USD Post Game Thoughts & Discussion

[tony]

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.

Very few QBs look good when they are getting the kind of pressure Montana State was bringing. While I've said before that Cam is the best passer I've ever seen at NDSU when the QB is given time, I might have to qualify that - he doesn't seem to thrive outdoors when there's a wind - not many QBs do, of course, but NDSU has had some.

Also, that was targeting, or there is no such thing. The USD defender came at Mathis like a head-down Naruto.

[CalBison97]

Very few QBs look good when they are getting the kind of pressure Montana State was bringing. While I've said before that Cam is the best passer I've ever seen at NDSU when the QB is given time, I might have to qualify that - he doesn't seem to thrive outdoors when there's a wind - not many QBs do, of course, but NDSU has had some.

Also, that was targeting, or there is no such thing. The USD defender came at Mathis like a head-down Naruto.

Agree on your targeting take. Maybe would have been called had the score been reversed.

[Professor Chaos]

Very few QBs look good when they are getting the kind of pressure Montana State was bringing. While I've said before that Cam is the best passer I've ever seen at NDSU when the QB is given time, I might have to qualify that - he doesn't seem to thrive outdoors when there's a wind - not many QBs do, of course, but NDSU has had some.

Also, that was targeting, or there is no such thing. The USD defender came at Mathis like a head-down Naruto.

Yeah, that's another example of inconsistent enforcement of targeting. If Mathis was deemed to be "defenseless" that's textbox targeting since it was most definitely a defender launching and making "forcible contact to the head and neck". If they determined that he wasn't defenseless and was a runner at that point then I guess you could claim it wasn't targeting since the defender didn't really lead with the crown of his helmet (but it was close). I think the fact that Mathis absorbed the hit pretty well and wasn't injured made it an excuse for them to not call it - I'm also convinced that they were actually reviewing targeting and the official just mis-spoke during the explanation since there's no way that pass could've been deemed incomplete.

Back to targeting though the fact that the official makes two subjective rulings in cases like this - first whether the receiver is still defenseless or has become a runner and second, if the receiver is defenseless, whether it's "forcible" contact above the shoulders - makes the enforcement horribly inconsistent.

[Big Bird]

Very few QBs look good when they are getting the kind of pressure Montana State was bringing. While I've said before that Cam is the best passer I've ever seen at NDSU when the QB is given time, I might have to qualify that - he doesn't seem to thrive outdoors when there's a wind - not many QBs do, of course, but NDSU has had some.

Also, that was targeting, or there is no such thing. The USD defender came at Mathis like a head-down Naruto.

I think the outdoor aspect is because he doesn't have the cannon Lance or Wentz had. That being said, his accuracy is up there with any of the Bison QBs.

It is so rare to see a college QB (FCS or FBS) with his intermediate accuracy. It really is elite. His deep ball has been significantly improved this year too.

[Professor Chaos]

On another note did anyone else notice that the color commentator on the broadcast sounded like Matt Larsen or was it just me???

[cx500d]

Neither Griz nor Bunnies impresses this weekend...

In that wind and weather nobody would look impressive


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[Gully]

I watched a great X thread with a bunch of running plays. It looked more like Bison fb with pin and pull and power, etc. I wonder why they went back to some of that now and/or why it started working again? Maybe the passing game opened things up more? Maybe it was playing with a lead?

Whatever it was, I sure liked what I saw.

[Gully]

I watched a great X thread with a bunch of running plays. It looked more like Bison fb with pin and pull and power, etc. I wonder why they went back to some of that now and/or why it started working again? Maybe the passing game opened things up more? Maybe it was playing with a lead?

Whatever it was, I sure liked what I saw.

Maybe it's just how each team is defending them? As a fan, it's tough to see that, especially watching on TV.

[NDSU_grad]

I watched a great X thread with a bunch of running plays. It looked more like Bison fb with pin and pull and power, etc. I wonder why they went back to some of that now and/or why it started working again? Maybe the passing game opened things up more? Maybe it was playing with a lead?
Whatever it was, I sure liked what I saw.

Agree. I honestly think this is the type of offense Roehl wants to run, but for some reason he hasn’t had confidence in it the last couple years. Maybe the rb’s/OL are starting to figure it out. I have absolutely no proof of this, jmo.

[NDSU92]

Agree. I honestly think this is the type of offense Roehl wants to run, but for some reason he hasn’t had confidence in it the last couple years. Maybe the rb’s/OL are starting to figure it out. I have absolutely no proof of this, jmo.

There is no logical argument for why we’ve been dickin around with a read option offense all year. How could he have had confidence in the read option that wasn’t working and then every time we open it up we put up 40+?