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No. You really can't for a lot of reasons. Schmitty isn't going to throw away 5 years of playing and 17 years of coaching the 3-4, which often is tops in the league. There is a wrinkle you could do within the 3-4 but no one listens to me........

I am with ya- Cam Hunt, Dijon Murray, I wonder if these guys even exist, never seen them on the field. I think we overly stacked the d-line and have missed on LBs, I have stated my frustration on this prior. We might have a fatal flaw with our systems, both O and D are overly complex, on a 1 to 10 scale in college FB we are in the 8-9 range. Yes, it's hard to believe our offense is complex!! College football has trended towards simple, mismatches, read plays, get your best player(s) the ball in space while we are flipping 6 guys around pre snap to run a toss play out of pro-I. On defense, our system can be a work of art but again, so complex at times we mentally bog down, play hesitant, and make it tough for a newby. Tasty tidbit - My SU source, told me in one of their Natty games, their D called 3 defensive calls all game, disguised a little and just play.

I tend to agree with this. Look back at 2015 linebacking corp. Labbatt was 240 lbs. Taj was 230 lbs, Ratelle was 255 lbs, Idowu was the small guy at 225 lbs. With that size you can mix in a change of pace 210 lb flash like Disterhaupt and be really affective doing it. But to average 205 lbs across all 4 backers, not going to work very well.

1 word- Out coached

If there's a good omen to the game it's this: Back in the hazing days of college football, we used to have the biggest/roundest rookie on the team (offensive lineman) stand up on a chair, take his shirt off, and in front of all the fall student athletes(girls Volleyball team) in the cafeteria, sing "The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers. The whole team would join in the chorus. Last night, just saw Kenny Rogers on his final tour, rocking "The Gambler", made me think of it.

We run the draw like a rented mule already -

Sure you can, you can slip screen, bubble screen, smoke, 3-step, max or heavy protect, roll the QB out. Our O-line has enough juice that if we mix this stuff in with our best weapons we would see more success with our tradition run game. In a sense, we kinda opened the pass up in order to run against Missouri St.

Until I see us properly use our weapons on offense and mix up controlling the ball and taking some shots, I don't believe it's a reality. I think the USD game gives us 2 losses with injuries and exposure on how to attack us. We will play hard but we are banged up while the Bobcats are coming off a bye week. 30-27 Cats.

You are an artist-

You pissed off Dale Earnhardt-

I know the feeling, not sure what we will see from UND......I expect they will play hard!! If I were in charge, our 1st offensive set would include 1 TE, Wanzak and Santiago out wide, Brady at HB, JJ at FB. Choose your poison. Our defense has to be prepped for more beef up front, whatever form that may be.

Not change, wrinkle with personnel was a suggestion. We won't stop anyone with opposing TEs putting our small backers on ice skates.

Need the Travis Tritt one back, or does that offend all rednecks?

Tamas is a hitter. He didn't put any extra into that hit, just the way he plays. He smoked a Utah WR week #1, legal hit. On the film, he loads up his left shoulder, easy for me to see being a former player. If you don't prepare for the impact, which he did with his left shoulder, you're going to get hurt.

This is a very legit question. In the older days, we often had a big and heavy outside backer along with an outside backer like we have today. Against a 1 TE set, the bigger outside backer would flip to take that blocker on. I honestly made this point a few days ago to someone inside the program. When an opposing TE puts our 210 guys on ice skates that's a concern. I think we have a number of DL that could fit this mold. I'd take the most athletic DL we have in space and give it a try. The downside is predictability, the other team should realize that this backer will be the 'rush' backer most of the time should it be a pass play. But it's a trade off we might have to take. (I hope this makes some sense) And really, an outside backer that is 'on' is much like a DE anyway.

Wrong, slide was too late, good non-call. Strev, tough as nails. I like the kid for his toughness and feel for the game.

At game speed I thought we knocked Strevler out on the sideline. But, he got up and didn't miss a beat. Someone more tech savvy than me can probably find the play.

I really don't have a problem with this analysis. Life in general, don't reward what's not earned. Need a big bounce back week in GF. In spite of my joke about season tickets for sale in the game thread......I am doubling down with about 25 family members and friends for Saturday.

That's kind of why I had us a little lower. We won't see Stockwell or Holm for a while. We could have an all injury line-up that's better than the team on the field at this rate.

UND - #19 That was generous. One behind Weber St. USD - #14 Bigger jump than I thought. The target is now on you at 3-0 UNI - still in it at #24

I feel like punching you in the face.

The game when the Bison O-line were literally tackling our linebackers and d-line under the context of 'cut blocks'? It's the only time Lennon complained about officiating. UND sent the film in to get reviewed. It was a total collapse of rules. People often wonder how we shut NDSU down 2 weeks prior, then couldn't stop their run......now you know. It was cheap, dirty, disgusting, and they got away with it.

Thanks for reminding me.....I was on that team that took that beating, it was from USD, not SDSU. We had Morningside the next week, then took care of the Bison the following week in GF. We truly were asleep and unprepared for that game, just like today!! So history shows a bounce back is possible but this 2017 team has a lot more to overcome than my '95 team. We were healthy and had more talent than most opponents in '95.

Historically you don't see drops like that, but we got spanked.

Predicting UND - 22 USD - 16 UNI - up a few spots with close loss