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In our system, we have very little allowable wiggle room for QBs to audible to what they want, or to what many of us consider, "working plays" against 8-9 man fronts. I heard Zim pushed the envelope. Just watching the game being called with Zim in you could see it for yourself.

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Play calling, personnel use, Heidlbaugh in Montana, chewing out Zim for calling his own plays against Sac St (Zim was 11-20 for 179 yards and 2 TDs by the way) It's far more than play calling -

I am looking at the team in it's entirety. The whole point is we don't have the horses on defense at this time to be a successful team without being pretty darn efficient on offense. A lot of folks are asking why we haven't made adjustments offensively to at least go down swinging. (personnel use/play calling/QB decision) Announcers calling our away games are making these same observations. If you look up Top Big Sky Football Teams historically it has been defined as - winning teams with an average defense, along with a highly efficient offense.

Our offense should be based on scoring efficiency. I swear to God the current staff would take a 6 minute drive with no points over a 1 minute drive that ends in a touchdown. That's the way the game is called anyway.

Someone was pissy about my comment, privately. I was predicting at 14-0 we hit bottom, during the game. I still thought we'd win after watching 1 quarter of action. We were moving the ball and the Portland St. O-line was sketch at left tackle. If I wasn't clear, that was my positive outlook that from 14-0 we'd finish the year stronger.

We have a head coach in the NFL at 30 years old. A few others started in their 30's, I think Tomlin was 34-35 when he started at Pitt. I think we could have an OC in FCS football at 30-31 or whatever Danny is. Plus, he played the most critical position on offense. I would not be too worried about it.

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Was it amusing or was it disheartening listening to the home commentators, the one that played RB at Notre Dame wondering about 2 things? 1) where is the screen for UND 2) should find away to have Santiago and Brady on the field at the same time.

I felt at 14-0 we hit rock bottom on the year. We responded and it actually looked like we were having fun. Even 2 quality losses to finish the year would be OK, compared to getting embarrassed. 1-1 would be fantastic.

I hope someone knocks out Riley. He is a cocky SOB.

I thought we'd hit something 15-20 yards and kick a FG. I was wrong.

I actually put the reverse pass in. Noah threw a bad ball, but it worked.

Brady was on the field. It is a rule, 1 RB at a time. Where have you been all year??

Time to throw into traffic.

Is this rock bottom? Did we just hit it?

Portland St. scores on a RB wheel route. Works for most teams. We don't run that play of course.

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Are we on a hidden camera show this season?

Montana getting their tits lit by Weber St. This is why I was so pissed about our incompetence in our game against the Griz. They are a pretty average team, we made them look good.

That's who I had in mind, Big C. 315 to 330 lbs with feet, couldn't block him. Can Bennet and Tank dominate next year, or will someone emerge like Morrison or Ott, or Quentin?

It's been awhile and nobody is real fresh in anyone's mind. We need dominant players on each level of the defense. Having 10 game ready D-lineman without a dominant player really doesn't get us very far. I think Tank dominated the Cal Poly game at home last year. But haven't seen that level since. Don't take comfort in sheer numbers, need some special guys if we are going to be a perennial top 10.

Anyone, Who's our last dominant D-lineman at UND?

Ya, that was a brutal post and thankfully the exception on this forum. Anger and frustration with the results is one thing but I for 1 am not doubting the players and their emotional and physical investment in trying to win games.

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