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My main takeaway from the Gopher Gridiron podcast today was from former Gopher offensive lineman, Derek Burns. The Gophers do not have enough speed at receiver and their offensive lineman have trouble with slow feet. He said the best way to correct this is just better recruiting which...

I disagree! We went for and got a fourth down in our own end in the third quarter today (before the game was even out of hand) and threw the ball a ton today, just not effectively. Ha! We had over 200 passing yards to Iowa’s 62. We’re now trending towards level #2! Last year was 4 and a few...

I like PJ Fleck, but his seat is hot. He gets paid too much for it not to be. He works hard and cares about the kids, but this is a results business. The Gophers have been a tier II or lower program for all of their modern history. I’m not sure where the surprise is here? A lot of the best...

Brosmer has a lot of experience, but not in our system or at this level. He looks good sometimes and bad at others. Too bad we don’t have him longer. He looks very good sometimes and seems like he could play well at this level. He just got here too late in his career. Our receivers don’t...

Tennessee just demonstrated how we can pay our players! Thank you! Just carve off 10% of existing ticket revenues and give it to players by calling it a “Talent fee”! I guess Tennessee can get away with charging their fans more because their team is doing better than it’s ever done before...

If he wants to come and PJ is impressed by him, then we take him. Lindsey is still an unknown. We learned from the AK experience that we just don't hand people jobs, right? The more competition in the QB room the better, just like any other position. If one of them gets beat out for the...

Those missed tackles against NC may be because we played the top overall running back in the NFL draft in 2025 - Omarion Hampton. Half his yards this year are after contact and he has run for a similar number of yards as Iowa's Kaleb Johnson. Less than 25% of Kaleb's are after contact which...

What I remember of NC's back is that he was super shifty! Kaleb looks strong and pretty fast, but he does not look shifty or overly quick. It doesn't mean he can't gash us, but they look like very different backs. My concern is can we handle the Iowa offensive line when they are run blocking?

Kaleb Johnson was the #18 recruit from Ohio in 2022. It was funny watching some of his high school highlights because he is so much bigger than his competition. It looks like a fast lineman playing running back! I watched his highlights from the Iowa State and Akron games (see links below)...

Brings back good memories doesn't it! Now that's a video game that I could identify with. Streetball 2025!!! I remember vividly yelling "Car!" over and over on those especially high traffic days. People driving to and from their homes had no respect for our playing field!

I was looking at the stats for the NC game and came to the realization that we dropped back to pass more than we ran in the game! Brosmer was 13/21, but also had 9 carries which were mostly scrambles or sacks. I think two were tush pushes so let's say he dropped back 28 times. Running backs...

Congrats on the growing family, KoolAid! Having kids is the best!!! I'm glad you're bringing more of them into the world so the government can tax the heck out of their wages to pay for my social security when I retire. Maybe I'll get something after all!:p

I'm not a great football mind, but don't you need at least an intermediate passing game to beat a loaded box? Won't a short passing game also lead to a loaded box? You've got to throw it over their heads to make them pay. I agree that NC was a decent team just like us. I think the line was...

He was also probably the best that we could expect to get, right? No high end transfer QB would want to come to a team with our run heavy history. If we are more successful in the passing game this year, we might be able to level up slightly in our QB transfers.

I see where you are coming from and agree that our offense is often very boring. I do think Max Brosmer will prove to be a better quarterback than we've had in a while so we'll throw more this year. I'm also glad the other West schools are trying to modernize their offenses. If they are...

Did you notice ~90% of the poll answers were in the reasonable middle two answers range? Bad - Can’t take this for much longer. Seat should be warm at least Votes: 5336.3% So-so - Don’t want him fired, but need to see improvement Only 6% in the "Fleck needs to be fired now" category. More of...

I was wondering the same thing EG#9. Thanks for your analysis! I still think it's mostly a lack of speed. Well, I think we should include quickness and explosiveness because these things are usually closely related to speed. We've seen the same problems with other historically "boring"...

Top SEC teams just steamrolling their opponents. Speed and talent at WR seems to be the biggest difference. MN, WI & Iowa mostly just hope we have good TEs. So jealous of those recruiting bases. I’m still hopeful all the money in the Big Ten will eventually help us lure more of the talent...

I like PJ. He seems to run a good, respectable program and sets a good example for these young men, most of which will never play after college. However, this is the Big Ten. We are the first or second richest conference in college football. Just about any B1G program can hire the best...

This thread turned out way better than I thought. Thanks for your thoughts! I get that some of you are worn down. It's reasonable because the Gophs have not been good for a large portion of their relatively recent history! I came home from the state fair today and my dog wasn't here to greet...