The D-Line

[06panther10]

DOMINATED. Dudes did some serious work today against the Jacks and destroyed the SDSU O-line ALL day long. Good work guys.

[06panther10]

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Also, I want to point out what a great job Brook Black, our punter did today. Hit some really great punts today and really set up our defense well and gave them the opportunity to shut them down.

[JayJ79]

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Great punting.
And some very lucky bounces too.

[clenz]

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Great punting.
And some very lucky bounces too.

That was all punting skill and putting English on the ball

[JCPanthers]

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That late hit out of bounds on the SDSU QB was BS....from my point of view, Berry was still in bounds and #93 Lane simply knocked him out.

[JayJ79]

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That late hit out of bounds on the SDSU QB was BS....from my point of view, Berry was still in bounds and #93 Lane simply knocked him out.

Definitely.
Though from my angle, I couldn't see if anything extra happened after he was knocked out of bounds.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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Two guys tackled Berry and they rode him out of bounds. Momentum carried them all to the turf. No 'late hits', just a tackle that continued out of bounds (which I don't know how it could have been avoided).

[TravelingPanther]

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the one that carried out of bounds wasn't on berry. the last hit on berry was right in front of us. He was curving his run down the sideline. bad call. if he didn't want to get hit he should've angled out.

[dustin86]

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On the post game radio interview with coach farley he said that this is the best defensive line that he has ever seen at UNI and he also called Ruffin the best defensive player he has ever coached

[Blue42]

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Yes, Ruffin is quite a player and surprisingly unheralded or at least "under-heralded". When he's done he should rank with some of the very best names from UNI's history on the defensive side of the ball. And he's still just a junior.

On SDSU's last drive Ruffin hit Berry as he threw an imcomplete pass and I thought Berry was going to need medical attention. He absolutely dropped the hammer on him. Credit to Berry, who got up and played on after a timeout.

I was also very impressed with Jay Teply's physical presence on the field. As a red-shirt freshman he looks like an NFL body on the line. He could be the next great o-lineman from UNI.

[Kyle]

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On SDSU's last drive Ruffin hit Berry as he threw an imcomplete pass and I thought Berry was going to need medical attention. He absolutely dropped the hammer on him. Credit to Berry, who got up and played on after a timeout.

That hit was the reason SDSU called a timeout. Berry was signaling to the coaches that he needed a few minutes to recover.

[clenz]

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That was a HUGE hit. Berry didn't get up too fast, but he showed some fortitude by getting up and staying in

[Panther-Sheik]

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Terrible call on the late hit and almost terrible call on the fumble / incomplete pass (glad the side judge was at least watching the game). Too many officials are trying to take the contact out of football.

[FOTY]

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Terrible call on the late hit and almost terrible call on the fumble / incomplete pass (glad the side judge was at least watching the game). Too many officials are trying to take the contact out of football.

Which late hit? We had 3 of them against us.

Also, did anyone else notice the ineligible man down field call against SDSU in the fourth? They called the penalty but forgot to take the yardage! It went from 2nd and 10 on the 40 to 2nd and 10 on the 40. We were questioning it on Saturday, I had to watch Mediacom Connections Replay last night to verify. Even the TV analyst stated that it would be 2nd and 15 from the 35. However, the ball placement did not agree....

The refs were not the best I've seen in the dome. I guess it doesn't really matter, we got the win anyway.

[Khan4Cats]

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The late hits were questionable, but we have to play smarter and not allow those to even be in the mind of the officials. We've been tagged for several of them this year, on both sides of the ball. I didn't have a good view on them, so I can't really say other than to say they were close and we didn't get the doubt.

As for the fumble/incomplete pass from Grace, I think that was actually good officiating. The white hat tossed the bean bag to mark fumble because he did not have an angle on whether the pass went forward (Grace was attempting a swing pass to the side at the time). After the action ended he consulted with the linesmen and they determined it had indeed gone forward, making it an incompletion- you could see them pointing that way when they huddled. Had it been backwards, it would have stayed a fumble so he didn't blow it dead right away. The whole San Diego/Denver goof might have been on their minds.