Gopher Football 2014

[fishersofmen]

That was an awesome beatdown lets do it again next week! Best team we have had in a very long time hopefully it keeps getting better.

[Big Dave2]

I was much more excited about the Gophers win over Iowa until I took a look at Iowa's schedule. That has to be the easiest schedule in the Big 10.

[Canon Guy]

Nice win against a team that had dominated the Gophers last couple of years.

[JBMasterAngler]

Kind've nice to see that their 2 trophy games this year have both been their easiest wins. 3 times a charm against Wisconsin perhaps? Winning both trophies in the same year for the 1st time since 1967! That is truly amazing! Gotta enjoy this one to the fullest though, because I don't see any realistic chance of the gophers beating Ohio State next week

[CaptainMusky]

Its possible the gophers bring home the jug, the axe and Floyd all in the same year.

2/3 of the way there. What a convincing win yesterday. Just bottle that up and repeat. :-)

[ANYFISH2]

We have 3 of 4 trophies, not? Don't we have the one between us and penn st also?

[Big Dave2]

We have 3 of 4 trophies, not? Don't we have the one between us and penn st also?

They did have a trophy with Penn State until the Gophers got a little over excited...................

[CaptainMusky]

Lol bigdave! Ooops!

[JBMasterAngler]

They should've made a replica of that trophy all patched up with duct tape

[JBMasterAngler]

Wow, they certainly made a game of it! Aside from a win, they did more than I had hoped for. Perfect football weather! A loss is a loss, but if there is anything positive out of this, it was the fact they were able to capitalize on turnovers. Feel better about their chances against Wisconsin and Nebraska.

[CaptainMusky]

Make that FG in the first half and the end of the game gets more interesting for sure. Not blaming the kid because it was a 52 yarder man he's got a leg.

[Bryce]

A legimate D1 qb would be licking his chops at the clown show neb and wisc are putting on. Wish we had one. Rodents lose out and continue to be a waste of our tax dollars.

[schmitty3]

Field goal? How bout the fact our quarterback does a better job of throwing it to the defense than he does our receivers. Just give us a decent D1 quarterback and this is a very good team, but Leidner is just awful.

[fishersofmen]

Another game of qb's. Imagine how good we would be the next few years with Barrett.

[Huskie]

We were outplayed badly, poor QB (but he's the best we have) and line play, but managed to make a game of it. Two more tough ones coming up, hope we can get the 'huskers!!

[JBMasterAngler]

I think David Cobb is licking his chops at the chance to face Nebraska's defense (I use the term defense lightly of course). Single game rushing record for gophers is 294 yards. Perhaps?

[SkunkedAgain]

I disagree with the poor line play comment. Most of Cobb's yards came up the gut and he wasn't running through tackles - he had holes. While we didn't do a great job on stopping Barrett, part of that was also the all-out scheme the Gophers were running defensively.

It was a great game to watch and a good measuring stick for Minnesota. It showed the QB and WR are the real shortcomings on the team. While our rookie defensively linemen are doing well, I'd like to think we'd have contained Barrett even better had we not lost our three starting DLinemen to ACL tears in Week 1.

Regardless, a good game for the team.

[nofishfisherman]

Kind of wishing I didn't give away my tickets to the game. Despite the loss it would have been a fun game to attend. Guess I was just tired of sitting in the cold after hunting the bulk of the week.

Honestly I was expecting the gophers to do the typical gopher thing and get steam rolled after playing well enough leading into the game to build up they hype a little.

[swampman]

Next two weeks are going to be interesting in the big ten west the Gophers still control there own destiny, would have been nice to have one of these last two games at home. Nebraska certainly looks beatable after this weekend. Wisconsin looked awesome, have to find a way to slow there running game down and you have a chance because they aren't going to beat you throwing the ball.

Might lose the last two might not, the Illinois game might very well keep them out of the Big ten championship game which would mean facing Ohio state in a dome on a fast field, not something I might want to see anyway, LOL.

[SkunkedAgain]

I think that we have a better chance of beating Wisconsin than Nebraska. The Cornhuskers are still a good team and beating them on the road when they are likely to rebound is a tough prediction. I agree with you swampman, that Wisconsin is more beatable because of their lack of balance. I think that we can stop good running games but not talented enough to stop truly balanced teams like Ohio State, unless we play perfect football which we don't do yet.

[JBMasterAngler]

Gophers keep their #25 ranking!

[SkunkedAgain]

I checked the strength of schedule in the Top25 poll. Wisconsin had the toughest SOS followed by the Gophers. It's actually amazing how soft a schedule many of the top teams have had in comparison. No doubt they are still really good teams though.

We'll see if Cobb can continue to expose the Cornhusker run defense this Saturday. Does anyone know of a decent place in the metro that will show the game (ESPN) this weekend that might also be 3-year-old kid friendly. She likes bars but the more kid-friendly the more I get to watch the game.

[chanfish]

skunked,

champs isnt bad..i see alot of families and kids in there..they have great kids menus stuff too..and lots of tvs! used to take my kids there..i think they have a few in Twin Cities..

[nofishfisherman]

Most of the Champs locations closed in the last year or so. At least the few near me did.

[JBMasterAngler]

Space Aliens would be a great place, however, the only 2 I know of are in Albertville and St. Cloud

[CaptainMusky]

St cloud is closed. Albertville is the only one now.

[SkunkedAgain]

I'm going to my brother-in-law's place now, so thanks for the suggestions.

So will the Gophers continue to exploit the rush defense or do they get their two WR's back and find a way to balance out their offense.

[Huskie]

Let's hope the football Gods are looking out for us in Lincoln today, we could use a few breaks. A win today. although unlikely and a bowl victory would make for a great season. But I'm saying there's a chance!!

[Snag]

Jerry, Jerry, Jerry!

[Duffman]

Nice win!

Now let's go get that Axe!