San Diego @ UND 9/21/24

[wheelsup]

9 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

Many of those targets were awful throws, but at least they’re targeting their playmaker out wide. The two deep connections to Bo in the second half were critical (and great calls by Fruechte).

Agreed.. I think romfo completed as many throws to the other team as our team in the first half.  5/13 with 2 ints won’t get it done against a decent team. 

if we are sticking with romfo, I would like to see him more involved in the run game like the Montana game.  Yesterday all he did was hand off the ball and make a bunch of questionable throws.. outside of two wide open completions to belquist.  I would love to be a fly on the wall in the qb room when they are watching a replay of the game.

[homer]

31 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

Don't want to proclaim too much yet, but it does continue to look like we have significantly upgraded at offensive coordinator and maybe even offensive line coach. Still want to see how year 2 looks like after a year of recruiting and transfer portal entrees into the program …

And players transferring out.  That’s a fair comment.  
 

I just think everything we saw last year that people would say Bubba is calling the offense……the new OC has shown not to be true.  And last year vs Sac St…..new OC would have run the damn ball all day. 

[90siouxfan]

Perhaps there is a dynamic where Danny's mind set was "Do what Bubba would do." where Isaac having less ties to Bubba is of the mind set "Do what it takes with what we got".   He also probably watches Simon struggle with pass placement and knows in practice Simon is not struggling with those throws, a mental thing that can be fixed?

 

[zonadub]

How much of the second half dominance should be credited to the new S & C coach. Very impressive durability this season.

[Goon]

14 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:

I hear you but just like ETSU last week Towson was running on NDSU. Everyone has shown weakness. 

Maybe there is an argument for parity in college football on the FCS level. 

[Vegas_Sioux]

Could be worse could have been boat raced by Iowa at home. 

[MinnDak]

2 hours ago, Vegas_Sioux said:

Could be worse could have been boat raced by Iowa at home. 

Iowa State-Iowa-Gophers so we should at least tie the Gophers. 

[Irish]

6 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

Many of those targets were awful throws, but at least they’re targeting their playmaker out wide. The two deep connections to Bo in the second half were critical (and great calls by Fruechte).

I'm still concerned about how we are handling the QB situation.  Romfo certainly did better the second half but the first half was brutal.  So far he has thrown some of the worst passes I have seen from our quarterbacks in a long time.  After the first half we had 11 yards passing with a couple of interceptions and it's early in the season - and most of them were short gimmes.  Given Bubba's history the back-ups must have realized that there is no way they are going to get a shot this year.  A potential recipe for trouble.  

[UNDColorado]

Credit to San Diego, they are better than most of us thought. Yes, we did have our struggles but my hope is next week is an easy win so back ups can get some meaningful playing time because it get much harder in two weeks. 

I agree the passing in the first half was brutal, just hard to watch. However it's now on film that if you stack the box Romfo does have the ability to go over the top so that will give coordinators something to think about. Every time I counted there was at least 8 in the box. Every time.

[homer]

49 minutes ago, Irish said:

I'm still concerned about how we are handling the QB situation.  Romfo certainly did better the second half but the first half was brutal.  So far he has thrown some of the worst passes I have seen from our quarterbacks in a long time.  After the first half we had 11 yards passing with a couple of interceptions and it's early in the season - and most of them were short gimmes.  Given Bubba's history the back-ups must have realized that there is no way they are going to get a shot this year.  A potential recipe for trouble.  

Maybe the backups are just that….

[Nodak78]

14 minutes ago, UNDColorado said:

Credit to San Diego, they are better than most of us thought. Yes, we did have our struggles but my hope is next week is an easy win so back ups can get some meaningful playing time because it get much harder in two weeks. 

I agree the passing in the first half was brutal, just hard to watch. However it's now on film that if you stack the box Romfo does have the ability to go over the top so that will give coordinators something to think about. Every time I counted there was at least 8 in the box. Every time.

On the TD to Bo where Simon pumped fake there were nine in box and a defender on each of the two WR's. Bo and Caden.  Well executed play.

[fightingsioux4life]

32 minutes ago, UNDColorado said:

Credit to San Diego, they are better than most of us thought. Yes, we did have our struggles but my hope is next week is an easy win so back ups can get some meaningful playing time because it get much harder in two weeks. 

I agree the passing in the first half was brutal, just hard to watch. However it's now on film that if you stack the box Romfo does have the ability to go over the top so that will give coordinators something to think about. Every time I counted there was at least 8 in the box. Every time.

They'll do good in the Pioneer League, no question. My biggest beef from yesterday is the defense consistently leaving receivers wide open. That must be addressed before the meat of our schedule gets here.

[Parkers Pros]

OC picks the quarterback and tells the coach the way he and the other coaches think it should be. Coach takes in that info and combines it with his own observations and intuition and makes a call. Simon earned all their trust.  
 

You impatient jackals calling for Simon’s head are crazy. We are ranked in the top 10 right now with him as our quarterback. I actually find it good that we have room to grow at that position. 
 

We have a developing offensive line in pass protection. We have a quarterback, who is coming off of several years of not playing. He just needs a little more time to marinate. Just relax everyone. This feels like the deepest team we’ve ever had.

[GoodGood]

5 minutes ago, Parkers Pros said:

OC picks the quarterback and tells the coach the way he and the other coaches think it should be. Coach takes in that info and combines it with his own observations and intuition and makes a call. Simon earned all their trust.  
 

You impatient jackals calling for Simon’s head are crazy. We are ranked in the top 10 right now with him as our quarterback. I actually find it good that we have room to grow at that position. 
 

We have a developing offensive line in pass protection. We have a quarterback, who is coming off of several years of not playing. He just needs a little more time to marinate. Just relax everyone. This feels like the deepest team we’ve ever had.

Do you have eyes?  5 completed passes yesterday. I can’t imagine anyone in the Valley has worse QB play right now 

[UNDColorado]

1 hour ago, fightingsioux4life said:

They'll do good in the Pioneer League, no question. My biggest beef from yesterday is the defense consistently leaving receivers wide open. That must be addressed before the meat of our schedule gets here.

Big time. 89 tore us up.

[Parkers Pros]

47 minutes ago, GoodGood said:

Do you have eyes?  5 completed passes yesterday. I can’t imagine anyone in the Valley has worse QB play right now 

While we are winning, you cannot make a change. Because if the next guy fails, you’re not only destroy his confidence, the team’s confidence, but Simon‘s confidence as well. You can’t just go back to him. And we really are up !@#$ Creek. If on the other hand, we start to fail, then you can make a change and the whole team will understand why.

[Oxbow6]

So I have watched all 16 quarters to date and I'm curious to hear from the Fantasy Football wizards, Madden gurus and Kelly Green glasses wearing rubes on this site how you would rate UND's QB play to date based on past UND QB play and overall FCS QB play over the past few years. If you haven't watched at least 10 quarters this season sit this one out.

Rating system:

Excellent 

Above average 

Average 

Below average 

Poor

[geaux_sioux]

3 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:

So I have watched all 16 quarters to date and I'm curious to hear from the Fantasy Football wizards, Madden gurus and Kelly Green glasses wearing rubes on this site how you would rate UND's QB play to date based on past UND QB play and overall FCS QB play over the past few years. If you haven't watched at least 10 quarters this season sit this one out.

Rating system:

Excellent 

Above average 

Average 

Below average 

Poor

QB Passing 2/10

QB Rushing 8/10

[Oxbow6]

4 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:

QB Passing 2/10

QB Rushing 8/10

So passing poor to at best below average and rushing above average?

Trying to dumb it down for some here without a number rating system.

[GoodGood]

Last two games he’s rushed 11 times for 10 yards…. 

[Irish]

1 hour ago, GoodGood said:

Do you have eyes?  5 completed passes yesterday. I can’t imagine anyone in the Valley has worse QB play right now 

First half - 11 yards passing with 2 interceptions

[geaux_sioux]

9 minutes ago, GoodGood said:

Last two games he’s rushed 11 times for 10 yards…. 

Yawn. How’d we beat the griz again?

[GoodGood]

1 minute ago, geaux_sioux said:

Yawn. How’d we beat the griz again?

Grade him on one game. I don’t care. It’s your grade 

[geaux_sioux]

15 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:

So passing poor to at best below average and rushing above average?

Trying to dumb it down for some here without a number rating system.

Passing poor. Rushing better than good.

[geaux_sioux]

2 minutes ago, GoodGood said:

Grade him on one game. I don’t care. It’s your grade 

seems like you kinda care