I’d agree with this. I think the playcalling was purposefully vanilla, and the penalties, while an issue here, I’m not worried about. Campbell will get those fixed. We’re regularly one of the least penalized teams in the nation under him.
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I’d agree with this. I think the playcalling was purposefully vanilla, and the penalties, while an issue here, I’m not worried about. Campbell will get those fixed. We’re regularly one of the least penalized teams in the nation under him.
Really, we didn't have that many penalties. It was just the timing of them that killed us.
I thought I saw him rubbing his hamstring immediately after coming off the field for the last time.
Yeah, 5 for 50 yards...but the 15 yard BS helmet call and the 10 yard hold on the TD were brutal.
Only four in regulation, but only one of which was a real killer (hold a Newell in fourth):
-After the Lang block we had still ended up with 3rd and 1. Couldn’t pick it up.
-The helmet penalty resulted in 1st and 14 rather than 1st and 10. That shouldn’t be a killer.
-The only other penalty was Meeker down field on an incomplete pass, resulting in 1st and 15, hardly a killer (Allen running a 4 yard route on 3rd and 5 was the killer).
This is what’s so bad, we had a very thin margin for error despite playing well with just 4 penalties in regulation, only 1 turnover, running well, passing well, only allowing two sacks and three hurries on 41 attempts, 75% completion percentage, doubling the opponent in yardage.
We won’t play perfect games. This offense is inefficient, ineffective, and a problem.
The helmet penalty stalled the momentum on what had been a good looking drive. If that doesn’t happen I think we finish that drive with a TD
We should be able to overcome that late in the season, but just another error on a day when nothing seemed to be going right
You must have missed the 19 yard shift in field position, or the fact that the penalty really killed the both nascent momentum and the crowd excitement that had just burst into being.
Everyone wants to bash on the offense, but we’re integrating a whole bunch of skill position players who have actually played very little, or not at all. If it takes a game (plus a bye week) to get everyone in sync, I’m good with that. We’ll get there.
We’re left with pointing to subjective loss of nascent momentum and crowd excitement on a 1st quarter play that resulted in 1st and 14 rather than 1st and 10. Thank you, this exemplifies the degree of near perfection needed against UNI and the thin margin for error manufactured by offensive staff yesterday. How were the field conditions? Any suboptimal shading? I guess we should feel very lucky it was a home game and that UNI also made mistakes.
From what we’ve seen over the past two years, the offense is not likely to get there, but will become more multiple and effective when the staff feels the defense can’t stop the opponent. It’s very possible it’ll cost us a game or two like it has the past few seasons.
Oh good, you’re going to do this to football too.
I’m still shocked no one has hired you
Thanks for clarifying that you’re not knowledgeable enough to recognize the difference between first and ten from the 11 yard line, and first and fourteen from the 30.
No, I don’t recall the precise field position, but that’s the effective change.
You realize you’re further articulating just how thin of margin we had against UNI? That difference you’re referencing, whether you believe large or small, is of the severity that teams face every game. The goal is playing perfect, but it won’t happen.
We played well, but ineffectively. This results in only two legitimate killer plays, the Newell hold and one killer TO on a bad call turning the game into a pillow fight in which we needed a fortuitous fumble to win.
You realize you’re fixating on promoting you’re own narrative, to the point of ignoring anything else?
As just posted, this is the injury thread. I won’t be responding again.
And you realize you’re fixating on promoting your narrative to the point of ignoring anything else? Nascent momentum and crowd excitement, good god that is bad.
There are certainly plays that went into it being a 3OT game in which we needed a fortunate fumble recovery, but very few when in the context of college football, particularly a matchup like this. That’s not good.
Okay, I lied.
A. You’re an idiot.
B. If I’m “fixating” on anything. I’m contradicting your single mindedness.
C. I never said that we had a huge talent gap over UNI.?what I said is that you drew erroneous conclusions from certain situations, and wedged them to fit your premise
Which I totally understand now, because:
D. You’re a moron.
Or a troll. Which amounts to the same thing.