What about the offense?
I've seen a few boards/diaries of people complaining about the defense. I think a lot can be explained with the 3rd DC in 3 years and the low overall talent level lloyd brought in at the end there. I'm hoping the defense will pick it up as the season goes on - it's still early.
i guess a few of the those reasons also apply to the offense as well, but after seeing us click so well the last couple of games it was disappointing to see us bog down against indiana for a few drives. i can't remember exactly, but it seemed that after our first two huge play = touchdown drives we had three straight 3-and-outs.
Was indiana doing somthing schematically that we havent seen before? I thought with all our counters to the scrape-exchange we would be running over them all day. I would appreciate some input on this from some of our local defensive gurus...
-Go Blue!
September 28th, 2009 at 4:26 PM ^
Moosman at center + freshman mistakes is the entire story IME. We're not good enough to sustain drives with 77 yards lost on bad snaps. The drives we didn't make bad mistakes like that we scored on.
September 28th, 2009 at 4:34 PM ^
Agreed. We did a much better job stopping ourselves than they did. That being said, we got it done when we needed to. That takes moxy. I just hope this game doesn't get in Mooseman's head.
September 28th, 2009 at 4:41 PM ^
i'm talking more about the first half. IIRC the 3-5 drives stalled before the botched snap BS started happining. thats a whole other snafu.
and yes, thank god we got it done when we needed to. i just wish we got it done before then (and thought we had the talent/scheme to do so)
September 28th, 2009 at 4:47 PM ^
RR said after the game that they did some formations that we hadn't seen or planned for. didn't sounds like excuses, just stating it.
September 28th, 2009 at 5:49 PM ^
Penalties and drops...
- P.I. on the throw to Matthews wasn't called (borderline, would've been nice to get one after some awful calls go against us)
- Ortmann in the backfield B.S. call eliminated a 20 yard (?) gain.
- Webb and Grady had drops on what would've been first downs.
That basically explains "stalling" out. I wouldn't worry too much about the offense. Indiana's DE's did play pretty well. They are more athletic than anyone else we've seen and matched up well against our zone-reads.
September 28th, 2009 at 7:01 PM ^
penalty on Ortmann was truly mind-boggling. I wonder if these Big-10 refs had ever seen the shotgun formation before.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:11 AM ^
I think you mean 'mind-bottling' like when your thoughts get all trapped like in a bottle...
Agreed though...especially considering Ortmann was lined up exactly like the RT and a flag wasn't thrown on the other side. Complete B.S. to not even give a warning.
I always get a kick out of that call anyway given that any o-lineman is probably not going to switch his alignment on the spot...something that he's practiced until nauseous everyday for months.
September 28th, 2009 at 4:45 PM ^
36 points is a good offensive performance in pretty much any game.
September 28th, 2009 at 4:47 PM ^
Even with the 36 points, I thought IU's d-line played very well.
September 28th, 2009 at 4:49 PM ^
Florida put up 31 in the 1st Q against Kentucky, then nothing for the next 2 quarters. I wonder if they are complaining about the offense bogging down?
September 28th, 2009 at 4:52 PM ^
and you know it.
when you are in a dogfight and cant put scoring drives together that is entirely different from letting off the gas some
September 28th, 2009 at 6:21 PM ^
Negative, because they left Tebow in. If they weren't trying to score then why is Tebow playing?
September 28th, 2009 at 6:26 PM ^
We manage to complain about everything. When everything is grand we complain still.
We could be ranked #1 in the nation with 400/300 passing/rushing ypg while allowing 80/-40 pass/rush ypg, with the top three Heisman candidates on our roster and a record of 11-0, and we'd complain about how the field "looks too green today."
human nature I guess
September 29th, 2009 at 12:08 PM ^
on the week of the MSU game, the grass should know better than to look so damn green. It's blue turf time!
September 28th, 2009 at 4:50 PM ^
Indiana has a very experienced defense, that while giving up a lot of points is capable of the big play. They've been one of the best pass rushing teams for a couple years in a row.
I think we had matchup problems with this.