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Today's intensity level, along with a few calls/breaks, will beat both Wisky and Nebraska. tOSU had their hands full today. We are getting there.
 

TrapperDoo said:
Today's intensity level, along with a few calls/breaks, will beat both Wisky and Nebraska. tOSU had their hands full today. We are getting there.
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Agreed. And watching Nebraska vs. Wisconsin so far today, their offenses are certainly not at the level that OSU's is. They are two beatable teams if we play well.
 

31 is the fewest points OSU has scored on ANYONE including Michigan St. (which didn't even come close). Only Mich St. and Virginia Tech (who played them before the quarterback had had some experience under his belt) scored more than 24 on them ALL YEAR. We did much better than Mich St. did against them at home. There is no way we can criticize anyone on our team. They did an outstanding job. To demand perfection, especially against the 8th best team in the country is unrealistic. These guys deserve our praise…I know they have mine. The Gophers are for real….and suddenly our next two games look much more winnable and it is realistic to think we might have all 4 trophies at the end of this year.
 

This team is close IMO. How long has it been since they have been this close?
 

The ponies are just redshirting. MHJ catches the ball in the corner to Maye. That would have been an absolute strike to a 6'1" WR.
 


If we play as well the Nebraska Coach will likely behave the same way. I cannot speak to that school from the east.
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did people see how happy Urban Meyer was to beat us? that's respect... he was less emotional after beating a top 10 MSU team last week...
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Ohio State was the better team but not by a wide margin.

I think we're close. We had extremely bad quarterback play, and our defense gave up big play after big play. We're getting there.

We need a few more athletes on defense, and a better quarterback. We're headed in the right direction.
 

I thought Mitch had an overall adequate game in relativity. Cannot take the INTs out of the equation BUT he did make many throws today and one INT was due to a high throw that got tipped. I think if you take into account that he is a sophmore QB that was not expected to be a dynamic passer, his performance today showed a nice level of competency with improvement to continue.]
 



EliteOpinionGuy said:
I thought Mitch had an overall adequate game in relativity. Cannot take the INTs out of the equation BUT he did make many throws today and one INT was due to a high throw that got tipped. I think if you take into account that he is a sophmore QB that was not expected to be a dynamic passer, his performance today showed a nice level of competency with improvement to continue.][/QUOTE

Sorry, but 7 of 19, I believe(?). Blame it on the line, blame it the play calling, blame it on the receivers, whatever - he's had way too many 7-19-like games and he can't continue to do so.
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I said adequate due to the good with bad. Overall Mitch is likely not talented enough to carve up their D with an elite passing performance but again as a sophmore QB that is not expected to "win" you games with his arm I would argue he at least played well enough to have a chance. Could do without the inaccuracy and would have loved to get the Maye TD but he by no means hindered the team individually, did not recklessly give the ball away, and was competitive in the contest.

Needs to improve but there is not a college football player in the country that dosen't.
 

46Gophers said:
There were a lot of good things about today's game but one thing that really bothered me was all of the big plays that we gave up on third and 5+ yards. OSU was 9 of 13 on third down conversions and seemed to have their way with us. How may times did Barrett take off and convert those third downs or break them for a big play. Our defensive coaches, in my opinion, did a very poor job with the defensive adjustments to try and contain him on third down and it cost them. There were times our tackling was not great either but our inability to hold them on third downs and get off the field killed us.
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I can't stand with someone saying this about the d coordinators. Claeys called one hell of a game. Our d was overmatched in speed and size on the o and d line. He knew we had to run0 coverage (no one back ie the safety) because we couldn't contain that speed. Mich at got DESTROYED trying to lay base and Natduzzi got outclassed. Claeys put guys in one on one in position to make plays, at times we made them(Lynn did this numerous times) but we also missed them for big touchdowns (Wilson being a step slow and Thompson gambling). Overall phenomenal gameplan. To cover for our lower teM speed.

That said, we have guys w just as much if not more speed than osu.myrick totally has the jets to blow by osu for example
 

upnorthkid said:
I can't stand with someone saying this about the d coordinators. Claeys called one hell of a game. Our d was overmatched in speed and size on the o and d line. He knew we had to run0 coverage (no one back ie the safety) because we couldn't contain that speed. Mich at got DESTROYED trying to lay base and Natduzzi got outclassed. Claeys put guys in one on one in position to make plays, at times we made them(Lynn did this numerous times) but we also missed them for big touchdowns (Wilson being a step slow and Thompson gambling). Overall phenomenal gameplan. To cover for our lower teM speed.

That said, we have guys w just as much if not more speed than osu.myrick totally has the jets to blow by osu for example
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I wouldn't call it phenomenal. It worked at times but didn't at other times. I would have liked to see us mix it up a little bit more.
 



upnorthkid said:
I can't stand with someone saying this about the d coordinators. Claeys called one hell of a game. Our d was overmatched in speed and size on the o and d line. He knew we had to run0 coverage (no one back ie the safety) because we couldn't contain that speed. Mich at got DESTROYED trying to lay base and Natduzzi got outclassed. Claeys put guys in one on one in position to make plays, at times we made them(Lynn did this numerous times) but we also missed them for big touchdowns (Wilson being a step slow and Thompson gambling). Overall phenomenal gameplan. To cover for our lower teM speed.

That said, we have guys w just as much if not more speed than osu.myrick totally has the jets to blow by osu for example
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Go back and just watch the defensive calls on third down and if that is what you view as calling a hell of a game then you are easily satisfied. As GII says they did not mix it up at all on third down and every time they needed a big play it was like they knew exactly what we were going to do. 9 for 13 come on. As I mentioned there were some good things about the game but Claeys' calls on 3rd down were very predictable and really cost us.
 

On 3rd downs for the game, OSU's Barrett ran on 7 of their 13 attempts for runs of 6, 86 (TD), 38, 8, 12, 1, and 6 yards; and attempted 6 passes for 8, 57 (TD), 6, and 22 yards (TD) and had 1 incompletion and was sacked on his last attempt.
 

46Gophers said:
On 3rd downs for the game, OSU's Barrett ran on 7 of their 13 attempts for runs of 6, 86 (TD), 38, 8, 12, 1, and 6 yards; and attempted 6 passes for 8, 57 (TD), 6, and 22 yards (TD) and had 1 incompletion and was sacked on his last attempt.
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MN had less talent but was able to compete to have a fighters chance to win. The talent gap was likely more than a TD difference which was made up by some very fortunate plays and coaching. But if you agree we were less talented then you probably should also agree our gameplan/coaching had something to do with us being competitive. Could we had changed some things to better succeed? Always! But if you feel our coaching was subpar and our tent was subpar relatively speaking then i would just ask, how many points better would you assume that team was in the first place.?
 

46Gophers said:
Go back and just watch the defensive calls on third down and if that is what you view as calling a hell of a game then you are easily satisfied. As GII says they did not mix it up at all on third down and every time they needed a big play it was like they knew exactly what we were going to do. 9 for 13 come on. As I mentioned there were some good things about the game but Claeys' calls on 3rd down were very predictable and really cost us.
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Plays that cost us were Wilson over pursuing a fake, Thompson barely missin a pass break up, and Barrett showing some dang good feet to avoid the pass Rush. Holding osu to their lowest offensive output and far less than msu allowed shows me that claeys had the right strategy. He knew we were going to have to count on guys making one v one tackles all day and we missed plays a couple of times that killed us. It was the right gameplan for our team. Yeah I would've liked him to vary it up, but who are you going to spy on Barrett if that's what you wanted (blitzing is another idea but ever,y time we did blitz we got roasted ie the screen to the house)?
 

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