Where are the Leidner haters?

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Coulda gone to the B1G Championship game if Seth Green was our QB this year.
 

since rog posted his op not that long ago, his guy leidner has thrown 4 ints.
 





F U Leidner for all those WR drops!!!!!!!!!

I guarantee when Green is throwing, his passes wont be dropped all year long....yeah
 


Travis must want to beat the crap out of him. I feel bad for the other seniors. With average QB play we are going to Indy.
 

Gopher028 said:
F U Leidner for all those WR drops!!!!!!!!!

I guarantee when Green is throwing, his passes wont be dropped all year long....yeah
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Are you kidding me dude?! The picks were awful! Stop being dumb and defending this kid! He has weighed this program down every year!
 



Gopher028 said:
F U Leidner for all those WR drops!!!!!!!!!

I guarantee when Green is throwing, his passes wont be dropped all year long....yeah
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If you don't think Leidner cost them the games you're fooling yourself.


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I am with you. He plays hard but is far from talented. 4 int's the second half pathetic. I realize the line fell apart but get rid of the ball, scramble, ugh. Another year, another lack of a trophy.
 





This game summed up Leidner's career rather beautifully. Potential? Yes? Consistency? Never.

The first INT was so typical. It's like he was just going to chuck it up there regardless of the coverage. We were firmly in control of the game at this point, and it unquestionably cost us the game. Why our a 5th year QB doing this? Sadly, the best thing for this program will be for him to be gone. It was impossible to built anything with him at QB.
 

Four interceptions, Leidner lost the game for the Gophers throwing that pick in the end zone. I was wrong, I thought he would play great today. Then he decided, crap I'm no good and started throwing picks. Without the forced interceptions into double coverage this is a different ball game. This game in particular was there for the taking. I don't see how you can play so well in one half of football, and just so atrociously bad in the second half. Damn shame cause the defense did not give up 31 points. All of those interceptions turned the football game. Simple fact, when it was against the really good teams, Mitch Leidner was never a winner his entire career. To bad he could never put it together because he was a competitor.
The Badgers were not explosive until Leidner started turning the ball over, and those were all forced errors on Leidner's part.
Another shot at victory in a Big game and defeat was shoved down the rest of the teams throats.
 



The argument that I don't like is the one that says the coaches know who is best, they see the guys in practice every day. If someone else played better in practice they would get to start. The issue that I have is that players get better by playing in games too, even more than in practice in terms of confidence. If Mitch gets all the 1st team reps in practice and all the reps in games, how is anyone else going to develop? I do think that as a coach its tempting to play Mitch, but I wonder how good someone else could be if they had gotten Mitch's practice and especially game reps. Its not his fault for making that decision, and he has tried with all of his heart, but I think that we can all expect better from a 5th year senior who has started, what 30 some games. He just didn't get better. I know that next year when our QB has a bad game people will say, "do you want Mitch back now?" Well its time for someone else to get a chance to develop.
 

meltdown or did whisky make us look that sh1tty...what the frick happened from one half to the other
 

the.chucker said:
meltdown or did whisky make us look that sh1tty...what the frick happened from one half to the other
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Leidner made up his mind he was throwing to that receiver no matter what, is what happened. We were never the same after that play.
 

We have a QB that does not know how to win the big game! The int in the end zone flipped everything. A mistake a senior cannot make!
 

denguegopher said:
The argument that I don't like is the one that says the coaches know who is best, they see the guys in practice every day. If someone else played better in practice they would get to start. The issue that I have is that players get better by playing in games too, even more than in practice in terms of confidence. If Mitch gets all the 1st team reps in practice and all the reps in games, how is anyone else going to develop? I do think that as a coach its tempting to play Mitch, but I wonder how good someone else could be if they had gotten Mitch's practice and especially game reps. Its not his fault for making that decision, and he has tried with all of his heart, but I think that we can all expect better from a 5th year senior who has started, what 30 some games. He just didn't get better. I know that next year when our QB has a bad game people will say, "do you want Mitch back now?" Well its time for someone else to get a chance to develop.
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The issue I have is that if ML is our best option for four years that is an bigger indictment than starting the wrong quarterback
 

waitwhat galt and kiffin were correct - leidner. thanks jerry kill for never having a better option and 4 years of off season lies.
 

The telegraphed pick into the end zone changed the football game. He forced that throw into double coverage and never looked anywhere else. He was doing that in the first half too and got away with it. You have to have points when your sitting in the red zone with a 7 point lead. Defense was put in a terrible position after the pick that was returned to the 19 yard line. That one sealed the football game, and ended all hope for the Gophers.
 



endzone pick was p1ss poor, who's fault on the second one, receiver kept going---the remaining 2 were insignificant IMHO--game was decided already
 

The Most Mitch Leidner Game Ever

Well there you have it. If that game wasn't the epitome of the Mitch Leidner years for the University of Minnesota, I don't know what is. I watched the Gophers play one of the best halves in recent memory and then follow it up with one of the worst halves I have seen them play in recent memory and that is saying something. We also witnessed the importance and weight of the quarterback position in this offense. There is no way the Badgers should ever win that game after the first half, all you needed was a quarterback to manage the game and at worst flip field position.

Mitch Leidner can not manage a game. He has proven this time and time again. The stage was, again, too big for him. That absolutely needless throw into the endzone in the 3rd proved what we have all known, and was the beginning of the tailspin today. He should have taken that near pick on the throw three plays earlier as a warning sign. But that is not what Mitch Leidner is he doesn't adapt midgame. I don't what the story was with that 2nd pick but the 3rd pick was another example. He tries to force balls into places they just won't go. I will give it to the kid thinking he can make those throws, but someone has to have told him at this point that you will not be playing if you keep trying that dumb ****.

It is sad the team by and large did enough to win and the running game was as solid as ever, especially with the momentum in the first half. Same with the defense but you can't expect the defense to keep making stands when you are throwing the ball around without a care in the world. It sucks, because as a dude I think Leidner seems like a good kid and wants more than anything to win and especially against Wisky and get, what must feel like a gorilla, off his back, but he just never was the quarterback to win these types of games and that partially falls on Kill and Claeys. Last year, they should have rode Croft out a couple more times and this year there should have been an actual qb competition instead of crowning someone who has never won that next game and for a lot of the last 2 seasons looked stuck in the mud.

I am just pissed, I am sick of losing to the skunks. Especially a game like today where I think even the most diehard Badger fan will feel like they were handed the game.

With that being said I can't possibly think of a more fitting end to one of the strangest qb legacies in University of Minnesota history.
 

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