@Wisconsin

[captaincoyote]

Many teams will try to force us to be one dimensional towards the pass and someone will be successful. Aiden will prove everyone wrong that day. I think part of the issue is our offense is not predicated on getting him in a rhythm. He’s easily the best QB we’ve had since Strev.

[Yotes]

Sept 7, 2024 21:45:02 GMT -6 captaincoyote said:

Many teams will try to force us to be one dimensional towards the pass and someone will be successful. Aiden will prove everyone wrong that day. I think part of the issue is our offense is predicated on getting him in a rhythm. He’s easily the best QB we’ve had since Strev.

Simmons was a tremendous QB.

[bobo]

Very proud of the grit and desire to compete in our guys especially in a tough venue. Thought our defense actually played pretty well and very physical throughout the game minus a few hiccups here and there.

Our Achilles heel offensively is the inability to drop back and pass in A traditional method. We are very good in the play-action game (although we never dialed that up yesterday). Bouman needs to turn his back away from the defense so he doesn’t see the pass rush because he isn’t fluid in the pocket. He absolutely needs a pure progression read and to stay away from full field reads.

[captaincoyote]

Sept 8, 2024 6:12:26 GMT -6 Yotes said:

Sept 7, 2024 21:45:02 GMT -6 captaincoyote said:

Many teams will try to force us to be one dimensional towards the pass and someone will be successful. Aiden will prove everyone wrong that day. I think part of the issue is our offense is predicated on getting him in a rhythm. He’s easily the best QB we’ve had since Strev.

Simmons was a tremendous QB.

Simmons was really good and benefitted statistically from our peak air raid years, but was too inconsistent. Bouman doesn’t get enough credit for how rarely he messes up.

[gopheryote]

I think many of you are not giving enough credit to how fast the Badgers DBs/LBs are. Our receivers couldn't get separation, which makes the throwing window very tiny. As other have said, Bouman can throw for 300 yards, but if he does we know something when terribly wrong with the game plan.

[bobo]

Simmons was a pure passer and had the ability to use his legs when needed. Definitely could spin it and didn't need things to be wide open to throw it open. I disagree that WRs were not getting separation. The concepts we were calling didn't allow nor ask for the WRs or TEs to get down the field to create any separation. Everything we threw was pitch and catch below 10 yards except for a couple play-actions or naked boots. One of them was a crosser to Bell for 18 yards and the one chance we had for a TD was an open crosser in the endzone to Martens that Bouman overshot because drifted his feet for no reason and overthrew it. We definitely didn't ask Bouman to make a ton of plays which was ok in this game. There will, although, be games that he will have to deal it to win.

[TheSongDog11]

Sept 8, 2024 6:58:55 GMT -6 gopheryote said:

I think many of you are not giving enough credit to how fast the Badgers DBs/LBs are. Our receivers couldn't get separation, which makes the throwing window very tiny. As other have said, Bouman can throw for 300 yards, but if he does we know something when terribly wrong with the game plan.

Yep. They had 2 NFL caliber CBs.

[easmus]

I was at the game, need to watch it back this week.

I totally agree that the offense was having better success when Lightning was the RB and Thunder was a FB or off the field.

If my (hazy) memory serves me correctly, we had some early drops that would have helped keep them on schedule.

I cannot figure out why you would take the speed off the field in Q4. I realize you can’t run a jet sweep every play, but doesn’t having Keondray on the field with motion at least help keep their defense honest and having to account for him? It was working, and then you barely put him back in the game? I hope when the staff broke down the game, they have made note of some adjustments for next game, because the offense has got to get going. All the 3 & outs in a game like that absolutely wore out the defense at the end. .

[yoteforever]

Sept 8, 2024 19:57:27 GMT -6 easmus said:

I was at the game, need to watch it back this week.

I totally agree that the offense was having better success when Lightning was the RB and Thunder was a FB or off the field.

If my (hazy) memory serves me correctly, we had some early drops that would have helped keep them on schedule.

I cannot figure out why you would take the speed off the field in Q4. I realize you can’t run a jet sweep every play, but doesn’t having Keondray on the field with motion at least help keep their defense honest and having to account for him? It was working, and then you barely put him back in the game? I hope when the staff broke down the game, they have made note of some adjustments for next game, because the offense has got to get going. All the 3 & outs in a game like that absolutely wore out the defense at the end. .

I think the criticisms if the play calling are subjective. You all might be right or possibly wrong. There’s things coaches see going into a game that we can possibly expose, then there’s the adjustments you see during the game. None of us are in that room or press box. There are certain matchups you want to avoid for sure.

The comment about so many “ 3 and outs “ got me to thinking. I felt like there weren’t many three and outs so I went back and checked. There were 3 in the whole game. That’s not a lot in my mind. Our first possession and one late in the game plus one other in the middle somewhere. Time of possession was 32.5to 27.5. Not great but certainly we’ve won games in the past with wider amounts.

We played a Big 10 team to the wire. A team that went to a New Year’s Day bowl losing to LSU 35-31. I’m guessing Wisconsin will finish in the top 1/2 of the Big 10 this year as well. I’m not into moral victories and I can tell you the team was pissed at themselves for losing because heading into the game. Both the squad and the coaches felt going into the game it was winnable. And it was. When we didn’t score to tie up the game to me was when we let momentum slip away. Who knows then what would’ve happened.

In summation we got beat by a little better team. But not “light years” better. Just a few years ago we would’ve all said “let’s go play ‘em, take the check, and pray we don’t sustain any major injuries”. Now we go into a game thinking we legitimately have a punchers chance to beat a pretty decent Big 10 team. A team with a 15,000,000 payroll. Think about that. The MVFC is frickin loaded. All 4 Dakota schools are good. Youngstown is good. Southern Illinois is good. I think the league champ will likely have 1 loss for sure and possibly 2.

The game Saturday to me is our BELL COW game. It’s a brutal trip out there playing a mid level Bug Sky team. Similar to Southern Illinois or Illinois State. It’s no slam dunk win. However, if we get the W then I like our chances of finishing the year 9-3. We look like a legit big time FCS program. Now it’s time to prove it. The thing is IF we would have won last Saturday it would e been great BUT then we’d truly have a huge target in our back. The way we lost didn’t cost us one ounce of respect. It only enhanced it.

I like this team a lot.

[easmus]

Totally fair. It’s always easy to critique when you already know the outcome.