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Wisconsin runs on 76% of it's standard first downs. They passed on 6/22 v. MSU. Don't be fooled. Chryst will come out having his Freshman QB, HorniBrook, firing away trying to do to M's D what CU did early. TE Fumagali will be the target for a few big chunk plays M's D is known to surrender while Brown figures out what to do about that.
On M's first possession, we'll see Wisconsin bringing heavy pressure trying to rattle Speigt and hit him a few times. That also worked for CU. Count on seeing that again. While ILB Beigle is gone, there's no shortage of back ups who haven't seen playing time.
Watch early to see how Grant Newsome and the entire left side of the OL holds up against DE TJ Watt and Wisky's Blitzkrieg approach with their LBs. Guaranteed Wisconsin will go hard to this side. We should all be hoping JH has some enticing constraints and feints to advantage M's offense v. that sort of thing.
The Harbaughoffense is going to have to use some trickeration in this game to move the chains. It's not going to run a whole lot between the tackles straight up although the edge of the Wisky D could be vulnerable with McDoom, Higdon et.al. doing their thing..... and that assumes the OL actually blocks some guys on those stretch plays.
It was mentioned earlier that Wisconsin seemed vulnerable to trap plays run by MSU. Cole will have to deal with NT Sagapoulu - a clone of the CU NT who gave Cole a lot of trouble just not quite as agile for that to work. I'm not optimistic.
My take is that those who have offered final scores for this game in the 24-13 range are missing the high likelihood that M's D and ST are going to score some points off Wisconsin errors. I also think there's going to be one big busted run play for the Wisky D because it is a high risk/high reward kind of D not a lot unlike Brown's. Still going with 17 points out of this sort of thing and a combined O/D/ST effort that scores 40+ points.
Wisconsin runs on 76% of it's standard first downs. They passed on 6/22 v. MSU. Don't be fooled. Chryst will come out having his Freshman QB, HorniBrook, firing away trying to do to M's D what CU did early. TE Fumagali will be the target for a few big chunk plays M's D is known to surrender while Brown figures out what to do about that.
On M's first possession, we'll see Wisconsin bringing heavy pressure trying to rattle Speigt and hit him a few times. That also worked for CU. Count on seeing that again. While ILB Beigle is gone, there's no shortage of back ups who haven't seen playing time.
Watch early to see how Grant Newsome and the entire left side of the OL holds up against DE TJ Watt and Wisky's Blitzkrieg approach with their LBs. Guaranteed Wisconsin will go hard to this side. We should all be hoping JH has some enticing constraints and feints to advantage M's offense v. that sort of thing.
The Harbaughoffense is going to have to use some trickeration in this game to move the chains. It's not going to run a whole lot between the tackles straight up although the edge of the Wisky D could be vulnerable with McDoom, Higdon et.al. doing their thing..... and that assumes the OL actually blocks some guys on those stretch plays.
It was mentioned earlier that Wisconsin seemed vulnerable to trap plays run by MSU. Cole will have to deal with NT Sagapoulu - a clone of the CU NT who gave Cole a lot of trouble just not quite as agile for that to work. I'm not optimistic.
My take is that those who have offered final scores for this game in the 24-13 range are missing the high likelihood that M's D and ST are going to score some points off Wisconsin errors. I also think there's going to be one big busted run play for the Wisky D because it is a high risk/high reward kind of D not a lot unlike Brown's. Still going with 17 points out of this sort of thing and a combined O/D/ST effort that scores 40+ points.
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