Montana state playoff game

[LITTLEGUYSINGREEN]

My sense is that what we are going to see is a mid-level Valley team.

Oh no, don't say that. You may hurt some pussycat fan's feelings.

Don't you know, they deserve respect and we should show humility.

[CAS4127]

This map will be pretty cool after the game:

https://twitter.com/ncaa_fcs/status/1067503963753320450


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[oldmantutters]

This map will be pretty cool after the game:

https://twitter.com/ncaa_fcs/status/1067503963753320450


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Map is silly, don't they know Bison Nation owns Texas?

[Vet70]

Oh no, don't say that. You may hurt some pussycat fan's feelings.

Don't you know, they deserve respect and we should show humility.

I thought that was giving them respect.

[Bison 4 Life]

Map is silly, don't they know Bison Nation owns Texas?

Give it time.

[bruinbison]

I agree with this assessment. We don't quite have the horses yet to beat a team like NDSU at their own game. We've won the 4th quarter in all of our wins, but haven't been able to do it consistently. However a sign of a mentally and physically strong team is that they get better as the year progresses and we certainly have. We are getting better.

The fact that we lost our 2 year starting QB after spring ball to academic issues, our starting MLB for the season in fall camp, one of our starting RBs from last year for most of the season (only returning RB with significant carries), a transfer RB/FB who had been playing well especially in the blocking game to a career ending injury part way through the season, converted a LB/RB hybrid to QB in summer who can't really throw (although he is getting a lot better), our starting slot WR partway through the year to a season ending injury, had a pro-style QB play well in a few OOC games then break his foot in practice when he was ready to take over for Andersen leaving only a true freshman to backup Andersen, the fact that we made the playoffs to me is a testament to the program Choate is building. Most teams have these kinds of things, to varying degrees, but only programs with a solid culture and depth can overcome them. No we aren't world beaters this year but I really think next year is going to be a pretty big step for the program.

Not counting guys out for the year, against UIW we were missing our starting blocking TE, both our starting corners, and both our DTs played very limited snaps. We were down about 5 of the starters that were crucial pieces to our November run. And we were still able to win by 21 points, albeit against a team who was also without their star QB. Our OL did struggle with their team speed and size initially but it became clear as the game wore on that we were the better conditioned team and ending up imposing our will by the 4th quarter.

But to circle back to your post, we are a team that is gutting out wins, finding ways to win ugly, and part if that is just being more physical and tougher than our opponents. We won't have that on our side on Saturday, and I think we are going to have a really hard time moving the ball, and a hard time stopping the NDSU run game.

Thanks for the football talk!
Will any of the players who missed Incarnate Word due to injury be back?
The Bison may get starting CB Jalen Allison back, if not sophomore Josh Hayes has starting experience - NDSU lost both CB’s to injury in last years’ semi-finals, so Hayes’ 1st start was in the NC Game against James Madison.
I thought the Cats would do well in the 2nd and 4th quarters against UIW due to MSU’s altitude (about 5000’), so your guys will breathe easier here in Fargo (1000’)......to begin with......

[ALPHAGRIZ1]

I recall Jensen getting hurt and Mohler playing most of not all the second have.

Anyway, Anderson is not Strevler 2.0. He is basically their #1 running back. He can pass, but not like Strevler, not even close. A lot of Strevler’s runs/yards came on scrambles or him just taking off on a pass play when he saw open lanes. That’s not the deal with Anderson. He is not a dropback passer—Cats don’t really have that game.


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Exactly, he's a running back that chucks the ball up and your secondary will pick off at least 2 on Saturday.

Anderson is a good player but he isn't even the best player/athlete on his own team. He will be the 3rd or 4th best athlete on the field in Fargo.

Stick, Bruce A, Cox are all better athletes

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[BadlandsBison]

Like CAS said earlier they are fairly predictable about what and where they are running. Anderson's designed runs are always to the TE/strong side, sometimes they shift or send a TE in motion but it is still pretty obvious. He had success on a couple jump-ball deep passes but other than that his drop back game is non existent. He's a bad passer under pressure (especially) but obviously he can scramble away. Seems like a good plan to rush with the front 4 and just have a LB spy Anderson and prevent him from taking off.

On offense I think the cats challenge us in the run game early on and send blitzes/shoot gaps and try to make something happen(can't say I blame them). I wouldn't be surprised if the TEs burn them on play action more than once and force the safeties to back up and the run game opens up by the second half. They are a scrappy team and I like the way they play, and I like how they are going against the grain of the good ol' big skirt conference.

[Counter Assault]

Wow! Alpha, the man, the myth the legend. Slumming it as a bandwagon Bizon fan over here after being banished from all chatrooms in Montana, eh?

[Vet70]

Wow! Alpha, the man, the myth the legend. Slumming it as a bandwagon Bizon fan over here after being banished from all chatrooms in Montana, eh?

This is only about the tenth time this has been mentioned. New material would be appreciated.