In the first half Adam Weber was asked by the Offensive Coordinator to make more than a dozen passes where the ball would travel over 20 yards in the air before getting to the receiver. After five or six of those passes were incomplete or intercepted, what was the OC now thinking? "If we keep calling those types of plays they will start to work sooner or later"? By the time the ninth or tenth fell incomplete or worse, what was he thinking? Against the worse defense against the run in the Big Ten, why was he so stuck on long passes? What was it about "this is not working" was if that Fisch did not get? Let us 100% blame Weber for each bad play. Having done that, why are we still calling long passes?
To start the second half we ran the ball down the field with three short passes being run to good effect. With second and goal to go from the one foot line, why does Fisch now think that we need a play action pass in order to score from there? What had Fisch seen in the game game to indicate to him that we could not simply run the ball into the end zone on the next three tries against the poorest run defense in the Big Ten?