GDT: SUU Thunderbirds

[YanktonJack7]

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Rozeboom having a tough game so far

[filbert]

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And then ... yeesh.

I'm chalking that up to 1) freshman and 2) hasn't played much (which is a variant of 1), actually).

[MontanaRabbit]

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I’m not sure why but I just don’t get warm fuzzies about this team. Seems we are just kinda meh at this point in the season.

[YanktonJack7]

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Rozeboom having a tough game so far

This didn’t age well. Nice pick six by Rozeboom

[Mr_Tibbs]

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I’m not sure why but I just don’t get warm fuzzies about this team. Seems we are just kinda meh at this point in the season.

Disagree. I don't think we're playing like the number 3 team in the nation right now, but I think we're playing at a top 10ish level. Need to be more consistent and clean up penalties, but this has been a pretty good performance tonight, with the exception of giving up a lot of yards. My opinion is that if this team doesn't show growth, quarterfinals is probably our ceiling. With a little growth, no reason to not think this is a semi-final team. And to be honest, part of that has to,do with the rest of the country. Right now, teams playing at a high level include:

NDSU
Cal Davis (ish)
JMU
Towson
Nova
Maine (ish)


That's about it. EWU lost today to Idaho, the Montana Schools have been okay, JSU has a bad loss and and good win, YSU hasn't played anyone, and ISUR has looked decent against okay teams. Furman has looked good, but is still only 2-2. Same story with the Citadel. And Uni barely beat Idaho State at home today.

This Jacks team hasn't reached their potential yet. If they don't grow, we're on the outside looking in at a top 8 seed. Could go either way. Develop a little more, and this could be a top 4 seed.

[filbert]

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Am I wrong or does Gibbs pretty much stare down his primary receiver a LOT of the time?

[Justwin]

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Am I wrong or does Gibbs pretty much stare down his primary receiver a LOT of the time?

I agree. Looks like he pre determines where he is going to go.

[goon]

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I agree. Looks like he pre determines where he is going to go.

Yeah hard for a freshman not too. To bad he missed the last couple games. Would have been great experience.

[JimmyJack]

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I agree. Looks like he pre determines where he is going to go.

Yeah. It's his second game. But then he does stuff like that TD to Strong. That was a great play.

[goon]

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Yeah. It's his second game. But then he does stuff like that TD to Strong. That was a great play.

Yep. Yet let that play develop and got the ball to strong just at the right time with good touch on it.

[goon]

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Pretty sure strong just took that ball from gibbs to run in for a td. The offense looks good. Defense is bending but not breaking which is what you ask against a team that likes to dink and dunk it's way down the field.

[JackJD]

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14,269 attendance. Perfect weather.

Good win win with lots of new numbers getting playing experience.

[Nidaros]

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14,269 attendance. Perfect weather.

Good win win with lots of new numbers getting playing experience.

Yes it was a great experience. What I can not figure out is the stats of SUU getting off 8o something plays and still only scoring 7 points. Of course at least 3 missed FG, plus our defense was on the field for a disproportional amount of time. This was a great test for our defense and I think we held our own. A win is a win, our freshman quarterback had maybe a 80-90 performance. I dont like to start making comparisons but Trey Lance at NDSU had a pretty good game.

[Nidaros]

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from the official stats Time of possession:

Possession Time
31:16 SUU
28:44 SDSU
1st Quarter
9:12 SUU
5:48 SDSU
2nd Quarter
7:18 SUU
7:42 SDSU
3rd Quarter
9:38 SUU
5:22 SDSU
4th Quarter
5:08 SUU
9:52 SDSU

It looks like we evened it up in the 4th quarter, but really it seems like our D spent too much time on the field and that is how SUU ran the number of plays up.

[jakejc795]

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Yes it was a great experience. What I can not figure out is the stats of SUU getting off 8o something plays and still only scoring 7 points. Of course at least 3 missed FG, plus our defense was on the field for a disproportional amount of time. This was a great test for our defense and I think we held our own. A win is a win, our freshman quarterback had maybe a 80-90 performance. I dont like to start making comparisons but Trey Lance at NDSU had a pretty good game.

Tyler and Brady Hale discussed this in postgame, noting DL depth/rotation being important given number of plays Thunderbirds ran. Nevertheless, I was frustrated with what seemed like blatant holds on DL (Krolikowski, Earith, and Ogunrinde were victims of at least a handful throughout the game).

I still can't get over the Twin Terrors from Iowa. Imagine being SUU player or fan and having Backhaus nearly force a fumble and then a play later having Rozeboom's pick 6. Then, Backhaus essentially knocked Helbig out of the game on a QB run.

Tyler and Brady also mentioned Backhaus sustaining an injury in practice last week, and it looked like Rozeboom tweaked his leg at one point, so the bye is coming at a great time.

Looking like almost perfect fall FB weather in a couple weeks for a smackdown of some Salukis.