lo country Posted September 26, 2024 Share Posted September 26, 2024 4 hours ago, The_Fan_Man said: One thing that I learned is that our WRs aren't doing a great job at getting separation against man coverage, especially in shorter/medium routes. The real exception to this seems to be Barney, who is putting real fear into opposing defenses. 4 hours ago, runningblind said: I'm seeing the same thing watching replays. This makes running the ball even harder as teams will throw an extra defender up. No bueno. A talking head after game one spoke to this. He said we are bigger than what we had last year at wr, but we don't have the speed to stretch a D and get separation and against better teams that would be an issue. Barney being the one who can. Not having Chai healthy/prepared hurts as he had some top end speed. McGuire needs to work on getting our guys to highpoint and fight for those balls. Be more physical. DR is threading that ball, but at times I am amazed it hasn't been picked they way he gets it in there. A couple passes were a touch behind, but I am sure that will improve with more live games. Quote Link to comment https://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/103138-what-did-we-learn-illinois-edition/page/22/#findComment-2676194
Mavric Posted September 27, 2024 Share Posted September 27, 2024 2 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/103138-what-did-we-learn-illinois-edition/page/22/#findComment-2676473
Mavric Posted September 27, 2024 Share Posted September 27, 2024 Kind of odd for a right-handed QB that throwing right wasn't that great. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/103138-what-did-we-learn-illinois-edition/page/22/#findComment-2676499
ladyhawke Posted September 28, 2024 Share Posted September 28, 2024 On 9/21/2024 at 8:10 PM, gobiggergoredder said: I wasn’t at the game, but my son said he drilled a 60 yarder pregame. Said he was the only one launching. It’s odd that they aren’t even trying him! Quote Link to comment https://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/103138-what-did-we-learn-illinois-edition/page/22/#findComment-2676638
caveman99 Posted September 29, 2024 Share Posted September 29, 2024 Illinois looks like a good team vs PSU tonight. They are down 14-7 in the 4th and may not win, but they are certainly showing they are a tough team. PSU is in a dogfight tonight. Assuming PSU holds on to win this game, CU is now 4-1 and ILL would be 4-1, apparently a 4-1 Husker squad ain’t too bad after all……… 2 1 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/103138-what-did-we-learn-illinois-edition/page/22/#findComment-2677876
Jason Sitoke Posted September 29, 2024 Share Posted September 29, 2024 25 minutes ago, caveman99 said: Illinois looks like a good team vs PSU tonight. They are down 14-7 in the 4th and may not win, but they are certainly showing they are a tough team. PSU is in a dogfight tonight. Assuming PSU holds on to win this game, CU is now 4-1 and ILL would be 4-1, apparently a 4-1 Husker squad ain’t too bad after all……… They’ve hung around, but Penn St has absolutely owned the LoS pretty much all game. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/103138-what-did-we-learn-illinois-edition/page/22/#findComment-2677889
caveman99 Posted September 29, 2024 Share Posted September 29, 2024 6 minutes ago, Jason Sitoke said: They’ve hung around, but Penn St has absolutely owned the LoS pretty much all game. Regardless, ILL had the ball near midfield with under 4 mins to go only down 14-7. They had also just made 2 first downs in that drive as well. A great defensive call and execution by the DB to show man coverage but go to zone post snap to trick Altmeyer to throw a game sealing pick. PSU couldn’t score against the ILL D either, I would say they are a pretty good team. 1 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/103138-what-did-we-learn-illinois-edition/page/22/#findComment-2677890
Jason Sitoke Posted September 29, 2024 Share Posted September 29, 2024 5 minutes ago, caveman99 said: Regardless, ILL had the ball near midfield with under 4 mins to go only down 14-7. They had also just made 2 first downs in that drive as well. A great defensive call and execution by the DB to show man coverage but go to zone post snap to trick Altmeyer to throw a game sealing pick. PSU couldn’t score against the ILL D either, I would say they are a pretty good team. They’re a good team. But this game wasn’t as close as the score would indicate. Outrushed them 241-39. Illinois is well coached though and came up with a couple big plays to stop Penn st drives. Gave themselves a chance. Quote Link to comment https://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/103138-what-did-we-learn-illinois-edition/page/22/#findComment-2677892
BigRedBuster Posted September 29, 2024 Share Posted September 29, 2024 We scored more points against Illinois defense than PSU did. 1 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/103138-what-did-we-learn-illinois-edition/page/22/#findComment-2677911
Toe Posted October 16, 2024 Share Posted October 16, 2024 Man, the computers really don't think too highly of Illinois. They're #57 in FPI, #47 in SP+, and #52 Sagarin. They're #21 Coaches/#22 AP. 1 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/103138-what-did-we-learn-illinois-edition/page/22/#findComment-2682088
Husker in WI Posted October 16, 2024 Share Posted October 16, 2024 6 minutes ago, Toe said: Man, the computers really don't think too highly of Illinois. They're #57 in FPI, #47 in SP+, and #52 Sagarin. They're #21 Coaches/#22 AP. It's an interesting balance between the actual results and looking at which team was probably better on a play by play basis. I think the computer numbers are really interesting and valuable for figuring out whether surprising results are sustainable, but I don't like when they creep into the playoff rankings. Like if you have a great team with a bad loss and a good team with a decent loss, the computer rankings (and many voters) will have the great team higher. But I want that bad loss to be penalized more heavily, even when it's clear that it was an outlier. I may be in the minority there. I love the computer numbers, but using them for rankings minimizes the impact of actually losing games. Is Vanderbilt better than we thought? Sure, but that's still not a good loss. And Kentucky/Alabama don't lose much at all in the rankings because they "outplayed" Vandy according to the numbers. Now obviously things get complicated because you have head to head results too - should Bama be ahead of Georgia based on head to head, or behind because their loss to Vandy is worse than Georgia losing to Bama? TL;DR, it's fun that computers can tell you who probably should have won but I don't like using that in playoff rankings. We should not have lost to Illinois, but we did. Quote Link to comment https://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/103138-what-did-we-learn-illinois-edition/page/22/#findComment-2682092
admo Posted October 17, 2024 Share Posted October 17, 2024 8 hours ago, Toe said: Man, the computers really don't think too highly of Illinois. They're #57 in FPI, #47 in SP+, and #52 Sagarin. They're #21 Coaches/#22 AP. I have them beating Michigan this week. And even Vegas has them as 3 point dogs lol Quote Link to comment https://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/103138-what-did-we-learn-illinois-edition/page/22/#findComment-2682196
runningblind Posted October 17, 2024 Share Posted October 17, 2024 1 hour ago, admo said: I have them beating Michigan this week. And even Vegas has them as 3 point dogs lol I'll take you up on that bet, Michigan wins by 10+. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/103138-what-did-we-learn-illinois-edition/page/22/#findComment-2682210
BigRedBuster Posted October 17, 2024 Share Posted October 17, 2024 I like these. I hope they kick Michigan's a$$. 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/103138-what-did-we-learn-illinois-edition/page/22/#findComment-2682263
admo Posted October 17, 2024 Share Posted October 17, 2024 14 hours ago, runningblind said: I'll take you up on that bet, Michigan wins by 10+. I hate losing bets to you ! You and Jeff Sims made me do Iowa for a week lol 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/103138-what-did-we-learn-illinois-edition/page/22/#findComment-2682280
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