BF appreciation thread (favorite calls)

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CP87

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There have been some good calls throughout the years. I will start with one that didn't work out (execution!), but it was a great call. 2017 Iowa vs. Minnesota:

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2017 Minnesota @ Iowa One Hour

In a game with serious bowl implications, border rivals Minnesota and Iowa take to the gridiron for a critical Big Ten matchup. Iowa is dealing with injuri...
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Good call, great individual effort by Wadley:

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2017 Penn State @ Iowa One Hour

Two schools that are 3 – 0 but haven’t exactly been impressive doing it, convene on Kinnick Stadium in the Big Ten Opener, knowing that a loss makes it harde...
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99topdawg said:
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Come on now, this isn't LeVar Woods' best calls! By the way, we tried so many fakes on special teams in 2017 and 2018...whatever happened to that? I feel like we got too cute before half in 2018 PSU, and LeVar was never allowed to call another fake.
 
CP87 said:
Come on now, this isn't LeVar Woods' best calls! By the way, we tried so many fakes on special teams in 2017 and 2018...whatever happened to that? I feel like we got too cute before half in 2018 PSU, and LeVar was never allowed to call another fake.
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I always thought that was weird. I liked it, but was surprised by it because it's so out of character of the way the team is built.
 
I am particularly enamored with the entire 2nd half vs Minny ...
Q3 - 3 drives: 3 rushes for 8 yards, 5 passing attempts for 0 yards
(4 incomplete, 1 fumble to set up chip-shot Minny fg)

Q4 - 4 drives: 3 rushes for 10 yards, 15 passes for net 12 yards
(8 incomplete, 2 sacks -15 yards, 4 complete +27 yards, 1 interception.)

So, Bri(Kirk)Fer decide that, down your 2 best TE's (fundamental to the passing game), an OL that is really bad at pass blocking, weak WR corp and a QB that had already fumbled twice in your own territory that going 20 passes to 6 rushes (all right into the Minny box but none for loss) was the right game plan?

I don't know how you can NOT "appreciate" that classic display of offensive ineptitude.
 
CP87 said:
Come on now, this isn't LeVar Woods' best calls! By the way, we tried so many fakes on special teams in 2017 and 2018...whatever happened to that? I feel like we got too cute before half in 2018 PSU, and LeVar was never allowed to call another fake.
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I just watched highlights of the OSU game. I think they tried two fakes on special teams? Can't remember. One of them was a successful pass from Recinos to whoever was supposed to hold it. It was a thing of beauty. Not the pass it as it was a bit of a floater. The play. Executed perfectly. He woulda scored, but got tripped up by his own feet two yards from the endzone. Result was eventually 7 instead of 3.

Not that they needed it that day, but the it contributed to the final score beatdown.

I mean....that game was Brian's highlight. Everything went right on offense, defense, and special teams.

Course, then the next week was a 66 yard net total affair at Wisconsin.
 
The halfback pass against ScuM in B1G Championship game. Bold and if executed would have put them on their heels. Rest of game calling sucked afterwards.
 
It is the 2019 bowl game against USC. This is what everyone(including Kirk and Brian) envisioned this offense to be. Obviously, it didn’t play out that way. Go back and watch that bowl game, you wonder what happened to that Kirk, what happened to that Brian?

Granted, that USC defense was super soft, but you see the jet sweep motion with ISM and you could tell Brian was in the lab dialing up shit. So what happened between then and now?
 
I can't pick just one. I'm always amazed at need five yards but throw for 4 every time I see it. I sometimes wonder if they even know the yard of gain when calling those mind baffling plays. What the hell do I know though. Just a spector in a lazy boy, but I've never had to gain much yardage to grab another beer, you could say I'm Mr automatic.
 
dagdaj said:
I just watched highlights of the OSU game. I think they tried two fakes on special teams? Can't remember. One of them was a successful pass from Recinos to whoever was supposed to hold it. It was a thing of beauty. Not the pass it as it was a bit of a floater. The play. Executed perfectly. He woulda scored, but got tripped up by his own feet two yards from the endzone. Result was eventually 7 instead of 3.

Not that they needed it that day, but the it contributed to the final score beatdown.

I mean....that game was Brian's highlight. Everything went right on offense, defense, and special teams.

Course, then the next week was a 66 yard net total affair at Wisconsin.
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Nobody will ever convince me this wasn't Ken O'keefs game plan. The pass patterns and attacking offense seemed so much like what we've seen in the past from him. Have we seen anything like it since he retired. Nope.
 
trj said:
It is the 2019 bowl game against USC. This is what everyone(including Kirk and Brian) envisioned this offense to be. Obviously, it didn’t play out that way. Go back and watch that bowl game, you wonder what happened to that Kirk, what happened to that Brian?

Granted, that USC defense was super soft, but you see the jet sweep motion with ISM and you could tell Brian was in the lab dialing up shit. So what happened between then and now?
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Watching the pass plays, notice Stanley is untouched and unhurried in a nice pocket.
Have seen little or none of that from our current OL.
 
dagdaj said:
Course, then the next week was a 66 yard net total affair at Wisconsin.
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This one should have raised more alarms. We had a decent line that year with I believe 3 future NFL guys, we had a decent QB, we had two first round tight ends and we put up 66 yards in what was the worst game I've ever seen on offense, at least until that PSU game a few weeks ago. I take part of the blame, I was so euphoric about OSU that I looked past the Wisconsin game garbage and just chalked it up to a letdown after a big game. It was indicative of terrible things to come.
 
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