Offensively, does this mean they're wide open, gun and gun?

Yes

TAMC had a field goal kicker hitting a 53 yard kick in their Spring game, has seven all conference preseason selection, had the best defense in their conference, and will have a new offense which no one has seen yet.

Well, at least our heat will help the guys prepare for TX weather.

Expecting TAMC to be very physical with our offense early, our guys better be ready for a pop to the mouth.

We have a veteran team that plays a schedule of physical teams. It will be interesting how the new OC play calling responds to what TAMC is doing. I’m kind of surprised we don’t have an assistant offensive line coach, which we’ve sometimes had before. Cody is going to have to be watching the offense as a whole, play calling and coaching quite a few guys individually. I think that is more challenging than an OC coaching the quarterbacks, which was the case here.

Every team is physical. I would argue since they're run and gun, they're less physical.

That run and gun is their offensive scheme though, they're touting the #1 defense in their conference, so I expect they'll be tough defensively...and it'll be interesting to see the new OC's game plan.

They beat SELA last year (team that beat Idaho in the playoffs) and seems to have had somewhat of an up and down season. Not a team to be taken lightly.

we lose by forfeit when we’re informed a trip to Commerce violates Newton’s unfriendly state travel ban

The travel ban hasn't been an issue yet, with four Big Sky states on the list (five, if you count the past games against S. Utah), so I don't know why it would suddenly become one.

Boy. Dr mike. AggieFinn2. You are trying to make the first Aggie football game of 2023 into clash of political issues (Texas versus California)? Seems like you actually Are rooting for the Texas team.
Cool off. Maybe take a shower. politics has no place in this thread. Shame for introducing this political issue onto this forum. Actually it is Newson not Newton. I thought you guys went to UCD and got an educational. Weird.

Leave politics out of the thread

AggieFinn2
Just go shower then to bed. No more mickeys.
Tomorrow we’re all going to be good to go. No more newsoms, no more Texas no more political crap. This is a Aggie sports talk post! That’s it!

I was listening to a Commerce podcast and they were saying that their starting QB from last season may be a no go to start the season against the Aggies due to a lingering injury. It's tough to know what we're actually going up against considering they have a revamped offense, have brought in a lot of transfer portal players, and return a pretty solid looking defense... but I will say this, a loss in any capacity in this game is not acceptable if we're pushing for the playoffs this year. We have what looks like at this point in time a pretty favorable conference schedule and we really need to come out of non-conference play 2-1.

In the same podcast that I was listening to the hosts gave each other 5 categories to pick from for predicting the Davis game (likely loss, possible loss, toss up, possible win, and likely win) and they both picked possible win which was a little surprising to me, but I guess it shows they have confidence going into this season.

. Our big advantage over TAMC is that it is the first game and Davis has a returning team of veterans. We should be sharper and more cohesive than they are. We’ve seen very good play in the first game in recent years against Tulsa and Cal. Davis has to show up ready to play as in those games.
As you say this is a critical game. If they start out 1-2 they could easily end up out of the playoffs again, because it will be tough to make it through conference without three loses. A 6-5 Davis team isn’t going to be ranked, this year. If they lose either this game or Southern Utah, they are going to need to be 6-2 in conference.
Who will Bob Dunning pick?

This is true. Even at positions like RB where we lost Gilliam we return plenty of experience with Larison and Perez. I think Fisher could get carries as a freshman too.

I'm not saying this is a sure fire win or anything like that, but with the experience that this team has especially playing quality opponents, I would be pretty damn disappointed if we lose this game.

I think one position I have questions about (and I had the same question last season) is if someone will step up at WR and be THE go to guy. We have depth, but not that Keelan Doss caliber player that can change the offense.

iIt will be interesting how the offense looks under new OC and QB coach. They aren't making many changes but play selection might be noticeably different. Mike Cody has spent more time with the Biggs, Moroski branch of the Davis coaching tree than he has with Tim Plough/ Cody Hawkins.

Davis has the following guys who’ve been passing game coordinators or offensive coordinators: Mike Cody, Andre Allen, Kevin Burke, Taylor Chapatte, Trey Shimabukuro. I suspect they all will stay in their lane, but share some opinions, Trey Shimabukuro is listed just as an offensive assistant coach.

one aspect that has not been mentioned is special teams and most specifically kicking and punting. The punting game was inconsistent last year - I don’t think it impacted the season in a negative way as much as it could have. The Aggies also had a solid kicker last year in Isaiah Gomez and I really hope the new guy is good.

Yikes sorry for making a joke. No more of that from me

As long as the kicking and punting isn't noticeably bad then I am happy. Hopefully we just don't have to see much kicking and punting this season in general :grin:

We lost Poerio, who averaged almost 20 yards a catch on 16 catches. The guys that return have mostly short averages per catch. Need a better average than what the returning wideouts got last year.
Larison had a decent average, but now he isn’t going to be in as a wide receiver often.

I'm really intrigued to see how much gametime freshman Mascheroni gets. He's a much bigger body than most of our returning contributors and his tape shows speed and sticky hands (of course that's the point of highlight tape). We need a guy who can just get open downfield though, I agree with you.

Does anyone have a link to Texas A&M University Commerce's message board?

I have not been able to find one. Not sure if one exists.

The kickoff special teams play was pretty much a disaster at Bozeman last year - never understood the strategy that night. Montana State had a very good kickoff returner. Seems to me the best strategy is jus to pound it far into or out of the end zone. I think most good college kickers can do that. The very strange and short kicks that night didn’t work at all. Anyway special teams and defense are major factors in getting to playoff and further status. I think this year’s defense should be quite good. They were very good last year with the exception of Montana State.

Pickett has length, and Babbs caught most balls thrown to him last year in limited duty.