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Hurry-Up Offense Will Gas Our O-Line

JBS said:
I still hate that the quote function is so hard for some people.
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The quote function is broken. Not every time but often. I have posted then tried to edit my post and nearly every time it messes up.
 
Grisly Fan said:
JBS said:
I still hate that the quote function is so hard for some people.
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The quote function is broken. Not every time but often. I have posted then tried to edit my post and nearly every time it messes up.
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I have never had a problem
 
AllWeatherFan said:
People seem to be assuming Montana's 2014 offense is playing against UNDSU's 2014 defense again this season. And that we're playing in Grand Forks again.

Get your stitt together!
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It won't matter. NDSU is just as good on the road. And their defense may not be quite as good as last year, but it will still be better than any other team we play this season. Their D-line will own our weak O-line, and make Gus's life miserable. If I am wrong, I will come on here and admit that I blew the prediction. But I don't think that will be necessary. I deal in reality, not pipe dreams.
 
Glad this thread got so many good responses. This is what message boards should be about, not pissing contests and immature comedians trying to tell how smart they are.

One factor which will determine how good our defense is, and one which has not been discussed much, is how many 4th down conversions the Griz will be able to convert. If they are not about 75% successful or better, our "D" will be defending a short field way too often. This could be HUGE!
 
Atlanta Griz1 said:
Glad this thread got so many good responses. This is what message boards should be about, not pissing contests and immature comedians trying to tell how smart they are.

One factor which will determine how good our defense is, and one which has not be discussed much, is how many 4th down conversions the Griz will be able to convert. If they are not about 75% successful or better, our "D" will be defending a short field way too often. This could be HUGE!
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Since we gave up an average of 21 yds/punt return in last years game, would we really know the difference?
 
Atlanta Griz1 said:
AllWeatherFan said:
People seem to be assuming Montana's 2014 offense is playing against UNDSU's 2014 defense again this season. And that we're playing in Grand Forks again.

Get your stitt together!
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It won't matter. NDSU is just as good on the road. And their defense may not be quite as good as last year, but it will still be better than any other team we play this season. Their D-line will own our weak O-line, and make Gus's life miserable. If I am wrong, I will come on here and admit that I blew the prediction. But I don't think that will be necessary. I deal in reality, not pipe dreams.
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So, you have now officially COMPLETELY changed your argument. Congratulations. :lol: :lol:
 
I guess when I watched last year's team in the early games, I saw an inept offense that struggled to move the ball and had quite a few 3 & outs. Last I checked, 3 & outs relate to less than 2 mins TOP generally, sometimes less when Jordy was forced to throw the ball away or incomplete cuz of no time. The difference with Stitt's O is that if he runs double or more plays in the same TOP, the defense is going to get hit twice as many times or more, and they can't sub out. That is what will take a HUGE toll on defenses come the 4th quarter.

Also, maybe I missed last year, but I felt like the Griz kept themselves in the NDSU game for almost 60 minutes. Yes, they ran it down our throats, but our defense hung in there, didn't give up the big TD's, and gave our offense a chance. There's just no way our offense preforms worse this year than last, which leads me to believe we have a shot this year; certainly better than last year. We have a MT quarterback leading this team this year, a guy who broke a lot of Selle's records at West. I like our chances to go deep and surprise a lot of people. Hell, as bad as our team was last year according to a lot of people, we finished pretty damn well and can only get better this year.
 
#15 Fan said:
I guess when I watched last year's team in the early games, I saw an inept offense that struggled to move the ball and had quite a few 3 & outs. Last I checked, 3 & outs relate to less than 2 mins TOP generally, sometimes less when Jordy was forced to throw the ball away or incomplete cuz of no time. The difference with Stitt's O is that if he runs double or more plays in the same TOP, the defense is going to get hit twice as many times or more, and they can't sub out. That is what will take a HUGE toll on defenses come the 4th quarter.
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Wyoming: 12 possessions, 5 TAO's (Wyoming had 6, by the way)
Central Washington: 14 possessions, 2 TAO's, both with reserves in (CWU had 7 TAO's)
South Dakota: Box score unavailable
NDSU: 10 possessions, 4 TAO's (including our first 3 possessions...KILLER)
UNC: 13 possessions, 5 TAO's (2 with reserves in, game well in hand)
UND: 13 possessions, 2 TAO's (another drive ended after 2 plays on INT, another after 4 plays on missed FG)
UCD: 12 possessions, 3 TAO's (game ended with us in possession on 3rd down)
Cal Poly: 11 possessions, 3 TAO's
Sac St: 11 possessions, 3 TAO's (all in 4th quarter, game score 31-6)
EWU: 15 possessions, 3 TAO's (EWU had 4)
SUU: Box score unavailable
MSU: 12 possessions, 2 TAO's
San Diego: Box Score unavailable
EWU: 13 possessions, 3 TAO's (2 other drives ended at 3 or less plays with turnovers)

Based on this, it seems that people are lumping in ALL drives that end quickly as "three and outs"...there were many drives that ended quickly, but on turnovers, with reserves in late in games, or at the end of the half/game...I look at these numbers and I don't really see an inordinate number of true 3 & outs early in games, other than the NDSU game.
 
#15 Fan said:
... Hell, as bad as our team was last year according to a lot of people, we finished pretty damn well and can only get better this year.
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The notion that the Griz were a “bad” team last year shows just how spoiled rotten some fans on here are.

Getting back to the NCAA stats, we find that UM, at 9-5, tied for #31 in winning percentage among all 121 schools at the 1-AA level. If you bump teams with totally wimpy schedules, the Griz come out at about #20-24 ... just on that measure alone. Example of wimpy: San Diego had a higher winning percentage at 9-3, 75%, than the Griz. Remember what UM did to the Toreros? And the Griz got into the playoffs -- almost a hundred teams would have been happy to have been there instead. Hell, there were three teams that did not win a game, and six more than only won once. Now those are bad teams.

So, by no objective measure were the Griz a “bad” team last year. Sure, all of us would have liked to have seen the Griz do better. But c’mon!
 
Granted Obama and Clinton need to be executed for what they have done to this once powerful country but I was talking about football and not treason.
 
You know what I think this team needs:

TO HAVE EVERYBODY IN THEIR SEATS FOR THE SECOND HALF
and not come wandering back half way through the 3rd quarter.
 
ALPHAGRIZ1 said:
Execution
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That pretty well says it all. If you can get past the fluff, that has been Alpha's mantra for years. If we execute at a high level, we will be competitive with NDSU or anyone we are likely to run into. Will we win? I have no idea but if we don't execute well, we won't be competitive.
 
Execute? Where do we start? Some of the slugs that seem to love trolling on this site would be my first choice.


If our Offense gets oiled up and does execute very well we could just be damn good. I have a lot of faith in Gus and he is the key. If he can run this offense well and executes it to a high degree we will have a smoking good offense. Forget all the talk about us getting gassed, forget about our O Line, forget about our running backs and all that other crap......If you want to worry and ring your hands concern yourself with our QB.

So yeah, Alpha has a good point.
 
It will be key for us to score more points than NDSU to win the game. If we don't score points then it's going to be really tough to win. Hopefully our defense can tackle the player who has the ball on the other team before he/she gets too many meters down the field. I am really worried about how many owies are players might get for playing too much over the course of the match.

I don't think Stitt understands this. I am really worried that he doesn't hang out with enough knowledgeable football fans or ex-griz football players to understand how to coach. I mean, I really doubt he even hangs out at the Mo Club. Stitt is a pedestrian fan at best...
 
Umista said:
Execute? Where do we start? Some of the slugs that seem to love trolling on this site would be my first choice.


If our Offense gets oiled up and does execute very well we could just be damn good. I have a lot of faith in Gus and he is the key. If he can run this offense well and executes it to a high degree we will have a smoking good offense. Forget all the talk about us getting gassed, forget about our O Line, forget about our running backs and all that other crap......If you want to worry and ring your hands concern yourself with our QB.

So yeah, Alpha has a good point.
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In Gus we trust...or at least I do. :thumb:
 
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