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per Randy:
P.J. Fleck watched the film. He saw the mistakes, the missed opportunities. He dissected how his Gophers football team performed in its season-opening 17-7 victory over Buffalo on Thursday night.
His verdict, four days later?
“We’ve got to get a lot better,” Fleck said Monday, and repeating for emphasis. “We got to get a lot better.”
Though the Gophers began the Fleck era of Minnesota football by winning, their offensive performance, especially, raised questions. The Gophers’ total of 17 points was the second lowest among Big Ten teams on opening weekend — Rutgers scored 14 in a loss to No. 8 Washington. The eight other Big Ten teams that opened with opponents from outside Power Five conferences averaged 34.5 points, more than doubling the Gophers’ output against Buffalo.
Relying on an offensive line and quarterback tandem going through on-the-job training, the Gophers took few chances. And the mistakes they made — Conor Rhoda throwing an interception in the end zone and Emmit Carpenter missing two field-goal attempts — showed how thin a margin this team has between success and failure.
“The objective was to not put much on the quarterbacks’ plate, to not put a lot on the offense’s plate that’s really never played together … and come out with a victory somehow, some way,” Fleck said. “And that’s what we did.”
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-...inst-buffalo-raises-early-red-flag/442711313/
Go Gophers!!
P.J. Fleck watched the film. He saw the mistakes, the missed opportunities. He dissected how his Gophers football team performed in its season-opening 17-7 victory over Buffalo on Thursday night.
His verdict, four days later?
“We’ve got to get a lot better,” Fleck said Monday, and repeating for emphasis. “We got to get a lot better.”
Though the Gophers began the Fleck era of Minnesota football by winning, their offensive performance, especially, raised questions. The Gophers’ total of 17 points was the second lowest among Big Ten teams on opening weekend — Rutgers scored 14 in a loss to No. 8 Washington. The eight other Big Ten teams that opened with opponents from outside Power Five conferences averaged 34.5 points, more than doubling the Gophers’ output against Buffalo.
Relying on an offensive line and quarterback tandem going through on-the-job training, the Gophers took few chances. And the mistakes they made — Conor Rhoda throwing an interception in the end zone and Emmit Carpenter missing two field-goal attempts — showed how thin a margin this team has between success and failure.
“The objective was to not put much on the quarterbacks’ plate, to not put a lot on the offense’s plate that’s really never played together … and come out with a victory somehow, some way,” Fleck said. “And that’s what we did.”
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-...inst-buffalo-raises-early-red-flag/442711313/
Go Gophers!!