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Great catch, you can see him reach back and pull it away from the db. That pass went to behind his left shoulder, on the DBs side. It should have gone over him to the right shoulder. If thrown perfectly, he could have caught it and turned right up field. He makes a great play. Gale gets the ball in the catch radius range of the WR fairly well. But his ball location with in the catch radius is all over the place. Qbs soo accurate with great touch who can throw a rope over a wr like that and down into his hands so it leads him up field with out breaking stride are rare. (that is truly great accuracy, joe montana stuff.) Nichols would have lofted it up and over and led him to the side line. Pretty safe from a turn over. Gale slings it. Kinda danny mac like. if you slow the video speed down to .50 its much easier to tell.

jeepers mini kevin glenn in a faction of the time. His wrs made a TON of plays for him in those clips. See dbs gambling on risky passes etc. Didnt have a chance on the first sack (ole!) but the next he should have felt the pressure. All in all it is what it is. He is our 3rd string qb. Some one who was out of football. I bet vernon adams salary is why we arent after him. Ill take gale, and ill take him over douchrant, fever, and the rest of the cast off FA qbs pretty much. (i do like cato but he's probably ruined from montreal)

As in, every team has that one guy. Edm is made up of those guys. But every team has atleast one. Vert, arm length hand size etc a lot of measurable play into jump balls. Height is certainly one of them, but it isnt the biggest one imo. In theory halls defense should do better against jump balls, but most teams toss em past the point our DBs flip their hips, speed turn and follow the wr. Every team in the league has known the location of the holes in our D for years. This year they will be a bit different,but still there. What worries me more then jump balls is amount of cushion we give past the first down marker. The frequency of 2nd and longs converted because we are playing too deep. If we did a better job of defending first down yardage on second and more then 6 yards Id be fine with halls defense. Not my idea of optimal D strategy but good none the less. Nearly every starting QB will complete the 2nd and 7-15 range passes to wrs under coverage at a very high percentage. The qbs that dont, we could beat with any form of defense.

Right now, what was once a 50/50 ball is more like a 20/80 ball. The wrs get away with flagrant push offs, pulls on dbs jerseys etc. And dbs dont get away with jack. They dont even have the right to occupy the space their body takes up in the air. Its like every WR is lebron james and every DB is some D league scrub. Combine that with the fact that most dbs are 5'10 ish and every team has that one guy whose 6'4 ish And even that 20/80 ball that used to be 50/50 is now 95/5 at best.

Its not just this year 😛

Sutton and the als Ol was so so running against BC. They are gonna be screwed against our front 7 in the run game. And if your offense is one dimensional against halls D, thats when he excels. They have a bunch of talent on that WR core. jackson, cunningham and williams. The key is we can get pressure on willy and we know he struggles when he has to force throws or gets hit a lot. I could see willy racking up some yards, but very few points. I can also see him getting hobbled pretty good.

Kyrie wilson will probably be the first to come off the roster when mo or wild is ready to go. who ever comes first. Lafrance probably takes augustins active roster spot for a bit. I feel like the extra IMP end is going to come off for the second of mo/wild. Corney is ready for more reps and from pre season to week 1 has been very good. between corney and what mo brings to D and wild brings to teams that extra end is going to bounce to the inactive/ir, I suspect we will see juggling with those guys, the ends, wilson, and wild till we find the guys who will produce the best in game for us. I also imagine brandin bryant will move from in active to PR to free up the IA spot. At some point in a few weeks i bet kenbrell thompkins moves up to a DI and gets some looks. Maybe when mo comes back fogg does all return duties and lankford goes to in active or IR.

Those guys made a couple insane catches. Very good wrs, and a great qb.

Some people dont get that it takes time to build chemistry and that football is a team sport. You cant just throw players together and instantly contend like in basketball. Our defensive backfield has seen 50% turn over. Our lb core and useage has changed a bunch. They played well individually, and itll only get better. Jsk and bighill flashed some great co op work. That is gonna be a ton of fun to watch later in the season. Same thing with our Wrs, and yeah a rook qb. Its also the first game of the season after our vets took as few snaps in the pre season as weve seen from a MOS team. And we had a crazy long delay etc etc. And of course you cant take any thing away from the moes. reilly is the MOP and they have some big play making wrs. We could have won the game by making one of a dozen or so plays. Equally spread through all facets of the game. Including the FG/xpa.

just a matter of time before its johny footballs team in the hammer.

I think they are in a separate tier of quality. BLM has always had tons and tons and tons of great supporting cast, coaches etc. reilly is used to playing with shakey at best Ols, meh rbs, WR cores that lack depth and defenses that dont win games. He has performed similarly with a whole lot less to work with. If you put mike reilly on any team in the league they make the play offs. Blm doesnt carry bc or mtl to the play offs. Maybe a couple other teams too. Reilly is the elite of the elite he has slowly been pulling past blm for a bit now. He also isnt a bag of dicks like BLM is.

Theyve done it with all three. they ran dressler up the gut last year after he had come back from injury. Of course it cant be out side the tackle and up the gut. 😆

is streveler german for thor or some thing? they are a bit of a question mark but at worst they will be middle of the pack and good enough. as long as reilly stays healthy any way.

heath trying to will the riders to win wow.

why are the riders wrs celebrating every single catch? its 1 to 1 ffs

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yeah. if collaros hits carter in stride he probably scores. instead he picks it off the turf.

duron carter gets away with holding the dbs arms down

jackson is soo shifty he looks dangerous doin nothing. Also ray could not be more the opposite of maas.

lol. messam still messam though.

extended pre season

he looked great going up the middle last night. They do it to dressler despite injury concerns and have run adams too. They would run my great grandmother up the gut off motion if she was still alive. Who knew do or die was a golden gophers fan?? i love the article thanks for sharing.

i think they are gonna go with a two qb system for a bit. until they give up on collaros any way.

not only that, it seemed for a long time that any qbs coming out party happened against us. Fever threw what 4 tds in one half against us two years ago? ohh prevent defense. 🤢

it wasnt the prettiest hold ever, but the botch was on weather/medlock. He miss fired and kicked the ground then stopped. Un pretty hold, but good on ross to improvise and then mitigate the loss. With his injury, losing out to streveler, and botched holding job I could see him sitting on the 6 game getting some coaching polish and us bringing in another qb. Perhaps we trade for adams, maybe we sign another teams cut, maybe the fever comes out of retirement (i hope not) But I dont think we stand pat. franklins first game, 4/7 41 yards. second game, 5/8 83 yards and 3 tds... against us. Hamilton looks like his first start, but it is certainly his first good sample size. 22/36 254 2 tds 1 int. Similar level of production. A pick on a conversion is interesting. It isnt a turn over, but it does cost a point. But the 2pt convert is not a great decision imo. n00bbrady gave us hope. Hope for the games till nichols is healthy again. Hope, for an era after nichols. Hope that if nichols is hurt again, we dont become a write off. I expect him to come a bit down in terms of scoring production, but be a bit smoother and steadier. he really put together some great sustained drives. Edm did a great job of challenging him and keeping him off balance. Next week, is montreal. so maybe scoring production wont go down after all haha.