Badgers @ Wildcats, 2:30 PM C, BTN

Aaron It Out · Post #61 » by **Aaron It Out** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:36 pm

And now they're reviewing it to rub it in. Wasn't even close to being down.

Aaron It Out · Post #62 » by **Aaron It Out** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:36 pm

Hopefully the guys at Buffalo Wild Wings aren't ready to go yet. Then they could send it into overtime.

Ryan5UW · Post #63 » by **Ryan5UW** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:36 pm

The ruling on the message board stands - we suck.

Aaron It Out · Post #64 » by **Aaron It Out** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:38 pm

Anybody else think the playcalling on that final drive was just awful?

Mags FTW · Post #65 » by **Mags FTW** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:38 pm

I am sad for about 10 seconds. Then I remember I get to watch Brandon Jennings play for my team in about an hour and a half.

msiris · Post #66 » by **msiris** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:38 pm

Clay sucks. So slow and runs into his own guys. He has no vision.

msiris · Post #67 » by **msiris** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:40 pm

RJay715 wrote:Anybody else think the playcalling on that final drive was just awful?

Yes. So conservative.

Aaron It Out · Post #68 » by **Aaron It Out** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:40 pm

Now let's throw more 5 yard passes down the middle because our tight end is so great.

Post #69 » by **ReasonablySober** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:41 pm

Mags FTW wrote:I am sad for about 10 seconds. Then I remember I get to watch Brandon Jennings play for my team in about an hour and a half.

Yup.

trwi7 · Post #70 » by **trwi7** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:42 pm

RJay715 wrote:Anybody else think the playcalling on that final drive was just awful?

Yes. It was like McCarthy's play calling against Minnesota last year, except the Badgers weren't even in Northwestern territory.

It's like they were content to run the ball and do short passes until they hopefully got down to around the 30-35 yard line and then try a long field goal for the win.

Aaron It Out · Post #71 » by **Aaron It Out** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:43 pm

I really don't even like college football all that much. This is just frustrating becuase a Badgers loss will send them from #16 to #35. Oh by the way Tolzein just threw an interception.

Ryan5UW · Post #72 » by **Ryan5UW** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:43 pm

WHAT THE **** WAS THAT?!?!?!?!?!?!

Aaron It Out · Post #73 » by **Aaron It Out** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:44 pm

Is beating Wisconsin really worth storming the field?

PkrsBcksGphsMqt · Post #74 » by **PkrsBcksGphsMqt** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:07 am

RJay715 wrote:Is beating Wisconsin really worth storming the field?

They stormed the field? That's incredibly pathetic.

MadCityBucky · Post #75 » by **MadCityBucky** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:19 am

Wow big fail by the Badgers today.

Did anyone catch the LSU game? Down by 2 points, inside the 20 after a long and lucky throw, LSU decides to spike the ball with 1 secod rather than kick a FG. So of course time runs out and they lose, LOL

trwi7 · Post #76 » by **trwi7** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:33 am

Yeah I saw that MCB. Ironically enough that play was a 4th and 26. Incredibly stupid of them to let about 15 seconds or so run off the clock before calling the timeout on 4th down.

Announcers were screaming for LSU to get their field goal unit on the field. At the very least you have to snap that ball right as the whistle blows to get one last play and go for the TD. You'd think they would've gone over that during the timeout.

Post #77 » by **MickeyDavis** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:44 am

I didn't know Biliema coached LSU

Mags FTW · Post #78 » by **Mags FTW** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 4:42 pm

I'm going to sound like a huge armchair QB here, but some college and NFL coaches just amaze me with their stupidity, lack of common sense, creativity, in-game management, etc.

If you are ever in the situation where you are in the hurry up offense and you need a FG to tie or win, how do you not turn to your special teams coach and say, "get everyone in the FG unit together and have them stand together on the end where we will be kicking"?

Good grief...

Kerb Hohl · Post #79 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 3:21 pm

I was at this game and I couldn't post my "Monday(Sunday) morning QB" because I got an invite to Lambeau the next day, so now I am here to make this.

I honestly, really think that Bret Bielema and the Badger defensive staff walked into the halftime lockeer room and said "GUYS, THEY RUN A SPREAD!" and all the defensive coordinators came in and grabbed a bunch of whiteboards and started scheming for it. Honestly, in the past 10 years, Wisconsin has not even planned for Purdue or Northwestern.

It is the same with their offensive style except the defense sucks. "We're Wisconsin, so we're going to run a vanilla 4-3 on defense." OK, so you want to keep your LBs on the field most of the time to stop their 3 and 4 wide attacks, fine. But wow, I think the fans really started to hate me from my yelling from the bleachers.

I recall 4 blitzes in the game:
Blitz 1: Kafka hit, pass is a wounded duck to the sideline (1st quarter)
Blitz 2: Kafka scrambles, loses a yard (3rd quarter)
Blitz 3: Kafka throws it away (3rd quarter)
Blitz 4: Kafka scrambles, gains a yard (4th quarter)

Hmmmm, Bret. Think you're on to something? I realize our defensive line is a strength and I have stated vehemently in the Iowa thread that I don't like our corners, but I put about 5% of the blame on them. Why? The front 4 got zero pressure but I saw a high success rate when they brought LBs off the edge and up the middle.

This was hands down the worst defensive scheme I've seen in my years of watching football.

You're going to leave 3 LBs in and have them sit in 5 yard deep zones? And get no pressure?

I'm not sure if Kafka is/was an all Big 10 QB but he is obviously close. So you're going to let one of those senior QBs that knows the spread offense inside and out sit there with 5 seconds to throw, and past 5 yards, you're going to leave 20 yard pockets in the secondary?

It was unbelievable. So you have your LBs covering the underneath stuff, which didn't really get to us too badly and the run was a very small factor for Northwestern. But they simply outnumbered us and shredded the gaping holes in our zone in the longer passes. I think it was NW's 2nd, maybe 3rd TD where they just lined up in trips to one side and had one guy go out, one in, and one run a post. Yeah, when the Badgers have some guy foolishly in the flat and another hovering way too far in the middle and a corner that was sitting behind the out, obviously that post will sneak right through for a wide open TD.

Here is what I do: Actually call a hellfire of blitzes on Kafka. So you leave a 20 yard wide gap on some plays that he gets a quick hit hot read off on. Great. It isn't like he didn't torch us otherwise. I guarantee you cause at least 2 turnovers in a tradeoff for giving up probably the same amount of points just maybe a little faster.

Instead of going for the "let's force them to make the mistakes" strategy, we went with the "slow and painful death" strategy. I have a feeling Bielema, and to an extent Alvarez, will both wake up in a nursing home some day and go "Northwestern runs a spread offense!" and run to write things down, because I am still not sure they've realized it.

James1980 · Post #80 » by **James1980** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:52 pm

Northwestern was fired up to play us, we weren't fired up to play them. That is why we've lost the last 3-4 games at Northwestern.