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Yeah I was picturing VanDeSteeg but kept coming up with the name Grant Wistrom. Willie was solid. Striggow may be a good contain end but he has shown no ability to rush. Hopefully Joyner can continue progression but our ability to develop talent at the position means we have to bet otherwise. A...

Hope Coach D is a good hire and can produce players that can actually rush the passer and create havoc during obvious passing downs, something we haven’t had here in forever. Mafe and Otemewu are good athletes with measurables but production didn’t match. Before them - really bleak. Last legit...

Yes it’s mostly just my opinion but the upper end of the B1G West (Iowa and WI most years, never the Gophs) is nowhere near the upper-end caliber of most other conferences. Maybe our middle-tier teams are “competitive”, but the conference as a whole has been weak. I think most college football...

It is extremely weak. It may be competitive among the teams but the overall strength of the B1G West is very poor.

And thank God for that. It might be fun to get housed on a Saturday morning but you do not want to live your life for Saturdays in places like Oxford, MS and such. Minnesotans are fans but most have lives with other priorities. The south doesn’t have a lot going for it and the ultra-fetish for...

I agree with this mostly but the losses haven’t been dumbfounding, they have been semi-often if not consistent. We haven’t ever won the weakest P5 division in football while Northwestern, Purdue, and Illinois have. We can win 8 games and claim above average but we don’t win when stakes are...

Our other backs are not good enough for the abysmally slow handoffs. At least Williams and Potts. These need to happen faster or you will see a lot more runs like the first play of the Purdue game where we somehow ran it up the middle for a 5-yard loss (Potts). Have to be faster.

Agree they are largely unproven but WI, Iowa, and Illinois have all brought in heavy talent at a major position of weakness. They aren’t just trying to wish on development from players at a Petras level. Also Mordecai does have numbers at a lower division. We keep talking up receivers and DBs...

They have greatly improved the talent at that position and will be much stronger at QB next season.

Whether Gophs or Vikes, if there is more than 20 seconds on the clock before the half, the other team will score. It’s truly bonkers how buffonish our end-of-half defenses here are in MN. DLine absolute garbage on this drive too.

Ideally you have both Mo and Bucky - they are two different types of players. Mo is more consistent in churning yardage but doesn't have the speed to house one from long. Got chased down past the secondary on multiple occasions this year. It killed us because our offense was so bad we couldn’t...

In the return game, we do not have a legitimate returner. I do not want Redding returning kickoffs and would rather he fair catch them. Happy to have Kesich get a touchback on each kickoff. We don’t have the ability to kick short and rely on coverage.

Fleck has lost me but Kill was a nightmare with a Claeys malignancy. Blessed to have them out of the program.

The game plan to run Mo 40 times is not a legit game plan. It almost worked here against a bad team but doesn’t work against real squads. And if you are going to rely only on the run, you need someone that can house one, which we desperately desperately desperately need. Real gross to...

6 consecutive runs

We are not above average

It’s bonkers how easy it is to call a defense against the Gophs.

We are not good enough to rely on just the run v Iowa and WI.

I don’t think this is clear. Irving was our most explosive back. It‘s not particularly close. His ability to make plays catching the ball out of the backfield would have been a huge asset in a year where our WRs are performing poorly. But can’t fault a kid for chasing NIL money at a more...

First play of the game v. Purdue where we somehow lost 5 yards on a handoff to Potts.