McKewon: Riley starts developing Husker attack to be exact

[zoogs]

http://www.omaha.com/huskers/mckewon-riley-starts-developing-husker-attack-to-be-exact/article_eb04b82b-c919-54d0-80eb-eac53ba78a41.html

The players will accustom themselves to a system seemingly based more on precision than a go-where-they-aint-and-get-there-quick mindset. Former offensive coordinator Tim Beck used to say he didnt much care how his quarterbacks completed a pass so long as it got there.

Lots of stuff here, including how Read measures special teams success.

Riley is such a total head coach -- he seems really on the same page with all of his coaches and all aspects of the game. (Referring here to his "discourse on directional punting). However, on picking specialists for the job, Riley says he trusts Read, not himself.

Another tidbit about Read, too; he worked some with the TEs. In a ST capacity? I don't know, the article makes it sound like in a TE capacity, noting GA Tavita Thompson did most of it.

 

[Mavric]

I read that about the TEs as well. I kind of took it that he might help out there but the feeling is it will mainly be Thompson doing the heavy lifting.

 

[BigRedBuster]

http://www.omaha.com/huskers/mckewon-riley-starts-developing-husker-attack-to-be-exact/article_eb04b82b-c919-54d0-80eb-eac53ba78a41.html

The players will accustom themselves to a system seemingly based more on precision than a go-where-they-aint-and-get-there-quick mindset. Former offensive coordinator Tim Beck used to say he didnt much care how his quarterbacks completed a pass so long as it got there.

Lots of stuff here, including how Read measures special teams success.

Riley is such a total head coach -- he seems really on the same page with all of his coaches and all aspects of the game. (Referring here to his "discourse on directional punting). However, on picking specialists for the job, Riley says he trusts Read, not himself.

Another tidbit about Read, too; he worked some with the TEs. In a ST capacity? I don't know, the article makes it sound like in a TE capacity, noting GA Tavita Thompson did most of it.

That quote you posted from the article is very interesting in the aspect of if Beck was good at teaching the QBs good passing technique. Now, I might be a Husker fan that's reading too much between the lines but, if that really is the attitude Beck had we potentially are going to see a HUGE improvement with both Riley and Langsdorf on staff.

I also like this quote from Riley.

“Through the course of time, you’ll find a good special teams coach picks good specialists. And not everybody can do that. I don’t trust myself to do that. I trust Bruce.”

A good leader knows where he needs to find the expert and trust him to do a job.

I also like hearing this about Bush.

» Quarterback A.J. Bush: Good skill set, better rapport with teammates. Bush, you’ll recall, attended four different high schools. He is perhaps well-suited to win over a new group of players and he doesn’t lack confidence.

 

[NUance]

I also like hearing this about Bush.

» Quarterback A.J. Bush: Good skill set, better rapport with teammates. Bush, you’ll recall, attended four different high schools. He is perhaps well-suited to win over a new group of players and he doesn’t lack confidence.

Bush is one of those guys I haven't seen or heard much about, but I want to see more. Totally an under-the-radar guy when we recruited him two years ago. He may end up being great for us. I guess we'll find out more at the spring game.

 

[admo]

Good read, lots to take in. I agree with you, NUance. Not to familiar with AJBush either, and that's ok, but the more positivity I hear about him makes me more curious to see him play. Even if he doesn't become a starter or immediate backup, I am rooting he keeps progressing. And that alone pushes everyone else to do better.

 

[True2tRA]

From the article - "NU lacks depth at linebacker, but you’ll take the talent of Josh Banderas, Marcus Newby and Michael Rose-Ivey. Pelini left the cupboard overstocked with talent in the secondary. Three starters return on the line."

I just can't figure out how Bo Pelini, a Big Ten coach whose defenses have allowed record setting rushing marks for his entire tenure, could ever allow this kind of lack of depth and experience on the defensive line and linebackers? Then to be overstocked with defensive backs in a conference not known for its passing QB's?

I'm really glad we don't have to witness what kind of thrown together mess this would've been with the last staff, I don't even know what kind of plan they had to build that depth back up, but I know this, their history of building depth and experience is very poor. I think we would've witnessed a very difficult season to watch considering the old defensive system and the lack of knowledge of that system on the team.

 

[Count 'Bility]

From the article - "NU lacks depth at linebacker, but you’ll take the talent of Josh Banderas, Marcus Newby and Michael Rose-Ivey. Pelini left the cupboard overstocked with talent in the secondary. Three starters return on the line."

I just can't figure out how Bo Pelini, a Big Ten coach whose defenses have allowed record setting rushing marks for his entire tenure, could ever allow this kind of lack of depth and experience on the defensive line and linebackers? Then to be overstocked with defensive backs in a conference not known for its passing QB's?

I'm really glad we don't have to witness what kind of thrown together mess this would've been with the last staff, I don't even know what kind of plan they had to build that depth back up, but I know this, their history of building depth and experience is very poor. I think we would've witnessed a very difficult season to watch considering the old defensive system and the lack of knowledge of that system on the team.

We pulled the plug at the right time. I truly believe, and was actually thinking so about halftime of the Wiscy game knowing what was upcoming that next week, that 2015 woulda been the proverbial "wheels coming off" year, ala Callahan '07. It woulda buried this program even further into irrelevancy.

 

[BigRedBuster]

From the article - "NU lacks depth at linebacker, but you’ll take the talent of Josh Banderas, Marcus Newby and Michael Rose-Ivey. Pelini left the cupboard overstocked with talent in the secondary. Three starters return on the line."

I just can't figure out how Bo Pelini, a Big Ten coach whose defenses have allowed record setting rushing marks for his entire tenure, could ever allow this kind of lack of depth and experience on the defensive line and linebackers? Then to be overstocked with defensive backs in a conference not known for its passing QB's?

I'm really glad we don't have to witness what kind of thrown together mess this would've been with the last staff, I don't even know what kind of plan they had to build that depth back up, but I know this, their history of building depth and experience is very poor. I think we would've witnessed a very difficult season to watch considering the old defensive system and the lack of knowledge of that system on the team.

The Bo Pelini defense was built to stop the pass and to hell with the run. Just don't beat us deep with the pass. It makes perfect sense that we are short of LBs now that we are planning to actually use three of them on the field when before we really only used one or two most of the time. Why recruit LBs if you're not going to use them?

Stock up on DBs because that will allow you to keep QBs to under 40% passing completion. Who cares if teams rack up more than 500 yards rushing on us.

 

[Landlord]

We pulled the plug at the right time. I truly believe, and was actually thinking so about halftime of the Wiscy game knowing what was upcoming that next week, that 2015 woulda been the proverbial "wheels coming off" year, ala Callahan '07. It woulda buried this program even further into irrelevancy.

If 2013 didn't do it, 2015 wouldn't have, imo. People have said SO many times under Bo that he's, "lost the team", but he didn't.

 

[Count 'Bility]

We pulled the plug at the right time. I truly believe, and was actually thinking so about halftime of the Wiscy game knowing what was upcoming that next week, that 2015 woulda been the proverbial "wheels coming off" year, ala Callahan '07. It woulda buried this program even further into irrelevancy.

If 2013 didn't do it, 2015 wouldn't have, imo. People have said SO many times under Bo that he's, "lost the team", but he didn't.

Yeah. I'll agree with you there. Good point. The last 4 years seems to have been us fans "waiting for that other shoe to drop", but technically, it never really did.

My thing is though last season I was seeing for the first real time just a total, top to bottome loss of faith in the entire system, esp on defense. You could see it in the body language against Wisconsin and Minnesota. They just had no belief in what they were doing anymore. Normally Bo's teams came off of a$$ whoopins in pretty solid fashion. But after Wiscy, and then for 2.5 quarters after Iowa, it was just a massive letdown after another. That's where I figured they'd really this time packed it in.