Kaliakmanis leads the nation in passing yards (1150).

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Good for him
Obviously he had some potential. I think he needed a change of scenery for success. He essentially seemed like he had the yips his last season here

I wish him all the best except this week
 

Hard to believe the early Vegas lines have us -5.5. I'm not that optimistic.
 
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GopherJack said:
Hard to believe the early Vegas lines has us -5.5. I'm not that optimistic.
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I am not a gambler, but if I were I swear these week 4ish games are where Vegas hasn't quite picked up on the hints that the season has given so far. I can remember a lot of games like this where I swear the odds are noticeably off ... for lots of teams.
 



Glad to see he has improved from not being able to make a touch light pass to a TE to win the game (and another game like that).... I'm not bitter at him, I'm just in therapy.
 
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Kaliakmanis looks like a different dude. Happy for the kid.
 


While most eyes will be on "how does Drake do?" my focus will be on "how does our pass D do?" given this statistic.

Unfortunately Cal provided a lot of tape on how to shred our defense with an aggressive pass-first game plan. I'm sure this has been a focus of the bye week but it looks like we're probably going to be tested again.

As others have noted I'm glad that Kaliakmanis has found a better fit and is so far doing well. I'm sure he still has some Minnesota chip on his shoulder to work off on Saturday. Need the D to step up plus Drake and the O to get the W.

Otherwise it looks like it will be a glorious Saturday morning into early afternoon...clear skies in the mid-70s. Great weather for a maroon-out.
 



A_Slab_of_Bacon said:
Glad to see he has improved from not being able to make a touch light pass to a TE to win the game (and another game like that).... I'm not bitter at him, I'm just in therapy.
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He has definitely improved but many of the issues we saw when he was here were on full display in the second half against Iowa. He missed on some key throws late in the game and one of them was a touch throw with no touch on it.

Rutgers seems to be a much better first half team then second half team so far this year. Tossing out their game against Norfolk they have scored 76 points in the first half and just 31 in the second half (21 of those against Miami OH).
 

The Rutgers receivers looked impressive frequently running free, big/fast, caught contested balls. Those make a lot of QBs look good. MN will need to some way, somehow get pressure on Athan to hopefully force a turnover or two. Given the Cal game, not sure how likely that is.

That said, we’ve all seen the team transform over the season in both execution and approach.
 

BilldGopher said:
While most eyes will be on "how does Drake do?" my focus will be on "how does our pass D do?" given this statistic.

Unfortunately Cal provided a lot of tape on how to shred our defense with an aggressive pass-first game plan. I'm sure this has been a focus of the bye week but it looks like we're probably going to be tested again.

As others have noted I'm glad that Kaliakmanis has found a better fit and is so far doing well. I'm sure he still has some Minnesota chip on his shoulder to work off on Saturday. Need the D to step up plus Drake and the O to get the W.

Otherwise it looks like it will be a glorious Saturday morning into early afternoon...clear skies in the mid-70s. Great weather for a maroon-out.
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So the ass-kicking he gave us last year wasn't enough?
 




Fleck's brand of football didn't fit with AK. That slow, methodical run all the time type offense didn't do him any favors.
 


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