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Emotional time for U
Gophers football coach P.J. Fleck made no qualms about his team’s 42-13 loss to Maryland last week, but he said quarterback Zack Annexstad continues to play like a true freshman, for both better and worse.
Annexstad completed 14 of 32 passes — 43.8 percent, a season low — for 169 yards and a touchdown.
“I thought he had some really nice balls that he threw and I thought he let some balls sail on him,” Fleck said. “He was hit multiple times during the game, and when you’re already banged up and you’re a true freshman and you’re trying to feel comfortable in that pocket, it’s very difficult to do. When you don’t have the familiarity of feeling it, being in it, especially at this level and the Big Ten level, you can get a little skittish back there. He’s a tough kid and he continued to fight, but he has to be a lot better, and he knows that.”
With the Gophers having a bye this week, Fleck said his thoughts are with his team and how it is dealing with the loss of former teammate Nick Connelly to cancer last week at age 22.
“These kids still haven’t had a chance to grieve, and I don’t want to ever ignore that,” Fleck said. “I don’t want to ever push that aside because we have a football game to play. In the big scheme of life they are still kids, young people, and when you lose a teammate, you lose someone who is very close to you, a roommate, best friend, that is very difficult.”
http://www.startribune.com/twins-will-reevaluate-everything-for-2019-season/494570191/
Go Gophers!!
Emotional time for U
Gophers football coach P.J. Fleck made no qualms about his team’s 42-13 loss to Maryland last week, but he said quarterback Zack Annexstad continues to play like a true freshman, for both better and worse.
Annexstad completed 14 of 32 passes — 43.8 percent, a season low — for 169 yards and a touchdown.
“I thought he had some really nice balls that he threw and I thought he let some balls sail on him,” Fleck said. “He was hit multiple times during the game, and when you’re already banged up and you’re a true freshman and you’re trying to feel comfortable in that pocket, it’s very difficult to do. When you don’t have the familiarity of feeling it, being in it, especially at this level and the Big Ten level, you can get a little skittish back there. He’s a tough kid and he continued to fight, but he has to be a lot better, and he knows that.”
With the Gophers having a bye this week, Fleck said his thoughts are with his team and how it is dealing with the loss of former teammate Nick Connelly to cancer last week at age 22.
“These kids still haven’t had a chance to grieve, and I don’t want to ever ignore that,” Fleck said. “I don’t want to ever push that aside because we have a football game to play. In the big scheme of life they are still kids, young people, and when you lose a teammate, you lose someone who is very close to you, a roommate, best friend, that is very difficult.”
http://www.startribune.com/twins-will-reevaluate-everything-for-2019-season/494570191/
Go Gophers!!