Minnesota Snowflakes: The Defense
November 4th, 2017 at 11:40 PM ^
November 4th, 2017 at 11:49 PM ^
Metellus shouldn't have been ejected, but he also shouldn't have flown into the fray and got in #73's face. Kinnel turned away after getting punched because he realized that he successfully baited the guy into a flag (and let's be real, getting punched in the helmet hurts the puncher more than the punchee). Metellus turned a one-way penalty into an offsetting penalty for no good reason.
November 4th, 2017 at 11:55 PM ^
Back up your teammate without doing anything to draw a real flag is the correct reaction. Which he did. Fuck the officials.
November 5th, 2017 at 4:43 AM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 1:44 PM ^
November 7th, 2017 at 10:10 AM ^
On the other hand, don't give a crappy officiating crew an excuse to throw a flag at you. This isn't a street fight and Kinnel wasn't hurt; there's no need to "back up" your teammate when he's totally fine and has already turned away from the action.
November 4th, 2017 at 11:41 PM ^
KHALEKE HUDSON!!!
November 4th, 2017 at 11:41 PM ^
As usual, Don Brown took 1-3 drives to download the opposition entirely and Minnesota did absolutely nothing until garbage time after that. All hail the Mustache
November 5th, 2017 at 4:47 AM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 9:44 AM ^
I definitely saw at least one person question whether Don Brown's defense was solved
November 4th, 2017 at 11:41 PM ^
November 4th, 2017 at 11:43 PM ^
November 4th, 2017 at 11:41 PM ^
then recovered and adapted. Can't ask much more than that.
November 4th, 2017 at 11:42 PM ^
the defensive ends kept contain, the Minny offense died. Hopefully we remember that for OSU.
November 4th, 2017 at 11:42 PM ^
November 4th, 2017 at 11:43 PM ^
6.5 TFL?? He's gonna have to start paying rent - he was living in the backfield
November 5th, 2017 at 12:46 AM ^
November 4th, 2017 at 11:43 PM ^
November 4th, 2017 at 11:44 PM ^
November 4th, 2017 at 11:45 PM ^
but they got it going later.
November 4th, 2017 at 11:46 PM ^
And as usual a overwhelmed opposing o-line not called for a single hold, it is so frustrating to see that shit every week,
November 4th, 2017 at 11:47 PM ^
November 4th, 2017 at 11:47 PM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 1:40 AM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 10:02 AM ^
If the blitz doesn't get to the QB or at least force a checkdown, then yes, there is an Achilles heel to this defense, and it is clearly the coverage abilities of the safeties.
Not sure who's worse between Kinnel and Metellus, but at least with Kinnel it appears that he's at least trying to turn and look for the ball, whereas earlier in the season it seemed no one told him that he could do that.
November 4th, 2017 at 11:48 PM ^
November 4th, 2017 at 11:48 PM ^
If so that is complete bullshit, he did absolutely nothing to warrant that ejection.
November 5th, 2017 at 1:16 AM ^
November 4th, 2017 at 11:48 PM ^
will there be any blue left under the stickers on Khaleke's helmet after this game?
November 4th, 2017 at 11:51 PM ^
November 4th, 2017 at 11:52 PM ^
Wearing number 7 tonight. It got confusing.
GO BLUE!!
November 4th, 2017 at 11:52 PM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 10:31 AM ^
Larry Foote had a ton of TFLs in some games in 2001. Think he was close to leading college football that season and had like 26 or something. Otherwise, have to go way back. Steve Morrison had one game where he had like 372 tackles or something against Illinois so some of those might have been TFLs.
November 4th, 2017 at 11:56 PM ^
Safeties are pretty weak.
Throughout the season, we give up a ton of QB scrambles due to over-aggressiveness. Maybe we are a little too aggressive? This worries me greatly against OSU. Wisconsin luckily is not in position to exploit this.
Had a rough first quarter against the Gophers, but overall, still very pleased. However, the last three weeks have shown this to be more of an 'A-' defense, than an 'A' defense. Which is to be expected with the youth.
November 4th, 2017 at 11:57 PM ^
I mean... they allowed 164 yards. What do you want from them?
November 5th, 2017 at 1:02 AM ^
Honestly I'm at the point where I expect every inside run to be stopped at the line, every outside run stopped for a loss, and the QB not to get off a single pass attempt because he is sacked on every dropback. Is that unreasonable?
November 5th, 2017 at 1:34 AM ^
They were so close, too, until they put in the backup defensive line for the Minnesota's garbage time Field Goal of Moral Victory drive. One more sack instead of the completed fade... Oh well. :)
November 5th, 2017 at 12:00 AM ^
They're young. It'll get cleaned up...
November 5th, 2017 at 1:34 AM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 10:16 AM ^
Yup, McCray is a good player, but a replaceable one.
Hurst is not replaceable, but you can see a theoretical universe where Gary and Winovich improve incrementally and Solomon and Dwumfor are solid enough where there is not an enormous drop off. Everybody else is back. And most of them are sophomores so they should improve.
November 4th, 2017 at 11:56 PM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 12:00 AM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 12:02 AM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 12:05 AM ^
Why do you say Metellus isn't very good? He filled in for Peppers in the Orange Bowl, and earned a starting spot on a top 10 defense. While the safety position may be a weak spot, it's relative to this defense. Put both Kinnel and Metellus on an average defense, and they immediately make it stronger.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:10 AM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 12:03 AM ^
Well, it was looking like Bush's backfield forays were downloaded and mostly stopped the last couple of weeks. So what to do about that?
Unleash Jabrill Peppers!! Uhh, Khaleke Hudson!!!
What a game that kid had!!
November 5th, 2017 at 12:15 AM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 12:40 AM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 12:06 AM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 10:04 AM ^
Gary was getting absolutely MUGGED all night. It's like what James Harrison went through a few years back, where it was brutal and obvious on just about every play, but seemingly never called.