Minnesota: What Did We Learn?

presidentjlh said:
Hell promote Ekeler to HC at this point.
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Haha I was thinking about this earlier. I saw some people on Twitter saying that Matt to Penn st was a done deal.. and that would be the funniest outcome. I was anxious at the thought of losing Rhule and having to go through another grueling coaching search and then the “getting their own players” phase but that was embarrassing.
 
i refuse to believe dylan is unable to throw the ball away on some of these sacks. there's no way our offensive line can be this bad. i assure you dom raiola knows how to teach proper o-line technique.

i am starting to wonder if dylan only cares about his stats rather than making the right play.

i can't see the coaches ever calling him out on this out of fear of him transferring, but that's how i see it.
 
Toe said:
You think 4.5 ypc rushing is a bright spot? Unless you mean that play where EJ was blocking for Dylan and got completely trucked by the defender? I'm sure he was seeing stars after that, so maybe that was a 'bright' spot... 🤷‍♂️

He had one good game last week, but otherwise he's been thoroughly mediocre.
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He's been the best and most consistent player on offense, by far.

While 4.5ypc isn't spectacular, it's a lot better than dropping back to pass behind the worst pass blocking OL in the country. This wasn't just bad, this was humiliating and embarrassing tonight.

Despite being humiliating, did our offensive coordinator adjust? No. Minnesota goes on a 98 yard, 9 minute TD drive and Nebraska calls 3 straight passes on their next drive, giving the ball back to Minnesota immediately after being on the field for 23 minutes, hanging their defense out to dry - who never recovered and got smashed for the remainder of the game.
 
presidentjlh said:
That really was the worst loss of the Rhule era.

It makes me sick.

We show regression on the lines. What does it matter that we have all these great wideouts if our OL can’t block and our QB holds onto the ball forever?

It’s depressing. Every other blue blood, every other even marginally notable team has risen and fallen and risen again over the past 24 years and we can’t even manage a single great season in that time.

It’s done. Until some miracle HC comes in and turns it around like Devaney, it’s done.
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I largely agree.

This game was a reality check. Nebraska football isn't an improved product, they've simply played an easier schedule than they have in the past. They should be counting their lucky stars that they don't have the schedule of the 2021 team that went 3-9.

Nebraska is going to be fortunate to finish 3-6 in conference play, a losing conference record for the billionth year in a row, despite one of the easiest schedules possible. It's Nebraska better than Purdue? No, we've just played worse teams.

This program has a rotten foundation. The schedule gets significantly more difficult in upcoming seasons, if they don't buy an entirely new LOS this off-season- Nebraska will have miraculously find a way to regress under Matt Rhule.
 
Honestly, the notion of the team buying into the new HC's system (belief system as well as the team schema) was whittled away by the Penn State talk. Overtly or not, it's one of those back-of-the-mind things, that whole thing of him possibly leaving likely did take some English off the ball. We saw it on that field in Minnesota last night.
 
I learned, once again, that Fleck is a good coach.

I'd be interested in knowing how the Gophers prepared for this game vs how we prepared on a short week.They looked like they spent 2 weeks game planning for us and they looked fresh in their execution.

I don't know how Rhule can continue with Raiola as OL Coach. If he is outright dismissed I fear we lose DR as well as numerous WR's. Maybe he can save face by being "Satterfielded" into a consulting position?

Ugh... on to Northwestern.
 
XtraXtra said:
I learned, once again, that Fleck is a good coach.

I'd be interested in knowing how the Gophers prepared for this game vs how we prepared on a short week.They looked like they spent 2 weeks game planning for us and they looked fresh in their execution.

I don't know how Rhule can continue with Raiola as OL Coach. If he is outright dismissed I fear we lose DR as well as numerous WR's. Maybe he can save face by being "Satterfielded" into a consulting position?

Ugh... on to Northwestern.
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What is Dylan gonna do, follow Donnie to his next job at UTEP?
 
I wouldn't be mad about it if Rhule fired Donovan today. It probably should have been done weeks ago. The sharp decline of the offensive line remains the biggest disappointment of the season.
 
hskrpwr13 said:
I learned an OL can get penalized and for targeting doing something I feel like I see rather frequently.

Perhaps there was another hit they didn't show after the one where it looked like the defender was getting up and he "blocked" him again.
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It’s not the 80/90s anymore. It was clearly a cheap shot and I’m glad he got booted.
 
I planned on it but didn’t end up being able to watch the game. I believe I’ll not watch the replay and leave it at that

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