Drake Lindsey

All right.

Hey, Drake Lindsey, quarterback of the Golden Gophers, talk to me about Indiana.

They do a ton of different stuff.

Defense coordinator's really good.

And I go to the Big Ten and I talk about Indiana.

I don't think Indiana is as good as they've been the last two years And why in the world are they 20-point favorites against Minnesota in a league that doesn't have great quarterback play, but the Gophers do with Drake Lindsey from Fayetteville, Arkansas, Fayetteville Bulldogs, Fayetteville High School, and I think Minnesota beats Indiana straight up in

Bloomington.

Yes, I like it.

I don't think Indiana is as good as they've been the last two years.

And why in the world are they 20-point favorites against Minnesota in a league that doesn't have great quarterback play, but the Gophers do with Drake Lindsey from Fayetteville, Arkansas, Fayetteville Bulldogs, Fayetteville High School, and I think Minnesota beats Indiana straight up in

Bloomington.

Yes, I like it.

That is not how this thing should go.

Even if the defense does play well, you've got to get the ball in Drake Lindsey's hands and you've got to get it out quick.

To me, where I would attack them is I would try to do with Noah Jennings and Javon Tracy.

But I would also try to have this be the Darius Taylor gets like 14 touches and eight of them come through the air.

But I think trying to get Indiana's linebackers covering Darius Taylor would be an interesting spot to try and get this thing going.

But I would also say...

Drake Lindsey's just got to play better, man.

Like, Drake Lindsey, this team and this offense specifically goes as Drake Lindsey goes.

I was not happy with something.

Yeah, I think you did mention one final thing I wanted to talk about, but it's kind of Drake Lindsey's next step.

You know, we talked about Colton Joseph having a little bit of experience in those situations.

Drake Lindsey has to play better.

He's struggled the last few weeks.

And to be honest, I think his number one problem right now is just confidence.

I think he gets a little too anxious to leave the pocket at some times.

Even though he's a pocket passer, he kind of leaves that.

But how do you, based on what we've seen with Lindsey and this offense and the lulls and the struggles at times, how do you hang in this game?

Well, offensively, you've got to protect Drake Lindsey because like any college quarterback, his splits between under pressure and kept clean are striking.

Where when Drake Lindsey has been kept clean this year, he's got nine passing touchdowns, two picks to go with a 68% completion percentage.

You take that every day of the week and twice on Saturdays.

When he's been under pressure, that thing drops off a cliff.

So if you want Minnesota to be able to move the ball against what I talked about earlier, it was the number one scoring defense in Big Ten play.

Indiana's only allowing Big Ten opponents to score 12 points.

You're going to need to protect Drake Lindsey, and then you've got to figure out with this whole Darius Taylor situation where Minnesota went to more of a running back by committee against Iowa where they decreased the workload for Darius Taylor, and essentially just made him a red zone, short yardage, third down back.

But now it's just all about purple and past defense.

Yeah, it's hard to get worked up about Drake Lindsey or really even PJ Fleck.

You know, it's just not the same as when you're dealing with Ryan Day or you're dealing with Michigan or whatever.

So, yeah, it's a good point on your part.

Lenora Sellers, go back.

Julian Sane and Drake Lindsey, for sure, going back.

So that's... that's sort of what we're looking there but the rest of the other positions in the draft are superior this year the quarterback class is kind of letting us down right now but we still have ball to play of course we have a lot of college ball to play uh to try to sort this thing out and we just kind of see there but yeah that um the central kind of tenant of what he's saying i i don't necessarily disagree with but uh book hasn't been written uh quite yet

Christian Augustine says, hey, I wanted to ask Thor about his thoughts on our run defense.

There's no doubt.

Every interview you hear P.J. Fleck and Drake Lindsey and Greg Harbaugh talk about protect the ball.

We got to win the turnover battle.

And I agree.