Leidner: “The amount of energy that [Moore] brings on offensive line is unbelievable"

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Leidner: “The amount of energy that [Moore] brings on offensive line is unbelievable"

per Joe:

Filling in for injured senior Brian Bobek, Moore showed why he was a coveted recruit coming out of Houston. Moore pancaked senior defensive tackle Ryan Watson on the Gophers’ first offensive play and didn’t hesitate to mix it up with the Boilermakers after the whistle.

“His personality sometimes gets the best of him,” Kill said. “But you’d rather have to tell him, ‘Whoa,’ than ‘Giddy up and go,’ as Coach [Dan] O’Brien would say. But you don’t want to take the physicalness and aggressiveness out of him. Frankly that’s kind of what we’ve been missing up front.”

Quarterback Mitch Leidner said, “The amount of energy that [Moore] brings on the offensive line is unbelievable.”

http://www.startribune.com/blowout-victory-works-as-a-salve-for-gophers/331948231/

Go Gophers!!
 

Tyler Moore will be serving more pancakes Saturday. " Moore pancaked senior defensive tackle Ryan Watson on the Gophers’ first offensive play..."
 

I have to wonder how many more guys there are on the sidelines frothing at the mouth and waiting their turn to let loose. Especially guys who are 100% healthy. Kill revealed today why he didn't start Moore earlier in the season when he said "I've never started a freshman center before in my entire career". Well Coach, I love ya, I really do, but you have to open your mind a little wider and utilize all the talent you have sitting there. He also admitted he waited too long on Brooks. Personally, in my little neurotic mind, I believe he's under-utilizing Wozniak's height, Edward's speed and Streveler's enthusiasm/energy/nastiness/confidence. KJ Maye looked a lot more confident in returning punts than James too. Have to wonder why Kill thought James was a better choice. Wish I had one hour with Coach Kill to get my questions answered from the boss. Oh well. Maybe in my next life.
 

DoubleAlum said:
I have to wonder how many more guys there are on the sidelines frothing at the mouth and waiting their turn to let loose. Especially guys who are 100% healthy. Kill revealed today why he didn't start Moore earlier in the season when he said "I've never started a freshman center before in my entire career". Well Coach, I love ya, I really do, but you have to open your mind a little wider and utilize all the talent you have sitting there. He also admitted he waited too long on Brooks. Personally, in my little neurotic mind, I believe he's under-utilizing Wozniak's height, Edward's speed and Streveler's enthusiasm/energy/nastiness/confidence. KJ Maye looked a lot more confident in returning punts than James too. Have to wonder why Kill thought James was a better choice. Wish I had one hour with Coach Kill to get my questions answered from the boss. Oh well. Maybe in my next life.
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That's why Kill has to answer the tough questions. It will be interesting to see how things go once/if players start getting healthy. This team has a chance to be playing its best ball down the stretch.
 

He's got some Zac Epping to him, they've missed that this year.
 


I was told about the time he signed with us, that Kill absolutely LOVED this kid! This person said Kill compared him to Zac Epping, in that he has a nastiness to his game. Epping but bigger & more athletic. Apparently Kill was jacked. I see why now.
 

DoubleAlum said:
I have to wonder how many more guys there are on the sidelines frothing at the mouth and waiting their turn to let loose. Especially guys who are 100% healthy. Kill revealed today why he didn't start Moore earlier in the season when he said "I've never started a freshman center before in my entire career". Well Coach, I love ya, I really do, but you have to open your mind a little wider and utilize all the talent you have sitting there. He also admitted he waited too long on Brooks. Personally, in my little neurotic mind, I believe he's under-utilizing Wozniak's height, Edward's speed and Streveler's enthusiasm/energy/nastiness/confidence. KJ Maye looked a lot more confident in returning punts than James too. Have to wonder why Kill thought James was a better choice. Wish I had one hour with Coach Kill to get my questions answered from the boss. Oh well. Maybe in my next life.
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At this point, I think we all know what Jerry Kill is. Old School. Play hard, play safe, don't turn it over, experience trumps talent, etc. That said, he's pretty good at it, and this is the Big10. I think 2015 will have plenty of ugliness, but they'll aways have defense and the running game. The recruiting keeps improving and they're bound to get lucky with a QB eventually.
 

DoubleAlum said:
I have to wonder how many more guys there are on the sidelines frothing at the mouth and waiting their turn to let loose. Especially guys who are 100% healthy. Kill revealed today why he didn't start Moore earlier in the season when he said "I've never started a freshman center before in my entire career". Well Coach, I love ya, I really do, but you have to open your mind a little wider and utilize all the talent you have sitting there. He also admitted he waited too long on Brooks. Personally, in my little neurotic mind, I believe he's under-utilizing Wozniak's height, Edward's speed and Streveler's enthusiasm/energy/nastiness/confidence. KJ Maye looked a lot more confident in returning punts than James too. Have to wonder why Kill thought James was a better choice. Wish I had one hour with Coach Kill to get my questions answered from the boss. Oh well. Maybe in my next life.
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I can't help but think the reason Kill waited on some of these true freshman, is that he is not used to having recruits come in that are ready to play. I think he expected them to need a redshirt year or maybe more before they are game worthy. I think the 2015 class was/is his best class ever.
 

Stuff said:
I can't help but think the reason Kill waited on some of these true freshman, is that he is not used to having recruits come in that are ready to play. I think he expected them to need a redshirt year or maybe more before they are game worthy. I think the 2016 class will be his best class ever.
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FIFY:)
 



I excluded 2016 since they are not actually signed as of yet.
 

...or perhaps Kill waited the perfect amount of time and that is why Moore succeeded. I have no idea, but that makes me no different than anybody else, though.
 


Also, where is this new narrative on this thread of "experience trumps talent" and "Kill doesn't play freshmen" coming from? Are you guys serious with this? Have you been paying attention at all?
 



"Kill revealed today why he didn't start Moore earlier in the season when he said "I've never started a freshman center before in my entire career". Well Coach, I love ya, I really do, but you have to open your mind a little wider and utilize all the talent you have sitting there."

I interpreted the remark to be compliment to Moore, i.e. Kill was saying Moore was exceptionally ready to play as a freshman.
 

Can we agree he is a tone setter. I for one think his play made everyone else better.
 


Was watching him closely in the first half and was very impressed. Very physical and did a pretty good job of holding his blocks. I have no doubt he played a big part in wearing down the middle of the D-line which paid huge dividends in the 2nd half. Very excited to see how this young man matures and grows.
 

OPGD#71 said:
He is currently 315#...that was his weight at the start of Fall ball
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Also not really fair comparing freshman to rSr weights. Epping was 281# as a freshman. Moore will most likely hit his ideal playing weight this offseason and stay there... may or may not be more than 318# but I'd imagine it will.
 

DoubleAlum said:
I have to wonder how many more guys there are on the sidelines frothing at the mouth and waiting their turn to let loose. Especially guys who are 100% healthy. Kill revealed today why he didn't start Moore earlier in the season when he said "I've never started a freshman center before in my entire career". Well Coach, I love ya, I really do, but you have to open your mind a little wider and utilize all the talent you have sitting there. He also admitted he waited too long on Brooks. Personally, in my little neurotic mind, I believe he's under-utilizing Wozniak's height, Edward's speed and Streveler's enthusiasm/energy/nastiness/confidence. KJ Maye looked a lot more confident in returning punts than James too. Have to wonder why Kill thought James was a better choice. Wish I had one hour with Coach Kill to get my questions answered from the boss. Oh well. Maybe in my next life.
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You should stop by his office and help him with player evaluations. I'm sure a wide open mind like yours would benefit everyone and make sure the right guys get just the right amount of playing time at the perfect time. We need to get the bad players off the field and the better ones on.
 

Golden_Sloth said:
Also not really fair comparing freshman to rSr weights. Epping was 281# as a freshman. Moore will most likely hit his ideal playing weight this offseason and stay there... may or may not be more than 318# but I'd imagine it will.
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He (Tyler) played his So. and Jr. years at #335 and when then decided to graduate early so he got with a personal trainer to hepl get some of the bad weight off and went down to #290 and has worked back up to where he is now. His off season weight will be about #305 but he feels comfortable at #315 and I think that's where the coaches want him to help with some of the larger NT's and DT's he will face especially in the B1G.
 

killme said:
You should stop by his office and help him with player evaluations. I'm sure a wide open mind like yours would benefit everyone and make sure the right guys get just the right amount of playing time at the perfect time. We need to get the bad players off the field and the better ones on.
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did i hurt your widdle feelings little boy?
 

From what has been said by the coaching staff it sounds like the energy of Moore plus the leadership of Christenson were to keys to the OL performance. The frequent substitution of the guards didn't seem to be a disruption either. They needed this performance badly.
 



I'm no expert, but perhaps Kill waited on playing the younger guys because each of our non-conference wins was by 3 points?
 

dpodoll68 said:
Also, where is this new narrative on this thread of "experience trumps talent" and "Kill doesn't play freshmen" coming from? Are you guys serious with this? Have you been paying attention at all?
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This. I assume we will find this narrative buried within one of several threads criticizing Kill for pulling too many redshirts.
 

I saw it right off at the beginning. It took a little while to gel, and for everyone to catch up, but when they did.....
 

DoubleAlum said:
did i hurt your widdle feelings little boy?
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Of course not. And, my intention was not to hurt yours. But, it's funny you wrote "widdle" and "little boy" when the post I responded to sounded so immature. You thinking the coaches are intentionally not playing their best players, or worse, not playing them because they want to prevent them from showing their skills is inexplicable. The program couldn't survive if they weren't consistent and fair, year after year, in doling out playing time and designing schemes. These are all real people, not imaginary video game characters.
 

Good to hear. I feel like collectively the team gets down on themselves and outside the coaches I'm not sure if there is anyone who has the ability to fire up the team.
 

MaxyJR1 said:
That's why Kill has to answer the tough questions. It will be interesting to see how things go once/if players start getting healthy. This team has a chance to be playing its best ball down the stretch.
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I think Quinn Oselund is another we could unleash and he'd have the energy, athleticism and quickness to be more effective than
say... Bjorklund, who's playing with bones rubbing against each other. Those young guys can pull and run down field and block
the snot out of a LBer, like Greg Eslinger used to.
 

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