Guy Chamberlin

Yeah, but if I have to pick between the Constitution or Donald Trump, my American allegiance goes to the former.

The horizontal camera shots in play-by-play football rarely show it, but when they swing to the vertical cams you can see receivers getting great separation, pleading for the ball, then hanging their heads when our quarterback forces the ball to a much closer and better covered primary receiver. The announcers occasionally point this out, and apparently they see it as an ongoing problem for both quarterbacks. Hence my post about preferring a pass-savvy quarterback.

I'm also gonna go against the grain and say Nebraska needs to recruit a passing quarterback. They're all over the place. It's what makes them a quarterback. If they see open field and want to hook slide or angle to the chains for a first down, they will, but they don't consider themselves dual threat quarterback and neither do we. They see the field better, they hit open receivers, check down to secondary receivers and even lead them in stride. Then do you know what happens? The quarterback hands the ball off to his running backs. A lot. The opponent who stacked the box and dared you to beat them with your arm just lost that gamble. Now you call whatever game you want. You don't pass more than you run. You just pass a lot better. It's what all the cool teams are doing. A better passer is the running game's best friend.

None of Nebraska's turn-overs, penalties, missed tackles and assignments has to do with the complexities of the system they're being asked to play. The "system" is football, and almost every other team is doing it better than Nebraska. It's still about desire and discipline, which includes not accepting defeat when thing turn south in the second quarter, firing up yourself and your teammates on the sideline, and if you're a coach it means helping young men get their head in the game and making halftime adjustments so they don't simply repeat and get used to their failures. Some of that is adjusting your system and drilling in on technique, but there's got to be a joy of the game and a serious thirst for winning. We're just not seeing that. Also, we may not be seeing players who are losing faith in the program. That can be a real cancer. Let's start by aspiring to be Illinois, a low-tier team with qb problems that came in to an opponent's house, played motivated football for all four quarters, and joyously celebrated a rout of a supposedly better team.

I can't believe I'm turning to the thread on the erosion of democracy to take my mind off Nebraska football.

It sure can. For people with lupus it's a real lifesaver. So when your idiot President inspired a run on hyrdoxychloroquine among people it couldn't help, it threatened the supply for the folks who desperately needed it.

(Psssst! You're in the Politics & Religion Forum plague thread!)

Yes, oh needy one. The disappearance of SARS was a bit of a mystery to epidemiologists. Just as COVID remains an evolving puzzle. But you didn't need me or Dr. Fauci to confirm that. You could have done a :30 Google search. Still mystified what your point is. Something about discrediting the CDC?

I was just getting used to the fact that Nebraska was stuck in the tier with Northwestern, Iowa, and Minnesota. But now I realize we're Rutgers. And they could probably beat us with the quarterback we gave them.

Our punter has been solid. Kicking game definitely ahead of last year. The glass is only 92% empty, folks.

Jamal Lord ;& Frank Solich say howdy.

I asked my BIL, who immediately conferred with Dr. Fauci, and the consensus is that "if Archy really wanted an honest answer, he could have found it for himself within minutes." Fauci's language was a bit more colorful. Turns out you're not wrong about SARS, but your attempted extrapolations are pure bulls#!t.

Uhm......I just tuned in BTN and they said the early game- had been canceled. And that game was scheduled to be NU vs. Illinois. What's going on Huskerboard insiders?

I appreciate your detective work. You're very close in one respect. Hope you understand why I wouldn't want to out him or his company on this board. But you had implied your circle of influence had given you a more informed perspective on the subject. I'm merely suggesting that you're hiding some dimwitted partisan opinions behind a childish manipulation of the facts.

{SiGH} Sure. I'll play along. My BIL's situation was somewhat different. His company already made a drug that had proven effective in that particular SARS scare, so the Bush administration was working with them to secure a huge stockpile at a lowballed price. But it was an opportunity to work closely with the government and regulatory agencies on various pandemic scenarios. That SARS episode went away without inducing a panic. We always made fun of my brother-in-law because he kept warning us that a devastating global pandemic was inevitable. But each time the threat petered out, and we just thought he was paranoid. So yeah, as a high level pharmaceutical exec, he's keenly aware of the red tape and hoops the FDA makes private industry jump through. Which is why he's also appreciative that the FDA's Emergency Use Authorization allowed COVID-19 vaccines to get fast-tracked. But nobody at that level assumes an Obama or Bush administration wouldn't have pushed for the same allowance. It's what you do in a pubic health crisis. As you may recall, Donald Trump was also lobbying these companies to announce a vaccine before the election to serve his political purposes, but the drug companies and FDA erred on the side of safety and efficacy. Of course he accused them of an anti-Trump agenda for doing so. Everybody at the FDA and BIg Pharma understood the history of hydroxychloroquine in helping treat lupus and malaria, and as a potential aid in certain COVID cases. But they also thought Trump was totally irresponsible in his public shilling of s#!t he knew nothing about. No respected professional considered hydroxy a cure, much less bleach. Respected professionals were also in agreement that dismantling the pandemic response team was a bad idea. So was ignoring the pandemic playbook Obama had provided. It's a matter of public record that Trump has been non-stop in undermining COVID concerns and sensible directives that could have saved thousands of live. Respected medical professionals as well as most sentient mammals considerTrump's flouting of science, facts, and evidence to be an embarrassment to America. My BIL retired with a nice parachute, having left the company better than he found it. Don't know how many people he laid off in his tenure. He's still an industry consultant. Not sure how any of that makes your point. Again, our vindictive and pathologically insecure President is currently staging a coup, and he's counting on the willfully ill-informed to join him. I will personally and sincerely thank him for Project Warp Speed when he's safely in jail.

One man's Hitler is another man's Hillary. My previous post speaks for itself.

Let's find out. Do you think what Donald Trump is doing to avoid conceding is acceptable?

You know who is in my personal orbit? My brother-in-law., the former CEO of a major pharmaceutical company. He worked directly with Dr. Fauci and the Bush administration on the SARS outbreak. He tells me not to under-estimate the loathing scientists and private industry have for a President who doesn't understand a f#&%ing thing he's talking about, sows mistrust of science to the American people, and plays politics with people's lives. He was a lifelong Republican until this. Now he's dedicating every fiber of his being to defeating Trump. Good man. Say, you know who had some solid economic achievements despite his critics? Hitler. Enjoy your day.

Is this thread really three years old? Time flies. I guess everything could have been said better and shorter in this video, which was probably posted already:

Just feels like we've lost a lot of promising players the last few years. Manning was the "next man up" when we lost Spielman. Bell was the next man up when we lost Tre Bryant. Washington was the next man up when we lost Bell. Mills was the next man up when we lost Washington. Is Mills hurt? Or not as effective as hoped? Is Marvin Scott III actually the next man up at RB? We're already moving away from our Heisman-touted Junior quarterback, and eying Logan Smothers as we wonder if Luke McCaffrey is next-man-up enough. So it's not really one player. Recruiting, depth, and retention is still an ongoing issue.

What is wrong with you? Say what you will about Donald Trump? Start by admitting this lifelong con man is currently staging a coup, dismantling the bulwarks of Democracy you act are so f#&%ing sacred, and throwing the most ridiculous lies at the wall to see what will stick. And there you are, lapping it up. And occasionally screeching something about Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump's personal lawyer is holding literally insane press conferences looking like The Joker. Everywhere are fireworks and flare guns warning you that these f#&%ers are either going to be dictators responsible to no one for any reason, or burn America to the ground on the way out the door. Sorry, but that's the lede in any story right now. FWIW, it's almost inconceivable that any president WOULDN'T launch Operation Warp Speed. That's not an act of courage or vision. It's page one of the playbook for the American President and his pharmaceutical giants. But a less narcissistic President wouldn't dismantle the existing pandemic response team out of spite, constantly undermine the seriousness of the pandemic and openly encourage a maskless rebellion, or hold a press conference to blabber misinformation about hydroxychloroquine and anything else rambling through his clearly-addled brain. Please don't assume this is about a single post, or your most recent incarnation on this board. I'm sick of pretending there are two sides to every story. The facts are on one side. Donald Trump is on the other. And every day America gets stupider, meaner and more dangerous. If you bulls#!t patriots truly believe America is exceptional, try to be better than a third-world plutocracy.

No.

Still to be decided: does a 7-1 Northwestern outrank a 5-0 Wisconsin? What if the late-starting and cancelation prone Pac 12 only gets a half dozen games under it's belt? Does the SEC get rewarded for playing more of its games than the other conferences? What if the coronavirus surge gets worse, as many expect it will? What if more marquee match ups get canceled? Stuff like that. I'm sure we will end up calling it a "season" but it's gonna have asterisks all over the place.

College daughter staying on the East Coast, but coming back for a month around Christmas. She plans to have a small Thanksgiving with her cousin in Boston --- but "small" still means mixing a couple people from different cohorts. I guess we still rationalize our risk factors as needed. So it's just me, the wife and the teenage boy for Thanksgiving dinner here. With fewer mouths to feed we might try duck instead of turkey. My wife doesn't get along with her brother, the only family within a thousand miles, so COVID has us covered on that invite. We hope to have dessert outside with the people on our street. They're great folks. We're thankful for our neighborhood. My 84 year old mother-in-law will be having Thanksgiving dinner with at least a dozen members of her retirement community in Florida. They are all rabid Trump supporters and COVID deniers and have no intention of wearing a mask for any of it.

This is still an interesting thread, because while it's clear that games will be played and television revenue shared, it's still not clear if we can call it a season, rationalize a champion, or count the stats. As weird as this clusterf**k is, I watch the Nebraska game with the same rooting obsession I've always had.