We ran the ball on 1st down 14 out of 15 of our possessions vs KSU

And we rushed for 2 yards or less on all 14 1st down rushes! We faced 2nd and 8 or longer a whopping 14 times last Saturday. Not good. The O Line must get much better push, but when the D knows what is coming it is much easier to defend.

Way too predictable! Mix in a few passes on 1st down, please Joe.

Fitz making the wrong reads

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Yep and he threw the ball to hard to guidry on the pick

We just going to ignore the fact that we were either playing a QB with a hurt shoulder or a true freshman for all of those drives? Feels kind of significant. It’s perfectly logical to rely heavily on your running game on a day when your passing isn’t what you want it to be.

14/15 probably is higher than it needs to be, but would you have preferred we aired it out more? The passing game obviously wasn’t working for us.

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We just going to ignore the fact that we were either playing a QB with a hurt shoulder or a true freshman for all of those drives? Feels kind of significant. It’s perfectly logical to rely heavily on your running game on a day when your passing isn’t what you want it to be.

14/15 probably is higher than it needs to be, but would you have preferred we aired it out more? The passing game obviously wasn’t working for us.

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Thought we run an RPO like every play. Perhaps the defense baited us into runs

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We just going to ignore the fact that we were either playing a QB with a hurt shoulder or a true freshman for all of those drives? Feels kind of significant. It’s perfectly logical to rely heavily on your running game on a day when your passing isn’t what you want it to be.

14/15 probably is higher than it needs to be, but would you have preferred we aired it out more? The passing game obviously wasn’t working for us.

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Don't any of you know anything about football, the call is at the line it's all box count. You either have numbers or not, so it's either run or pass depending on the number of men in the tackle box.

But yes the offense line got their ass whipped last week, the are large and slow.

Offensive Savant.

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Don't any of you know anything about football, the call is at the line it's all box count. You either have numbers or not, so it's either run or pass depending on the number of men in the tackle box.

But yes the offense line got their ass whipped last week, the are large and slow.

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Except Hill tweeted Monday about eight in the box all game long.

wait for it......... but will it ever happen?

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14/15 probably is higher than it needs to be, but would you have preferred we aired it out more? The passing game obviously wasn’t working for us.

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probably? do you guys just defend everything?

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Don't any of you know anything about football, the call is at the line it's all box count. You either have numbers or not, so it's either run or pass depending on the number of men in the tackle box.

But yes the offense line got their ass whipped last week, the are large and slow.

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We didn't have the numbers. It's ok to constantly pump sunshine if you really believe it. But why pump sunshine just for the heck of it.

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Thought we run an RPO like every play. Perhaps the defense baited us into runs

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Like you said ... Fitz making wrong reads. Also throwing uncatchable ball on the drops too.

ETA: Tommy would've made NFL reads *** Easy there dantheman haha.

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We just going to ignore the fact that we were either playing a QB with a hurt shoulder or a true freshman for all of those drives? Feels kind of significant. It’s perfectly logical to rely heavily on your running game on a day when your passing isn’t what you want it to be.

14/15 probably is higher than it needs to be, but would you have preferred we aired it out more? The passing game obviously wasn’t working for us.

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How bout lets try something besides the same two running plays. A toss sweep,jet sweep ,quick pitch etc. Looks like shrader could run the option as well.

But the moorhead O doesn't use plays such as those........He said we had a TE but i'm not sure anymore and I'm not sure the TE helped in the blocking situation last saturday. This is hard to watch

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We didn't have the numbers. It's ok to constantly pump sunshine if you really believe it. But why pump sunshine just for the heck of it.

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I am anything but a sunshine pumper, just saying what I observed.

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But, but you and Shotgun started 15,000 threads last year that we needed to RTGDB!!! Now that we are, you're still not happy!***

Sarcasm works both ways.

When the most successful offensive play is a roll out and dodge 2 defenders and then sling the ball side armed to a receiver who has to contort his body in such a way just to touch the ball then it ain't the result of a designed QB progression. that is what we call a busted play, which is legal in football but one can't survive on them alone

I'll admit that I thought the O line would be a strength this season but man was I wrong. this kinda kills the run the ball bidness

I’m squaring of the belief this offense either isn’t food or Jo is struggling with play calling and needs an OC.

I?m of the belief this offense either isn?t good or Jo is struggling with play calling and needs an OC.