If we can have some semblance of an offense this season, I don't see that happening. TOP last time was brutal (Wis 38:27 - Iowa 21:33). When your defense is on the field over an entire quarter longer than your offense, you're always going to have issues.
They are certainly still capable of playing like that. You saw it in 2010, 2014, and last year. They couldn't get the ground game going in the Orange Bowl, fell behind in what was practically a road game, had to rely on the passing game and still found a way to make it work. And Miami was blitzing and sending pressure of the edge and up the middle. Their big ass offensive line is also more than capable of getting out in space or holding their blocks that extra half second. And the "turnover chain" paid the price.
And more on the way, too! Look at our most recent, and incoming recruiting classes. Wait til a couple years down the road.
Kirk, is that you?
I guess I should add that I'm hoping for actual offense, not just some. I just don't see another disaster of historic proportions happening again.
They're certainly consistent in what they do. They stay the course. I went to the Camp for the Northwestern game last year. Wisconsin had the turnover bug and were ripe to be picked. They persevered.
And it's tough to keep their offense off the field. When they get you in third down they bring the beans. They probably force more three and outs than any team in the conference. And their offense is right back out there tiring out your own defense.
We tried that. We have a hard time scoring more than two touchdowns on them. Either we get extremely lucky with turnovers or we get out played ever year
Their philosophy is polar opposite of ours. They get their defense off the field as quickly as possible with players who can make plays on third down and get to quarterback. Then their offense is out there again running up time of possession and wearing down the opposing defense. Our philosophy is to keep the defense out there because they might get a turnover. And our offense can't turn it over if they're not in the game. Unfortunately this wears our defense down in the fourth quarter sometimes. You saw it time and again in 2015. When we got the lead Kirk didn't even want the offense on the field. He feared the momentum swinging turnover. Bit what message does that send to your players? Kirk's philosophy almost cost us the Pitt game. Purdue, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota and Nebraska all hung around in the fourth quarters of games they had no business hanging around in. Those games should have been put away in the middle of the third quarter. Canzeri had 256 vs illinois, Daniels 200 vs the Gophs. We should not have been sweating out those games. Wisconsin would have known what to do. Look at some of the scores Bielema rang up from 2010-2012.
