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There is a psychological effect of others feeling the need to pick up the slack when the best players go down. We need our possession receivers Lowe, Perry and Bryant to show up, and our TE Johnson.

That's quite the list. Sounds like we attacked the bye week and it attacked us back.

I watched the Indiana vs. Iowa game highlights this morning. Iowa's front 7 is fast and gets really skinny to get between the offensive linemen. We absolutely shouldn't be be handing the ball off to an RB on 3rd or 4th and short. I'm not feeling very good about our chances to put up points on offense unless Moore can get in a rhythm and pick apart their secondary to open up the box.

When points are hard to come by special teams and turnovers make all the difference, so it's a real crapshoot to be honest. Oregon 23-20 1 TO 1 sack 168 yards passing

It definitely makes sense for Fisch to punch out and for JS to backfill him.

Great feedback everyone. I think we are all of a similar mindset here. Hopefully this is a great minds think a like situation and Dan the man has some answers with Will, Dante and the rest of the Offense.

I think it's no turnovers on downs. Giving Iowa a short field is playing into their hands. Our punter is a stud. Let's give them a taste of their own medicine of a long field by punting on every fourth down outside of field goal range. Make them fight our defense the length of the field. We can't afford to hand the ball off to Whittington straight ahead on the first few drives for 2 yards a carry. Give him a wheel route, or other outlet routes if we think we can pass early. If we want to run straight ahead, it has to be Davidson or Harris. And don't keep doing it into a loaded box. If we find something that works early run it again and again until they stop it. I don't care if we are just getting 4 yards per bubble screen, keep doing it. Get them chasing our scheme instead of us running away from theirs. I'm so sick of us trying to challenge every blade of grass and seeing a defender beat us to it. I really want to see Stein and Moore evolve beyond their predictable weaknesses that defenses keep attacking. WRs need to learn how to maximize open space in zones and show their numbers, raise their arm to Dante so he is comfortable with making the throws then they truly are open. We're young and our weaknesses have been obvious. Let's hope we really took advantage of the bye week and come out with some answers to these tough defenses.

I think it has to be making them beat us through the air. Corners man up playing slight soft, with single high safety at most, and load the freaking box. Nothing wrong with 4 down linemen 3 LBs a nickel and Thienman peaking over the LBs shoulder attacking the run or spying Gronowski. Seriously, if B1G teams want to play low brow I'm gonna run it and your going to have to stop me then let's trust that is what they will do, and commit to stopping it. Death by 1000 cuts of 3.5 yards and a pile of mud is no way to die.

If Dante was dominating every game and bored out of his mind, MAYBE he goes. The reality is Dante is playing the long game. He sat for a year to get better already, and sees Uber experienced Bo and Dylan starting in the NFL while Shadeur rides the pine. The only thing that could make him think twice at this point is if Will leaves and he can't stand his replacement.

Yeah. It's not exactly the most probable outcome, but there is definitely a world where Dan and Will discuss this contingency during game prep. I'm shocked that people here still think Brock is some kind of charity case and not our actual #2 QB, at least in bad weather. Does anyone actually think Moore played better than Brock against Wisconsin? I think it was close. We scored twice as many points with Brock in the same amount of game time. Does Dante handle those bad snaps that Brock handled? Dante's advantage over Brock is only the arm talent. But if it's pouring buckets and windy and the arm talent is neutralized, and if Dante is rattled, then he isn't making efficient split second decisions.

Scenario this Saturday: Cold and rainy again. Dante Moore has been Mr Happy Feet unable to see open receivers, and has taken 4 sacks on the first 4 possessions. Does Brock come in?

That's alright. Will is really good, but there will always be others.

Our OLine has to come out road grading. I think they are the biggest offender of slow starts on the entire team and it hurts when we can't run the ball early. At the same time Will can't wait until almost halftime to figure out Iowa is loading the box. That's why you run scripted plays for the first 2 series to see their game plan for a variety of our looks. First team to 27 wins.

Maybe Miami has a real epiphany that it is an improvement to go from "I lose games I shouldn't" Mario to "I lose the games I should" Franklin. Nah, they think they should be winning Natty's.

Yeah the odds of getting shut down 3 or 4 plays in a row is really high against great defenses, and Moore can't be expected to be as efficient as Nix and Gabriel were. The only alternative is to air it out more. I get it he hasn't had time at times, but a lot of times he has time, he just doesn't like what he sees and gets happy feet into scramble mode and goes down. If you get a one on one, don't stare them down, but do look off the safety, then huck the ball with some air under it and have our WRs go get it.