ooooh, right on the gulf. That is going to be one steamy environment unless there is a breeze. Hurricane territory too. Seems to me there would be less attendance there than just playing it in Macon (Mercer’s home field). Travel for the “home” Mercer fans and Davis fans are not known to travel outside of Bay Area other than players parents and a few die hards. Added to that what I would consider not exactly a sexy destination location. I guess we will see.

pass defense was very porous in second half. Many big chunk plays and commerce was 4-4 on fourth down conversions. I think the absence of Rex Conners really showed in the second half. The passing yardage for commerce was obscene but you have to give credit to their QB who refused to go down and had a strong but inconsistently accurate arm.

I think the play calling and offense is still somewhat seeking an identity. Passing success in the second half opened up the run, but run was stuffed up the middle in first half. There seems to be no lateral running game as in pass years by which to make the defense have to guard against both. Simply running up the middle predictably has not been a good formula so far. If we had an o-line like North Dakota showed in the second half against Montana, it might be a different story. Maybe Plough should consider recruiting from some midwestern corn-fed boys.

cover zero and absolutely stacking the box with no defender further than 7 yards off the line of scrimmage (at least from what I could see on TV) and the call is to run twice on a couple of critical late series. I don’t think that was entirely on Hastings but was the call, i.e. to run and play it safe. Regardless, seems like a tight end release or some such route would have been a good call.

Thank you David Meyer!

With them stacked on second down seems like La pass over the top to tight end would be a. Easy pitch and catch.

This is sad. All the momentum with commerce.

I don’t think it is playbook - it is execution.

Stupid penalty.

Dude is hard to bring down. Really missing Rex Conners tonight.

Oh man.

Too much time and blown coverages.

good one.

Good for Cloyd.

Keep Genetti as kick off person. He seems to have more leg.

I think a bit of mind games with Hastings. Some of his first half throws were almost like throwing scared or without confidence. Then he can turn around and make great reads and throws. I think wide open routes and throws gets him going.

Yes! A kick into the end zone.

If they stack the box go wide with speed.

Montana dominated the game in the first half. UND came roaring back in second half. Home crowd made a difference. Will have to watch the Bobby Hauck post game interview when it comes up with his expected terse, Jack-@@@ responses to the media.

NAU up on Arizona at the half. Good ol college football wierd unexpected stuff happening.

Red zone offense was at times a problem last year too. I think the abandonment of the wildcat and jet sweep action/motion makes the red zone offense very 1 dimensional. And so far this year, little push from the o-line. When LAN struggles for a yard, you know there is absolutely no where to go.