Can we just call luke fickel coach stinkel

Thanks for elevating the program David!! Go Badgers!

IF NE is smart, they'll put their biggest 5 DTs and put them on the line.

The only problem that I see is if we put more down lineman on the field that might potentially hurt our secondary that’s been so strong.

Do your homework? You three, Brennan Marion, the UNLV OC, would be an awesome pick.

I know some people like PFF, but fact is that they sell themselves well, but their “evaluators” are average guys “trained “ to evaluate football players and teams. I will tell you that the Badger coaches (who actually DO know something about football) grading of their own players is frequently not even close to what PFF comes up with. Take their evaluations with a grain of salt

Matt- doesn’t the strength of schedule have to be accounted for more with how this team’s offense has performed. Looked back at your ‘03-‘05 teams where went 1-4 against end of season top 10 teams. Offense scored 21, 7, 14, and 14 in losses. And even in huge win against OSU only scored 17. Longo’s offense has already faced an insane 5 top 12 teams. And I would argue the talent gap between top twelve and rest has greatly increased in last 20 years with NIL etc.

Do you think we can get Brennan Marion? Or Fickell would go after a hire like him? Creative, balanced and aggressive.

You two are speculating like crazy. Guessing from hundreds of miles away from Madison. Do you have Hunter’s number? He may just tell you to pound sand, though, if you asked him what the culture is like on the team. They seem extremely close judging from the comments after the games from the McClain center. But that’s just my take.

Pauling drops too many for NFL to show interest. Unless he's happy with practice squad, he'll have to come back.

We should go into the games with a TWO QB plan. It has been done by schools in the past.

yac time

How about this??? The defense and the offensive line rally together BEHIND LOCKE and go out like MEN and lift the kid up. Quit beating on him and show confidence. The kid feels worse than anyone but he still has heart. Two more tries to right the ship. Who's to say his problems weren't Longo related? With Longo gone, maybe the pressure is off and he won't make bad decisions. Why put your faith in an unproven freshman who will most likely follow Longo?

And not one media person asked who is the quarterback next week

So post Fickle conference, what do we know for sure.... That It doesn't matter who calls plays?

It wasn't just bringing in Luke. He brought an awesome recruiting staff and his weight room staff - Awesome! Last year, your best player had to come forward to call out his team for under achieving - SHAMEFUL! This year, they lost their best QB vs Alabama -tough! This year's schedule was one of the toughest in the BIG! Against Oregon WI played unbelievably tough for 4 quarters. They attacked on D and on O made adjustments on the fly. I am dissapointed that we lost but prior to the game I was hoping that we would lose by < 14 as did we all. Some bad passes and dropped balls doomed this team. Van Dyke was a huge loss. I believe that better days are coming!

Their best chance to hang in the game is one you really never want to see - Gabriel would have to turn his ankle or something and not be able to run or even play…

Jackson Acker can block, and run. Longo’s used him on like 2 plays all season.

For me, the most exciting team to watch is the Colorado Buffaloes.

Air raid can't work? We can't get "the guys"? Then what's everyone bitching about? We are as good as we'll ever get. LOL, get outta here with that bulls#!t. Again, everyone sees our past through rose colored glasses. We've always beaten the crappy teams and almost always laid an egg against good ones. It can change, and this staff can change it, but not if ya'll fire OCs after two years. In Harbaugh's 4th & 5th year at Michigan, he got his a$$ handed to him by the Badgers. They totally should have fired him because we all saw what a trainwreck they were after that. I don't think the Wolverines even made a bowl game since then...............right??????

Mark Cuban is funding a lot of IU’s NIL

Always love seeing the two Matts! Great show, gentlemen

Thomas has been a disappointment IMO. The Indiana team LF beat was 2-10. He only had to beat one good team that year.

UW is not ready at two of the most important positions in football, QB and DL. If you don't have those you can't even be competitive with the top teams and teams that have great lines. We need to be patient with the staff as long as they can bring in their guys to progress. Most fans had little to no expectation bc they haven't had a chance to play the way they want to play. Bad line play and QB trickles down to bad play all around.

Thanks for this. One of your very best podcasts Jesse!

They've had more embarrassing wins than good wins.

Outstanding discussion replete with a major dose of reality about NIL and transfer. Thank you. I watch a number of podcasts and this one was the best of them on the Badgers.

Great show! Jesse really is one of the best!

this program needs more cherribundy.

I didn’t realize they were forcing you guys to pay at gun point😭😭 no but for real this might have been the worst show I’ve listen to dear god get your shit together please stop acting like this is the worst team of all time the sooner shit is so lame

Thanks for the show y’all. There will be better days ahead. We gotta keep the faith

Longo keep hitching is wagon to Locke. Damn good kid, but not a good QB. Longo needs to give Locke the Chryst treatment. Buh-Bye. Put in Mettauer because he'll get a free game to learn against OR since it's an automatic loss. Then prep for NE.

Longo needs to go

WI hasn't really even been that close to a big win in LF era.

Damn, this was a tough listen. There is no light at the end of the tunnel. If you see one, it’s another top 5 team about to eviscerate you.

Well Matt, need to knock on the doors of Wisconsin millionaires and billionaires to sponsor the players compensation in order to get that talented line up. You’re right, it’s a stretch and auto disappointment to try to get it from middle class fans. It’s just not realistic.

Maybe break down the film on the players IU has this year for the offense they are running and search for those kind of guys to recruit and portal and the portal guys need to be guys with successful experience at it where they are coming from. What else does Cignetti do? Figure it out and use it. He seems to focus a lot on the details in each play and winning the play. He says it a lot. Maybe that’s part of the magic to borrow from too.

Continue to recruit and portal a beefed up strong D-line. Elevate qb play with qb that can run better not just a strong and accurate arm, and consider tweaking the RPO offense scheme by hiring a new OC and offering Longo option to stay as qb coach and assistant OC.

The three main failures were: coaching, coaching and coaching.

Iowa is a solid program. It's not like they are unable to beat Wisconsin. Iowa was a much better team on this night.

It was Iowa's first game starting Brendan Sullivan at QB, which added a dimension to the run game. It might've hurt that the badgers didnt have a lot of film on him

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Matt is right. They are not changing the quarterback. Starting a true freshman qb for the first time against Oregon is coaching malpractice and the next two are must win games (one for the bowl and the other for the state of the program).

This is the perfect time to get Mettauer in. Two weeks to prepare and no pressure for him to win. Then he'll have a chance to work on mistakes from OR and get ready for NE.

Sadly, I haven't been able to watch the game yet. However, from everything I'm hearing, maybe Fickell, Longo, and Tressel don't know as much as we think. It's likely they have zero imagination nor forethought. Considering they cannot tell when a defense is selling out to stop our run, they are clueless on how to sell out to stop the other team's runs.

A great coach once called a game like this "A Dunkirk" a complete disaster! Wi is in it's second year of a rebuild, Fickle inherited a BRUTAL Schedule,and it doesn't get any better next year. The answers are at The QB position, until they get a Stud at QB & another one in the pipe line.

I haven't seen Iowa dominate Wisconsin like that since Hayden Fry coached at Iowa. Dust yourselves off, look forward and beat Nebraska and Minnesota.

Iowa simply out physically played you. Iowa looked like REAL GROWN @$$ men n you guys looked like little paper boys. Wisconsin doesn't put fear into opponents. Teams don't fear any running game, don't fear your passing attack n damn sure don't fear your defense. What happened to your three fifty pound linemen, where's your thumping linebackers, where's your ball hawking secondary, where's your 240 pound running backs, where's your game management QBs. Damn Wisconsin football has went from physically intimidating to powered puff University quickly.

keep your head up bernie

Worst loss since 59 to nothing for sure