Illinois - What Did We Learn

BoSolich said:
Haarberg has only had 3 starts vs sims 30 starts, and he's equally good as him at the very least. you have to keep getting Haarberg reps and assume he's going to be the starter next year. Sims couldn't even beat minnesota or put up any points against a horrible colorado defense.
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… Sims had the long TD run against Colorado. Hard to call HH equally “good” after the past two weeks. Coin toss at best

 
Our coaches absolutely have to dig deep to eliminate the false starts. Figure out where the root cause is, whatever it might be.

I will say, Satterfield dialed up the jet sweep to Kemp on a couple plays where we needed it so badly. There's good stuff happening, but we still look like we're playing so scared to fail on offense.

Scattered thoughts here obviously...but again, just so criminal to not get the ball to Fidone more. The guy is truly a freak of nature out there. His ceiling is extremely high.

 
Definitely learned we need to start recruiting top tier running backs again and revolving the offense around them. We seem to be good at going into the portal and picking up wr

 
Undone said:
Our coaches absolutely have to dig deep to eliminate the false starts. Figure out where the root cause is, whatever it might be.

I will say, Satterfield dialed up the jet sweep to Kemp on a couple plays where we needed it so badly. There's good stuff happening, but we still look like we're playing so scared to fail on offense.

Scattered thoughts here obviously...but again, just so criminal to not get the ball to Fidone more. The guy is truly a freak of nature out there. His ceiling is extremely high.
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Listen to what Rhule said about the Illinois players yelling the same calls we use for the O linemen and causing them to lift up to hear the new call. Thats what he was talking to the refs about in the 4th qtr. Not saying our O line are world beaters but this isn't all on them.

 
Numerous times tonight we were in short second down which is a perfect time to take shot on their defense (some of those times we were even in the IL territory)…Instead, the coaches chose not take a shot, which really hamstrung HH. If Sims were in, I feel as though they would have taken the kill shot. It feels like they are really trying to make HH prove he should be starter. If Sims is in, I feel they would have taken the shots to prove they were “right”. Hope I’m wrong but don’t want the coaches’ ego to  interfere with offensive aggressiveness. HH passes weren’t any worse or better from what I’ve seen from Sims…except for HH has less turnovers which is the most crucial aspect of the game from a QB standpoint. And before I get the comment that some passes should have been picked off, guess what they weren’t so that commentary sucks. Also, I don’t live in Nebraska nor did I watch HH in high school so there is no bias in that respect. 

 
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I'm shocked at the people wanting sims to play. there's a 4 year track record of him sucking. Haarberg is winning games even with half the offense injured. 

need to get a legitimate wide receiver and running back in the portal and this offense could look a whole lot better next year.

 
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Undone said:
Our coaches absolutely have to dig deep to eliminate the false starts. Figure out where the root cause is, whatever it might be.

I will say, Satterfield dialed up the jet sweep to Kemp on a couple plays where we needed it so badly. There's good stuff happening, but we still look like we're playing so scared to fail on offense.

Scattered thoughts here obviously...but again, just so criminal to not get the ball to Fidone more. The guy is truly a freak of nature out there. His ceiling is extremely high.
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I was never sold on the Satt hire and the offense is pretty painful to watch right now but I’m actually going to give him some credit. The fact is we do not have the players to run the offense he wants to run. To his credit I think he is trying to find plays to use the personnel he has now even though that style of football is not his forte. In addition, there have been some nice play calls ruined by bad execution on the players part. I know “execution” is a tired old trope but I also think it’s true in this case. As far as the two minute drill at the end of the half, I have no problem being aggressive there. At some point, if you are going to be in the position to need to move down the field quickly. No issue with trying for points there

 
We won. I don’t care how ugly it was. 
defense stepped up…period. 
Teddy needs to stay in the bench. 
Bielema needs Wegovy. 
 

GBR!

 
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