Wisconsin Snowflakes: The Offense

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This will be the thread for your hot takes on our offensive performance against Wisconsin.

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stephenrjking

October 1st, 2016 at 7:05 PM ^

This week I expressed concern that our downfield passing issues were a serious limitation, and that seems to be correct. Hard to win it all if good defenses can hold you to 14 points. But we have talent, and that talent made the key play to win. FWIW JBB was in a tough spot but his rawness really hurt in several big spots today. Bad blitz pickups, the illegal formation calls, some poor run plays. It's a concern if Newsome is gone for a while.

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bamf16

October 1st, 2016 at 10:28 PM ^

Couple deep balls where Speight threw downfield but too far to the inside.  The good news is that this obviously isn't an issue where he lacks the arm to make the throws, but likely a rather small mechanical issue that needs to be emphasized in practice.

 

I'll end up watching the game again tomorrow morning when I'm up before everyone else in the house, but I was more concerned with Speight's play last week than I was this week.  

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jabberwock

October 1st, 2016 at 9:02 PM ^

He was a 1/2 beat slow on way too many throws.  Regardless of arm strength (and I think Sp8 is servicable) you cant be late on so many throws.  It makes your receivers slow down, allows DBs to close & disrupt catchable balls, lineman to just get a touch on you, etc.

And the Wiisky snap jumping was very remeniscent of MSU games past.  Yuo're putting your already shaky O-line at a severe disadvantage, and you'll notice most of his pocket escapes were un fortunately backwards and then  . . .sack.

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jabberwock

October 1st, 2016 at 9:02 PM ^

He was a 1/2 beat slow on way too many throws.  Regardless of arm strength (and I think Sp8 is servicable) you cant be late on so many throws.  It makes your receivers slow down, allows DBs to close & disrupt catchable balls, lineman to just get a touch on you, etc.

And the Wiisky snap jumping was very remeniscent of MSU games past.  Yuo're putting your already shaky O-line at a severe disadvantage, and you'll notice most of his pocket escapes were un fortunately backwards and then  . . .sack.

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Glen Masons Hot Wife

October 1st, 2016 at 7:09 PM ^

Well... the run game seemed to get better as the game went on.  That was maybe the best thing that I took from it.

I hope Newsome is not out for long. At least Speight doesn't do anything really stupid when there's pressure in his face.

Bad holding penalties, I feel like sometimes Speight takes too long to figure out what he wants to do.  Not sure how much of that is on the routes Fisch decides on.  The offense needs work.

Not sure if people realize how important this next class will be for the O-Line.  Losing a lot of starters, with no indication that there is much behind them.

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dankbrogoblue

October 2nd, 2016 at 11:53 AM ^

I can't claim to be an "x and o guy," but my understanding of the zone read is that it's reading the end in front of the quarterback, and if he shoots upfield, you hand the ball off, if he is sealed to the inside, you run. He made the correct read, because the end was upfield in each case.



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The Fan in Fargo

October 1st, 2016 at 7:13 PM ^

Considering they didn't use Peppers much and the final score should've been like 23-7, I think the offense was okay. Especially if this Wisconsin defense is legit. It looked like it I guess.

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