I'm going to say it now since we won...

[TravelingPanther]

Our offensive play calling is still atrocious.

If they are going to bring the house, pass to make them become a little more honest. We punted way too much early on.

Defense wasn't much better in the second half. Playing soft zone is how we lose a lot of close games, we don't need to practice it. Especially after that onside kick. I would have unlesahed hell on Drake at that point.

Also, their coach is a......what's the best word for it that I can say on PN...
He was always carrying on about something on the sidelines an the timeouts under 2 minutes when down 31 were garbage.

[TravelingPanther]

Re: I'm going to say it now since we won...

(I feel like this normally only comes up when we lose a big game, so I want to be on the record now)

[JayJ79]

Re: I'm going to say it now since we won...

D+ effort in both aspects.
and their coach is a d-bag

[ClivePurple]

Re: I'm going to say it now since we won...

Our punting is not good.

[TravelingPanther]

Re: I'm going to say it now since we won...

D+ effort in both aspects.
and their coach is a d-bag

I tried to like this, then I remembered it's a message board.

[run&blade]

Re: I'm going to say it now since we won...

Anybody know what their coach was complaining about early in the game? I think they jumped offsides and it wasn't debatable. The Drake coach went absolutely nuts and he had a pow-wow with three officials for a while after it.

My guess was he was mad about how the play clock was started coming out of a tv timeout. I really have no idea but this is all I could think off, he kept motioning to the UNi secondary but I was thinking maybe it was that official he was pointing at.

The o-line played well against Iowa State. Can't do much about the o-line once the season starts so I hope Drake was just fired up and/or UNI wasn't up for the game.

[06panther10]

Re: I'm going to say it now since we won...

I could not disagree more. Our play calling was fine. It was freaking Drake. We knew going in we were going to walk all over them no matter what, so we may as well keep the play calling vanilla.

The play calling last week at ISU, for instance, was perfection. It was a perfect mix of power, speed, running, throwing, etc. And more importantly is was super aggressive.

[otter]

Re: I'm going to say it now since we won...

Not sure if it was the play calling or what, but I was disappointed with the offense in the 1st half.

[JayJ79]

Re: I'm going to say it now since we won...

I blame the people predicting bajillion to negative-40 blowouts.
Yes, UNI should be a step or two above Drake, but being pompous d-bags about it and making such predictions is just rude and bad karma.

[06panther10]

I blame the people predicting bajillion to negative-40 blowouts.
Yes, UNI should be a step or two above Drake, but being pompous d-bags about it and making such predictions is just rude and bad karma.

Good lord, stop whining. Predicting a huge blowout does not make you a pompous d-bag, nor does any message board prediction have any affect whatsoever on the game, lol wow.

UNI is more than "a step or two" above Drake, and all those predictions were justifiable. UNI played a pretty crappy/sloppy game and still just coasted to a 30 point win.

[run&blade]

Re: I'm going to say it now since we won...

Does drake only play non scholarship fcs because they cant play div iii football and stil be D1 in basketball?

[northwest iowa panther]

Re: I'm going to say it now since we won...

Does drake only play non scholarship fcs because they cant play div iii football and stil be D1 in basketball?

Correct. If you have D I basketball and you have football it must be FBS or FCS.

[achrist70]

Re: I'm going to say it now since we won...

I think it comes down to the fact that we added nothing new to our offense from last week as we truly did not need to in order to get the win. I really doubt that we really add much for UNC either as we have McNeese and NDSU after that.

[run&blade]

Re: I'm going to say it now since we won...

First game in a long time at home where we didnt throw a deep ball. If we did i dont remember. Of course it wasnt necessary and maybe those plays are staying under wraps.

[Born-a-Panther]

Re: I'm going to say it now since we won...

Not sure if it was the play calling or what, but I was disappointed with the offense in the 1st half.

Part of that was play calling. The ISU game was so entertaining to watch because our offensive play calling was a breath of fresh air from what it has been over the last couple of years. I'm glad they kept a lid on it for this one though. No reason to show our hand on game film when we're playing Drake.