USD Post Game Thoughts & Discussion

[El_Chapo]

We played really well for the most part. Still some stuff to work on defensively like tackling but we played much faster and hit hard yesterday.

One question I have for the defensive experts on here (CAS) is that early in the game we did some really late blitzes that came from the second level that had no chance of doing anything. What are we doing in these situations as it seems like either really poor coaching or players not in the right position to start with. It happened twice on the first drive I noticed for sure.

i think they were keying on certain things like the rb's out of the backfield or spying QB and when they didn't go they were advised to go blitz/rush. next week with that Montana QB Cole or Logan will probably have to SPY him

[BisonHorns]

Press conferences??

[NDSU92]

Fun X thread of run game clips from the game…

https://x.com/thelastfullback/status...9x2nhINMpOtW8A

Shit on the last clip our guys were even pushing the first down line downfield

[GreenfieldBison]

Shit on the last clip our guys were even pushing the first down line downfield

noticed that in rt. That takes some real power and determination I guess.

[GreenfieldBison]

Press conferences??

Don't see one out there yet but I did find this little shortie...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2NHHvwxscO8

[Bison Dan]

My take - Offense is hitting on all cylinders and love to see the slants over the middle. Defense has stepped up and the main reason is the D line. They're playing with fire and it helps all of the defense, it takes pressure off the rest. LBackers stepped up and were flying around. I'm still worried about the safety's run support but getting better. Great effort and game.

[sbark]

Cam was locked on target...almost opposite of bobcats game.
Coaches see it in warmups and call plays accordingly.

Hope he can string 2 more games together.
They best ask him what he had for breakfadt sat morn & repeat it.

[Professor Chaos]

My take - Offense is hitting on all cylinders and love to see the slants over the middle. Defense has stepped up and the main reason is the D line. They're playing with fire and it helps all of the defense, it takes pressure off the rest. LBackers stepped up and were flying around. I'm still worried about the safety's run support but getting better. Great effort and game.

The DTs, outside of Mostaert, have been mostly invisible this year and I think that's contributed to the underwhelming LBs play but this was a monster games from the DTs. Huisman planting USD's LG on his back on that one play he got to Bouman and then Derrit getting around the edge to put the finishing touches on the sack had to make DT coach Jeff Phelps jump out of his shoes. The DL is the main reason for the defensive resurgence late in the season but it's been mainly Kava, Hendricks, and Eli Mostaert driving that until this game - yesterday it was (practically) the entire group getting after it.

[Professor Chaos]

Great team W in front of that "sold-out" crowd. Now for the interesting part....which is USD writing that check to the NCAA.

They reported attendance of 9,141 which is just over the Dakotadome's capacity of 9,100 (and even a "sell out" in the playoffs can be less than 100% since they don't count things like the band that they do in the regular season - there have many playoff sellouts in the Fargodome at about 18,200).

So they're owning up to paying the NCAA for a sellout.

[sbark]

How bad is Hendricks injury?