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Incredible concentration by Timeon!!!!

WTF!!!!

Great play call WTF was Thomas doing? You get into the end zone and don't look for the ball!?

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Redshirt freshman this year. King had playbook problems this spring/summer as well. Cameron is probably next guy up.

Unfortunately I think we are getting close to that breaking point...

I don't think that's CKW, I think that's Lagow not being able to comprehend the offense. We've had multiple holding penalties, inaccurate passes, that's not the fault of the playcalling. Should have had a TD on the wheel route.

How so?

Defense is playing really tough. On offense I think the play calling has been good but I think Lagow is struggling with the offensive playbook. He doesn't look confident out there presnap.

My pet peeve with the offense... tell those offensive linemen to react if the defense jumps into the neutral zone!!! Easy five yards!

No defending that one...

Offensive line is looking really rough.

Looks like running yards will be hard to come by...

That was a flop! I don't know how you call that if neither player extends their owns or pulls jersey.

BTN said Camiel had back surgery this week, no timetable on return.

CKW said Patrick is back at outside receiver.

31-27 IU

ND is about to finish paying out Weis's $18M buyout. Kelly signed a six year extension before this spring. I'd love to see their morally superior Catholic institution try to justify flushing another $15M+ down the drain. Father Jenkins said he was morally opposed to paying student athletes but had no problem wasting millions to send Charlie Weis's ass packing.

I think we've been all spoiled by Sudfeld the past three years. Welcome to life of having an average B1G QB. Having "a better option" is something 10/14 B1G teams would like. Even teams with four star recruits. The top B1G teams can get by with an average QB. For the lower tier teams like us, we need high level play from the position. This was Lagow's third game. There's no denying Lagow's talent. He has shown flashes of being a capable top tier B1G QB. He can make throws not many QBs can make. And that just doesn't require arm strength, but accuracy and timing too. Suds wasn't the most accurate QB but he was smart and consistent. Lagow just needs to learn from his mistakes and get better as the season goes on. Honestly, I could see Lagow as the type of guy who tears it up and gets us a win against a team like Michigan State, then throws multiple INTs against a team like Rutgers. He's a gun slinger. We might just have to live and die by that if the run game can't get going. Let's see what the kid can do.

Don't understand the five interceptions could have been seven at all. If you want to play the what if game take away 250 yards of passing because Lagow made throws most QBs can only dream of. On the INTs: You had two balls which should have been caught. You can say they were thrown two hard but both times the receiver got both hands on the ball. Both plays were quick slants where the QB has to put the ball where only the receiver can catch it. The Westbrook INT was more difficult a catch than the Timeon INT. IMO Timeon should have caught the slant for a TD, 14-0 Hoosiers. That was a drop... The INT on the duck to midfield, that was a tipped ball, Lagow was trying to hit Paige down the seam. That ball was not intended for Jones at midfield. We can fault Lagow for throwing the ball too hard, but he made some hella good throws. Those types of throws are the building blocks of CKW's offense. If our QB cannot do that, you will see an offense like the one against PSU last year: Anemic. The facts about Lagow: we knew all of this about him going in. He didn't have touch on short passes, he has a waste high hitch in his throwing motion on longer throws which leads to batted balls and jumped routes, he still doesn't have much movement in his lower body to square up on throws. Terrible for accuracy, but it shows how damn strong his raw arm strength is! Brett Favre also had a hitch in his throwing motion which lead to INTs. Similar to Favre, Lagow is a gun slinger. I would rather have a gun slinger who can gets yards in a blink of an eye than the anemic offense we are used to when Zander takes the field. Bottom line: we've been spoiled the past few years by Suds. Suds is an NFL QB, college head coaches would kill for three years of someone of his talents. That is not the norm, we got extremely lucky we had Seth Litrell on staff to recruit Suds. Lagow is a very talented QB who will get better as the year goes on. Everyone needs to chill out. He is going to fill up a stat sheet with yards, TDs, and yes, INTs. The more pressing matter is the run game. If we don't get it fixed there will be a higher chance of these sort of games. Put any college QB in his third game in there and tell him he has to throw 60 times. The results will be a lot worse than Lagow. Look at the positives, we moved the ball very well and got multiple receivers involved. Westbrook is a stud, Ricky Jones showed he's still a legit playmaker, and Mitchell Paige is going to get a lot of receptions. Need to get the run game back on track!

And if the stadium didn't clear out already it will be empty soon enough.

Ugh penalties so frustrating!!!

OK we have a game now. Let's get a stop coming up here.

296 yards total offense in the first half but only 7 points. Have to get some points quickly!