These types of statements are just as useless as the ones you are complaining about. If you check most of the "negative nancy" posters, you'll notice they've been apart of this site for quite awhile. But I'm sure you're a much better fan because you are satisified with a sub par performance again...
He wasn't technically a linebacker. He was a drop end. They use him as a decoy and bring a blitz from the other side, and if I recall correctly it worked decently on the plays they used it. He also doesn't "run" with a receiver man to man. He drops into a zone defense. It was a new wrinkle they were working on.
I tend to have the concept, no, the actual observationthat spread offenses with mobile QBS and shifty RBs put up circus like numbers on Bofense. '09 we had Suh, uh, that helped a bit, plus the overall D was much better than one we have now, for whatever reason. Does anyone here feel all warm and fuzzy when Shoelace or Brax or Geno Smith or Brett Smith is on the other side of the ball from our D--you know, a mobile guy? Those guys scare the crap outta me when it comes to Bofense, whereas a guy like Maxwell(Sparty), a guy that sits in the pocket poses no threat, usually, to our D. I dunno it's pretty self evident to me.
Wyoming just score to go up 14-10 with over 11 minutes left in the 2nd quarter. We keep em on 14 till into the fourth quarter when we go up 31-14. At that point we just flat out packed it in. It's really pretty obvious. That's more concerning to me than anything. The youth needs to pick up on the 4 quarter concept quickly.devnet said:
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Those guys scare the crap out of everyone. Thats why most offenses that can recruit a decent dual threat QB, end up starting the dual threat QB over the guy who can't extend plays with his leg.
Again, I say go watch those games but DONT pay attention to Suh or the pressure. Watch the DB's. Those were guys like Gabbert, McCoy, Landry jones. Spread in the Big 12 is a much different animal than spread in the Big 10 with guys like Miller and Robinson. Those two make it much more difficult to defend with their feet. The Big12 is more of a exclusive pass type. That's what Wyoming was doing last night. Now they did run for a lot of yards, and with their qb too, but that was more of a fluke than anything I think. Wyo threw the book at our guys all night long. They learned a lot. Probably saw a lot of things they've never even seen before. Let's just see a game more or two before we write them off.
No, dont tell me, it was worse? Oh, the horror, the hoooorrrroooorrrr!!!devnet said:
Oh ok, uh Murray punked us too, right, like bad, made us look silly, in fact. I'll add that to my list.
Too bad they couldnt get the push for that 1/2 yd in the 4th, when we most needed it. Dang! Naw, they did a respectable job, but we're talking Wyo here, the team that was near last last year in rush D.
He sure did. Proving that a GOOD pro style QB is still a very dangerous thing. As a matter of fact, I'd rather face Denard Robinson than Aaron Murray any day of the week and twice on Sunday. We don't have an answer for a pro style QB that can tear apart our secondary (which is our perceived strength, is it not?). We can do different things to contain dual threat QBs. Look at Denard, Colter last year.
Problem with this theory is, without pressure, without forcing the QB to hurry through his progression, then none of this matters. Smith did a great job of creating time for himself. His pocket presence remarkable, his ability to find an open lane and extend plays was spectacular. But there was plenty of times when he was able to stand back there and find an open man, or he was able to take off and run. Now, nobody can expect to stop these things all of the time. What is scary is that teams with this sort of offense have done these same things to us for a few years now. You would think we would have a few adjustments for this thrown in here or there. Yet according to most accounts it looked like Wyoming was doing a lot of the same things over and over, and Nebraska really was not adjusting to them much.