How Aout This Don?

[Iceland12]

- Gray gives us the best chance to win at QB but only when he's at full strength and they allow him to throw the ball. Take away the UNLV game and he's looked pretty good back there, but he's certainly not at full speed now.

- Shortell for whatever reason, hasn't lived up to his billing as a "throwing QB". Sad, but true.

- Nelson looked okay for a Freshman starting in his Hometown in front of a rabid, hostile crowd and a pretty good Defense. Keeping him in there until Gray is fully healthy seems like the way to go.

- The Gopher Defense looks a LOT better when the get a breather or two. The Offense needs to stay on the field a lot more. "Duh" right?

- Maybe, just maybe, a swing pass or two, or just throwing the ball a little more could help. If nothing else it would open things up a little for the running game and hell, if they're going to lose it would be more entertaining.

- I'd like to see someone in the Middle makes some tackles, but I'm not going to SAY that because it would just piss you off.

- I'd also suggest that the Coaching Staff is set into a "play to stay in the game", "play to keep things close" mode. That can work against teams with equal talent or better teams if you win the turnover game..however I'm NOT suggesting anything of the sort because you may have firearms in the house and live in a populated area.

 

[Dr.Don]

How About This Don?

Why is this addressed to me?

Especially when you can't spell aout correctly. Who is drunk now??????????????????????????????????

 

[Iceland12]

How About This Don?

Why is this addressed to me?

Wondering what suggestions you'd allow that didn't make you mad?

 

[Dr.Don]

Wondering what suggestions you'd allow that didn't make you mad?

Dogs, skunks, badgers, etc., get mad, meaning rabid. People get upset and spew venom, if for no other reason that to justify their frustrations, but they talk, and don't do anything about it. Talk is cheap, it takes real money to drink JD on the rocks.

I will sit silently in a bar with you, drink JD on the rocks, and watch. I am more cool than you think.

 

[Iceland12]

Dogs, skunks, badgers, etc., get mad, meaning rabid. People get upset and spew venom, if for no other reason that to justify their frustrations, but they talk, and don't do anything about it. Talk is cheap, it takes real money to drink JD on the rocks.

I will sit silently in a bar with you, drink JD on the rocks, and watch. I am more cool than you think.

Lord, I hope so Don, I hope so. Oh and yeah, I'd be fine sharing a drink or two. I'll even buy! Better make it before a game or for an away game. Unlike you I'm NOT very quite during the game.

 

[SickAndTiredOfLosingToWI]

I'm not Don, and I'm sure this has been discussed extensively but I am too sick and tired of losing to WI right now to go and look. If Gray isn't fully healthy then why is he playing WR? He hurt his ankle, right, so he can't play QB, but he can play WR? So basically we had two active QBs on the roster, both of which were mildly injured at worst, both were suited up, and Kill still felt the need to sit one, play the other at WR, and burn the freshman's redshirt?

OK, Shortell is a liability, so why not just bench him and move Gray back to QB which he was doing fine at before his injury? Having Gray at WR is an asset, but is it an asset that can be utilized by a freshman playing his first collegiate game on the road?

I don't get it, it's not like QB play is even that critical in our ultraconservative offense. How can the coaching staff justify three QBs in a run-first read-option offense?

 

[Iceland12]

I'm not Don, and I'm sure this has been discussed extensively but I am too sick and tired of losing to WI right now to go and look. If Gray isn't fully healthy then why is he playing WR? He hurt his ankle, right, so he can't play QB, but he can play WR? So basically we had two active QBs on the roster, both of which were mildly injured at worst, both were suited up, and Kill still felt the need to sit one, play the other at WR, and burn the freshman's redshirt?

OK, Shortell is a liability, so why not just bench him and move Gray back to QB which he was doing fine at before his injury? Having Gray at WR is an asset, but is it an asset that can be utilized by a freshman playing his first collegiate game on the road?

I don't get it, it's not like QB play is even that critical in our ultraconservative offense. How can the coaching staff justify three QBs in a run-first read-option offense?

Off the top of my head I'd say that a QB takes way more pounding during a game than a Wideout does and Gray, for a few plays at least, may give a Defense something to think about.

Just an uneducated guess.

 

[Dr.Don]

Lord, I hope so Don, I hope so. Oh and yeah, I'd be fine sharing a drink or two. I'll even buy!

Then that means we will have at least two each, together, because I always reciprocate. Let me know via PM when you will be in Moorhead.

p.s. It would be a pleasure to meet you in person.

And when we are done, we will make sure that Nadine would be jealous that she wasn't along.

 

[GophersInIowa]

- Gray gives us the best chance to win at QB but only when he's at full strength and they allow him to throw the ball. Take away the UNLV game and he's looked pretty good back there, but he's certainly not at full speed now.

- Shortell for whatever reason, hasn't lived up to his billing as a "throwing QB". Sad, but true.

- Nelson looked okay for a Freshman starting in his Hometown in front of a rabid, hostile crowd and a pretty good Defense. Keeping him in there until Gray is fully healthy seems like the way to go.

- The Gopher Defense looks a LOT better when the get a breather or two. The Offense needs to stay on the field a lot more. "Duh" right?

- Maybe, just maybe, a swing pass or two, or just throwing the ball a little more could help. If nothing else it would open things up a little for the running game and hell, if they're going to lose it would be more entertaining.

- I'd like to see someone in the Middle makes some tackles, but I'm not going to SAY that because it would just piss you off.

- I'd also suggest that the Coaching Staff is set into a "play to stay in the game", "play to keep things close" mode. That can work against teams with equal talent or better teams if you win the turnover game..however I'm NOT suggesting anything of the sort because you may have firearms in the house and live in a populated area.

It's frustrating for me to see us not even try to throw to our RBs. If you look back on the 2nd interception, Kirkwood carried the fake handoff into the flat, and didn't even look for the pass. There was no one within 15 yards of him at least. Teams can pretty much just ignore or RBs in the pass game because we don't include them one bit.

 

[Great Plains Gopher]

I'm not Don, and I'm sure this has been discussed extensively but I am too sick and tired of losing to WI right now to go and look. If Gray isn't fully healthy then why is he playing WR? He hurt his ankle, right, so he can't play QB, but he can play WR? So basically we had two active QBs on the roster, both of which were mildly injured at worst, both were suited up, and Kill still felt the need to sit one, play the other at WR, and burn the freshman's redshirt?

OK, Shortell is a liability, so why not just bench him and move Gray back to QB which he was doing fine at before his injury? Having Gray at WR is an asset, but is it an asset that can be utilized by a freshman playing his first collegiate game on the road?

I don't get it, it's not like QB play is even that critical in our ultraconservative offense. How can the coaching staff justify three QBs in a run-first read-option offense?

I was wondering, too, why we'd play Gray at all - why not let him heal up? Offense way too conservative - in my view the job of offense is to score and keep scoring; the job of defense is to get the ball back for the offense.