Game Thread: Northwestern vs. Minnesota

[Cool Cat]

Many complain that our receivers don't get separation. Receivers rarely get "wide open." Wilde doesn't get wide open. He runs a good route, has the chemistry with the Stone, and competes and catches the ball.

 

[Deeringfish]

That could have been intercepted

 

[TheC]

Run the damn ball Lujan!

 

[AdamOnFirst]

More red zone suck

 

[HawkCat]

Well, that was miserable. Our red zone O is atrocious.

 

[TheC]

More red zone suck

More WR suck. No quickness to get open in redzone

 

[SDakaGordie]

Can’t overcome penalties.

 

[corbi296]

That was Stone’s best quarter of the season by far. Let’s hope he can keep it up.

 

[ParisCat_rivals]

Can’t overcome penalties.

7 first quarter penalties on NU. Can’t happen.

 

[Deeringfish]

I don't understand the total red zone ineptitude when they run so well outside of the twenty.

 

[eddie_gocats]

F*

 

[TheC]

There goes all the momentum

 

[HawkCat]

Freaking special teams again!

 

[Deeringfish]

R U kidding me

 

[bringbacktherantboard]

Damn.

 

[corbi296]

7 first quarter penalties on NU. Can’t happen.

Agree but also some BS calls and non calls. That was a clear defensive pass interference on the 3rd down play in the red zone. The DB pushed Ricky before the ball got there so that he had no room to come down inbounds. The holding call on Tiernan was also complete BS..

 

[eddie_gocats]

Last week they were kicking it into the endzone…WTH!

 

[Deeringfish]

Why don't they just kick into the end zone every time

 

[ParisCat_rivals]

The wind is blowing out. Kick the ball out of the damn end zone.

 

[Fanaticat98]

Unbelievable. What are we doing this week? Every kickoff in Wrigley last week was a touchback. So bad. We had a chance to really step on their throat by getting another stop and now in one play they have all the momentum and are about to score.

 

[AdamOnFirst]

This is the kind of BS that put them back in the game while getting whipped vs Purdue, Rutgers, and MSU

 

[WestCoastWildcat]

Red zone offense fails again after long drive fueled by many defensive pass interference calls. Drive killer was the 15 yd offensive pass interference call. Poor coverage on the kick return letting Minnie back in the gsme after being dominated.

 

[Fanaticat98]

End of the last drive plus the kickoff is a really bad turning point we better not let this go the other way. We went from a back breaking several minute drive down to the 3, about to go up 2 TDs, then we get 15 yard + 5 yard penalties and settle for a FG immediately followed by giving up a 90 yard kick return.

 

[Cool Cat]

They won't score

 

[SDakaGordie]

Hitting the ground and having control of the ball are incompatible.

 

[Fanaticat98]

We're screwed if this is a close game. This is what they did against those other low tier B1G teams. We needed to stomp them. Meaning we need to score TDs when we're inside the 5. We are so inept at that it's crazy and it has lost us games.

 

[TheC]

How does no one account for the running back??

 

[AdamOnFirst]

A whole quarter of domination squandered

 

[SDakaGordie]

Brus gets beat a lot!

 

[eddie_gocats]

Why can’t we do that when we get near the end zone…

 

[cat inkansas]

How does no one account for the running back??

I saw that coming.

 

[jensberg]

We have 150 yards of offense and they have 10 and it's almost an equal game!

 

[Cool Cat]

Stone is playing well but we need to run the ball primarily.

 

[DaCat]

So frustrated with the kickoff team

 

[TheC]

4 yards a pop. Just keep running!

 

[AdamOnFirst]

get into the red zone, commit a horrible penalty. JFC

 

[TheC]

Redzone Blues

 

[AdamOnFirst]

Stone is dealing and you take him off the field for a play that Boe DOESNT EVEN READ RIGHT

Using Boe when he can’t even run the read right is POIBTLESS

 

[SDakaGordie]

Boe makes the wrong read!

 

[HawkCat]

Why the Boe package again? It never works!