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I see we are currently in the “defend the indefensible” phase of Rhules tenure. That was fast. We reached unanimous agreement on banker, cosgrove and Shawn Watson pretty quick.

Unpopular, probably, but I learned that Purdue’s qb is the best in the b1g west and the best we’ve played this year. And he will probably play on Sundays.

All the more reason why the refs didn’t need to tip the scales in any direction.

I suppose you never saw the cheap shots and multiple uncalled penalties on Colorado. It’s not hard to respond to “adversity” when the refs are wearing your jerseys.

Lol Scott frost is that you?

i just don't get this fascination or insistence on the idea that sims is the "best" we have. he's the most athletic and maybe with the best arm talent, sure. but there's just no way he's the best we have when he has 7 turnovers in two games with snap infractions, procedural penalties, and poor decision making.

you may end up being right, but this is waay too soon. plus, they did do what you are talking about. they brought in "4.6, 6'2, 200lb kids" all over the place, especially on defense. they just lost 3 or 4 of those types at critical spots not because they didn't bring them in. if they had gotten a game manager as opposed to the athlete we have at qb right now, we would be 2-0. sometimes on offense, the intangibles are more important than the measurables.

And what exactly have “physically gifted” quarterbacks gotten us in the past 8 years? Meanwhile Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois keep destroying Nebraska with their unathletic, inaccurate game managers again, it’s not about athletic ability. It’s about procedural and crunch time reliability.

The idea that he gives you the best chance to win is not based in reality. It’s baseless. There is absolutely no evidence to show that. All the evidence points to is the fact that he’s the most athletic player in the qb room. That’s it. He gives you the best chance to torpedo your team’s confidence and momentum, based on evidence. yea teams may load the box against HH, but all they have to do against sims is be in base defense and wait for him to throw a pick or drop the ball. Here’s a list of things sims has shown he cannot do: - throw accurately beyond 15 yards - handle a snap in crunch time , critical moments - go through progressions - look off a safety - improvise under pressure - handle motions and snap counts together anyone with these qualities should not be handling snaps at a p5 program in the big ten.

with anyone else, i would agree. but this is a head coach who really prides himself on developing and coaching 0 star recruits and coaches. i mean, he refused to fire a badly performing O-line coach on his way in, hired a high school coach to be a position coach and a 24 year old as a WR coach. then he released the returning starting QB and brought in a turnover prone QB. he obviously believes he has a midas touch. that being said, i still think he'll be successful here. he just needs to decide if he wants to slow the process down or fast track it. the possible mistake i think he's making right now is thinking he has 3 years to work with in this transfer portal era.

unfortunately this ain't happening. Rhule isn't firing his guy in satterfield. osborne and trev will not be telling him to either. if Rhule is to be a serious coach in the Big ten, you can't insist on putting Jeff sims out there. A game manager is good enough to get you to at least .500, maybe a division win in the big ten west. we've seen iowa, wisconsin and northwestern do that year after year while we trot out mistake prone "game changing", 4.5-40 athletes who will never be able to handle the physicality of the big ten.

"time" isn't what is required to fix the stubbornness it takes to stick with a quarterback that can't protect the ball or run the offense in crunch time.

Agree. To your second point, it really looks like almost all the issues the offense had was really about the fundamental misunderstanding or misevaluation of the capabilities of qb1. There’s no excuse for that., and definitely not in the 4th quarter, after he’s shown you what it is for 3 quarters. The playcalls were fine, and would have resulted in a win with even 5% better execution.

While I don’t support calling a player garbage, there’s simply no excuse for having zero quarterbacks on the roster. There’s no excuses for not having someone who can read a defense and look a safety away, the line play notwithstanding.

the question for Rhule is, what is he planning to do differently in the QB room? The idea that jeff sims will win games for us as a QB is probably fools gold at this point, especially in the B1G.

We learnt that we don't have a Quarterback.

looking at all the evidence, it appears Matt Rhule has a LOT of belief in his ability to coach spots out of leopard skin.

I’m not sold on this hire, tbh. I just don’t see him having the ability to develop players to compete in the B1G.

I really think deboer would be great in this role.

Parker Gabriel, who used to work for the LJS, took a job with them. side commentary: He's always been a bit of a weird reporter to me. if you've read or followed his tweets since 2020, this type of action being spearheaded or instigated by him isn't too suprising (if he actually did).

really weird from him, how he's going back and forth with people on twitter. so IGC didn't have "enough" targets and so he bails? i think IGC was clearly the #2 guy after Trey Palmer if he could stop dropping balls, but sounds like he felt he didn't have to continue to prove it. really unfair and a bit short sighted from IGC imo.

what's going on here? Who's "She"? why would the color commentary in the radio booth affect how the season plays out?

If you look at some of Mickeys backstory, I would not be surprised if he wins 6 games. Life has a way of rewarding people for their heart and their charity work sometimes.

Did you read my posts?

oh of course. Mike'l had 4 years to spill the beans but he chose not to. Now, I don't necessarily blame him. plus, he's one of the few media members who have been critical of frost since the 2nd year. lol even in this thread, people think he has an axe to grind or something. he just doesn't care as much as others.