Great catch by Davis.

Larison does it all.

Need a mental clock and get rid of the ball. What a turn of events. NAU has less than 100 yards of offense yet 17 points.

It seems as if the offense is having difficulties getting plays in. A lot of confusion and near delay of games.

Maybe it’s just me but with Larison running the ball they is almost no chance they don’t convert 1st downs.

Maybe they are putting Larison on a pitch count.

Stop the tosses to Tompkins and use Larison!

Need LL for runs.

Need more big plays like that! Big plays have been missing.

Looks like Harper in is street clothes

Tompkins needs to stick his foot and go upfield a bit more than doing so much juking imo

Burned 2 timeouts already.

Seems like they are using Larison mostly as a decoy.

Portland State ran on NAU pretty much at will 2 weeks ago - something like 375 yards. Would be nice for the Ags to have a strong run game today. Just take care of the ball and I think the Ags will be fine. They have the better defense.

+1. Idaho State will put up some points - outcome will depend on their defense. Idaho State looked very good against Portland State.

Not to mention poor special teams play and a deficit in the turnover margin. Field position has been an issue in the losses. Also in the losses (i.e., EWU and Montana) very slow starts. I seem to remember in 2018 a lot of first drive scores and a fast-paced offense. Those attributes seem to have faded.

I think it is best that all teams above the Ags (except Montana state) lose. Montana State has a lock and are clearly the best big Sky team. If Sac had won, then even a Aggie perfect run including a win over Sac would have Sac In the playoffs. They have a win over a power 5 team and would have had a win over a top-ranked team in Montana State.

There has been a major difference (yards allowed vs yards produced) in kickoff and punt returns this year. Larison did kick off returns last year and Isaiah Thomas did punt returns if memory serves me right. Both did well at those. I am not saying use Larison in either capacity due to work load/potential injury but other teams seem to have threats that the Aggies don’t have. I will also guess if you run the stats on kickoff returns that returned kickoffs yield an average less than 25 yards which is to say it’s not a bad idea to simply fair catch unless the kick is very short. No fumble possibility on return either.

After watching the game …. It reminded me of a big 10 game sort of like the iowa - Wisconsin game. It was a bit weird - seemed liked the coaches wanted to play very conservatively and lean on the defense. They seemed to have completely abandoned a quick pace offense that keeps the defense off balance and from substituting. That used to be an Aggie standard mode.

It’s almost like the coaches play/plan based on the opponent (play up/play down) as others have mentioned how opened- up the offense was against Montana. Weber offense is simply bad. This is not to derate the Aggie defense which was quite good. The Ags really need Larison back and to change up offensive schemes to open up things more.

I do have to say after watching Idaho state that the strategy against them may be to take the air out of the ball. Eastern Washington failed in trying to outscore them. Eastern has a poor rushing offense so had no other choice.

I don’t know that he was much maligned ….. at least I thought he did a good job. Looking better in retrospect.