***OFFICIAL BUFFALO AT MINNESOTA 2025 SEASON OPENER, FLECK YEAR 9 IN-GAME THREAD!!!***

[GophersInIowa]

6th year in a row I'm saying it.
Don't give Matt Simon the playback.
Portrayed actual success vs a stout Auburn D.
No no no, keep pushing the Greg Harbaugh vanilla offense fail.

Weird how all of our good coordinators are getting picked up by other teams,
NOBODY offering Greg a "better deal"...

Not sure I’d call it vanilla.

 

[mnsportsgeek]

Phew. I can breathe now.

 

[upnorthkid]

That’s a very veteran play from a young guy. We got a good one

 

[Ski-U-Ham]

One more tuddy and we cover ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

 

[gopherbadgerman]

Also, have you watched this offense the last 2 years, or no?

Every game. Coaches didn’t drop balls or get burned on a deep ball.

Smith just made a play. Great TD

 

[Ewert86PC]

Find a way to get the W and move on.

Jobu gets his rum.

 

[swede2]

Our best red zone offense is to stay out of it

 

[GopherMenace]

Needed that in the worst way

 

[mngg11]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a quarterback.

 

[gopherbadgerman]

Lindsey really looks the part so far. He’s really looking good

 

[upnorthkid]

Sure seems like Arkansas fans are going to end up real pissed they let Lindsey get away

 

[matt]

Coach dropped the passes and got burned on the long TD?

The coach is calling head scratching plays in the redzone.

 

[Ski-U-Ham]

Let's get a defensive score here

 

[Polski]

Nice movement in the pocket, and nice touch.

 

[Unregistered User]

Don’t forget we have a new kicker and punter and those operations have looked solid.

I see very few kick returns against us this year.

 

[upnorthkid]

Think Mav just got a concussion

 

[Ewert86PC]

Baranowski looks shaken up from that last hit.

 

[Unregistered User]

Crap

Mav

Hopefully only a stinger

 

[gopherbadgerman]

The coach is calling head scratching plays in the redzone.

Made a great call on the pass to smith they just didn’t execute .

I’m not saying coaches are perfect but fans blame them all the time and sometimes players just don’t make the plays

 

[RolGnav]

Ok, if Lindsey stays healthy and doesn't leave us early (NFL or NIL), he will be the all-time QB leader of almost every category. He's accurate, poised, has an arm... he'll be drafted!

 

[GophersInIowa]

Can we please not run Taylor into the ground now please?

 

[gopherbadgerman]

Don’t forget we have a new kicker and punter and those operations have looked solid.

I see very few kick returns against us this year.

Under-rated comment there…

 

[matt]

Made a great call on the pass to smith they just didn’t execute .

I’m not saying coaches are perfect but fans blame them all the time and sometimes players just don’t make the plays

The Gophers offense has had strategy and execution issues under Harbaugh. I agree the execution issues do not rest on Harbaugh but the strategy ones do. I think most of our redzone woes are due to poor strategy. I’d say on that drive, the 1st and 2nd down play calls (both runs against a stacked box) were strategy issues. The 3rd down out of bounds catch was on the players, but too often we shoot ourselves in the foot in the redzone due to poor playcalling/strategy.

 

[upnorthkid]

Made a great call on the pass to smith they just didn’t execute .

I’m not saying coaches are perfect but fans blame them all the time and sometimes players just don’t make the plays

Yup they can’t catch the balls for them. Gotta give them more opportunities in the RZ though imo. Slam runs x2 every sequence vs stacked boxes is not that

 

[Ewert86PC]

Yup they can’t catch the balls for them. Gotta give them more opportunities in the RZ though imo. Slam runs x2 every sequence vs stacked boxes is not that

That reminds me of a t-shirt I own. It reads " I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you."

 

[upnorthkid]

I’d prefer DT makes no additional carries tonight.

 

[Lou Brown]

 

[kisarazu]

what is this commentary?

 

[Ewert86PC]

The Mayo Bowl highlight makes it's appearance.

 

[gopherbadgerman]

Can we please not run Taylor into the ground now please?

It’s like they can’t help themselves lol. He’s gotten like 4-5 more carries this drive