MGoPodcast 8.5: The Wind Cries Mary

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1 hour 22 minutes

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[Patrick Barron]

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Offense

starts at 1:00

Offensive line was okay at running, JBB holding his own against monsters is a particularly nice surprise. Three yards a carry is misleadingly good against this D. Speight’s actual interception was not a bother but some of the plays under pressure were not great bob.

Defense

starts at 22:46

DUDE. PFF, which gives a 50 to a player who’s basically replacement level, gave #1 offensive tackle in the country a 49, and that’s the best offensive line performance from Wisconsin of the game. Glasgow doing Glasgow things because he can; too dominate to find snaps for Rashan Gary. Good Don Brown stuff. Jourdan Lewis…DUDE.

Special Teams and Game Theory

starts at 40:15

Don’t get Kenny Allen—mechanics of kickoffs and punting are apparently very different, Ace learned from watching warmups. False start penalties—Harbaugh was demanding a disconcerting signals call.

Talking Big Ten with Jamie Mac

starts at 49:53

JamieMac’s sports bigamy had a good weekend. Open up the dusty rolls of Sparty No! Western Kentucky is adopted. Indiana’s defense ranked ahead of their defense—is this a fluke? MSU’s offensive line hitting the panic button. Iowa is broken; Cole Croston is not working out. Can Purdue recall a quarterback? Penn State’s “fingerprint win”, Armstrong’s weapons are breaking.

MUSIC:

“Hear My Train A Comin'”—Jimi Hendrix

“You Got Me Floatin’”—Jimi Hendrix

“House Burning Down”—Jimi Hendrix

“Across 110th Street”

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Comments

kevin holt

October 3rd, 2016 at 8:48 AM ^

Love the Jimi; not sure I understand if there's a reference or if it's just a Jimi kinda day but I love it. And I love the optimism. I'm avoiding the game thread from now on cause holy fuck people panic on there a lot.

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gbdub

October 3rd, 2016 at 12:14 PM ^

This podcast reminded me that I need to listen to Hendrix more often.

Also, GIF request - Speight slapping Hill's ass on his way through the line on the TD

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Danwillhor

October 3rd, 2016 at 12:35 PM ^

to hear other people talk about Speight in an accurate way. He's neither terrible or great as he's learning. He should be fine but right now he makes a ton of mental errors and absolutely could not beat an osu right now. He's truly Navarre, atm. He's 5.5 games in and has potential to be really good but it's not now and he very likely won't see the quick progress that a 5th rear Senior Rudock did. His lone INT on Saturday was actually a fine throw but UW dropped about 2 others. He made a great throw on the TD to Darboh but took really bad sacks and doesn't throw it away - at all. It's fine but few can talk about him without exaggerated hyperbole and it drives me crazy.

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