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Which dish would you rather have and why?

I'd love some hot chili. Brewster helped build this program. He gave us hope. Now football is important at the U. He sincerely believed Minnesota could have big time football.

And I don't know Claeys sister and Antointe 'Winfield is too good a tackler for me to eat his wife's sloppy joes.

Take the panties off, we won. This was not Kent State or Illinois State people. We good.

Said thy both felt better about the team after the win today. Maybe they saw something else. Darrell did say he has concerns about the LB and secondary. I thought the defense was terrible today. LBs were MAC level being generous and Dbs were FCS. This will not work starting next week. Talk me off the ledge.

We have now beaten 2 bad (B1G standards) teams by one score each.

Positives include nice job by Mitch and offensive skill players. Kicking game is solid.

Misc. The CSU kickoff was OB and the refs blew the call. We had a perfect angle.

The Seahawks, Rams, Lions, and Packers will all be here, as will two representatives from the Orange Bowl.

People are talking about Wisconsin destroying Michigan State in East Lansing. 2nd win against top level competition on the year.. Impressive, right?? Well, they struggled with a 0-3 team in Camp Randall that had been destroyed by Air Force the week before they gave the Badgers a great game. Focus and mental preparation were determining factors in the Badgers' win yesterday. Did not have that same focus in the Georgia State game. Ball control, winning the turnover battle, executing on 3rd downs were keys in beating Michigan State...

Minnesota, as a team, has the athletic ability, for sure.. We were NOT focused on defense yesterday which made the game closer than it should have been.. The good news is that it can change quickly.. Just like Wisconsin's difference between the Georgia State and Michigan State game... No way Georgia State is better than Michigan State yet Wisconsin played so much better against the Spartans. Minnesota can do the same against Penn State.

I see little things that have to be dealt with for next week.. This will be the first AWAY game for the Gopher freshmen in one of the largest and loudest stadiums in the nation. More a mental thing than anything else.. Gotta get them laser focused on their job, as individuals and as a team. Gotta get to our gaps and reads on defense and get there quickly. Hesitation or overpursuit for a quick second is the difference between stopped at the line of scrimmage and giving the opponent a 25 yard gain. Execution will be key. We are strong in running the ball which shortens the game and controls the clock... It is key that we succeed with our really talented RBs... Defense has to get the 3 and outs.. We can do this and come out of Happy Valley with a win and a 4-0 start!!

Our offense looks much better this year. With Brooks back and running hard, we have 3 legit backs. Get Lingen and Still back at some point that this offense could be very good. Defense has a ways to go but the pieces are in place.

Give u p a 2017 first and a 2018 fourth. Hate to see that one go they must not think Teddy will be back next year.

Seriously, we have over a 100 players on this team. Don't we have a couple of guys that would be better at returning kicks and punts? Both of these guys don't look like they're very comfortable back there. And we haven't had many good run backs.

Maybe Colorado is actually good? They had Michigan on the ropes before their QB got hurt last week.

Link: Damarius Travis talks 3-4, defending screens, more

We have to quit making all these dumb penalties, because it's going to catch up to us now that we're in the BIG. This usually comes from the coaches not getting on the players, and they keep doing it.
How many times do we need to be called for the OL called for early motion before they fix this?
We can't keep giving he other teams all these free yards. Myrick was shooting his mouth off more than once and got flagged for it in the fourth quarter and they moved the ball half the distance to the goal, and CS scored a short time later.
Good and well coached teams don't make all these penalties.

7 in a row, 16 overall! Wow! Dynasty

iowa/Rutgers scoreless

Fla St awful defense 14-14 with SFla

Ole Miss leading 10-0 over Ga. Of course they can't hold any leads

MSU leading Bucky 3-0

Behind Enemy Lines: Colorado State
Facts & Figures: Colorado State
Jaquarius Landrews visit preview
Kendrick Green visit preview
Jack Lynn talks bye week, CSU preparation
Claeys talks Colorado State, suspensions, DBs, and more
Tuesday presser: main points from Leidner, Lynn, Wolitarsky

A lot of locals are here, as always. Official visitors are Jaquarius Landrews and Kendrick Green. Two biggest unofficial visitors are Boye Mafe and Trey Lance.

Vincent Calhoun is not dressed for today's game. I believe he has a chronic knee issue. Jared Weyler I'm guessing will get the start now.

Duke McGhee is practicing with the first team right now, so I wouldn't be surprised if he gets the start over Kunle.

The Seahawks, Rams, Lions, and Packers will all be here, as will two representatives from the Orange Bowl.

Dear all of my Gopher brethen and sistren,

I give to you TNM's first official Gopher football game recap!

The Gophers won 31 to 24.

That's what I'm talking about. It was one of those games that wasn't a blow out but very solid indications to the future. Many things occurred that many of us have not truly witnessed in several decade. Read and watch everything else to find out what they were.

That puts us at 3-0 on the 2016 college football season. A small teaching of the feelings of being undefeated. Their hard work and commitment has paid dividends in the win column. Ticket sales and concession sales were solid. Parking sales was solid. Viewership was solid.

We can all as a total unit breath the air of being undefeated. Their is a freshness to it. A solid oder of decency in this great state known as Minnesota.

The national championship is a few months away ladies and gentleman. Will this team fulfill the mission? It remains to be seen!

Love,

TNM

And they lost one LB during this game for targeting, and another just came out of the game after an injury that had him laid out on the turf for a good 5+ minutes.

Penn State is down 28-0 and it isn't even halftime.

Today the Skunks and Sparty showed that CFB teams can look very different from week to week. The good teams get better as the season progresses and they find ways to win even on days when they can't get out of their own way---The Gophers hurt themselves with penalties and poor defensive plays on 3rd down.

Ample opportunity to do the Gopher and he didn't

Link: Mitch Leidner talks run game, offensive success heading into PSU

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Blaine linebacker Max Bautch received a preferred walk-on offer at today's game. He had 85 tackles last year and two TFLs.

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I'm happy to be 3-0, but man, today's uniform combo of gold tops with maroon pants and helmets (not my favorite to start with), were made ridiculously sloppy looking with all the white t-shirts hanging out, white undersleeves, and white "leggings"/long underwear. C'mon coaching staff, get the team to at least look like champions. If the players need to wear all the additional undergarments, at least have them all wear matching ones, and in gold or maroon, not white. Who knows, maybe looking good will rub off on playing better.

Tracy Claeys

• Pleased with the offense. Always find an answer and a way to score in the second half.
• Defense not where it needs to be going into Big Ten play. Run defense and defending screens need to improve.
• Didn't play well but finished. "We'll never complain about winning."
• Devers is not big enough to defend the run. He'll continue to get a lot of playing time on passing downs.
• Not commenting on suspensions.
• Praised Leidner, said he's a big reason they've had success.
• Thought Vincent Calhoun (toe) would play but decided to hold him out so he's 100% for Big Ten play.
  
• There should have been someone in the middle of the field to stop the fake punt pass.
• Defensive line played well, linebackers and defensive backs need to be better.

Damarius Travis

• Taiyon has really good coming off the edge.
• Teams are going to run screens on because they've had success doing so. Need to practice that.
• Defense has more speed than in past years because of playing with more linebackers.
• Exits the podium by saying he's the real #7. Mitch responds by saying his locker number is 7 and that Damarius' is 122.

Mitch Leidner

• Need to clean penalties up but mostly content with the offense going into Penn State.
• Jay Johnson said defender made a good play on the interception. Mitch couldn't see it and will have to rewatch the film.
• Johnson's offense does really well with intermediate, 15-20 yard routes.
• This is the first time he's been healthy coming out of nonconference play.
• Gave the running backs a hard time about his juke move.

Shannon Brooks

• Asked Leidner if he was wearing his "Like Mike" cleats after Leidner's first half juke.
• Don't need too much therapy because his foot is "pretty much healed." Just ice it every now and then.

Rodney Smith

• Good feeling in the huddle knowing how many playmakers there are.
• Worked extremely hard in the offseason on pass protection as running backs. Pat Poore was told by someone that the running backs didn't pass block well, and that was taken personally.

Link: Hafiz enjoys Minnesota visit

Must be being recognized today as we are surrounded by them in section 144