^^it is pretty comical how bad we are in those situations. Sometimes is the decision making (deciding to be conservative instead of aggressive) and sometimes it’s just execution. This is a very red tinted take, so I dunno how accurate it is. But it feels like we never win that middle third of the game.

9/28/2024 1:55:12 PM

We are so bad in short yardage.

9/28/2024 2:02:15 PM

NIU is not good.

ND should be ashamed

9/28/2024 2:08:40 PM

Quote :

"We are so bad in short yardage."

In all yardage.

Playcalling is just mind-numbingly bad sometimes. Like we pick up Jordan Waters and our goal line play is to run a sweep with kc instead of power running. We throw to running backs instead of the wrs/joly. The coaches like to make things too complicated.

9/28/2024 2:55:11 PM

Yeah. This offense is bad

9/28/2024 2:56:53 PM

CW20, is that what we are watching this on?

9/28/2024 2:59:05 PM

Brutal set of downs there. Like. Thats the shit that loses games.

9/28/2024 2:59:18 PM

1/10 on third downs lol

9/28/2024 3:01:50 PM

just like we drew it up

9/28/2024 3:03:59 PM

KC may have been the least happy touchdown scorer of all time

9/28/2024 3:06:33 PM

GO FOR IT DAVE

9/28/2024 3:07:58 PM

lol I noticed that. Probably dumb to try to read into body language but yeah that seemed kinda odd

[Edited on September 28, 2024 at 3:08 PM. Reason : ^^]

9/28/2024 3:08:00 PM

3rd and 9, let’s run a QB draw, again

9/28/2024 3:08:01 PM

The play by play guy might be literally blind?

[Edited on September 28, 2024 at 3:10 PM. Reason : Overthrows his guy by 10 yards! ]

9/28/2024 3:10:03 PM

Kinda woulda liked to see us not call the TO there. NIU seemed confused and scrambling. I guess we were equally confused.

9/28/2024 3:18:30 PM

Did Vann just concuss himself on that tackle

9/28/2024 3:21:08 PM

Others teams have skill position players that just make plays. We don’t. I think our skill position players are totally fine. Not elite. But definitely better than MAC level. But we need ballers. And our dudes that are supposed to be ballers just rarely actually ball

9/28/2024 3:22:06 PM

I don't think we call plays that allow our skill position players to make plays.

9/28/2024 3:24:09 PM

Oh Jesus Dave.

You called a TO?!?!!

[Edited on September 28, 2024 at 3:24 PM. Reason : ^ we should call more easy touchdown plays ]

9/28/2024 3:24:29 PM

LMAO these refs

9/28/2024 3:25:00 PM

I mean at this point, the offense under Dave is what it is. He's not going to have a gameplan that involves much vertical passing. He likes safe plays with the occasional dumbass wr pass thrown in to spice things up.

It's fine, it's just frustrating when the WR room gets hyped up all offseason and then we don't throw anything down the field.

9/28/2024 3:27:32 PM

How many injuries can the defense sustain on the final drive?

9/28/2024 3:29:31 PM

Lol at that timeout


Our skill position players are decoys for our excellent QB draw plays

[Edited on September 28, 2024 at 3:32 PM. Reason : Was noonkester our mvp today? ]

9/28/2024 3:29:40 PM

Quote :

"It's fine, it's just frustrating when the WR room gets hyped up all offseason and then we don't throw anything down the field. "

Yeah this is the part that is just dumb. Don’t spend all our NIL on RBs and WRs if you aren’t gonna give them chances to shine. Spend on OL and defense and just win like Iowa and other B1G teams.

If you want that to be your identity then get a killer OL and some big ass blocking TEs and run the fucking ball up the middle. We don’t even do that. We don’t even have an identity offensively.

Why go get Anae and tout his prolific offense at UVa if we aren’t even gonna come close to trying that

[Edited on September 28, 2024 at 3:46 PM. Reason : F]

9/28/2024 3:44:27 PM

Quote :

"We don’t even have an identity offensively."

The "Punt and hope your D forces a turnover" offense

9/28/2024 4:31:48 PM

Yeah we have an identity, it's run on first down, short pass, qb draw on 3rd down, punt. Repeat.

9/28/2024 8:33:00 PM

8:00 PM game time for Syracuse!! Woohoo!

9/30/2024 4:25:13 PM

Fuck that mess lol

9/30/2024 4:28:13 PM

Hibbler officially transferring

10/3/2024 10:10:49 AM

https://youtu.be/asxrMSVrJ08?si=-zWS4JmabJQIhxY0

10/3/2024 12:24:02 PM

Should I take the under at 51.5?

10/5/2024 10:26:03 AM

Idk wake’s defense is pretty awful. But they are playing our offense. So…

10/5/2024 11:21:33 AM

McCall starting. Interesting

10/5/2024 11:28:36 AM

^^^I am staying away from this game personally. Too wild a rivalry.

10/5/2024 11:32:34 AM

Oof

10/5/2024 12:31:55 PM

Damn. Havent shown any replays. I don’t think it was targeting, but his helmet came off. Probably hit his exposed head pretty hard on the field.

10/5/2024 12:34:41 PM

He's a quarterback. Not a fullback! There's no reason to hit someone like that!

10/5/2024 12:36:15 PM

Ooh boy Dave is going to have some questions to answer after this game. No idea why McCall was in, or why he would put himself in that position with that run.

Also, I’ve found the Deacons reaction after the fumble recovery AND subsequent TD to be completely classless

10/5/2024 12:39:49 PM

Looked like a clear catch and they didn’t review it wtf

10/5/2024 12:45:24 PM

^^ i agree that it’s a bad look. But we don’t even know if McCall’s original injury in the La Tech game was a head injury. So it’s kinda hard to second guess any of it without all the details.

10/5/2024 12:48:05 PM

Can’t get KC going at all

10/5/2024 12:51:31 PM

^^fair. Every reason I’ve heard for him being out (besides just poor play) was pointing to another head injury. That would be another question DD needs to answer - why was McCall out?

10/5/2024 12:55:12 PM

Yeah the mystery/secrecy around the injury was another reason I assumed it was a head injury. I really just assume he was done for the year and Doeren was just playing coy with making any formal announcement about it

10/5/2024 12:59:27 PM

Really tired of how we’re using KC. Pop passes, reverses and screens are not the only way to get him the ball

10/5/2024 1:02:29 PM

I agree

10/5/2024 1:04:51 PM

KC like a Ferrari doin farm work

10/5/2024 1:17:01 PM

^ good call!

Let that man eat!

10/5/2024 1:22:00 PM

Tbf they've shown some replays where he got open deep and Bailey can't find him

10/5/2024 1:25:20 PM

Read the room, rwoody! We only blame coaches itt.

10/5/2024 1:26:10 PM

Haven’t been forced to punt yet. But settling for too many FGs

10/5/2024 1:55:58 PM