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Makema Simis could surprise.

I have been accused of being pessimistic. ...I consider myself realistic. That being said, I see no playoffs coming but have a good feeling about Simis. Very good talent, and his running ability might save the day quite often. No Prukop as a runner, but will still cause defenses to deal with his running ability.
 
Only problem any of our QBs have is a lack of quick-quick and more quick. Once we arrive at a quick-quick we will end our offensive struggle. Simis could have a break out game and if so we will see a QB that can throw on the first sign of a receiver that will be coming open in a split second and after he has already tossed the ball to the now open receiver.

A super quick QB only needs a line for a bluff charge. His quick thinking throws on target will begin to make our line look damn good as the defense gets worn down and confused after the QB runs for good yardage and makes good throws.

Forget our line woes, it is the QB that will lift up the line, not the other way around. Once the Griz fans realize this fact they will stand the entire game.

One problem I already see is the nick name for Makema Simis. If he leads us on and does as well as some of us think... he will require a slick moniker. If not Simis then we need to look at Prater as the next Griz gunslinger. I think Makema could be the guy so lets watch Saturday and jump on the parade!
 
Ursus1 said:
I have been accused of being pessimistic. ...I consider myself realistic. That being said, I see no playoffs coming but have a good feeling about Simis. Very good talent, and his running ability might save the day quite often. No Prukop as a runner, but will still cause defenses to deal with his running ability.
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Hold on there a sec while I saddle up my unicorn for our ride over the rainbow! No way Simis runs anywhere with this line and a coach who throws his players under the bus...come back to reality ursus! :x :x :x
 
Ursus1 said:
I have been accused of being pessimistic. ...I consider myself realistic. That being said, I see no playoffs coming but have a good feeling about Simis. Very good talent, and his running ability might save the day quite often. No Prukop as a runner, but will still cause defenses to deal with his running ability.
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I went back to look at his Highlights tape and like the way he throws the ball. He does remind me of JJ in the way that he can respond to a collapsing O-Line, so there's a plus.

http://www.hudl.com/athlete/698489/highlights/32123384/v2?utm_expid=74649800-50.xVwcdGojSNiaNtQ6WnoKhQ.0&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hudl.com%2Fathlete%2F698489%2Fmakena-simis
 
CDAGRIZ said:
grizindabox said:
get'em_griz said:
Ohio State won the national championship last year with their 3rd-string QB. I'm not saying the Griz will win the NC with our 3rd-string QB, but it's certainly possible that the Griz will be just fine with Simis.
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Was he playing behind a second rate OL too?
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He's right, Get 'em. There is no reason to think the Griz will ever win again. Why don't you just give up already? I've already sold all of my Griz gear. I am now in the Growler/Box camp.


We won't win with Stitt. If we do, it will be luck, and I will be mad.
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So you thought the Griz were a 6 to 7 win team in August also?
 
I must learn what they make from sour grapes? Dog mash? Gut foo yung? Ahla cat?

Chick-ins living on egriz may require a bath in oily maroon slime with lots of fake sugar and that may bring them back from the dead.

What the hell? What if we win? What then mad fan? Sour Whine...
 
If he is able execute the offense and score more than 24 points, by this years standard, he's done better than the others. Just sayin ;)
 
...simis has the prototype...
...think john friesz..idaho bitd*...
...just to get him some protection...

... 8-) ...

* back in the day
 
Guess all you haters should just cancel your eGriz accounts, break out the ought-6, and spend the next six weeks slaughtering cloven-hoofed ungulates.
 
http://missoulian.com/news/local/wounded-griz-exit-bye-with-sense-of-urgency/article_0a144ca4-6eed-572d-98aa-aecd7a4fcc5e.html


17 hours ago • By AJ Mazzolini(0) Comments


The Montana football team should have enjoyed the rarest of the rare gifts this season: two bye weeks. But perhaps by some cruel twist of a homogenizing universe, the Griz were left twice with idle time to ponder excruciating defeats.

Twice Montana has suffered last-second losses on field goals at home. Both times a fortnight of waiting for that next game followed.

"It's awful," explained head coach Bob Stitt, whose team received two off weeks due to its inclusion in the 'Week 0' FCS Kickoff on ESPN. "'Oh you had a couple days off?' No we didn't. Our minds were on it constantly throughout that time."

The 19th-ranked Griz hope this week provides the kind of reprieve UM failed to find following its first stunning defeat, a 20-19 loss to Cal Poly delivered via 49-yarder Sept. 5. Two weeks later the Griz were handled by Liberty out in Virginia, a game in which Montana lost its starting quarterback Brady Gustafson to a broken fibula.

On the heels of another slap in the face at home – Weber State KO'd the Griz in overtime, 24-21, on Oct. 10 – Montana (3-3 overall, 2-1 in Big Sky games) gets its chance to take out some frustration on a banged-up North Dakota in UND's first trip to Missoula since the Green and White joined the Big Sky Conference in 2013.

The teams are scheduled to kick off at 1:30 p.m. at Washington-Grizzly Stadium on Saturday.

UND is coming off its own troubling loss – coincidentally to Weber as well – and carries with it a 4-3 record (2-2 BSC), a shell of a once more promising start thanks to back-to-back bad league losses.

North Dakota and Montana find themselves in eerily similar positions now on the downhill side of the season. Additional losses, even one, could derail a postseason push.

"We do need to pick it up as far as our sense of urgency and get ready for this and play it like every game is a playoff game," Griz senior linebacker Kendrick Van Ackeren said. "Because if we lose one, our chance of getting into the playoffs goes down tremendously."

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Saturday's winner will likely be the team that best survives a bad scenario. Neither side is expected to have its No. 1 guy at quarterback, Montana the most unlucky on the verge of trotting out its third-stringer.

North Dakota starter Keaton Studsrud exited UND's loss to Idaho State two weeks ago with a leg injury and didn't even make the trip to Utah to face Weber last week. In his place Ryan Bartels threw for 118 yards, completing 9 of 20 passes with two touchdowns.

This week UND will likely again be without Studsrud, a sophomore who started the team's final four games last season. The QB is doubtful according to an early week injury report that also shows Bartels, a junior who hadn't started a game since the end of 2013 before last week, topping the depth chart.

In Montana's camp, the Griz are rallying around sophomore Makena Simis, who is expected to start in place of second-stringer Chad Chalich after he broke his left foot against Weber. The bye was perhaps most beneficial to Simis, who was pressed into his first collegiate passes a week ago.

"Makena needs to know he's the guy," said Stitt, whose team has been ravaged by injuries this season. "But on the positive side we have a chance to do something that not many teams do. That's win games with three different starting quarterbacks.

"That's a huge challenge, but I think we can get 'er done."

The QB must have improved his grasp on the playbook since the last time the Montana faithful laid eyes on him, as he was fumbling on a sack in overtime against the Wildcats.

Stitt said Simis's game better equates to that of Chalich, who started three times for Montana after Gustafson's leg injury. That makes for less adjustment for the offense as a whole.

"It's a plus because he got some reps – not enough – when Chad was a starter and will just continue to grow that game plan," the coach said. "We've got a nice base, but we've got to continue to add some plays to that."

Perhaps the greatest difference between Gustafson, who Stitt expects to return to the lineup in a few weeks, and both Chalich and Simis is the latter two's legs. Their mobility adds a major component to the works. Chalich rose to the team's third-leading rusher in his brief stint in the backfield.

Simis too can move. He broke off a 19-yard run on third-and-11 in the fourth quarter against WSU just moments before passing for a TD that tied it 21-all.

"Ya know he's got a really good arm, throws a really nice ball," said receiver Ben Roberts, who caught the TD pass. "... He's athletic, he's a strong kid and he's physical. I would expect you could see some runs from him as well like you saw from Chad."
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Umista said:
Only problem any of our QBs have is a lack of quick-quick and more quick. Once we arrive at a quick-quick we will end our offensive struggle. Simis could have a break out game and if so we will see a QB that can throw on the first sign of a receiver that will be coming open in a split second and after he has already tossed the ball to the now open receiver.

A super quick QB only needs a line for a bluff charge. His quick thinking throws on target will begin to make our line look damn good as the defense gets worn down and confused after the QB runs for good yardage and makes good throws.

Forget our line woes, it is the QB that will lift up the line, not the other way around. Once the Griz fans realize this fact they will stand the entire game.
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I think you have good point here, it is difficult to get a sack a 3 step drop with a quick throw. That requires more from the QB than it does the line. The run game does need a bit more blocking from the line, that can't be avoided.
 
Watch the Giants. ..Eli has switched what leg takes first step to allow for 2 step drop to be even faster
 
Griz!ron said:
Umista said:
Only problem any of our QBs have is a lack of quick-quick and more quick. Once we arrive at a quick-quick we will end our offensive struggle. Simis could have a break out game and if so we will see a QB that can throw on the first sign of a receiver that will be coming open in a split second and after he has already tossed the ball to the now open receiver.

A super quick QB only needs a line for a bluff charge. His quick thinking throws on target will begin to make our line look damn good as the defense gets worn down and confused after the QB runs for good yardage and makes good throws.

Forget our line woes, it is the QB that will lift up the line, not the other way around. Once the Griz fans realize this fact they will stand the entire game.
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I think you have good point here, it is difficult to get a sack a 3 step drop with a quick throw. That requires more from the QB than it does the line. The run game does need a bit more blocking from the line, that can't be avoided.
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What three step drop are you referring to? The QB is already five or more steps behind the line @ the snap of the ball. So everyone is supposed to just run a slant and the guy who looks open first gets the ball? It always take as few seconds for a route to develop and thus the need for an offensive line that can keep defenders off the QB, even in the most rudamentary of offenses. Which by the way, this is not. The quick step is for dancing with the stars. You want to dance @ Wa/Griz? You better bring all of it, including some attitude about the line of scrimmage, which is the element that's missing most of all right now.
 
bgbigdog said:
What three step drop are you referring to? The QB is already five or more steps behind the line @ the snap of the ball. So everyone is supposed to just run a slant and the guy who looks open first gets the ball? It always take as few seconds for a route to develop and thus the need for an offensive line that can keep defenders off the QB, even in the most rudamentary of offenses. Which by the way, this is not. The quick step is for dancing with the stars. You want to dance @ Wa/Griz? You better bring all of it, including some attitude about the line of scrimmage, which is the element that's missing most of all right now.
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMbLjjEuk5o[/youtube]
 
bgbigdog said:
What three step drop are you referring to? The QB is already five or more steps behind the line @ the snap of the ball. So everyone is supposed to just run a slant and the guy who looks open first gets the ball? It always take as few seconds for a route to develop and thus the need for an offensive line that can keep defenders off the QB, even in the most rudamentary of offenses. Which by the way, this is not. The quick step is for dancing with the stars. You want to dance @ Wa/Griz? You better bring all of it, including some attitude about the line of scrimmage, which is the element that's missing most of all right now.
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the offensive line only has 1 job, and that is to get the ball back to the offense so the offense can score.
 
As long as Simis is playing well and the Griz are winning, I don't see how he loses the starting job.
 
And... Simis rocked it! Loved his poise and accuracy. I did not see a single head scratcher or strange miscue. His game was dialed. Besides his fumble against Weber, he has very much impressed!
 
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