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  1. JosephC
    Had a Bear fan at work getting awfully mouthy today. I could only take that as a near guarantee that the Bears are in for a beatdown on Friday.
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    OT-Brady Bekkenhuis flipped from Boston College to Wisconsin. CB-Julian Peterson committed to North Carolina.
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    Sorry if this has been brought up, it probably has, but I'm too lazy to look through the previous pages. Snap counts on offense against the Vikings- John FitzPatrick = 40 Josh Whyle = 27 Luke Musgrave = 25
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    Doesn't seem likely that any recruits would flip back. I'd guess they are still working hard on offensive lineman Maddox Cochrane, who decommitted without having any other team lined up (he is from Richmond, VA and reportedly wants to play closer to home). One of 247's reporters is projecting Louisville, KY linebacker Karsten Busch to Wisconsin. 3-star, #38 LB prospect in class. There is a JUCO linebacker that is visiting named Taylor Schaefer. He is from Brussels, WI and has been playing at Iowa Central Community College. There are also 2 CBs on the radar, Julian Peterson (Atco, NJ) and Azel Banag (Columbia, SC). People were all hot on Peterson prior to the entire city of Madison losing all interest in Badger football, so he was a coveted guy at one point. Banag seemed like a fall-back option, but he recently got an offer from Oregon.. The 85 scholarship limit may be gone, but it's still a good baseline to use as to where the team is at. I think the Badgers are currently 10 under, which is a big number at this point, as that number will grow with guys transferring out. Only having 13 high schooler committed at this point has to be considered a major disappointment. Fickell must do better in bringing in higher quality transfers.
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    The Gophers are a 1 1/2 point favorite as I type this. So it's basically a pick 'em. Wisconsin has been playing better than Minnesota lately. Two games ago the Gophers got torched by Oregon and then lost to Northwestern this last weekend. Looking at the schedule, Minnesota only has one good victory, a 24-6 home win against Nebraska. The problem with thinking that Wisconsin should have an "easier" game this weekend is that Wisconsin have 4 road games this year and have lost all 4 of those road games by at least 14 points. Now it has to be pointed out that those games were against Alabama, Michigan, Oregon and Indiana...so even if Wisconsin had a good team those games were likely going to be losses. Wisconsin as a road team is still a complete unknown when playing a ~.500 Big 10 team like Minnesota. I felt there was a good chance that Illinois would come into last week's game flat since they were ranked but really had no chance of finishing better than 6th in the Big 10. Minnesota is 4-4. A win for them means they are a winning Big 10 team, a loss for them means they are a losing Big 10 team. I have the feeling we will see their best effort this weekend.
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    Shedeur Sanders, can't say I'm overly impressed. Only two passes completed more than 10 yards down the field, and one of those guys was wide open. There wasn't a single completion from the pocket that was completed more than 10 yards down the field. One terrible INT mixed in there. In summary, one nice throw to Bonds and one terrible interception and the rest was really pedestrian stuff. But hey, he's a QB...the defense that posted 10 sacks had little to nothing to do with winning the game. I should look at the bright side, his QB rating is all the way up to 52.5. The following link is video of all the pass attempts in the Raiders game.
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    I gave the Badgers credit after the Washington game. I gave some thought before replying to this post, looked at the Badgers 2-6 record in the Big 10, and decided I would rather just criticize Illinois and Bert and leave it at that. Sorry.
  8. JosephC
    Have to give Bert credit for that win against USC....but looking at the rest of the schedule....pretty questionable that they were a ranked team coming into this game. Well they certainly won't be ranked after this performance.
  9. JosephC
    Here is a brief interview with Ted Kellner. When it comes to donors and supporters of the athletic department, Kellner is high up on the list. If you are completely uninterested in stupid sports radio talk, you can skip to the 2:30 mark. I found the 4:24 mark to be very interesting. "I think Chris' recommendation was the right recommendation."
  10. JosephC
    Two more decommits for Wisconsin over the last couple days, bringing the total to 3 this month. Aden Reeder, a linebacker from Cincinnati, decommitted in the first week of November. This week offensive linemen Maddox Cochrane (Richmond, VA) and Benjamin Novak (Merrillville, IN) have decommitted. Reeder is now a Michigan commit and Novak is an Indiana commit. The Badgers did get a running back commit, Qwantavius Wiggins (Fairburn, GA) who flipped from Florida International. On the surface, losing guys to Michigan and Indiana and picking up guys from Florida International is not real encouraging.
  11. JosephC
    How many people remember Gary Cuozzo? As I type this, Carson Wentz has attempted 29 more passes than J.J. McCarthy for the Vikings in 2025. As Wentz is out for the year, McCarthy will finish the season with the most pass attempts if he can survive for two more games (maybe just one more game). McCarthy's passer rating is 61.7. That is bad. It's much worse than most people realize. The last time the Vikings had a QB, who had attempted the most passes that season, with a lower passer rating than 61.7 was 1971. That was Gary Cuozzo, who finished the season with a QB rating of 52.2 (largely due to a 44.6 completion percentage). In 1971, there were 21 QBs that had enough attempts to qualify, and the median QB rating of those 21 players was 67.1 (Pete Liske - Philadelphia). In 2025, Pro Football Reference has 35 QBs listed, and the median number of those 35 players is 93.5 (Jaxson Dart). McCarthy has only started 5 games, so I would agree that it's still way too early to tell, but so far it has not been good. McCarthy has a far, far better supporting cast than Dillon Gabriel, and Gabriel has posted an 80.8 QB rating in his first 6 starts.
  12. JosephC
    FitzPatrick and Whyle both had more snaps on offense than Musgrave. Talk is cheap, LaFleur can say what he wants to say, but Whyle getting more snaps speaks volumes. From what people have told me about Musgrave...I just don't think the guy is a tight end. He may have tight end dimensions, but he really is a wide receiver stuck in that body.
  13. JosephC
    The Franklin hire seems like a great fit for both side. Franklin likely has a huge recruiting net, but going from Vandy to Penn State to Virginia Tech, he's staying in the region where the roots are probably the deepest. Virginia Tech hasn't been able to recapture that Beamer magic, Franklin should put them back in 9+ win territory year-in and year-out. So Kotelnicki went from hot Badger head coaching prospect to nothing when Franklin got fired. I wonder if Franklin will hire him at Virginia Tech, because there is little to no chance the next Penn State coach keeps him. If Kotelnicki does not go to Virginia Tech, I have to wonder about the chances of him being Wisconsin's offensive coordinator next year. The Badgers have scored a pitiful total of 47 points in 7 Big 10 games. Grimes got stuck in a bad spot and definitely does not deserve all the blame for that, but it's hard seeing him surviving. Kotelnicki is definitely a guy who should get an interview if Grimes is out.
  14. JosephC
    It won't stop ESPN talking about him continuously over the next week.
  15. JosephC
    Aaron Banks = NIR - Vet Rest Since they don't say "back" or "knee" and instead use "vet rest," does that mean the play has been so atrocious that they can't figure out if they want to put him on the field or not (and that included the practice field)? Gutekunst's batting averages in free agency- 2024 = 1.000 2025 = .000
  16. JosephC
    Can't really say it's a great day for the defense when the opposing QB goes 22-24 for 299 yard with 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions. Nice that they had 5 sacks, but for the most part it sure looks like Indiana did pretty much whatever it wanted to do in the passing game. Illinois with a solid home lead of 24-6 versus Maryland with only 3+ minutes left. Normally one would look at Illinois, and if they can run the rest of the schedule they would finish 9-3 with a 6-3 record in the Big 10...really giving them something to play for in the Wisconsin game. But with 5 Big 10 teams already having 6 wins, chances look pretty decent that the best Illinois can do is 6th place, so maybe the Badgers get lucky and Illinois comes in undermotivated. Penn State finally wins a Big 10 game. Michigan State likely gets stomped by Iowa next, but they have Maryland at home in the final game, so maybe they can win that one.
  17. JosephC
    There goes 3 of Wisconsin's 5 points. New predication = Indiana 43, Wisconsin 2.
  18. JosephC
    LOL, I think you missed a digit on the IU side. Putting a 4 in front of IU's 3 seems like a pretty good prediction to me.
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  20. JosephC
    The "Deer District" was such a success that all those dumb-dumbs in the city of Milwaukee get to pay an extra 2% sales tax and all those dumb-dumbs in Milwaukee county get to pay an extra 0.4% sales tax on top of the 0.5% they were already paying. But look out....just think of all that huge tax revenue that will be generated by all these $10 an hour retail and short-order cook jobs! After all, this will be a year-round destination now, and people from Dallas will be pining to trudge around in the Wisconsin snow in the middle of January for the experience of shopping the American Family Field stadium district. Wow. At least Attanasio will make boatloads of money, as he will need it to push the team's opening day payroll to 120 million (which is was in 2019).
  21. JosephC
    Back to reality. ESPN has an article up regarding Mike Locksley's (Maryland) job security (or lack of). I remember saying back in September that we really don't know how good Maryland is or isn't. They beat the Badgers, but Locksley has always been able to recruit, so perhaps this would be the break-through year for them. Since beating Wisconsin, Maryland has gone...Washington = loss, Nebraska = loss, UCLA = loss, Indiana = loss, Rutgers = loss. They've lost every game since the Wisconsin game. The further we get away from the Washington win, the more and more unbelievable it seems. Between Wisconsin, Maryland, Purdue (probably the worst of all), Michigan State and Penn State, the Big 10 seems to have a record number of crappy teams. Sure, with expansion that number was going to go up...but having 5 of them seems to be a real high number. Indiana is currently a 29 point favorite. They had the nail-biter last week against Penn State, but the two games prior to that were a 45 point win against Maryland and a 50 point win against UCLA. At home, their closest game was against Old Dominion, which they won 27-14. Against Big 10 competition, their smallest margin of victory in a home game this year has been 25.
  22. JosephC
    If that is the typical performance from #77 and #88, Walter Payton wouldn't be getting many yards with those two guys on the field.
  23. JosephC
    I post on another board where, I would guess, about 30% of the people who post live in New York, although they are mostly Jets fans. Last year they were talking a lot about the Giants and them being on the HBO show. In there there was a lot on Barkley and the Giants decision to not re-sign him, From what I saw, and I didn't sit there and watch full episodes, it left me with a really bad impression. That got much worse a few months later when I was messing around on overthecap, and couldn't help but notice that Barkley had something like a 3.8 million dollar cap hit while playing with the Eagles, and the Giants had Drew Lock on their roster with a cap hit of 5 million. Now I know how NFL contract work, and the year one cap number is going to be the lowest number, and it is going to go up dramatically from there. But when a team moves on from Barkley and instead has a 1-year backup QB that has a higher cap number...that is not only a bad look, but that is just stupid. Schoen was hired by the Giants on January 21, 2022...so he was in charge the entire 2022 off-season, so he legitimately owns everything from 2022 forward. The Giants were 4-13 in 2021, and under Schoen they've gone from 9-7-1 to 6-11 to 3-14 to 2-8....total for the 3+ seasons is 20-40-1. I can't imagine a scenario where a firing is more deserved.
  24. JosephC
    If Policy does make a move, I think it's much more likely that he would fire all three of Gutekunst, LaFleur and Ball then rather just pick out the head coach and fire him. I've always had a hard time figuring out how the powers-that-be in the sporting world can pick out a person and scapegoat them when their performance is so reliant on the performance of other people around them. Take the Giants as an example. Why fire the head coach now when it is so obvious the GM owns just as much responsibility for the sorry performance of that team? To me the obvious move is to wait until the end of the season and just get rid of everybody. Not saying that should happen in Green Bay. They are 2 games above .500 with plenty of season left to play. But with the Giants, I just don't see why one guy gets scapegoated now when the entire organization needs to be overhauled.
  25. JosephC
    I'm not going to go back through all the Packer threads to see if this has already been posted. A "deep-fake" video that should go down as a classic!
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