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HelenaHandBasket
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Quit being a neggy
HelenaHandBasket
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Improving from what, 2-9?
HelenaHandBasket
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Quit honestly, I don't think you get Tony Annese.
Oh no dude, what if I guarantee the griz win against Drake next year?
GriznMN
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Freudian slip. He's already said he would want to coach at Montana.
HelenaHandBasket
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Autocorrect. You mean when he was cornered in a press conference by Montana press? Of course he would say that.
GriznMN
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No "quite" in your dictionary?
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mthoopsfan
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Here are some questions for Schmidt. How would his ideas and solutions have addressed the following in the recent Cat game. Be specific. No generalities. Everyone can say new coach, new coordinator, different play-calling, different strength coach, better OL, recruit better players, etc.
1. How would Schmidt’s ideas have avoided the early injuries to 3 and 84. Much of the offense is built around those 2 players. No. 3 had 10 catches in the first Cat game. Many run plays have no. 84 being the/a key blocker.
2. How could the injuries have been avoided? Were the Cat tackles on those plays a bit dirty? The first one involved swinging from the hip with the lower body into the ankle/lower legs. Wasn’t that the definition of a hip drop? Dirty play and should have been a big penalty and first down.
3. How should/could UM have dealt with the early weak penalties called by the refs? Until into the 3d Q, UM couldn’t buy a break on a penalty. 2 penalties slowed UM’s progress to first downs.
4. Speaking of first downs, back to the injuries of 3 and 84. Those players would have helped with more 3d down conversions.
5. How could/should UM have avoided or dealt with injuries to defenders Ramos and wasn’t there anyone? How about the weak targeting call against Mikah? Didn’t look like targeting to me. And we had the guys stopped on 3d down, and lost Mikah.
6. That’s 5 starters out. Yes, I understand the injuries happen and teams have to deal with them. But how would your solutions have dealt with them?
7. Note that no. 3 is the regular holder for kicks. Recall the weak snap/hold when he was out and missed EP.
8. How would your solutions have avoided the complete screw up of alignment of players, and no edge, on the long run by Jones in the first half. That screw up in alignment/execution gave MSU an easy TD. Nothing hard about that run, except he was fast enough to stay ahead of our safety.
9. How would your solutions have avoided the long 88 yard TD pass on 3d and 20 in the 2d half? The one with the QB scramble out of the pocket and the nice reverse of pattern by Dowler. Did Bobby say in the interview that a UM defender had fall down on that play.? That was a huge place in multiple respects. Would having Harper in on the play have helped defend that long catch in the middle of the field?
10. How do you explain the Griz getting their offensive act together on the 3d drive of the game and then scoring in 4 straight drives? Does that happen with a bad or weak OL?
11. How would your solutions have avoided giving up 3 TD’s in 5.5 minutes? That was a devastating 5.5 minutes.
12. For a first down different of 23-18, a total offense difference of 449-347, and a 3d down conversion rates difference of 10-14 to 7-14, it seems that a point differential of 25 is alot.
13. Sacks were 3 for Cats to 1 for Griz. 1 for Griz is probably attributable to the fact that Ah Yat threw so many more passes. I note the Crews’ sack where UM’s center and guard inexplicably let him run between them straight at the QB? How would your solutions have avoided that break down in communication or execution? Judging just on sack numbers, the OL’s of the teams performed about the same, in my view.
14. How many conference honors winners would be in your OL? The Griz had a first team all-conference, second team all-conference and a frosh all-American. Is that the sign of a bad OL?
15. How do you explain all of the nice heartfelt Facebook posts by families of players, like Davis and Rocker, following the game and praising the program? Does that sound like a team going in the wrong direction or going nowhere? How about Rausch saying in the press conference that he loves his teammates and coaches. It was the most fun he’s ever had playing football.
1. How would Schmidt’s ideas have avoided the early injuries to 3 and 84. Much of the offense is built around those 2 players. No. 3 had 10 catches in the first Cat game. Many run plays have no. 84 being the/a key blocker.
2. How could the injuries have been avoided? Were the Cat tackles on those plays a bit dirty? The first one involved swinging from the hip with the lower body into the ankle/lower legs. Wasn’t that the definition of a hip drop? Dirty play and should have been a big penalty and first down.
3. How should/could UM have dealt with the early weak penalties called by the refs? Until into the 3d Q, UM couldn’t buy a break on a penalty. 2 penalties slowed UM’s progress to first downs.
4. Speaking of first downs, back to the injuries of 3 and 84. Those players would have helped with more 3d down conversions.
5. How could/should UM have avoided or dealt with injuries to defenders Ramos and wasn’t there anyone? How about the weak targeting call against Mikah? Didn’t look like targeting to me. And we had the guys stopped on 3d down, and lost Mikah.
6. That’s 5 starters out. Yes, I understand the injuries happen and teams have to deal with them. But how would your solutions have dealt with them?
7. Note that no. 3 is the regular holder for kicks. Recall the weak snap/hold when he was out and missed EP.
8. How would your solutions have avoided the complete screw up of alignment of players, and no edge, on the long run by Jones in the first half. That screw up in alignment/execution gave MSU an easy TD. Nothing hard about that run, except he was fast enough to stay ahead of our safety.
9. How would your solutions have avoided the long 88 yard TD pass on 3d and 20 in the 2d half? The one with the QB scramble out of the pocket and the nice reverse of pattern by Dowler. Did Bobby say in the interview that a UM defender had fall down on that play.? That was a huge place in multiple respects. Would having Harper in on the play have helped defend that long catch in the middle of the field?
10. How do you explain the Griz getting their offensive act together on the 3d drive of the game and then scoring in 4 straight drives? Does that happen with a bad or weak OL?
11. How would your solutions have avoided giving up 3 TD’s in 5.5 minutes? That was a devastating 5.5 minutes.
12. For a first down different of 23-18, a total offense difference of 449-347, and a 3d down conversion rates difference of 10-14 to 7-14, it seems that a point differential of 25 is alot.
13. Sacks were 3 for Cats to 1 for Griz. 1 for Griz is probably attributable to the fact that Ah Yat threw so many more passes. I note the Crews’ sack where UM’s center and guard inexplicably let him run between them straight at the QB? How would your solutions have avoided that break down in communication or execution? Judging just on sack numbers, the OL’s of the teams performed about the same, in my view.
14. How many conference honors winners would be in your OL? The Griz had a first team all-conference, second team all-conference and a frosh all-American. Is that the sign of a bad OL?
15. How do you explain all of the nice heartfelt Facebook posts by families of players, like Davis and Rocker, following the game and praising the program? Does that sound like a team going in the wrong direction or going nowhere? How about Rausch saying in the press conference that he loves his teammates and coaches. It was the most fun he’s ever had playing football.
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Let’s just keep that to ourselves from now on.
GriznMN
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This doesn't seem like Tony was cornered in a press conference by Montana press. In fact, it's quite the opposite. He explicitly says he wants to coach at Montana.
Ferris State coach Tony Annese on 17-10 loss at Montana
Vamos Gatos Vamos
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Hoops, flooding the zone with shit. He does this again and again.
mthoopsfan
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Why don't you answer the questions, in case Schmidt can't? I'm asking good questions, and assume that Schmidt and none of you jokers will be able to answer them, or will avoid answering them. Big mouths, no substance.
Grizzinator
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There’s a lot of sting after a loss like this and a lot to sort out. Many things can be true at the same time. Your list is valid and points out key in-game factors that contributed to the loss. There can also be larger systemic issues that contributed to the loss and the much larger question of why our record is so underwater against Bozeman and we have an incredibly long-tenured coach with a losing record against our biggest rival and no national championship despite exceptional resources.
For someone that acts like he has a supreme knowledge of football, questioning the validity of the targeting call is hilarious! That was textbook targeting. All day long. What a dumb statement.
Further, implying either injury to Davis or Shafer were the result of a dirty hit is laughable. I hate that it happened but sometimes it does. It’s football. Did he expect the 5’10 180 pound safety to tackle the 6’5 270 Shafer up high? He would have been trucked. Was he talking about dirty drop tackles when the griz ended Davis’s season last year on the same type of tackle?
Still hard to believe there are so many here that put up with his blathering and act like he knows what he’s talking about. Makes for good entertainment though.
mthoopsfan
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Many who have looked at the film disagree with you on the targeting. The tackle on Davis was textbook major tackling penalty.
The Cats are going to get rolled by Ill St.
mthoopsfan
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Or, we could have a great coach and have had a great season with 2 bad losses to Cats. And there are no systemic problems, and a great future. Why don't you or Schmidt answer the questions? Why doesn't Schmidt ever back up what he says? I don't care if 2 things can be true. I want to know how Schmidt's ideas would have resolved these problems and issues.
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GriznMN
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Why is #84 your key blocker on many run plays? Because your offensive line is not strong enough to push the opposing D line off the ball which was called out by Andrew Schmidt.
I can see #3 being a main focal point of the game plan for the game against the Cats and when he went down, it hurt the offense. However, great coaching has contigencies built in for those type of situations and the coaching adapts the game plan to fit the personnel. You can't possibly tell me that with Wortham, Dever, Hendrix, Eli Gillman, Rocker, Gale, Bohannon, Fonoti, Monte Gillman, and Hashim Jones that the Griz coaches couldn't have adapted the play calling. In fact, I would say they did a great job adapting the play calling because the Griz were up 23-20 on the Cats at the end of the third quarter and that was after #3 went out. I have successfully refuted one of your claims. I will let others refute your other claims.
