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[fmlizard]

Mertz makes Marqueis Gray look like Drew Brees

 

[gopherguy06]

2 TO. Toss it up!

 

[matt]

Both teams putting on a clinic and how to not run a 2 minute drill.

 

[Word]

2 TO. Toss it up!

We ended a half with time outs??!!??

 

[upnorthkid]

that's the play we drew up? are you fucking kidding?

 

[Word]

that's the play we drew up? are you fucking kidding?

I think the fact that Tanner had to scramble probably screwed things up a bit.

 

[laazrakit]

I'm thankful that Mertz is worse than Morgan, so far...

 

[stocker08]

that's the play we drew up? are you fucking kidding?

Yeah....not great.

 

[Word]

I'm thankful that Mertz is worse than Morgan, so far...

Certainly a far cry from what Coan did to us last year.

 

[60's Guy]

Mertz makes Marqueis Gray look like Drew Brees

He does not look good but he was 20 of 21 with a drop in week one. COVID victim and it took all his mojo so far today.

 

[GophersInIowa]

So not the best half of football I’ve ever seen.

 

[Some guy]

With Wisky's offense this will be a low scoring game....3 points is huge

Yeah. They probably trusted morgan not to throw a pick and were wrong

 

[Word]

He does not look good but he was 20 of 21 with a drop in week one. COVID victim and it took all his mojo so far today.

Not sure I buy the Covid excuse. Probably had more to do with who they were playing.

 

[Replacement Gopher]

Not necessarily. I'm actually surprised they called time outs.

Interesting. Why wouldn’t you have called timeout after we were stopped for a short gain in first and have an iffy punter.

 

[60's Guy]

So not the best half of football I’ve ever seen.

But we are tied!!!!

 

[SPEGOPHER]

Winnable game. Tanner has to be better. Good play calling. Wish we had Bateman today...

 

[Tully55]

1st half stats


Total Stats
Team Stats

Game Stats
First Downs	10	9
Rushing Attempts	16	17
Rushing Yards	78	92
Rushing Avg	4.9	5.4
Receptions	8	8
Receiving Yards	90	64
Receiving Avg	11.3	8.0
Passing Yards	90	64
Pass C-A-I	8-14-1	8-14-0
Plays-Yards	30-168	31-156
Yards/Play	5.60	5.03
Kick Return Yards	0-0	0-0
Punt Return Yards	1-0	1-2
Interception-Yards	0-0	1-0
Fumbles-Yards	0-0	0-0
Fumbles-Lost	1-0	1-0
Penalties	3-25	2-20
Punts	3-35.7	3-44.0
Possession	13:48	16:12
3rd Down Eff	2-5	1-6
4th Down Eff	0-0	0-1

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

We

We ended a half with time outs??!!??

Improving our Best

 

[60's Guy]

Not sure I buy the Covid excuse. Probably had more to do with who they were playing.

My point is he was accurate. Today he’s throwing uncatchable balls. That’s a puzzler.

 

[Some guy]

My point is he was accurate. Today he’s throwing uncatchable balls. That’s a puzzler.

He was accurate on the Illinois game when literally nobody was covering receivers.

he was bad against everyone else

 

[stocker08]

Interesting. Why wouldn’t you have called timeout after we were stopped for a short gain in first and have an iffy punter.

I mean....you call timeouts and let the Gophers get a first down....then we might actually play for points rather than go into halftime tied. Plus....they knew that with no timeouts that they'd have to throw the ball. That first down throw fell right in the middle of the field with no receiver around. The second down throw had a shot to be picked if St-Juste had his head turned. I think it was more risky for them throwing the ball out, imo.

 

[BilldGopher]

Gophers get the ball to start.

Need to capitalize.

 

[BigGopher69]

Morgan needs to look for safeties in the red zone

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Just think how much improvement we've seen overall with out D Line and Backers from the Michigan game.

Damn it's gonna be fun over the nest several years

 

[RolGnav]

We'd be fine if we stopped making Wisconsin look like they have Barry Sanders.

 

[Word]

Morgan needs to look for safeties in the red zone

I'll agree Morgan locked on and didn't see the safety, but as "Some Guy" pointed out the receiver ran the route too deep and was also interfered with.

Still a bad decision to throw there though.

 

[Some guy]

We'd be fine if we stopped making Wisconsin look like they have Barry Sanders.

You must have never watched Barry sanders.

their touchdown run he was untouched without making a move

Barry sanders would break 5 tackles for a 4 yard gain

 

[Word]

We'd be fine if we stopped making Wisconsin look like they have Barry Sanders.

Aside from that one play they haven't done bad against the run.

 

[60's Guy]

I do not care how ugly...let’s win this thing.

 

[gopherguy06]

That hold on the TD and INT were big in the first half.