None shall pass

[kchusker_chris]

Our pass D may be stout. But for a while State Penn was feasting on underneath crossing routes. They must have completed for or five of them in the first three quarters.

The tight ends were open all over. During that week all I heard was that their tight ends were their passing game. I still don't know how they could be that open when we knew it was going to happen.

i wish we would run more shallow crosses with the likes of Kenny Bell and JT running after the catch. Run off the safeties by using your tight ends. Play action, hit one of those guys crossing and watch em go!

those 2 beanpoles would get smoked by a LBer. These are Cotton/Reed's bread and butter. We just don't use it too much. Reed especially. He's kind of been spotty at best though.

 

[Nexus]

For the stats nerds, after 11 games, NU is #2 in both Pass Defense & Pass Efficiency Defense.

 

[TonyStalloni]

For the "You Shall not Pass" fans:

 

[TonyStalloni]

Now that I watch this again Gandolf does look like Pelini with long hair and a beard.

 

[junior4949]

Hundley seemed to do ok passing the ball. He's only a freshman, so he doesn't have a lot of games under his belt. However, he's only had two games in his short career passing for more yards than he did against Nebraska. Part of our passing defense stats this year might be because we've only played one team with a passing offense in the top 30 which coincidentally was UCLA coming in at 29th per Rivals. It might suggest that the Big 10 isn't a strong passing conference especially when you look at how Big 10 teams are ranked per rivals in pass defense. There are six Big 10 teams in the top 30 for pass defense (Michigan #1, NE #3, Minnesota #8, Michigan State #12, Indiana #29, and Illinois #30).

But what does it say about the other 4 yrs...We have been very consistant in stopping the pass, this year has been no different. Every team now and again will have a defensive slip up with something they are good at.

I was only talking about this year. We have some good players in the secondary, but it's obvious the B1G isn't a strong passing conference considering the amount of B1G defenses in the top 30 for passing defense. I don't think we have near the secondary we did in 2010. However, we do have a couple of guys that I think will eventually get to that level.