What grade would you give the Gophers in the 38-35 loss to Northwestern?

What grade would you give the Gophers in the 38-35 loss to Northwestern?

  • A

    Votes: 3 2.9%

  • B

    Votes: 3 2.9%

  • C

    Votes: 21 20.2%

  • D

    Votes: 38 36.5%

  • F

    Votes: 39 37.5%
  • Total voters
    104
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Tim from Rosemount said:
They better pony up some big bucks to get a real defensive coordinator in here to fix this mess. Maybe Coyle can stop giving Fleck raises and extensions and give it to the assistants. We also need a Big10 caliber kicker. The two missed kicks today weren’t even close.
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He has the money.
 




We have a lot of individual talent on D. Kind of weak at DB, but otherwise some good, experienced talent. But that talent is being prepared and deployed poorly this year. NW is a mediocre to poor passing team (until it lit us up today). Why play a scheme that gives the receivers in that offense such exploitable cushions? … At the same time as giving the QB all day to throw? Collins has been a decent position coach, but we have to go back to Robb Smith to find a Gopher DC who has been so ineffective with so much talent at his disposal. And this defense appears to have regressed substantially during the season. In retrospect, PJ probably whiffed on his choice of an inexperienced DC (and a FG kicker with accuracy issues outside of 40 yards). This is the B1G. Such choices have consequences … that have really affected the season.
 




Offense gets an A-. Scored 35 points in about 19 minutes of possession with zero field possession help from the D. (Koi on STs helped). The Offense averaged 6.7 yards per play, by far its most productive game of the year. And the Offense could easily have scored 41 points if we had a kicker with simply average accuracy. All this is actually pretty amazing, since NW has a stout defense. Yet we lost, and deserved to.

The Defense gets an F. Allowed NW more yards than it allowed Oregon. Simply couldn’t make a stop all game. NW ran 70 plays! And it wasn’t in hurry up. NW average 7.5 yards per play. Previously NW had not scored more than 22 points against any P4 team. We started bad and went down hill; made no ameliorative adjustments. This wasn’t talent/recruiting mismatch. Straight up coaching mismatch.
 
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F because, as a friend told me, there is a hole in the boat. It is a big one. I'm not holding much hope for a victory over Wisky.
 

Tim from Rosemount said:
If Fleck is to be taken seriously, it will be tonight or tomorrow to send a message before the Wisconsin game.
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Wisconsin just sent its message: tonight it beat #21 Illinois soundly, 27-10. Started fast and led wire to wire. Three weeks ago it was unthinkable that the Gophs could lose to this year’s Badgers. Now who knows? Our defense has been regressing badly, week after week, a slow developing train wreck. Can it pull things back together for the Axe game? Stay tuned.
 
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Gophergrandpa said:
Wisconsin just sent its message: tonight it beat #21 Illinois soundly, 27-10. Started fast and led wire to wire. Three weeks ago it was unthinkable that the Gophs could lose to this year’s Badgers. Now who knows? Our defense has been regressing badly, week after week, a slow developing train wreck. Can it pull things back together got the Axe game? Stay tuned.
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I say "No".
 

TwistingMyMelon said:
Same here. Special teams, except for the kicker, were better than usual too. The team had 242 kick return yards and recovered a fumble that led to a score.
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Think of it: Offense averaged 6.7 yards per play and did not not yield a turnovers. Koi Petich had 242 kick return yards. Both of these are A efforts, by far our best of the year against a P4 opponent. The Defense’s play was so bad it is hard to describe. It is not a talent thing to be this bad, because in this game the D was worse than it was against Oregon or Ohio State or Cal or Iowa. Something else is going on.
 
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The offense doesn't get an "A".
Slow start lead to playing from behind. 2 of 8 3rd downs converted. After getting to 28 - 13, didn't score again until they trailed.

"B" at best. Way better than defense, but not without a portion of the blame.

And before you give ST an "A" tell me who missed those kicks.
 

As much as we mock Nebraska they are 4-4 in the conference just like us.

We end with Sconnie at home and they end with the Hawks at home.

Hard to judge this morning whether either will get to 5-4 to end the season with the the B1G+ wins that Walrus so covets.
 

Gophergrandpa said:
Think of it: Offense averaged 6.7 yards per play and did not not yield a turnovers. Koi Petich had 242 kick return yards. Both of these are A efforts, by far our best of the year against a P4 opponent. The Defense’s play was so bad it is hard to describe. It is not a talent thing to be this bad, because in this game the D was than it was against Oregon or Ohio State or Cal or Iowa. Something else is going on.
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Well, there were two important defensive starters out including one (Devon Williams) who has started for three years so I'm sure that had some impact. Still, it's astounding how awful the defense was while other functions of the team seemed to be better than usual. I'm not going to spend much time worrying about it because, of course, there is nothing I can do about it. My options are limited to deciding whether or not to watch the team and I'm pretty sure I'll watch the last two games of the season.
 

TwistingMyMelon said:
Well, there were two important defensive starters out including one (Devon Williams) who has started for three years so I'm sure that had some impact. Still, it's astounding how awful the defense was while other functions of the team seemed to be better than usual. I'm not going to spend much time worrying about it because, of course, there is nothing I can do about it. My options are limited to deciding whether or not to watch the team and I'm pretty sure I'll watch the last two games of the season.
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I’ll watch, also. Go Gophrrs!
 

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