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Ohh I get it! Sorry, that went way over my head.

He wouldn't, it's the OC that's leaving. I think Holgorson calls the plays and runs the offense so may not be a huge factor, I don't know if Wright is really attached to the OC or not - offensive staff turnover can't hurt our chances though.

I remember buying NCAA Football 2002 and wondering why they had a LB as the kick returner. Dude was an athlete, too bad he couldn't keep everything else together. For this class, I really like Myles Farmer and Jackson Hannah. Farmer just hits people, and Hannah might be a stretch to say 'not highly regarded,' but he is only a 3 star and I think he'll dramatically outperform the regular 3 star expectations.

A former LB (Shanle I think?) actually blamed Young on twitter - looks like he was manned up on the RB who picked up Barry, and he hesitates instead of blitzing as soon as he saw the RB stay in. An extra blitzer could have at least rushed the throw, but it did seem a bit harsh to me. I also can't find the tweet at the moment, so either I have the wrong guy or it's been deleted. Frost did say "we gave a little too much ground in one spot" while also saying he thought we were in the right defense, so could've been an alignment error on Reed's part as well. All in all, I'm ok with the call. I'm pretty confident Hockenson or Fant would have found a hole if we played zone, so I think blitzing is the way to go. Maybe pressing would have been better, maybe Hockenson beats Reed at the line and converts on a slant with the middle of the field wide open. If we could rush with 4 maybe play it safer, but we hadn't done that all year. As they've said all year, it's the little things that change games. I would guess it's both an alignment error on Reed (maybe that was right for a normal situation, but I would think alignments adjust on 3rd/4th and 8) and not perfect execution by Young. You can maybe get away with one small mistake on the play, not two.

I hear what you're saying, but unless the number you're talking about is yards per catch Moore does put up the best numbers in the league. Johnson is definitely underrated nationally - I'd still take Spielman, but I'm a homer. Interesting that 2 of the top 3 returning B1G receivers (although I expect Peoples-Jones to place himself in the conversation next year) are from Minnesota.

Nebraska - 27 Iowa - 23 Pass - 280 Rush - 110

And even if they're defense is as good as Michigan State, I don't think we'll need to hold their offense to 6 points to win. If we played either team 10 times, I don't think they're holding us to 9 points more than once. They'll score more than 6 even if our D plays like last week, and we'll score more than 9 even if their D plays as well as MSU last week IMO. Not saying we'll put up 40, but I think something like 23-20 is more likely than another 9-6 type game.

This is a great opportunity to show what he can do - he definitely flashed good coverage ability early in the year, and I think that's gotten a lot more consistent. I could see him being an NFL sub-package guy, LBs that can cover are pretty rare.

At least we won't have to deal with this since we play in September. Keep it classy, Colorado.

That's how I saw it as well. Seems like college also hasn't bought into protecting the QB as much as the NFL. They'll definitely call roughing, but I've seen quite a few no calls on QB hits in college that would've been flags and fines in the NFL. There are exceptions of course, like the call against Freedom earlier in the year - that would've barely been a penalty in flag football.

I agree, and the only concern I have regarding #3 is they've shut out Maryland and Illinois which are the most comparable running games to ours in my mind. Obviously we can pass much better than those teams, but to your fourth point the weather may cancel out that advantage. Wisconsin and (surprisingly) Northwestern are the only teams to have much success running on them. Don't know how NW did, but I think we need to hit a few passes to have much of a running game.

Regardless of the weather and how Iowa's defense compares to MSU, I expect to score more than 9 points. Martinez seemed a little off all day, and maybe you can chalk that up to the weather and defense but I expect him to be his usual self this week. We're not putting up 50, but I think we can score. I'm more worried about our defense, Iowa's line doesn't seem great this year but my understanding is it's way better than MSU's. The safeties are going to need to show up again, they are going to get bodies on the LBs a lot. At least I don't think Chinander will ask our DL to just stand there and get destroyed by the zone blocking, some run blitzes and penetration will be helpful.

I learned our defense likely would have been quite a bit better this year if Reed hadn't injured his shoulder. He's a beast when he's healthy and in the right spot. We really need some athletes at receiver to step up next year, one threat in the passing game doesn't cut it.

More evidence, this should start at 1:50:

He was the first two-time winner of both the Nagurski Trophy and Bednarik award, and two-time consensus All-American. I have no problem voting Frost, but unless Fitz got real soft since then he deserves a little more credit than that.

I would pay to watch a Frost v. Fitzgerald fight - I'd give Frost the edge present day, but Fitz back in the '90s. They're actually about the same age (1 month apart), and they're both big, tough dudes so it would be a fun matchup. Most of these guys were QBs, so I've gotta put prime-Lovie, Fitzgerald, and Frost ahead. Obviously Frost was a QB as well, but as others have mentioned playing Safety in the NFL sets you apart from a lot of other QBs.

It's great to see Prince getting some love, I think he's always been underrated in the NFL. Injuries had something to do with that of course, nice to see him healthy.

I wouldn't be sure of the bolded part whether they respond or not, but no metric is perfect. Seems like they account for a lot of things standard metrics and stats ignore, but I'm sure there are things they miss. Fun to look at in any case, and I think it's accurate enough that more players on the list means we are in fact playing better. I'd also like to see Deontai on the field, I'm curious what's holding him back. He'll definitely have his chance next year though, I'm excited to see what the defense looks like in year 2.

Unless this kid misunderstood and it's actually a walk-on offer, it appears he will offer scholarships to specialists. https://www.omaha.com/huskers/football/recruiting/huskers-give-north-carolina-punter-ben-kiernan-his-first-scholarship/ Unless you meant long snappers specifically, I don't know why anyone would do that. Nothing against Ober, but I don't think anyone else offered him a scholarship. It's easy enough to find decent snappers, even if he was better the difference isn't worth a scholarship spot.

It says passing grades, so I'd assume at least the designed runs are taken out. There were a lot of drops, and from what I know of PFF those count for the QB almost as much as if they were caught. But yeah, 68.5 seems high.. and definitely feels like that shouldn't ever be the 5th best in the conference. There were some baaaad games though: Sitkowski (Rutgers): 8/19, 40 yards, 0 TD 1 INT Lewerke/Lombardi (MSU) 18/48, 220 yards, 0 TD 1 INT Coan (Wisconsin): 9/20, 60 yards, 0 TD 2 INT Thorson (NW): 15/30, 122 yards, 1 TD 2 INT Blough (Purdue): 20/31, 142 yards, 1 TD 0 INT I think they also get less credit for short passes that the receiver turns into a big gain, so a drag route that goes for 60 doesn't pull up their rating much. But at a glance, Bush's 11/25, 126 yards, 0 TD 2 INT doesn't seem a lot better than the list above.

It wasn't - I had to know after voting so I looked them up. Hopefully not ruining the poll, but I think per game numbers are more important than the total so voters may want to be aware of that.

They haven't played the same number of games though, those are all totals.

None of them are that far off their totals - Last 4 games QB 1: 83/128 (65%) 976 yards 7 TDs 0 INTs 38 yards rushing (2.1 ypc) 82.5 Avg QBR QB 2: 86/118 (73%) 1045 yards 9 TDs 2 INTs 245 yards rushing (4.9 ypc) 78.3 Avg QBR QB 3: 70/98 (71%) 997 yards 9 TDs 1 INT 169 yards rushing (3.6 ypc) 82.6 Avg QBR Worth pointing out total yards per game is actually in favor of QB 3. I feel like at this point it's getting easier to pick out exactly who they are based on some of the added context that goes with the per game, and since I'm not the OP I don't want to completely spoil things. But I do want to point out the first post is total numbers, not per game.

Not sure if it's still supposed to be a secret or if this gives too much away, but all 3 are freshman. So while I don't disagree with you, they all have time to grow.

I would say so but it really depends on what you mean by "better." Ohio State's line is absolutely more talented. But MSU has talent, and they've definitely been more consistent than OSU.