Agree, defense did what they needed to do. That pick 6 and then zero offense in 2nd half....offense let us down.

Petersen has been underwhelming this year. Lot's of short kicks.

One big play and a TD sure would turn the momentum and put some pressure back on them. Also would get the crowd back in it when they are on offense.