After everything went wrong, Fleck, Gophers look to learn

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per Randy:

He sifted through the rubble that was the Gophers' 14-10 loss to Bowling Green on Saturday, pored over the wreckage of his team losing as 31-point favorites against the Falcons and took in the ruins of an offense that produced only one meaningful drive against a Mid-American Conference foe.

Instead of trying to forget what might be the low point of his five years as Gophers coach, P.J. Fleck on Monday wanted to pull something tangible from what transpired at Huntington Bank Stadium in front of a disgusted Homecoming crowd.

"Everything that could have gone wrong in that game, went wrong and you don't put it down and check it down as a bad one because that's against our culture and program,'' Fleck said. "You don't check it off as a bad one and then move on. Nope. You learn from it because there is so much value in the loss. If you truly dissect it, you will get better.''

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After everything went wrong, Fleck, Gophers look to learn

He sifted through the rubble that was the Gophers' 14-10 loss to Bowling Green on Saturday, pored over the wreckage of his team losing as 31-point favorites against the Falcons and took in the ruins of an offense that produced only one meaningful drive against a Mid-American Conference foe...
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Go Gophers!!
 

Fans forget teams play like the gophs do at times and lose to Mich 58-0. Dumb loss to BG but yeah it happens.
 


Also, Fleck is a young coach. I'm sure Nick Saban made some dumb decisions that lost him games early on in his HC career that he never would make now. We have Fleck early enough in his career that he's still going to make those dumb decisions sometimes, but he will learn.

You can guarantee he's going to be double/triple thinking any 4th and 1 decision from now on. Hell he may even work with Sanford to come up with a play call specifically designed and practiced for that situation.

At the very least, he's never going to take that risk again unless the Gophers are already losing and need to keep a drive alive for a chance at winning.
 

Taji34 said:
Also, Fleck is a young coach. I'm sure Nick Saban made some dumb decisions that lost him games early on in his HC career that he never would make now. We have Fleck early enough in his career that he's still going to make those dumb decisions sometimes, but he will learn.

You can guarantee he's going to be double/triple thinking any 4th and 1 decision from now on. Hell he may even work with Sanford to come up with a play call specifically designed and practiced for that situation.

At the very least, he's never going to take that risk again unless the Gophers are already losing and need to keep a drive alive for a chance at winning.
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I hope it's a cold day there before he works with Sanford on this. Sanford is the common thread in regression of many quarterbacks. Hope he finds a home somewhere else.
 


New stats: Gophers last in B10 in passing yards per game, Tanner Morgan 12th among passers. Four games down, this looks systemic rather than a one-off with Bowling Green. For whatever reason (coaches, QB, game plans, effort) Minnesota has a terrible passing game.
 

We will learn this Saturday if these are just hollow words or not....If they continue to go vanilla with the run run pass philosophy and do not get more creative with the playbook then we know PJ will never change his approach.
 

Great Plains Gopher said:
New stats: Gophers last in B10 in passing yards per game, Tanner Morgan 12th among passers. Four games down, this looks systemic rather than a one-off with Bowling Green. For whatever reason (coaches, QB, game plans, effort) Minnesota has a terrible passing game.
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For some reason PJ is obsessed with Tressel ball....The difference being Ohio State will always have elite athletes no matter what offense they run and Minnesota will not.....That is where the right scheme and gameplan come into play....You adjust to what the defense gives you when you simply cant out-physical them at the line.
 

"Fixing the passing game would appear to be the top priority for Fleck and offensive coordinator Mike Sanford Jr. Morgan is averaging 18 passes attempted and 174 passing yards this season, the lowest numbers of his career since taking over the starting job in 2018. That's a huge drop-off from his 2019 season, when he was named honorable mention All-Big Ten after averaging 250.2 yards per game and throwing 30 TD passes."
Is it the TOP PRIOROITY ? Sanford dont know how to make effective play calling for passing game. There is a good reason why every QBs regress under his watch. Not a single one gets better. It is a trend. Not a blip. PJ get a grip. Your buddy is not made for D1 Football.
 



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