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Gotta give William credit on that challenge. That thing had wicked movement.

Joey O!

Payne and Zyhir Hope on the same team. Will be an interesting comparison, even if a small-ish sample.

He only gets outscored 24-3 after the 1st quarter. Calls screen passes on 3rd and 15 though.

FWIW, Minnesota only drew 48,048 for their game against Mississippi State. Capacity is over 50K, so they had over 2,000 empty seats. Looked like more than that.

Check for Hochuli having pseudonyms on Kalshi

So, what should he have called with one yard to go?

I think that counts as "crucial".

Bo Melton taking some of that off-season criticism personally.

CJ was banged up after the ND game, couldn't go in practice on Tuesday, didn't do much of any downfield throwing during the week. They deliberately limited his carries. Have a feeling that once Mandell is ready to go we'll see a change at LT.

$26.5M signing bonus. Likely the only guarantees, but it's the highest signing bonus ever for a TE.

If we were all judged by our worst moments...

They were without 4 of their 7-8 best players. And the player who cost them the first game is gone. Just saying.

Actually somewhat relevant due to the time zone differences. 6:20PM start in Seattle is a 9:20PM start in Boston.

Don't you think that they tried and that the Cardinals said no? Why would they include him if they didn't have to?

For some reason the Patriots decided not to cover JSN on 4th down. And they were in the Super Bowl last year. It happens outside of GB too.

In the class of 2021, three players made it to the NFL - Mbow, Allen, Wohler. The #1 ranked player hardly ever saw the field at UW. Adebogun quit football, Crawford got kicked out, Acker was meh. Nobody else rings a bell. Some top talent, but no depth. In the class of 2022, Schrauth made the NFL and Hinzman likely will (they signed in 2021 and enrolled in 2022, so that's on Chryst). Brunner is decent, but hasn't even made honorable mention all conference. Hamm went AWOL/personal issues, Nelson has been hurt, Burkett couldn't throw the ball downfield. Much was made about missing on Cross, but he never developed into anything and left Penn State. Caught one pass for Memphis last year. Some top talent, but no depth. 2023 - oof. Self-explanatory 2024 - Sexton played on special teams last year, didn't start the opener this year. Harbour played his first game last week, didn't start. Corey Smith was 4th string at Penn State and transferred to Toledo. Roy is starting at LT for the Goofs, but he didn't grow up in WI and moved there in high school; there was no emotional connection to UW. Fickell put the full court press on him for six months and almost pulled him in, but the relationship with PJ had already been developed under Chryst's nose. Jensen entered the portal a second time this year and I can't even find where he is; he may have quit football. Gilbert switched to DL and has gotten some playing time. Booker retired for injury reasons. Pilof may have gotten in some hot water in HS from what I heard, UW may have pulled their offer. Liebfried is a backup at Indiana seeing garbage time. Hoitink played on special teams at Stanford last year. Interesting that the only one who is doing well is perhaps the one Fickell tried the hardest to get. Anything more recent is too soon to tell.

Eichorst has shown that he's not afraid to make changes if they're not "winning the games that matter" (although Nebraska did state that Pelini was fired for "a pattern of unprofessional, disrespectful behavior toward players, fans and Nebraska employees (caution - strong language)"). The question is if the university is willing to put up the funds.

And Bunty keeping the tag on Suzuki while he over slid the base

Narrator: "They did."

SUCK IT, COUNSELL!!

Gentle reminder that they lost to Minnesota in 2022 and 2021 (as a ranked team). They were already worse than Minnesota when Fickell was hired. (And they lost to Iowa in 2022 and 2020.)

Which rarely happens in the playoffs. Unless a pitcher is dominating, it's almost always a max of 2x through the order and then to the bullpen.

They still would have needed to go to the portal for those tough OL, and DL. Chryst left them nothing at those two positions. Hardly any recruits at those positions in his last 3 years. 3 scholarship DL in Chryst's last 3 recruiting classes, two of whom weren't good enough to see the field (Jarvis, Howard). 6 scholarship OL in Chryst's last 3 years, 3 of whom never or hardly ever saw the field (Benzschawel, Nelson, Durand). And if they're not putting a lot into the portal, like they weren't... those tough OL/DL weren't coming here. Nevermind, still needing a QB. Cole LaCrue, Myles Burkett, and Marshall Howe weren't going to lead them to many wins. I think there's a bit of revisionist history with Longo. They were 5-4 in conference in 2023 when they had a somewhat healthy QB1, but that 5-4 included going 1-3 in games where Locke started or played most of the game. Longo was by no means great, but if I'm ranking worst OCs post-Morton, I have Joe Rudolph and Bobby Engram ahead of him.

And none of those things made a damn bit of difference in the outcome of the game. Mountains vs molehills.