Our defense vs. Minnesota's offense

[KJ.]

Here's some approximate figures on how we did defending different Minnesota personnel. For convienience, they are organized in descending order of how frequently it was actually used by Minnesota.

 

11 personnel: 18 plays, 135 yards

22: 14 plays, 77 yards

12: 9 plays, 69 yards

21: 9 plays, 29 yards

10: 8 plays, 41 yards

20: 5 plays, 48 yards

32: 5 plays, 11 yards

31: 1 play, 2 yards

wtf: 1 play, 20 yards

 

Total: 70 plays, 432 yards

 

While it might be easy to say 11 personnel was our weakness, I don't think that's what killed us today. 20 had a much higher YPP average, and 10 kept us surprised and off balance nicely. I'm guessing since the staff was primarily concerned about 11, so the surprise of 10 or 20 worked to their advantage.

[Hayseed]

But their TE killed us a couple inopportune times.... right up the middle.....and their qb wasn't much of a scrambler. Northwestern played their passing qb in the loss to Minn, not sure what happened to that zippy guy,....we still haven't found an answer to that wide open pass and it'll only be worse if that fast guy is running around like B. Miller.