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Wow...Mertz only threw 8 passes today and only completed 5 and Wisconsin still won by 3 scores. Not sure if that says more about Wisconsin or about Purdue...

Over the last several weeks, it seems to be a coin-flip whether or not the site is going to open. When I try to connect, it spins forever and then it says that the server is taking too long to respond, as if I don't have internet, except that my Youtube TV is still working just fine (for...

Long post alert. First off...exactly to the above quote. Secondly...I'm going to throw something out here, only because it's been something I've been thinking about when it comes to helping Petras out. Legend: Y: LaPorta H: Lachey X: Wide out (Tracy is #1 X, but anyone who runs this spot) Z...

True..the eyeball test has provided all the requisite evidence.

Not sure I buy that narrative. We have gotten a ton of short fields; in fact, there was a thread detailing us as the #1 team in America in starting field position (due to our superb special teams and defensive play). But despite that starting field position (our own 38 yard line, btw, prior to...

I would assume Christensen is the "standard" for that metric, yes? Att Comp Comp % Yards TD INT Rating Christensen 257 468 54.91% 2950 21 9 118.8 Petras 265 456 58.11% 2927 18 11 120.2

Our quick game is severely lacking and I'm not really sure why. If we're not doing a 3 step drop to hit the TE on the stick from under center, the quick game stuff seems few and far between. From under center it seems like we are 5 or 7 step (although we do try to protect Petras quite a bit with...

I haven't seen the entire game (couldn't watch live and haven't brought myself to go back to the entire thing) but in the snippets of highlights I've seen where Bell was making catches, most of them were in situations where Hankins would have been on him anyway as the field corner. However, I...

Iowa runs it a ton, for sure, but EVERYBODY runs that bootleg (so that PSU guy has likely seen that route concept before) and there is almost always: 1) A flat route to the QB's boot side (interesting...we didn't even have this as we chose to protect with LaPorta on this play, probably to...

Probably a combination of defensive scoring (23 points so far this year on 0 plays) and the beginning field position. If you go 70 yards for a 7 point touchdown, it's the same as going 30 yards for a 3 point FG. With starting with the ball on our own 38 on average, 30 yards puts us into a...

I get it. I completely agree with everything you are saying above. I just happened to take a quick look at what you linked and compared with some high level stats to surmise that the story can be derived by looking at enough of the data available.

2. It does. Using 12 plays at -2 a pop, our yards/play goes from 4.65 to 4.85, which is enough to get us up to about 110th in the country and out of last place in the B1G. 3. Interestingly enough, I think due to our defensive prowess we're not seeing the play deficiencies as we have in years...

I think the bold is the most important part. I think a little less of the offense than you, I think, but totally acknowledge that they very rarely put our defense in a tough spot. I also definitely wanted to mention in my original post about our conservative-ness, such as taking knees when you...

Based on this analysis, the thing that really sticks out to me would be with the defense scoring about 4 points/game and starting every possession at or around the 38 yard line, we're still only averaging 27 offensive points/game. On the 68 plays we're getting per game, what are we doing with...

I've seen that it's a possible PCL strain/sprain/tear elsewhere. My own context...I'm currently walking around with a partially torn PCL. Apparently it was torn a while ago and it must have been some sports injury (read: rec league basketball, slow pitch softball, nothing like what Moss is...

I think Desmond King probably deserves to be in that discussion. Statistically he's actually better than Chuck Jones...although DKing's impact might have "felt" like more because we were coming off of 5 (?) straight years of fair catching EVERYTHING (sure handed Sandeman and Vandeberg). No...

Hey, sometimes the other team's guys make plays too.

I would have to go back and look, but I think this was part of their option game. Almost like a horizontal triple option, where Clifford could hand the ball off or if he got a pull read, he could either run (if the LB vacated) or throw the bubble/smoke screen if the LB sat and played run. I'm...

@99topdawg ^^Agree wholeheartedly with the above. UIHawk had a thread on gameday about putting a spy out there and I said the same thing there as you've essentially said here. The implementation of the spy means you either need to rush less 3 (so that we can still drop 7) or you have to risk...

Hate the idea of taking knees with so much time left, when you have Goodson in the backfield