The injuries are worse now than that year. That year was Bailey moore and sindelar. This year is Mbow, Moussa, Hartwig, Klare, Wilson. Many players affected for large portions of the season by injury.
Play calling. Plain and simple. Our play calling from the goal line has been absolutely terrible. Also play calling with Card has been garbage all but the Minnesota game. Our OC needs fired on Saturday. The shotgun formation at the half hard line is hard to watch over and over.
I agree with most of what you say and hope Walters grows into the job. I do not agree with the ceiling being a 6-7 win team. Maybe at the start of the year that was the thinking. But looking at the season now, who outside of Michigan and Ohio St wasn’t beatable? Iowa has the most wins other than those two and they are a 9 win team and were very beatable. Most of the teams we played this year have between 5-7 wins.
Didn’t Hartwig only miss 2 games? And pretty sure Klare was only a starter due to Miller being hurt last year and he is back and playing well since the 4th game.
This staff being poor in game doesn’t fit his narrative.
We had a true Freshman at QB for half a game…and it should have been a lot more than a half! Even then, we still had a chance to win and poor play calling and decision making kept us from doing so!
You think our OL is playing well? Wow. Last game they literally had Austin Johnson out there. Austin Johnson makes David Owen from 04 look like Kelly butler
Agree. Seems to be a ton of criticism for the line and I think this has been the best oline play we have seen in years.
Syracuse and Wisconsin to start. Those games weren't even close with a clear talent gap. Nebraska as well.
Smh talent gap. Just do not agree. I will say for whatever reason we just never beat Wisconsin. They were very beatable this year though.
No it isn't. Years? Come on. They have played better relative to well most of the entire season the last couple of games for sure.
I blame the talent level of some of the players. The players I think we both would agree have made everyone proud on and off the field.
When was the last time we were able to run this well? Don’t we have 2 running backs over 5 ypc? That has a lot to do with the oline, and the rbs. And yes this coaching staff has done very well running the football other than short yardage.
And that's the difference...some of us simply say, it's been one season and you don't know yet where it's going, could get better, could get worse.
So any team that beats us isn’t beatable? They have 7 wins. They were beatable. Unfortunately we never seem to play well against them. I may not live to see another win against Wisconsin
It's been a couple of games of running well. We didn't dominate all season. Could be a combination of our play and our opponents play against the run. I didn't name you, I named pboiler so I'm not acting like anything in regards to you.
Did I list NWestern? Or Fresno State? Or Iowa?So any team that beats us isn’t beatable? They have 7 wins. They were beatable. Unfortunately we never seem to play well against them. I may not live to see another win against Wisconsin
The returning players who performed above a pff 70 rating on more than nominal snaps last year was 4. That’s LOWER THAN HAZELLS returnees from his last year.
My bad I didn’t notice you were talking to someone else. Didn’t mean to insert myself.
I am done arguing about this. Ppf only tells the story of players who played last year and how they played. It does not tell the story of talent. And I will tell you I have never gone to look at it in my life but the talent that Brohm left or attempted to leave the next coach is pretty good.
I should go onto The depot and find the 2021 Illinois thread. Jeff brohm wasn’t NEARLY as popular as he is now
they were beatable when both Mordecai and Allen were out
Do you want to dive into all those players?
BC, what's up w/ Strickland ? was a 4 star recruit although from the state of Indiana
A source pm’d me last year and told me word was he didn’t have burst for DE and would have to gain weight to become a 3 technique. This was after the mono.
He was a Freshman! Of course he’s going to get better. This is a dumb example.
Better by 18 per pff? Please tell me all the players you think got that much better as true sophomores?
Agree with you on Walters on the defensive side. By all accounts the defensive guys love playing in his system. Essentially it showcases what they're all about, similar to what Brohm does on the offensive side. Stud OLBs and DBs should get every chance to show what they have in Walters D.
I’m waiting. Please tell me the freshmen you think improved the most freshman to sophomore year under brohm and we will look it up.
Instead of a mystical ranking…why not look at on field production ?
Lol writes off a credible source for his opinion.
Miller could’ve taken the place of Miller had they not taken away his starting job and moved Mbow there.
Was his job to have recruited linemen in the program who were on their way to playing
Doesn’t always happen that way. He’d have had a chance in the portal like Walters did. And even if he had failed I’m sure he wouldn’t have run off a starter and schemed to our weakness!
It does if you’re claiming he left Walters with the tools to win right away. You think that what was behind Holstege is normal, because your love of Brohm’s informs you that Dale Williams wasn’t a joke who is now an analyst in Louisville.
