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Topic: Wisconsin (0-2, 2-3) at #20 Michigan (2-0, 4-1) Postgame

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847badgerfan

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Re: Wisconsin (0-1, 2-2) at #20 Michigan (1-0, 3-1) Game Week
« Reply #28 on: October 01, 2025, 11:50:31 AM »
I'm ready for a full-blown youth movement, but the staff won't do that.

They tried to rush the QB back for Maryland, and he got hurt again - and more. Now he's out for this one and who knows how much longer.

The backup has been bad and now he's gun shy.

When they go 0-October, maybe the youth movement will start.
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Re: Wisconsin (0-1, 2-2) at #20 Michigan (1-0, 3-1) Game Week
« Reply #29 on: October 01, 2025, 11:54:18 AM »
I'm ready for a full-blown youth movement, but the staff won't do that.

They tried to rush the QB back for Maryland, and he got hurt again - and more. Now he's out for this one and who knows how much longer.

The backup has been bad and now he's gun shy.

When they go 0-October, maybe the youth movement will start.
is the back-up QB mobile at all and how is the Wisconsin OL vs the pass rush? Michigan has some hellacious pass rushers in Jaishawn Barham and Derrick Moore.

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Re: Wisconsin (0-1, 2-2) at #20 Michigan (1-0, 3-1) Game Week
« Reply #30 on: October 01, 2025, 12:01:16 PM »
Wisconsin cannot protect their quarterback...at all. Seriously, I'm not sure I've seen two plays where the QB has dropped back to pass and sat in a pocket with time to make more than two reads. It's brutal. O'Neil is reasonably mobile, but not enough that he can make up for not having any kind of help at left tackle, right tackle, or a center with whom he can't regularly make clean exchanges.

It's probably a pay-walled article, but all you need is the title from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin football is allowing sacks at alarming pace in 2025.


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Re: Wisconsin (0-1, 2-2) at #20 Michigan (1-0, 3-1) Game Week
« Reply #32 on: October 01, 2025, 12:05:02 PM »
is the back-up QB mobile at all and how is the Wisconsin OL vs the pass rush? Michigan has some hellacious pass rushers in Jaishawn Barham and Derrick Moore.
Wisconsin better travel with all 5 of their QB's because they're gonna need them.
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Re: Wisconsin (0-1, 2-2) at #20 Michigan (1-0, 3-1) Game Week
« Reply #33 on: October 01, 2025, 12:09:33 PM »
Offensively, if Wisconsin will have any hope, they will need to run a lot of misdirection, just to slow Michigan's front down. But so far that hasn't worked especially well. And, because they will need to sustain long, slow drives--because O'Neil (or whomever) won't have time for downfield passes--they need to cut out the stupid mistakes: failed snaps, O-line penalties, dropped passes, sacks that could have been avoided with throwing the ball away. All things they have not proven capable of.

It's that latter stuff that was so glaring in the Maryland game. Every time the Badgers started to do anything remotely good on offense, they would crap their pants with a snap over the head, or a false start, or a stupid sack, or a holding, or a dropped pass, or...or...or...(even a blocked field goal when they actually had a chance for points). It was brutal. And that was at home, in the first half, before the crowd turned on them. How do you think they will do in the Big House, with a much better defense lined up on the other side?

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Re: Wisconsin (0-1, 2-2) at #20 Michigan (1-0, 3-1) Game Week
« Reply #34 on: October 01, 2025, 12:10:53 PM »
I'm going boating if the weather allows.
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Re: Wisconsin (0-1, 2-2) at #20 Michigan (1-0, 3-1) Game Week
« Reply #35 on: October 01, 2025, 12:18:35 PM »
advanced stats predicting a 30-14 (rounding down) game with Michigan having a 76.5% win probability.

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Re: Wisconsin (0-1, 2-2) at #20 Michigan (1-0, 3-1) Game Week
« Reply #36 on: October 01, 2025, 12:20:48 PM »
Wisconsin is averaging 12 points (most in garbage time) against P4 opponents.

They are not getting 14 points this weekend unless the D or ST score points (doubtful).
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Re: Wisconsin (0-1, 2-2) at #20 Michigan (1-0, 3-1) Game Week
« Reply #38 on: October 01, 2025, 01:09:09 PM »
I have this as 41-10, Michigan. Five touchdowns, two field goals, and a partridge in a pear tree. Wisconsin scores its touchdown one of two ways: a turnover that results in a very short field, or garbage time.

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Re: Wisconsin (0-1, 2-2) at #20 Michigan (1-0, 3-1) Game Week
« Reply #39 on: October 01, 2025, 01:36:27 PM »
Will Wisconsin still have a playable QB when garbage time hits? Or are we thinking direct snaps to the RB's?
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Re: Wisconsin (0-1, 2-2) at #20 Michigan (1-0, 3-1) Game Week
« Reply #40 on: October 01, 2025, 01:39:28 PM »
I'm just keeping my (bad) options open.

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Re: Wisconsin (0-1, 2-2) at #20 Michigan (1-0, 3-1) Game Week
« Reply #41 on: October 01, 2025, 01:45:24 PM »

https://twitter.com/BriceMarich/status/1973423561550471236


DC Wink Martindale is excited for where the defense is heading out of the bye week. So am I Wink. So am I. True frosh CB Jayden Sanders showed a lot in his start vs Nebraska, have to be excited about his future. Veteran free safety Rod Moore got 21 snaps (out of 75 total) vs Nebraska and should get more snaps vs Wisconsin coming off the bye week. Starting CB Zeke Berry should be back this week as well. 


 

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