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The Good the bad and the Ugly Maryland edition.

Huskerthom

Huskerthom

All Big 10
10 Year Member
It was the worst of half it was the best of half.

The Good The D in the second half. The D played shut down football the second half. Just an amazing effort against some talent on the other side. Calandreas legs pretty much held up the offense on a night we needed it.

The bad: I know i will get some pushback on this but our D gave up way too much in the forst half. The one WR had over 100 yards ib the first qtr. Our first half plus the third qtr passing game. Through the first 3 qtrs. AC was off on his passes. First he was too high than he clearly made an adjustment and was too low.

The Ugly: Other than AC. our running game was pretty pitiful. Especially the first half. I think we ended with 14 penalties. We gotta clean that up. .
I said it last week. I will take an ugly win over a pretty loss.
 
Huskerthom said:
It was the worst of half it was the best of half.

The Good The D in the second half. The D played shut down football the second half. Just an amazing effort against some talent on the other side. Calandreas legs pretty much held up the offense on a night we needed it.

The bad: I know i will get some pushback on this but our D gave up way too much in the forst half. The one WR had over 100 yards ib the first qtr. Our first half plus the third qtr passing game. Through the first 3 qtrs. AC was off on his passes. First he was too high than he clearly made an adjustment and was too low.

The Ugly: Other than AC. our running game was pretty pitiful. Especially the first half. I think we ended with 14 penalties. We gotta clean that up. .
I said it last week. I will take an ugly win over a pretty loss.
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I would say that the defensive coaching staff should be included in your good along with the players.
 
Why are 2 of your categories negative? Bad and ugly…. We all saw that. But the good was good and beautiful! The opposite of ugly…anyway, was an enjoyable day after a confounding and ugly start!!!
 
The little breakdowns on D in the first half were tough to see, like the missed INT by Benning that led to a score. It was great to see the Blackshirts really step up in the 2nd half.

You could tell Gilmer and Collandrea were frustrated by some of the errant throws. If Collandrea can improve his accuracy, lookout!
 
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The Fountainhead said:
Why are 2 of your categories negative? Bad and ugly…. We all saw that. But the good was good and beautiful! The opposite of ugly…anyway, was an enjoyable day after a confounding and ugly start!!!
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Probably inspired by the classic t-shirt back in the day.

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My thoughts on those points:

1. 2nd half D was very good … agreed. I thought Maryland didn’t execute very well at times, I also thought they hurt us when they played tempo in H1 and wondered why they didn’t go back.

2. I thought Maryland hurt us with a couple of explosive plays … long passes and runs. Stop them, or tackle better and they don’t get anywhere near the success they had.

3. I’m convinced Rule is our best RB and hopefully keeping him out was preventative for IU than anything. I believe opposing LBs are having success filling gaps. Which means our Guards/Center are not getting to the second level enough. I also wish we’d run more misdirection instead of straight power.
 
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