Wow, this season turned in a big hurry.

[houndawg]

Re: Wow, this season turned in a big hurry.

SIU is a speed defense that presses the line of scrimmage. PG is not a thinking QB....he turns the ball over against these D's. Play calling was bad, how many times does Law need to run for more than 7 yards before we feed him. NDSU and SIU are different games IF we do this. What is up with having to throw it 30+ yards down field on a pass play every time? Why with our Oline do we have to be in Shot-gun formations inside the 10-15 yard line?

Our fricking D only gave up 13 points...

I'm really sick to my stomach....but UNI and SIU both still have to play at Brookings....stuff will still shake out....

You had the ball twice on first and goal inside the five and came away with FGs. Maybe that has something to do with it.

[houndawg]

Re: Wow, this season turned in a big hurry.

SIU did not stop UNI more than a couple of times. Every drive was killed by self inflicted mistakes by us. SIU did nothing to win this game, they just sat back and let us win it for them.

They couldn't stop our pass rush, they did not run the ball well except for 4 or 5 decent runs, and they could not stop our offense. Every drive, we ended it by missing wide open guys.

You kids smoke too much weed these days.

1) SIU rushed for more yards than UNI did

2) UNI had one sack.

You sure you're not a Bisonista just trying to stir the pot?

[06panther10]

Re: Wow, this season turned in a big hurry.

You kids smoke too much weed these days.

1) SIU rushed for more yards than UNI did

2) UNI had one sack.

You sure you're not a Bisonista just trying to stir the pot?

SIU has a much better runner than UNI does. And the rushing stats were a wash.

Dieker was hurried all day long. Its not just about sacks. Did you actually watch the game, or did you just read the stats? Pat Grace had ALL day to throw, and I don't think was touched all game long.

SIU played a very conservative game, and just sat back and let us make dumb mistakes. They did not reach out and take this game.

Like I said, SIU deserved to win this game. They played good sound football and didnt make the big mistake. Sometimes, thats all you need to do to win a game. But they did nothing spectacular or great, and I think we win against this this team 7 times out of 10. I hope we get another chance.

Congrats on the win, as you beat a very good team in a tough environment.

[houndawg]

Re: Wow, this season turned in a big hurry.

SIU has a much better runner than UNI does. And the rushing stats were a wash.

Dieker was hurried all day long. Its not just about sacks. Did you actually watch the game, or did you just read the stats? Pat Grace had ALL day to throw, and I don't think was touched all game long.

SIU played a very conservative game, and just sat back and let us make dumb mistakes. They did not reach out and take this game.

Like I said, SIU deserved to win this game. They played good sound football and didnt make the big mistake. Sometimes, thats all you need to do to win a game. But they did nothing spectacular or great, and I think we win against this this team 7 times out of 10. I hope we get another chance.

Congrats on the win, as you beat a very good team in a tough environment.

Deji doesn't get 125 yards and a TD without blocking. I think that you just don't want to admit that both of SIU's lines are better than you thought and as good as UNI's even if they aren't as big. Fact is you couldn't run inside in the red zone and you couldn't punch it in from the one yard line. That's why your OC was making some of the puzzling calls your buddy referred to earlier.

Listen to yosef.

And, yes, I did watch the game. I really liked when your RB tried to dive over the goal line on your first trip to the red zone. Frankly I was expecting more big plays from UNI based on the hype to this point.

Bottom line: You scored less than half of your game average and gave up more than twice your game average.

[joecooll6]

Re: Wow, this season turned in a big hurry.

I don't think SIU played well at all yesterday. If they bring their A game, they win that game by 20 points the way we played.

[Blue42]

Re: Wow, this season turned in a big hurry.

I don't think SIU played well at all yesterday. If they bring their A game, they win that game by 20 points the way we played.

That may be true. But if UNI had played close to their best, they would have won by a couple scores.

[Mudrafan]

Re: Wow, this season turned in a big hurry.

what Jeg said. You guys are missing the point. The point is that we controlled our destiny. Now we don't. The barometer is not having a good year or winning "x" number of games or winning the Valley, etc. The Panthers have been there done that going back to the mid-80's. Anything short of a national title is a failure...especially w/ the early success this team has had. We blew home field advantage & to face a trip to Carbondale in November is particulary daunting. That can be the difference between winning it all & getting run out of the first round. We have no one to blame but (Pat Grace)....er....ourselves. Not a good job out of the Panther yesterday.

[06panther10]

Re: Wow, this season turned in a big hurry.

Deji doesn't get 125 yards and a TD without blocking. I think that you just don't want to admit that both of SIU's lines are better than you thought and as good as UNI's even if they aren't as big. Fact is you couldn't run inside in the red zone and you couldn't punch it in from the one yard line. That's why your OC was making some of the puzzling calls your buddy referred to earlier.

Listen to yosef.

And, yes, I did watch the game. I really liked when your RB tried to dive over the goal line on your first trip to the red zone. Frankly I was expecting more big plays from UNI based on the hype to this point.

Bottom line: You scored less than half of your game average and gave up more than twice your game average.

Why are you coming on here acting like an ass and trying to start stuff? I didn't see much of you before the game.

Pretty much every UNI fan on here has congratulated SIU on a great win. We all knew you guys were a good team and it was going to be a tough game. You act as if the UNI fans all thought we were going to win this game by 30 points. We've always respected what kind of team SIU has. I don't really know what you want people to say.

Fact is, SIU played a REALLY conservative game, and did nothing great. I don't even think that they played that well. UNI drove on them all game long, and failed to capitalize because of missed WRs that were wide open. End of story.

The UNI D played well enough to win, and got plenty of pressure on the QB. UNI ran the ball for a better average than SIU too. Dieker hit his recievers and Grace didn't.

[Mudrafan]

Re: Wow, this season turned in a big hurry.

Our offense played horribly. I saw nothing to think we were outmanned. In fact, we beat them everyone but where it counted...the scoreboard & the mental side of the game. To see us go down due to our own mental lapses was extremely disappointing.

[FlyYtown]

Re: Wow, this season turned in a big hurry.

You guys will be fine... 2 'quality' losses in my eyes. It could be interesting if you were to lose in Brookings on Saturday though, because then your margin for error would be non-existent, because you would have to win out.

The MVFC will get 3 teams in no matter what... They being SIU-UNI-SDSU/YSU. We'll see how YSU fares against SIU. If they win, they are definitely a potential playoff team, if they lose, then it is definitely down to those 3 teams.

[JayJ79]

Re: Wow, this season turned in a big hurry.

Our offense played horribly. I saw nothing to think we were outmanned. In fact, we beat them everyone but where it counted...the scoreboard & the mental side of the game. To see us go down due to our own mental lapses was extremely disappointing.

You're starting to sound like a Bison fan.

[JayJ79]

Re: Wow, this season turned in a big hurry.

You guys will be fine... 2 'quality' losses in my eyes. It could be interesting if you were to lose in Brookings on Saturday though, because then your margin for error would be non-existent, because you would have to win out.

The MVFC will get 3 teams in no matter what... They being SIU-UNI-SDSU/YSU. We'll see how YSU fares against SIU. If they win, they are definitely a potential playoff team, if they lose, then it is definitely down to those 3 teams.

If the field had expanded to 20 teams (like it will next season), then I'd agree with you. But there is no guarantee of the MVFC getting 3. The conference doesn't really have any impressive OOC wins this year, unfortunately.

We COULD get 3 teams in under the right circumstances, but frankly I think it's more likely that there will only be 2. (possibly even just 1, though I don't find that to be very likely)

[Newsbreaker]

Re: Wow, this season turned in a big hurry.

We got beat by a team that played better on the day they met. That doesn't make them the better team, it proved they played better on that day, which is all that really matters.

We play that game 10 times, we win it 9. If that's indeed true (and if I were a betting man, I'd bet on it) then we win out.

SIU got to break their losing streak in the Dome yesterday. It would be fun to break ours in Carbondale later in the season.

[06panther10]

Re: Wow, this season turned in a big hurry.

You guys will be fine... 2 'quality' losses in my eyes. It could be interesting if you were to lose in Brookings on Saturday though, because then your margin for error would be non-existent, because you would have to win out.

The MVFC will get 3 teams in no matter what... They being SIU-UNI-SDSU/YSU. We'll see how YSU fares against SIU. If they win, they are definitely a potential playoff team, if they lose, then it is definitely down to those 3 teams.

I don't see us getting 3 teams in. I think SDSU is a good team, but they have to play UNI, SIU, and Minnesota yet. I say they easily lose 2 of those three. That would give them 3 losses, and I don't think that is enough for them.

If we win out, we are in easy. If we lose one more game, we are in big trouble.

[Pant8her]

Re: Wow, this season turned in a big hurry.

We are not as good as we thought we were this season, take nothing away from SIU, they played a great game, but to be the man you gotta beat the man, and we didn't. Our offense was out played, and put the defense in really bad situations, and the coaches just were off the whole game. It will be interesting next week, to see if we are a good team or not. Maybe hearing SIU sing their fight song in our Dome will put a little fire in these guys.

Welcome to PN, sorry it comes on such an occassion. I agree with your statement.

Also the fans in the Dome are LAME! I felt sick to my stomach as most of the fans on the west side appeared to either have thier arms folded or maybe it was too cold and they were sitting on their hands.

I give the offense a D
The Defense an A-
The fans D-

This team may have gotten more fired up if they know the fans really care!
I almost do not want to come to another home game.
This team needs the fan support otherwise maybe they should move to DIII and play, at least they care.
Sorry PN for the rant.

Peace