deedsker

Bad on offense AND defense...oh boy. They probably win again on a muffed punt, a HH interception return for touchdown, and a 7th string HB fumble 6, like 20-16 or something that looks made up.

Or maybe this is the 35-3 this team can pull off when not turning it over constantly. I don't know. Let's get it on!

3 minutes ago, Moiraine said:

 

 

Oh I mixed him up with Zac Lee. I completely blocked Tanner Lee from memory. I'd need to see an turnover comparison

Tanner Lee looks good in shorts. As a Jags fan, I can confirm. 

Just now, Micheal said:

I think one of their tackles is holding. 

Always. Or the receiver “0” every run as well.

Safety incoming.

Why not say, fine him 10% of his net worth, as reported. Might get to the heart of a lot of issues.

Kinda makes the CFP bewildering losses make more sense when you don’t already know what your opponents are running ahead of time.

1 hour ago, gobiggergoredder said:

You can't really believe this.

My memory deceives me? I have a vivid memory of the Western Kentucky game in 2010 where he completely dips his back shoulder (almost to where his waist would be standing straight up and down) and awkwardly launches the ball at a 45 degree angle (What he seemed to do on any pass over 30 yards). I attended every one of his home games and remember thinking that he had a relatively normal-ish throwing motion in 2013 and his stats reflected it until the injury. Based on video evidence, it still looks pretty un-platformed in 2013.

I dunno. 

42 minutes ago, Heretic Husker said:

Purdue will knock us back into .500 reality - that is unless we get in some elite transfers at QB, Oline (at least 3) TE this week. Oh yeah and stop the turnover parade. - Not that Purdue is that good, only that they seem to appear they are a bit more competent than the last 2 terrible teams- we will need more than 2 TD's to beat them.

Outside of one good quarter against Illinois, Purdue appears to be just as bad as the rest of the B1G West when it comes to offense. 

3 hours ago, caveman99 said:

Funny, I remember T-Magic coming back a significantly improved passer after working with Calhoun and in that 2012 season immediately after working with Calhoun he became B1G OPOY….

 

So. - 56%, 2089, 13 TDs, 8 INTs, 126.5 QBR

Jr. - 62%, 2871, 23 TDs, 12 INTs, 141.6 QBR

 

Not only did his mechanics improve, his footwork and posture throwing improved dramatically. He went from sub average/poor passer freshman year to his senior year, a potentially pass first QB. It was a dramatic change.

To be fair to Terrelle Pryor, he was the best QB and WR on the 2016 Browns. He just couldn’t throw the ball to himself to prove it.

The high variance of a backup is that defenses don’t have film. A backup can either come in and fundamentally run a portion of a playbook or could completely change what an offense is capable of doing. Or they might be limited in some capacity(you know, they are the backup) and are easier to contain.

But once a game of two of film comes out, the reason they are a backup usually begins to show and competent defenses flex their advantage. Not everyone has Cardale Jones or Luke Falk waiting in the wings.

Ah man, Minnesota had a bye week before rolling into Iowa next week and Illinois hosts Wisconsin. A Minnesota and Illinois victory creates anarchy where almost everyone has a path to winning the west!

On 10/10/2023 at 10:22 AM, deedsker said:

Iowa at Wisconsin this week mostly should determine the West. A Wisconsin win basically shuts out most of the competition for the division. An Iowa win puts them in the driver seat, but opens up the chaos window like last year. 

Well, Iowa prying open the chaos window seems about right. No, McNamara and a O that seems to try to roll up loses took the division lead and Wisky lost their QB. 
 

Honestly, Iowa wins this division at 6-3. The remaining schedule for everyone else is too difficult for them not to get it, despite extreme ineptitude on offense.

2 hours ago, Moiraine said:

I suppose the way the speaker is chosen is a way to give the minority party some kind of power, and could be seen as a way to promote compromise. 

 

But it’s also kind of dumb. They should just vote on a person and the one with the most votes becomes speaker. The far right has everything to gain here. They either get someone favorable to them, the House passes no bills thus no funding and the government shuts down, or the rest of the GOP works with the Democrats and angers the base more which leads them to elect more far right peoople. 

2 hours ago, teachercd said:

No kidding.  This seems like it makes the most sense.

The problem for the GOP would be that the current winner of that format would be Hakeem Jeffries. 

On 10/10/2023 at 4:14 PM, Mavric said:

I love football.

 

 

I am not a bronco's fan, but Brandon is awesome!

Depends on the school size/metro area, but good hs teams also attract more nonaffiliated people.

39 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/american-youth-are-increasingly-indifferent-to-jewish-suffering-and-sympathetic-to-an-ancient-evil/
 

not just the American Youth it seems, unfortunately.  

Another problem with the general disinformation and uneducated goal, more and more younger people don't know what can be trusted for sources. It is harder and harder to get more and more people to believe something is even occurring which in turn makes them believing in anything more difficult.  

Iowa at Wisconsin this week mostly should determine the West. A Wisconsin win basically shuts out most of the competition for the division. An Iowa win puts them in the driver seat, but opens up the chaos window like last year. 

2 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

That is awesome!

I remember beating the wall with Maryland in 2019 and Northwestern in 2021. Was that all our luck in a couple goes? Do we just get one game every other year? If so, who do we beat down this year out of nowhere.

2 minutes ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

Also all very true. Winning is difficult, particularly when a program isn't advantaged over their peers.

My statement was to the advantaged. There are a list of coaches who were given advantaged positions and were less successful. They did better at places where they got to put their hands in every pot, they can't manage what they used to be the person doing, they don't know what they don't know about outside factors that make their job harder/easier.

10 hours ago, Mavric said:

 

Maryland was actually blanked 318 days ago based on the tweet date. Fun fact, they turned around and blanked Rutgers two weeks later making theirs the 304 in the tweet. 

10 minutes ago, MyBloodIsRed16 said:

I felt like Rutgers could have run their QB for more success.  He had a couple nice runs in the first half and they didn't seem to go back to it.  Even tho they haven't showed it I would have to think Nebraska has better athletes on O than Rutgers.  Their D didn't look near as good as Nebraska's and they were coming up with some stops.  Penalties really killed Rutgers from getting any type of momentum.  It was 17-7 until Mich scored on defense due to a poorly executed screen pass.  Then the wheels fell off for Rutgers.  I think this game is going to be a lot closer than people are thinking.  

I think it still could be close even if we do get blanked. I could see us hanging on to a 10-0 game late into the 3rd. I wouldn't be surprised. But if this is the game we get blanked, I will not be shocked.

If Michigan scores something like 20, I think it is probably over right then and there. However, Michigan has been flawed, Rutgers did run well early, McCarthy has been anything but clean and well executed even against some bad teams. Nebraska could pop off a couple big ones and win a 17-14 game, but that is a confluence of a lot of things going our way. The most likely outcome is something like the other 4 Michigan games landing them in the 28-3/24-10 neighborhood. We shall see.

1 minute ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

I agree. Competing in CFB is extremely difficult. Coaches at most schools recruit 3* players out of necessity, not desire. It's why coaches leave schools to take jobs at places where it's easier to recruit.

 

My point is, developing players is difficult and it's unclear if specific coaches are good at it or if the random distribution of gems among the ranks of 3* players elevates those coaches. 

More often then not, you will see a pretty high variance on any coach/staff/recruits, that you never quite get a huge difference in any one coach's ability over another. There is a laundry list of coaches who make good at some lower level coaching gig and parlay that into more resources and "better" talent pool. They then proceed to put a collection of a team out that appears to be only marginally better than the collection they had at a place with "less". 

Sometimes it is that those recruits were not extra special than the players you had elsewhere, sometimes it the fact that the supporting coach on a staff was doing all the right things behind the scenes and is no longer with that coach, or the coach can't navigate the increase in drama of the powder keg of expectations (both coach and players and personality differences). There are a long line of coaches who made there way to power programs, maintained a decent time period of success before leaving or shown the door, who go back down and still find no more success overall as a coach. 

Michigan's offense hasn't really exploded this year and they are perfectly content trying to ground out a couple drives to see where we are. They could have a couple partially successful drives not necessarily ending in points, but this will also shrink the play count. If Nebraska doesn't completely clamp down on an unchallenged Michigan offense, our offense's poor play might make this the first blanking in 27 years. Rutgers got one big play to start the game and sustain success never came despite some good plays here and there. I don't see our offense maintaining many drives and we are a bomb or broken tackle from being on a short order to get zero.

Right now, I feel like we can find a field goal off a turnover, a bomb shot hits, or Grant squeezes through a tackler somewhere to get points, but does this game ever scream potential shut out.