Wisconsin Postgame

NorthDakota

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Just want to give a very high level thought - despite their struggles of late, Wisconsin has mucked it up for great teams repeatedly over the past few seasons. They scared Oregon twice and suffocated IU's run game last year. They are a functioning offense away from being a top 20 team. With the way Michigan looked on Saturday, I could see Wisconsin being a fringe top 5 Big Ten team at year's end. Fickell and Dressel are still great defensive minds.

Wisconsin is one of those teams (along with Iowa, Pitt, and I'm certainly missing some) that will randomly show up and give you a game

Don't worry though, they'll go out the next week and lose to (insert team ND beat by 35).
 
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I hadn't really noticed it until Dale posted re. Carr's preference on throws not being friendly to the slot, but re-watching the game and some from last year, you can see it (in the limited, I really don't know the game as well as other's type of way). I think lots have said it, but certainly no reason to stress over the WR room yet (1 game right?). I know there's time until he's back but I'm excited for Porter to get back and hopefully the game against Rice lends itself for some of the backup/younger guys to get PT and see what they can do. Everyone knows it: Talent is in that room, just have to see who can rise to the occasion and showcase it. Same thing with the RB room and the different types of backs we have. As the year goes on, I'm excited to see who ends up being those "dudes" on offense.
 

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Pate said ND was like boiling water. You don't put the pot on the stove, turn on the gas, and immediately complain that the stove is broken because the water isn't boiling yet.

Everyone knows it's going to boil eventually. It starts with a little bubble or two, then more, until it's a bubbling out of the pot. In other words, the first half doesn't matter because we don't keep half time scores, we keep game scores. Once ND was boiling there was nothing Wisconsin could do about it.
 

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Pate said ND was like boiling water. You don't put the pot on the stove, turn on the gas, and immediately complain that the stove is broken because the water isn't boiling yet.

Everyone knows it's going to boil eventually. It starts with a little bubble or two, then more, until it's a bubbling out of the pot. In other words, the first half doesn't matter because we don't keep half time scores, we keep game scores. Once ND was boiling there was nothing Wisconsin could do about it.

Pate just taking the phrase "crockpot game" and turning it into a five minute long analogy.
 

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I hadn't really noticed it until Dale posted re. Carr's preference on throws not being friendly to the slot, but re-watching the game and some from last year, you can see it (in the limited, I really don't know the game as well as other's type of way). I think lots have said it, but certainly no reason to stress over the WR room yet (1 game right?). I know there's time until he's back but I'm excited for Porter to get back and hopefully the game against Rice lends itself for some of the backup/younger guys to get PT and see what they can do. Everyone knows it: Talent is in that room, just have to see who can rise to the occasion and showcase it. Same thing with the RB room and the different types of backs we have. As the year goes on, I'm excited to see who ends up being those "dudes" on offense.
There's a legitimate chance Porter doesn't play this year
 

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ND offensively this year is going to be methodical. Won't be sexy, especially since we don't have a game breaker. But will be absolutely efficient in my opinion. I expect us to continue to grow and improve over the course of the year like we always do.

You know what offense that sounds like?

ND in 2024.

I have full confidence in this team still.
 
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I was just watching the live MF press conference and it suddenly stopped. I got an error message that it was unavailable, and now I can't find it on YouTube, nor on the ND channel.

Anyone else watching this? Did it disappear for you as well?
 

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Why can’t Faison be a game breaker? Because he’s a former walk on and Lax player? Everything he showed on Sunday indicates he can absolutely be a dude. He was a missed throw away from a 5/110ish stat line.
 

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Why can’t Faison be a game breaker? Because he’s a former walk on and Lax player? Everything he showed on Sunday indicates he can absolutely be a dude. He was a missed throw away from a 5/110ish stat line.
I think he's great. When I say game breaker, I mean like a Toney, Will Fuller, Love, etc., who at any moment is going to take one to the house.

I bet Faison has a couple explosives this year. Greathouse/Graham probably will too. But they aren't 1st round NFL talents that you can expect to take it to the house on any given down.
 

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I do think there is as weird thing with the national coverage where Faison will force a missed tackle and it’s the gritty former lacrosse player versus when Toney, Craver, Branch etc do it it’s they are electric playmakers. Faison ranks near the top with a ton of NFL prospects/picks in various WR categories and it’s usually minimized

But in fairness, most of those guys you still would call a normal WR2 projecting to the NFL that you would pair with an alpha WR1 type.
 
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