Messingham Orders Vanilla at Coldstone!!

[Bison 4 Life]

How in the world did we ever win with a non running threat at QB with Walker. It's not like Walker was threading needles with a cannon arm either.

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Playing the weakest part of what would eventually be the Big Sky. We weren't winning the Valley with that.

[StL Bison Fan]

Im not saying this isn't a good team but I do miss the old Grind on a defense for 3 quarters and walk all over that team in the 4th. For Gosh sakes, The Bison pushed Iowa off the field playing power football with a team that mirrored it's previous 5-6 teams.

I do have to say I miss watching the other team completely gassed.
Remember Crockett/Wentz running the same play over and over and over?
Or the days of 'this is what we are going to do. Try and stop us'

[LITTLEGUYSINGREEN]

Couldn't agree more with your disappointment on play calling of late. TE use is almost non-existent when it used be a main stay for this program for years. The new OC really hasn't established any identity for this team. As for only one loss, what would you expect up to this point with the talent NDSU has? No, the sky isn't falling, but, this team has been flat emotionally for the past two years, Why? If the head coach accidently shit his pants could you tell it by looking at his face? I like the old bison vibe that Bohl created, crowds are sitting on their hands now as well.

I thought the crowd was weak for the UNI game. Hardly any noise during the intro and it didn't get any better as the game progressed.

[CalBison97]

Maybe our o-line is not as strong as it has been in the past? It doesn’t appear we are getting ourselves into many 2nd/3rd and short situations that keep the defense guessing. It does not seem Easton has all day in the pocket to consistently survey the field on passing plays.


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[wisco4]

Is it possible we aren’t running play action from under center because OC isn’t comfortable with Stick turning his back to secondary? There has to be a reason we are running what seems to be 70-80% of our plays (runs and passes) out of shotgun/pistol-type sets.

Just wondering what others think, cuz I’m sure thinking of it/why.

Really changes our entire O philosophy by doing what we are. Even running power is different, and read option makes it difficult for RB to really get going because of the “chance” of a hand-off instead of a called/known hand-off. Not sure our RBs are built for that nor recruited for it.


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I think it is more of the OC's philosophy to run most of the offense out of gun. I remember asking a player during fall camp if they noticed much difference in the offense with the new OC. They said the receiver routes were different but the biggest thing was that almost everything was out of the gun. Now I assume this is because of the new OC but could be because they thought Easton should be in the gun to be more of a run threat. Anyways, hopefully Coach K had a heart to heart with Coach Mess to get back to what Bison football is. But then again with being pretty thin at halfback who knows? Just mind boggling why they got away from running the ball last weekend, that has to fall pretty squarely on Coach M's back.

[El_Chapo]

wheres the W.C.O ???

the QB bootleg to TE in the flat?
where's the screens?
wheres the jet sweep and fakes off of it?
NEVER EVER A TRICK PLAY??? EVER???

the Set passing plays where Easton throws to a spot, that's high school stuff and sdsu saw that and sat on them.

so thoroughly disappointed in this O.C this year, its not even funny.

[thebigund]

Really? No bump here? Too many sprinkles?

[cracker]

Playing the weakest part of what would eventually be the Big Sky. We weren't winning the Valley with that.

We weren't playing UN_ back then were we?

[HerdBot]

Really? No bump here? Too many sprinkles?

No but he called a great game. Glad to see us get back to the run game and play action. Pretty masterful follow up to a bad game

[EC8CH]

Really? No bump here? Too many sprinkles?

Messingham took his sprinkles straight this weekend.