Football Tour: Dienhart's best from Nebraska

[Abdullah the Butcher]

http://btn.com/2014/08/18/football-tour-dienharts-best-from-nebraska/

QB Tommy Armstrong has something to prove from a passing standpoint after connecting on just 51 percent of his throws last season en route to going 7-1 as a starter. The staff says he has been practicing well. He throws a nice ball and should benefit from hitting some check-down routes. Johnny Stanton is a good-looking youngster. He throws a nice ball.

Fumbles were a big issue last year. OC Tim Beck thinks shorter practices will have a long-term effect on limiting team fatigue late in the year, which he thinks has been a contributor to the fumbles. He also thinks not adding to the playbook over the course of the season will help. Fewer things for players to learn; more concentration and focus should help with not fumbling. Beck says the team has fumbled just once since spring ball. And that was a botched exchange between Tommy Armstrong and Ameer Abdullah.

 

[zoogs]

Not adding to the playbook over the course of the season? Goodness.

 

[hskrfan4life]

Not adding to the playbook over the course of the season? Goodness.

I'm curious as to why you would add to the playbook?

I would like to think that those initial plays wouldn't be as effective as the ones that have been there since the start.

 

[ColoradoHusk]

Not adding to the playbook over the course of the season? Goodness.

Why is that a negative? Most offenses have a base set of plays, that they vary depending on the formations and tendencies of the other team.

I would rather have the offense rep a lower number of plays and be able to execute all of those plays near perfectly. Then the OC can add wrinkles or slight changes to those base plays.

 

[zoogs]

Sorry that wasn't clear. I was dismayed that this apparently has not been what we did in the past.

Unless Beck is just referring to accommodating Qb injury one year. That's more understandable.

 

[Landlord]

Not adding to the playbook over the course of the season? Goodness.

I'm curious as to why you would add to the playbook?

I would like to think that those initial plays wouldn't be as effective as the ones that have been there since the start.

It goes like this.

"Hey I was reviewing our game film of next week's opponent and I saw a glaring disadvantage in a particular defensive set."

"Perfect - let's come up with an automatic play to call that will guarantee success if we see that lineup."

 

[Abdullah the Butcher]

Not adding to the playbook over the course of the season? Goodness.

I'm curious as to why you would add to the playbook?

I would like to think that those initial plays wouldn't be as effective as the ones that have been there since the start.

It goes like this.

"Hey I was reviewing our game film of next week's opponent and I saw a glaring disadvantage in a particular defensive set."

"Perfect - let's come up with an automatic play to call that will guarantee success if we see that lineup."

Lack of practicing said play leads to turnover.

 

[caveman99]

Not adding to the playbook over the course of the season? Goodness.

I'm curious as to why you would add to the playbook?
I would like to think that those initial plays wouldn't be as effective as the ones that have been there since the start.

It goes like this.

"Hey I was reviewing our game film of next week's opponent and I saw a glaring disadvantage in a particular defensive set."

"Perfect - let's come up with an automatic play to call that will guarantee success if we see that lineup."

Lack of practicing said play leads to turnover.

Or it leads to TDs like the naked boot against MSU for 40+ or the goal line play with Rex as the QB and lead blocker that worked 2 for 2 against OSU.
Specific game scheming is not unique to NU

 

[SouthAfricanHusker]

I will never get the idea that not practicing a relatively normal play leads to turnovers. I understand if it's a swinging gate or halfback pass or something like that. But if it's just a different set of routes for a pass play or new twist on a run play. It's not like a running backs assignment changes dramatically if they run off tackle verses midline.

Plus even if it is different run the play 10-15 times the day you install it and you are fine.

 

[zoogs]

We're not talking about gameplanning against opponents though, unless Beck's intending to put a stop to that.

 

[Landlord]

Not adding to the playbook over the course of the season? Goodness.

I'm curious as to why you would add to the playbook?
I would like to think that those initial plays wouldn't be as effective as the ones that have been there since the start.

It goes like this.

"Hey I was reviewing our game film of next week's opponent and I saw a glaring disadvantage in a particular defensive set."

"Perfect - let's come up with an automatic play to call that will guarantee success if we see that lineup."

Lack of practicing said play leads to turnover.

Or it leads to TDs like the naked boot against MSU for 40+ or the goal line play with Rex as the QB and lead blocker that worked 2 for 2 against OSU.
Specific game scheming is not unique to NU

^^^^

Anyone that has played competitive sports is familiar with scheming for specific opponents with specific plans and plays. It's a risk/reward because you haven't practiced that play a thousand times, but you know that given the right circumstances it will be golden.

Black 41 flash reverse was thrown into the playbook DURING the game against Oklahoma after seeing them try it and fail.

 

[Abdullah the Butcher]

^^^^

Anyone that has played competitive sports is familiar with scheming for specific opponents with specific plans and plays. It's a risk/reward because you haven't practiced that play a thousand times, but you know that given the right circumstances it will be golden.

Black 41 flash reverse was thrown into the playbook DURING the game against Oklahoma after seeing them try it and fail.

It was actually put in the playbook the Monday before the game.

On the Monday before the game, the apple-cheeked, Opie-like freshman was joined at lunch by quarterbacks coach Turner Gill, who asked him, "How do you like your play?" To which Stuntz replied, "What are you talking about?" Gill filled him in.

Mindful that Stuntz had been an All-State standout quarterback at St. Albert's High in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and thatNebraska was unlikely to snap Oklahoma's 20-game winning streak without at least a smidgen of trickery, the Huskers' coaching staff concocted 41 Flash Pass, in which I-back Thunder Collins would line up wide left, go in motion to the right and take a handoff from Crouch; instead of carrying the ball around the end, Collins would pitch it to Stuntz, who, having lined up wide right, would appear to be running a reverse. That's just how the play unfolded against Oklahoma.

http://archive.today/Ao92y#selection-511.26-539.1

 

[Landlord]

^^^^

Anyone that has played competitive sports is familiar with scheming for specific opponents with specific plans and plays. It's a risk/reward because you haven't practiced that play a thousand times, but you know that given the right circumstances it will be golden.

Black 41 flash reverse was thrown into the playbook DURING the game against Oklahoma after seeing them try it and fail.

It was actually put in the playbook the Monday before the game.

On the Monday before the game, the apple-cheeked, Opie-like freshman was joined at lunch by quarterbacks coach Turner Gill, who asked him, "How do you like your play?" To which Stuntz replied, "What are you talking about?" Gill filled him in.

Mindful that Stuntz had been an All-State standout quarterback at St. Albert's High in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and thatNebraska was unlikely to snap Oklahoma's 20-game winning streak without at least a smidgen of trickery, the Huskers' coaching staff concocted 41 Flash Pass, in which I-back Thunder Collins would line up wide left, go in motion to the right and take a handoff from Crouch; instead of carrying the ball around the end, Collins would pitch it to Stuntz, who, having lined up wide right, would appear to be running a reverse. That's just how the play unfolded against Oklahoma.

http://archive.today/Ao92y#selection-511.26-539.1

My mistake, but still proves my original point.