Predict the Panthers record after the first 5 games

[ronfitch]

Re: Predict the Panthers record after the first 5 games

That's an excellent point. The 4th quarter was incredible. Reminded me of all those close games for conference championships and playoff wins during the Eric Sanders years. When Dome Magic was a thing our opponents feared and dreaded and knew all too well.

Lots of Dome games after September ends. Gonna be tough with NDSU and Southern before then, but it could make for a magical October and November in the Dome.

[Trapped in California]

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I stayed up to watch Cal Poly vs Arizona State last night.

A couple of thoughts -

Cal Poly attempted 8 passes entire game, with 4 of those being swing out screen passes. Completed those 4, but the 4 downfield passes looked like wounded ducks. AB would look like Peyton Manning against the Mustangs' QB.

We will likely have advantage in the punting game if we see the same performance as we saw last night. Their punter averaged a shade under 41 per punt. FG kicker is probably close to Schmedake, having made two FG @ MT from 48 & 49. Those are the only two attempts so far this year.

ASU players were dropping like flies in second half. Must have been 8-10 injury timeouts. They also fumbled the ball 3 times, losing 1, and gave up an INT. ASU either had a terrible outing, or (more likely) are a middling team, at best.

At times, it appeared that Cal Poly was running a hurry up offense, rapidly resetting (fairly simple since they have 1 formation) and snapping the ball again with 3-5 seconds. It caught ASU defense unaware several times.

Mustangs do not have a very good pass defense.

[vbfan19]

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so we're going from a team that does nothing but pass (550+ passing yards, 25 rush yards) to a team that doesn't pass much but runs the heck out of the ball.

[Trapped in California]

Leading rushing offense last two years, 300+ yards per game

From my NSA monitored nexus 5

[BCPanther]

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Establishing physicality at the line of scrimmage the next three weeks is imperative, especially defensively.

[Kyle]

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If I had to pick one game of the next three to get the W it's probably at Cal Poly. We aren't going to be punished for losing to a top 5 team on the road, especially if the game is competative.

[vbfan19]

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I see that the UNI@Cal Poly game will be shown on KGAN (ch. 2). that's something new.
(I'm thinking of heading to Dekalb for the volleyball tournament that weekend, so I probably won't get to watch it live, but I'll definitely record it, and listen to the radio call on my drive back after vb)

[claw]

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I see that the UNI@Cal Poly game will be shown on KGAN (ch. 2). that's something new.
(I'm thinking of heading to Dekalb for the volleyball tournament that weekend, so I probably won't get to watch it live, but I'll definitely record it, and listen to the radio call on my drive back after vb)

It's being picked up by the American Sports Network, which is a Sinclair Group deal, and will be broadcast on CSN-Chicago and KGAN due to Sinclair ties.

[pantherclaw]

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It's being picked up by the American Sports Network, which is a Sinclair Group deal, and will be broadcast on CSN-Chicago and KGAN due to Sinclair ties.

Thank you for sharing, DVR set for 698 csn Chicago, I knew I didn't have ASN but thanks to you I can now record it.

[claw]

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Thank you for sharing, DVR set for 698 csn Chicago, I knew I didn't have ASN but thanks to you I can now record it.

I had to look it up myself. 28 hours ago I had no idea what it was either.