October 31st, 2015 at 10:42 PM ^
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November 1st, 2015 at 10:44 AM ^
October 31st, 2015 at 10:45 PM ^
Going bowling.
October 31st, 2015 at 10:47 PM ^
They got screwed on some lucky ass plays but in the end they came through!
October 31st, 2015 at 10:47 PM ^
that's right, Stuffed 'em when it counted!
go blue!
October 31st, 2015 at 10:47 PM ^
after we already lost it. Epic. Way too close for comfort but I'd rather be on the winning end of these than the losing one.
October 31st, 2015 at 10:55 PM ^
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October 31st, 2015 at 10:49 PM ^
A week of soul searching ahead. Nice play at end but giving up 3rd and 17 on last drive and letting 92nd ranked offense put up 461 yds?
Makes me scared of Indiana and Sudfeld. Made Leidner look like Cook.
LBs really played poor and Dymonte Thomas exposed.
October 31st, 2015 at 11:35 PM ^
I agree that this performance shouldn't be written off as a fluke. Opposing teams are starting to get a handle on our weaknesses. Indiana will be interesting- OSU makes me even more nervous.
Hopefully, changes are made.
October 31st, 2015 at 10:49 PM ^
Minnesota's game plan of lucky as hell long passes that should have been picked off but miraculously end up in the hands of the wide receivers was perfectly drawn up to beat Michigan's D. Gonna need to clean that up against other shitty teams.
October 31st, 2015 at 10:54 PM ^
in the second half they just outplayed the defense. defense had a couple of bad missed plays, but minny also just played well and made a couple very unlikely passes
October 31st, 2015 at 10:50 PM ^
They played their worst game of the year, but they did great on the last play and that was the one that counted the most.
October 31st, 2015 at 10:50 PM ^
had jugs
October 31st, 2015 at 10:50 PM ^
October 31st, 2015 at 10:50 PM ^
great to win. But wow, I was not expecting this. Wild game. My hat off to Minnesota.
October 31st, 2015 at 10:50 PM ^
Way too many penalties, D did not look normal tonight. Secondary looked bad, defense got tired by third quarter (conditioning?) and we just had some weird fuckin perfect act of god kung fu used on us.
Good points...some nicely executed well timed blitzes, some awesome individual effort and Peppers is amazing but worrisome he is playing so much (injury potential)
October 31st, 2015 at 10:50 PM ^
I'm thinking we just got an early Christmas present!
October 31st, 2015 at 10:51 PM ^
October 31st, 2015 at 10:52 PM ^
back to back games in which the Qb throws for 300+ yds. It's not like Travis Wilson and Tanner Magnum are scrubs either. Something needs to get backed to normal
October 31st, 2015 at 11:00 PM ^
In the D's defense, a ton of Cook's and Leidner's throws were just perfect. That mediocre QB Leidner hit a ton of freakin perfect throws tonight against Jourdon Lewis. I just can't explain that. Leidner will probably throw 3 picks in his next game but he was on his f*cking game tonight.
October 31st, 2015 at 11:10 PM ^
Leidner was 16/33 and and 3 of those should have been interceptions. Two of those were fluked into long completions. Another should have been interception (total of 4) was dropped by Peppers and would have been returned for a TD. Sometimes stats don't tell you everything about a game. He made some great throws but dude was not lights out no matter what the announcers tell you.
October 31st, 2015 at 11:29 PM ^
November 1st, 2015 at 12:23 AM ^
Not sure what announcers you're referring to. They mentioned a few times that Minnesota was getting lucky. Also, Leidner did legitimately hit some tight windows, mostly in the 2nd half.
I think the run defense was more alarming. Not sure what they were doing tactically, but they had a lot more success there than I thought they would.
November 1st, 2015 at 1:09 AM ^
They also said he was playing "lights out," (their words, not mine) twice.
November 1st, 2015 at 9:23 AM ^
If that dude was carving us up, what does that say?
October 31st, 2015 at 10:53 PM ^
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October 31st, 2015 at 10:55 PM ^
461 yards? Maybe the defense was still in a funk from the last game and the bye week, and some of those yards were "luck" yards, but still, 461 yards?
The defense came through on the final play and go the Jug back, though!
October 31st, 2015 at 10:55 PM ^
Maybe this was an oddball, emotional, fluke road game...but 400+ yards to Minnesota? I mean, that's so far removed from what we all expected
October 31st, 2015 at 10:56 PM ^
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October 31st, 2015 at 10:59 PM ^
It looked to me like we just had a really, really, really off day as opposed to Minnesota being able to expose new weaknesses that no one else noticed.
But how did we end up with Morgan in single coverage on a RB downfield?
October 31st, 2015 at 10:59 PM ^
October 31st, 2015 at 10:59 PM ^
October 31st, 2015 at 11:00 PM ^
It seemed like we had enough opportunities to get turnovers. We just can't get those. If we had those, this would have looked like a different game. MN played well. They made good plays. I am more concerned about our pass rush than our secondary. It is hard to be a secondary when we can't catch the ball and no pass rush. It seems like we need a better DL play for our LBs and Secondary to be successful. Safety play wasn't that great either. Our LBs was the biggest problem. Couple of big plays happen, but our LBs were not that good and made it worse. Bad tackling.
I will not be surprised if they come out and dominate next week. D still had enough in it to make some big plays. Hated those busted plays though.
October 31st, 2015 at 11:05 PM ^
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October 31st, 2015 at 11:07 PM ^
it could be my maize colred glasses, but to me this officiating crew jsut was not going to call holding on Minn pass plays.
It seemed like on a lot of Minn pass plays there was clear holding slowing down the pass rush.
But that is just the way this crew was calling the game. They also seemed reluctant to call PI.
October 31st, 2015 at 11:05 PM ^
October 31st, 2015 at 11:06 PM ^
gives up 461 yards to one of the worse offenses in the B1G. Something went really wrong tonight and hopefully the coaches can correct this! One positive is that we have found a good backup in Wilton! I like his throws once he got his confidence!
October 31st, 2015 at 11:07 PM ^
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November 1st, 2015 at 1:30 AM ^
See I thought the past rush was terrible and that alarms me for the rest of the season. Hopefully they can use this to show where they need some dynamism on D.
October 31st, 2015 at 11:09 PM ^
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October 31st, 2015 at 11:22 PM ^
November 1st, 2015 at 7:41 AM ^
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November 1st, 2015 at 9:00 AM ^
Teams seem to play way above their level against us all the time.
We need o figure out why and put a stop to it, dammit.
October 31st, 2015 at 11:26 PM ^
do it for their old coach. They were a different team than they've been all season and played wtih great focus and determination. Their effort was outstanding and Leidner was their leader and he threw the ball better than I've ever seen him. Think we should just credit the Minnesota effort.